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title: "Embedding a data filter in your report"
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description: "Create and manage custom reports in Cintra iQ, filtering data for precise insights with Listing and Payroll report definitions. Access them easily anytime."
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# Embedding a data filter in your report

**Cintra iQ** allows you to create and manage your own reports from within the **Cintra iQ** system. Once created, the reports are then available at the bottom right of **Cintra iQ** and can be used whenever required. You can create either a **Listing** or **Payroll** report definition to suit your needs.

**Go to Cintra iQ**:

- Lower right-hand corner > Reports > Reports window > Listing/Payroll report
- Menu bar > Definitions > Reporting > Reports > Reports window > Listing/Payroll report

You can filter your records to extract specific data. The system will search for records that contain the field name that was selected in the **Listing Definition**/**Payroll Listing** tab as long as the same field name is in the applied filter.

## To embed a data filter

1. From the **Available Filters** pane in the **Data Filter** tab, select the desired filter.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** These filters were already created in the Filters module. For more information, see the Filters check list.
2. Add it to either the **Include records belonging to All of:** or **Exclude records belonging to ANY of:** panes.
3. Check the **Suppress Records NOT satisfying Data Filters** checkbox to view only the affected records.
4. Click the **OK** button. The filter is now embedded and is activated when the report is run.