Filters enable you to restrict which records a user can search for and open. A filter applied to a CO subsystem determines which records will be returned by a search (and therefore visible in the search results). A filter applied to a BO subsystem determines which of the returned records can be opened (to view the record details).
Once a record is opened, the ways in which the user can interact with it are determined by permissions and attributes. For example, a particular group of users may only be allowed to search for and open customer records whose country is Canada. In this case, a filter would be put in place on the TScustomerBO and TScustomerCO subsystems, restricting the Country field to Canada.
When more than one filter is applied to the same subsystem, you can use operators to specify the type of results you are expecting. For example, filters for First Name = Bob and Last Name = Smith are created for customer searches. You can control whether you want to see any customers with either of these names (First Name = Bob OR Last Name = Smith) or for only those customers with both names (First Name = Bob AND Last Name = Smith).
The following sections describe how to configure group permissions: