# Filtering a view by entity id **URL:** \ **Category:** Get Help\ **Created:** [May 10, 2024, 11:39am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/filtering-a-view-by-entity-id/6174 "2024-05-10T11:39:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![omega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a6a055/32.png) [@omega](https://community.fibery.io/u/omega)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 11:39am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/filtering-a-view-by-entity-id/6174/1 "2024-05-10T11:39:17Z")
Is it so that having a view filtered by particular entity ids is currently not possible? I am not seeing `Public Id` among the available fields when creating a filter. My aim is to have a document with embedded view displaying only particular entities. I want to use such a view instead of simply inserting the entities for the following reasons: - there can be many of them and the views have scrollbars - I would like to apply additional on-off filters occasionally - color-coding of entities is possible - I prefer the minimalistic view that I can achieve with board views I don’t want to resort to filtering by entity names since those change. For now I created a formula mirroring the value of public id so that I can filter by it. The problem is that for some reason text fields cannot be filtered by exact match. I don’t see a way to convert text to number either. So is `Public Id` missing from filter fields because meaningful matching isn’t possible anyway? Is there a clean way to have the view described above? I mean without resorting to using intermediate objects. ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/filtering-a-view-by-entity-id/6174/2 "2024-05-10T12:26:48Z")
Use a formula like `"<" + [Public Id] + ">"` Then you can use text ‘contains’ filters to get exact matches. i.e. `contains <14>` will only match a single entity