Sharepoint Filter List from url

Sometime you need to a have a link to filtered list in Sharepoint. Luckily Sharepoint has the ability to do this. You need to use the following parameters after the list url:

......allitems.aspx?Filtername=<name of field>&FilterMultiValue=<filter text>


<name of the field> is the field name in your list, you wish to filter on (eg. Name etc)
<filter text> is the filter criteria. You can use * as an wildcard. You can add multiple filter text values by separating them with semi colons.

For example:


......allitems.aspx?Filtername=Name&FilterMultiValue=A*;B*

will show all items starting where the Name starts with A or B.

I like this method because it allows you to have multiple values and wildcards. You could also use the FilterField1 and FilterValue1 parameters. (see for more info: Using URL to sort or filter a list).

Firebug 1.5 not expanding elements on inspect

Just installed Firebug 1.5 (after using 1.4.5 for a long time) and first thing I noticed was that the inspect element did not work correctly. After hovering on an element, the html tab did not show (or expand to) the element. Then I noticed that even manually expanding an element (by clicking on the + symbol) also did not work after 3 or 4 level deep.

After some googling, I finally out it was due to FireQuery. I was using version 0.3 and after updating to 0.5, all issues fixed.

I would also like to use the opportunity to thank the Firebug team and ofcourse FireQuery for their great tools!