# How to hide filter from menu, but still can be used in background
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-filter-from-menu-but-still-can-be-used-in-background/12839
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [September 10, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-filter-from-menu-but-still-can-be-used-in-background/12839 "2023-09-10T12:39:03Z")
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### Author:  [@sharon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sharon)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-filter-from-menu-but-still-can-be-used-in-background/12839/1 "2023-09-10T12:39:03Z")
Dear Experts,
i have a filter which is used to process some input files, i just used from programing, which is triggered by context user, but i found it will be shown in filter menu, which is not expected result.
so my question is how to hide this filter in menu, avoid user to see it.
but i can still create and use it from program?
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### Author:  [@nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nicolas.vuaille)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2023, 7:17am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-filter-from-menu-but-still-can-be-used-in-background/12839/2 "2023-09-11T07:17:32Z")
As far as i understand your question, this is not possible.
But I’m not sure what you are trying to achieve so maybe with more details we can find another solution.
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### Author:  [@sharon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sharon)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-hide-filter-from-menu-but-still-can-be-used-in-background/12839/3 "2023-09-16T00:06:15Z")
Thank you Nicolas for your reply.
What i want to achieve is hide some filters from UI (since they are not the normal filters that can be used by user), but i can create and use these filter in client side to get some data process result from code.