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## Types of Filters

View filters are selected and applied locally on your handheld device to reduce the number of patients displayed on screen. Data filters are applied by the Mobilizer server during a sync to filter patients before they are ever sent to your handheld device.

### View Filters

View Filters are used on the handheld to filter the long and short lists of patients that have already been sent to your handheld device. If your department administrator has created Stock View Filters for your department, you will automatically have access to those filters. You have the option of hiding stock filters if you do not want to use them. Additionally, you may create as many of your own view filters as you like.

### Long List Data Filters

Long list data filters are used by the Mobilizer server to filter patients from your long list before they are ever sent to your handheld device. A profile may contain zero or exactly one long list filter. The resulting long list will contain all patients meeting the long list filter criteria as well as any patients filtered off of the short list by a short list data filter. If your profile does not contain a long list filter, the long list will be obtained using either organization security for the user or a default location list, depending on settings controlled by the system administrator (see Patient List Settings for details). Using organization security could result in an exceedingly large long list and should be avoided.

### Short List Data Filters

Short list data filters are used by the Mobilizer server to filter patients from your short list before they are ever sent to your handheld device. This helps you control how much clinical data is sent to your handheld during a sync, and therefore impacts the sync time that you will experience. A profile can contain zero or more short list filters. Each filter is applied independently. If a patient has any accounts that meet the criteria of any one of the filters, they will be left on the short list. If a patient is filtered off the short list, they are added to the long list.

### Short List Data Populators

Mobilizer can automatically populate your short list at sync time based on short list populators. Short list populators operate like long list filters to determine which patients to add to your short list. A profile can contain zero or more short list populators. At sync-time, patients who have accounts that meet the criteria defined in any of the short list populators in your current profile will be added to your short list if they are not already there. Only administrators can create short list populators. This is to reduce the possibility of creating populators that cause large numbers of patients to be added to the short list, making it unusable. In addition, there is an institution-level preference that governs the size of the short list when a populator is being used. If a profile's short list populators will cause the short list to exceed the maximum size, the populators will not be applied.