filter element

Specify complex conditions for an entity or link-entity to apply to a query.

Learn how to filter rows using FetchXml.

Example

<fetch>
  <entity name='account'>
    <attribute name='name' />
    <filter type='and'>
      <condition attribute='address1_city'
        operator='eq'
        value='Redmond' />
    </filter>
  </entity>
</fetch>

Attributes

Name	Required?	Description
type	No	Use and or or. Whether all (and) or any (or) conditions within the filter must be met.
hint	No	Use this attribute to set the union hint to get a performance benefit for a specific type of query. Learn how to use the union hint
isquickfindfields	No	Use this attribute to tell Dataverse to execute the query as a quick find query. About quick find queries
overridequickfindrecordlimitenabled	No	See Quick find record limits and Apply the quick find record limit
overridequickfindrecordlimitdisabled	No	See Quick find record limits and Bypass the quick find record limit

Parent elements

Name	Description
entity	Specifies the child element for a fetch element, the 'parent entity' for the query. Only one entity is allowed.
link-entity	Joins a table related to the entity or link-entity to return additional columns with the result. Also used with filter elements to apply conditions on column values in related tables.

Child elements

Name	Occurrences	Description
condition	0 to 500	Specify conditions for entity and link-entity row values which must be true to return the row. The condition operator attribute specifies how to evaluate the values.
filter	0 or many	Specify complex conditions for an entity or link-entity to apply to a query.
link-entity	0 or many	Used when filtering on values in related records