# Multi-Select Filter for a Collection **URL:** \ **Category:** Get Help\ **Created:** [November 18, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/multi-select-filter-for-a-collection/33783 "2022-11-18T12:42:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Roland](https://forum.adalo.com/u/Roland)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/multi-select-filter-for-a-collection/33783/1 "2022-11-18T12:42:43Z")
Hi All, I formerly asked how to create/update a collection with some properties that have many options (ie many-to-many relationship with the collection). I was told that Adalo Forms do not work with many to many relationships and that we can instead update the collection in a multi-step form (ie put the Collection data through at least one screen). This advice seems to have worked well. _My question now is, how do I do the reverse_ (ie How do I search the current collection data for various properties - including those that have many options/many to many relationship with the collection?) My filter for the list doesn’t seem to include the “other component” that I would need. This seems to be limited to the properties that have a many to many relationship. _I’m trying to make a app to help a animal shelter. One where they can upload various [Animals] (the collection) with various properties (some being 1-to-1 relationships, such as [Breed], [Sex], [Species] but also some that are many to many relationship, like [Breed] and [Colors]. Using a multi-step-form seems to work for uploading animals (which the shelter would use), but now how can I search for a particular type of animal (eg A black, white and brown dog ext)? Hope this example made sense._ TIA Roland ---
**Author:** ![charleshope](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/charleshope/32/25088_2.png) [@charleshope](https://forum.adalo.com/u/charleshope)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/multi-select-filter-for-a-collection/33783/2 "2022-11-18T14:42:03Z")
Maybe this will help: [Lists](https://appacademy.adalo.com/course/lists) ---
**Author:** ![Yongki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7c8e57/32.png) [@Yongki](https://forum.adalo.com/u/Yongki)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/multi-select-filter-for-a-collection/33783/3 "2022-11-18T20:15:16Z")
And probably this link too. > [@Relationship Filtering](https://forum.adalo.com/t/relationship-filtering/27114): > > PSABH Series presents relationship filtering example app. If we want to filter by interests or skills that users have, we can use relationship filtering to do that. There are 2 different operators, the most common way is AND, which is users must have both interests to be shown, but we can use OR to display users that have at least interests asked. The above example are u… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/system/32/40401_2.png) [@system](https://forum.adalo.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/multi-select-filter-for-a-collection/33783/4 "2022-11-28T20:16:01Z")
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