A business analyst has a new requirement for an additional filter on Desktop Activities.

In Guidewire PCF development, filtering aquery-backed ListView(one that uses a QueryProcessor) must be done efficiently to avoid loading thousands of records into memory. According to theInsuranceSuite Developer Fundamentalscourse, the standard tool for this is theToolbarFilterwidget.

AToolbarFilteracts as a container for one or moreToolbarFilterOptionwidgets (Option C). Each option represents a choice in the dropdown menu for the user. To ensure performance, specifically for query-backed lists, the developer should use aGosu standard query filter(Option B) in the filter property. Unlike a "bean filter," which filters objects already in memory, a query filter allows the Guidewire platform to modify the underlying SQL statement. This ensures that only the records matching the selected filter are ever retrieved from the database, significantly reducing the application server's load.

Options D and E are "anti-patterns." Manual looping or creating custom arrays bypasses the optimized Query API, leading to "OutOfMemory" errors or severe performance degradation when dealing with large volumes of data, such as an insurer's entire set of desktop activities.