I understand that in order to filter a standard view that is posted in an HTML view, it is necessary to have the field I want to filter for, active in the view.

If this field I want to use for filtering is something meaningless to the user, say for example the record ID, I would preffer if the field actually does not show up in the screen taking valuable space that can be used to diplay more usefull information. If I diselect the field though then the filtering does not work and I end up with all the fields of that form showing up.

Is there a way to avoid a field to appear in the view while still use it for filtering?

thanks a lot

Luis