Thanks Jan. The solution we had was really great until one of the testers pointed out that they weren't able to see all the defect status list :-( When you manually enter the defect status that are not available, it accepts and filter list works, but the testers are not willing to accept it :-)
I was looking to figure out what event will be triggered when the filter button is clicked. I'm very new to QC and do not understand the product completely yet.