Prefilters & Cross Filters (One, Some or All Views).

There are two ways to filter a view in Analyse, and they answer different questions. A prefilter decides who is in your data at all; a cross filter puts groups side by side so you can compare them. Both use the same filters (Male, Regional, W10 …) — you create a filter once, then apply it either way.

	Prefilter	Cross filter
What it does	Narrows the whole view to one audience — the sample size (n) drops	Adds a column in the table (and a series in the chart) for each group — a visual crosstab
Where to click	+ Prefilter, above the chart	The + at the end of the filter chips in your table
Reads as	"Only show me Regional shoppers."	"Show me Male vs Female, side by side."

This article is about applying filters. To build the filters themselves (from questions, imports or combinations), see Create & Import Filters.

Cross filters — compare groups side by side

Click the + at the end of your table’s filter chips, tick the filters you want, and each one becomes its own column and chart series. Here "Q37. Thinking about your checkout experience at the store, how satisfied were you with it?" is cut five ways:

A Glow Table with five cross filter chips - All, Male, Female, Metro and Regional - each with its own column of results

Each column is its own base — the Total (n) row shows it: 825 people in All, 464 males, 361 females. Chips appear in the order you add them, and each chip’s colour matches its chart series.

Prefilters — narrow who’s counted

Click + Prefilter above the chart and pick a filter. The chip lands next to the button, and the whole view recalculates for that audience only — watch the sample size in the top corner drop from n=825 to n=262:

A Regional prefilter chip above the chart, with the sample size showing n=262

Everything in the view now describes Regional shoppers only — every table column, every chart bar, including your cross filters. A Metro cross filter inside a Regional prefilter has nobody left in it, so its column empties out.

Stack prefilters to interlock your data

Add a second (or third, or fourth) prefilter and only respondents matching all of them remain. Regional (262) plus Male leaves the 122 regional males:

Regional and Male prefilter chips together, with the sample size showing n=122

This is how you double-, triple- or quadruple-interlock an audience without building a combined filter first. Keep an eye on n as you stack — small bases make noisy numbers.

Add to one, some or all views

When you click Add to in the filter picker, you choose how far the filters go. This works the same for prefilters and cross filters:

The Add Filters dialog with the Add to menu open, showing Current View, Selected Views (3) and Global

Current View — just the view you’re looking at.
Selected Views (N) — the current view plus every view you’ve ticked in the Views list on the left. (This option only appears once you’ve ticked at least one view.)
Global — every view in the dashboard, no ticking required.

Removing — the ×, and Shift

Every chip has an ×:

Click the × — removes the filter from the current view only.
Shift+click the × — removes it from every view in the dashboard at once.
With views ticked in the Views list, clicking the × asks which you meant:

Clicking a chip's x with views selected opens a menu: Remove from only this view, or Remove from 3 selected views

Used to "Add Global" and globe icons? That model is gone. A filter added via Global is now a normal filter sitting on each view — no globe icon, no lock. Remove it from one view with a click, or from all views with Shift+click.

One last thing: filter changes are not saved until you click Save (top of the sidebar). Switching to another dashboard first discards them.

FAQs

Prefilter or cross filter — which do I want?
If the group should define the whole view, prefilter it ("this view is about Regional shoppers"). If you want groups next to each other, cross filter them ("Male vs Female"). They combine happily: prefilter to Regional, then cross filter by gender.

Do prefilters affect my cross filters?
Yes. Cross filters are calculated inside the prefiltered audience. That’s the point — but it also means a cross filter that doesn’t overlap the prefilter (Metro inside Regional) shows nobody.

How do I put the same cross filters on several views at once?
Tick the views in the Views list, then Add to > Selected Views (N). Classic move: duplicate a question view four times, then cut each copy by a different set — income on one, generation on the next, retailer, wave.

I removed a filter but it’s still on my other views.
A plain click on the × only touches the current view. Shift+click it to remove the filter everywhere, or tick views first and choose Remove from selected views.

Where did global filters and the globe icon go?
Retired. Filters are no longer "locked" to all views — Global in the Add to menu simply adds a filter to every view in one go, and after that it behaves like any other chip.