How to Build a User Friendly Filter

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Published on 2009-11-12T17:20:03Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 5:53 UTC
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Our application displays tons of valuable information to our users in a table. We have a filtering capablity that is based on boolean/logic searches. Even after coaching, users still tend to not understand how to use filters because AND OR > >= etc are foreign to them. This filter is easy for programmers since it is easily translated into code. Any examples on how this can be made more user-friendly and less prone to error?

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