Usually, you will find Smart Filter near where the Advanced Search are because these two are inter-related. Smart Filter is easier to use compare to Advanced Search, but equally powerful.
Default Smart Filter:
Smart Filter with Advance Search:
The concept of Smart Filter is that it will save the previous setting or search criteria that you have used and allows you to do the same search at other pages or module. This save your time to input the search criteria again.
Smart Filter is easy and simple to use. Some times, you may be even realise that you were using it! For example, you used Advanced Search to download Employee's name for those who are age 35 and above, and Job Grade 2 in e-HRIS. But you also need their record in applying Leave for this year. Such information can only be retrieved from eLeave module.
So you need to go to e-Leave, perform the search again. However, this time, as long as the Smart Filter selection is shown as 'previous cache', you just need to click the 'Search' button directly.