SharePoint Wookiee Adventures in SharePoint Land

Add Form Filter to filter single column

A manager had a request the other day for a filter that would allow him to quickly search for an item in a list by the ID. I had done this numerous times at my former employer but couldn't remember how to. I reached out to 2 former colleagues (Erich and Erik) and they helped me out.

1. Site Actions > Edit Page
2. Add or Insert web part
3. Choose Forms > HTML Form Web Part
4. Edit Web Part
5. Click Source Editor button in edit web part pane
6. Add the following code

   <div onkeydown="javascript:if (event.keyCode == 13) _SFSUBMIT_"><input type="text" name="T1"/><input type="button" value="Find"onclick="javascript:_SFSUBMIT_"/><input type="button" value="Reset" onclick="window.location.href=window.location.href"/></div>

7. Click OK
8. Choose Connections > Provide Form Values to > Title of the list you wish to filter in the web part's dropdown
9. Leave "Get Filter Values From" and click Configure
10. Choose the Consumer Field Name you wish to filter
    Note: You cannot choose more than one column with this type of filter
11. Click Finish
12. Click Stop Editing in the Ribbon

You can also find more details around this on Microsoft's site:  LINK.