title: Setting a TextFilter's value from a Query String (URL) Filter
body: <p>I'd like to start off by saying I'm very new to Sharepoint, so I'm sorry if I'm asking something very obvious.  I've done quite a bit a googling and can't find an answer to my question.  This leads me to believe that maybe I'm asking the wrong question.  So, here goes:</p>
  
  <p>We have a Sharepoint webpage that currently contains 3 Web Parts (2 lists and a text filter).  The text filter can be used to filter the two lists.  I've been asked to provide the following functionality:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>A user must be able to open this page from an http link (easy)</li>
  <li>The Text-Filter must be automatically filled-in and applied, thus immediately filtering the two lists</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>This seemed pretty straight-forward to me:  Pull a parameter from the page's URL and feed it into the filter.
  I found and added a Query String (URL) Filter and I managed to pull the parameter from the URL, but I can't feed it to the existing Filter!</p>
  
  <p>Sure, I can pass the value to the two lists (effectively coding the same filter two different ways) but that seems wrong.  So, my question boils down to this:</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to set a Text Filter's value from a Query String (URL) Filer?</p>
  
  <p>Am I asking the wrong question?  Am I looking at this problem in the wrong way?  Any help is much appreciated, thanks.</p>