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I've checked into CVS, a new feature to the Syntax site administration application that automagically creates filters for working with content type lists. As your content repository grows, finding a specific record or set of records was only doable thorugh the search form. Now, in the left sidebar, syntax will provide a list of drop-down select menus based on the picklists used by the current datatype. You can also filter to show only approved or only unapproved records.

Besides the automatic generation of these, you can control the filters in two ways. You can suppress their appearance by setting a preference named 'admin_filters', using the content type integer id as the key and zero as the value. You can also specify which fields are used in the filters by creating a view called 'admin_filters' for a content type. Only picklist fields will be used so text or relationship fields added here are ignored. The image below shows the filters in action for an 'Organization' content type.