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Explain the internal working of PractiTest's Hierarchical Filter Trees?
flowchart LR
A[Entity Fields such as Component or Priority] --> B[Filter Criteria Defined]
B --> C[Auto Filter generates sub-filter per value]
B --> D[Cross Filter reuses another module's filter]
C --> E[Filter Tree rendered as nested groupings]
D --> E
A Hierarchical Filter Tree is built by chaining filter criteria together so that entities are grouped under nested, drill-down categories rather than one flat list.
- A base filter is defined on a field, such as grouping all Tests by Application Component
- Child filters can then be nested under it, for example splitting each component further by testing level, like Regression versus Smoke
- Auto Filters can generate this nesting automatically for every value of a field, rather than requiring each branch to be built by hand
- Cross Filters let a branch in one module's tree be based on a filter that already exists in a different module, keeping the same grouping logic reused consistently
The result is that the same underlying set of entities, tests, requirements, or issues, can be viewed under multiple independent trees at once, since filters are just saved queries rather than a single fixed folder structure the data has to live inside.
What lets a filter tree avoid requiring every branch to be built by hand?
Why can the same data be viewed under multiple independent filter trees?
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