Editing your own API filters
You can edit filter conditions for API methods.
To edit your own API filter
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Log in to the Administration Portal (see Logging in to the Administration Portal).
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In the navigation, click Configuration.
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On the Configuration page, in the Show configuration for the following API project menu, select the Web Portal API project.
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Expand the API method configuration / <API method name> / filter condition configuration key.
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Change the filter condition in the Value field.
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Click Apply.
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Perform one of the following actions:
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If you want to apply the changes locally only, click Apply locally.
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If you want to apply the changes globally, click Apply globally.
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Click Apply.
Deleting your own API filters
You can delete your own filter conditions for API methods.
To delete your API filter
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Log in to the Administration Portal (see Logging in to the Administration Portal).
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In the navigation, click Configuration.
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On the Configuration page, in the Show configuration for the following API project menu, select the Web Portal API project.
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Click 
(Actions) > Delete configuration key.
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In the Delete configuration key pane, in the Configuration key to be deleted menu, select the API method whose filter condition you want to delete. For example, if you want to delete the filter condition for the MyAPIMethod API method, select the API method configuration / MyAPIMethod value.
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Click Delete configuration key
Configuring your own filters
To restrict the number of candidate objects on foreign key relations, you can create, edit, and delete your own filter conditions.
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Creating your own filters
To restrict the number of candidate objects on foreign key relations, you can create your own filter conditions.
To create your own filter
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Log in to the Administration Portal (see Logging in to the Administration Portal).
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In the navigation, click Configuration.
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On the Configuration page, in the Show configuration for the following API project menu, select the Web Portal API project.
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Click (Actions) > Create configuration key).
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In the Create Configuration Key pane, perform one of the following actions:
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To create a filter that refers to a specific foreign key column of a table, in the menu, select the Filters for object selection value.
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To create a filter that refers to all foreign key columns of a specific table, in the menu, select the value Filters for object selection by table.
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Perform one of the following actions:
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In the Name of the new configuration key field, enter the name of the foreign key column in <table name>.<column name> format (MyTable.FirstColumn for example).
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In the Name of the new configuration key field, enter the name of the table (MyTable for example).
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Click Create.
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Expand the Filters for object selection / <foreign key column name/table name> configuration key.
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Enter the filter condition in the Value field.
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Click Apply.
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Perform one of the following actions:
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If you want to apply the changes locally only, click Apply locally.
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If you want to apply the changes globally, click Apply globally.
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Click Apply.
