Cannot make filter on rich:datatable <p>I am working on a project and there are some parts which I have not developed. Right now I have to set a filter on a table, as we use rich faces, I wanted to use the filter as in the example from <a href="http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/filteringFeature.jsf?c=filtering" rel="nofollow">exadel</a>.</p> <p>However it doesn't work, I know it may be due to the <code>filterValue</code> property, because I am not sure if I am pointing to the proper bean. Everything looks good but the filter is not there.</p> <p>Any suggestions? How can I get to know what is the proper bean? This contains only the column that I want to filter.</p> <pre><code>&lt;rich:dataTable var="_project" value="#{projectController.showDeactivateEmployees? projects : projectController.getViewableProjects(projects)}" rendered="#{not empty projectController.getViewableProjects(projects)}" styleClass="simpletablestyle" sortMode="single"&gt; &lt;rich:column filterBy="#{_project.name}" filterValue="#{project.name}"&gt; &lt;f:facet name="header"&gt;#{msg.common_Name}&lt;/f:facet&gt; &lt;h:outputText value="#{_project.name}" style="color:#{_project.usedHours * 100 / _project.maxHours &amp;gt;= 75 and _project.maxHours!=0? '#d20f19' : '#000000'};"&gt; &lt;/h:outputText&gt; &lt;/rich:column&gt; &lt;rich:datatable/&gt; </code></pre>