The present invention generally combines the concepts of view filtering with query filtering to provide an improved object filtration mechanism. Under the present invention, input for an object and a filter string is received. It is then determined whether the filter string was used in a previous query. If not, a query filter is generated based on the filter string if the filter string was not used in a previous query. Thereafter, a query for the object is generated and performed while applying the query filter. When results of the query are received, a view filter (generated based on the filter string) is used to filter the results. After this additional filtering, a view of the results is generated.