---
title: "Create Filter"
id: "create-filter"
project: "MES User Manual"
url: "https://docs.sepasoft.com/articles/user-manual/create-filter"
updated: 2026-07-31T14:55:17Z
---

# Create Filter

**Sepasoft MES Module Suite**
 #### SPC | Control Limits | Create Filter

| ![Warning](/resources/Storage/user-manual/user-manual/Warning.png) | Stable Version: 3.81.5 and later<br><br>Release Candidate: 3.81.4 RC6 and later |
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```python
path = 'New Enterprise\New Site\New Area\New Line\New Location'
clFilter = system.quality.spc.controllimit.createFilter(path)

#Optional filter items
# Get limits after
clFilter.setAfter(system.date.addDays(system.date.now(), -7))
# Get limits before
clFilter.setBefore(system.date.now())
# Get limits for a specific definition by name
clFilter.setDefinitionName('My Definition')
# Get limits for a specific attribute by name
clFilter.setAttributeName('Width')
# Get limits for a specific limit by name
clFilter.setLimitName('Individual LCL')
# Get limits for a specific product code
clFilter.setProductCode('A Product Code')
# or get limits specifically not asociated with a product code
clFilter.setProductCode(None)
# Do not call setProductCode to get limits for both no product code and all product codes

data = system.mes.spc.controllimit.getLimitInfoByFilter(clFilter)
```


**Sepasoft MES Module Suite**