Advanced Grant Filters

Basic grant filters allow administrators to set conditions under which a grant is made available for a case, outreach or timeslip. These filters are cumulative, operating as AND statements between each filter. Example: If veteran equals yes AND if program equals legal clinic AND if LPC equals 63. Basic grant filters do not allow OR statements between filters.

Advanced Grant Filters allow OR conditions (and more) on a grant. Citizenship Status = Citizen OR Domestic Violence is Yes, for example. It also lets you see why a grant is not available in certain situations.

Administrators familiar with Guided Navigation should find entering Advanced Grant Filters a familiar and pleasant experience.

Cost: There is no cost to enable Advanced Grant Filters, but you must file a ticket (Help menu > Support Request) with LegalServer to have them enabled on your site. The ticket must include this text:

"I understand that existing filters will stop working until we recreate them using the new filters."

Existing filters do not disappear. They will still be visible when editing, as a guide to recreating the ones you want to (re)create as advanced filters.

You can build a report based on the top level Grants table to show all existing filters on all grants.

The "top level" restrictions are not disabled, only filters. For example, this grant would still be available on Cases, but would no longer have a filter on Percentage of Poverty (until it was recreated):

Advanced Grant Filters

Adding an Advanced Grant Filter

Viewing Advanced Grant Filters

Nuggets and Notes

Adding an Advanced Grant Filter

In the Actions menu on a grant profile, select the appropriate link. It may be called "Filters" or "Add/Edit Advanced Filters" or similar.

To add a new filter, first select the module where the filter will be applied. You can select from Case/Matter, Outreach, or Timekeeping.

Two buttons will appear: Add Rule and Add Group

Add Rule will allow you to choose a field from the module selected in the previous step and set a comparison to create an expression. The conditions you set on this field, when met, will either allow or exclude the grant from being used on cases, outreaches or time slips that meet those conditions.

In this example, selecting ‘Active Military’ with the comparison ‘is true’ will only allow the grant to appear on records where the Active Military field is set to yes. To remove a rule, click on the red Remove Rule button.

Clicking Add Rule again will allow you to add another rule to the expression. Unlike standard grant filters, these rules need not be cumulative AND statements. You can use the Combine rules as pulldown to choose from the following:

All of these are true (AND)
Any of these are true (OR)
None of these are true (NOT AND)
One or more of these is not true (NOT OR NOT)

In this example, either Active Military or Farmworker, or both, must be No (ie Not True) in order for the grant to be available on the case.

Clicking Add Group will let you create a combination of multiple rules. That group can then be acted on by other individual rules or groups.

In this example, ‘Age at Intake > 60’ was added as an individual rule. ‘Active Military is true AND Farmworker is true’ were added as a group. This filter will allow the grant to appear on records where the applicant is over 60 at the time of intake, or is both active military and a farmworker.

Viewing Advanced Grant Filters

Click on Show v2 Filter Status under the funding code selector on cases, timeslips or outreaches to see which grants are available or not, the expressions being testing, and result.

In this example, five funding codes are unavailable to assign to this record. The applicant does not fulfill our ‘Age at Intake > 60 OR Active Military = Yes AND Farmworker = Yes’ expression from earlier, so the result of the test on Funding Code 3310 is false.

Nuggets and Notes

The comparison operators "equal to" and "contains" are case sensitive on a text field. "chicago" will not match "Chicago".

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