diff --git a/client/src/components/column.tsx b/client/src/components/column.tsx
index 7b4ef16..84047a8 100644
--- a/client/src/components/column.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/column.tsx
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ export function FilteredQueryColumn<Obj>(props: FilteredQueryColumnProps<Obj>) {
   }
   filters.push({
     text: "<empty>",
-    value: "",
+    value: "<empty>",
   });
 
   const typedFilters = typeFilters<Obj>(props.tableState.filters);
diff --git a/client/src/components/dataProvider.ts b/client/src/components/dataProvider.ts
index e532513..c8141b4 100644
--- a/client/src/components/dataProvider.ts
+++ b/client/src/components/dataProvider.ts
@@ -35,49 +35,22 @@ const dataProvider = (
         }
 
         if (filters && filters.length > 0) {
-            // Pre-process the filters and handle the special case where we want to split the filament name into vendor and filament name
-            if (resource === "spool") {
-                filters = structuredClone(filters)
-
-                for (let i = 0; i < filters.length; i++) {
-                    const filter = filters[i]
-                    if (("field" in filter) && filter.field === "filament.name") {
-                        const filamentNames: string[] = []
-                        const vendorNames: string[] = []
-                        if (Array.isArray(filter.value)) {
-                            filter.value.forEach((value: string) => {
-                                const split = value.split(" - ")
-                                if (split.length === 1) {
-                                    filamentNames.push(split[0])
-                                } else {
-                                    vendorNames.push(split[0])
-                                    filamentNames.push(split[1])
-                                }
-                            })
-                        } else {
-                            filamentNames.push(filter.value.split(" - ")[1])
-                            vendorNames.push(filter.value.split(" - ")[0])
-                        }
-                        filter.value = filamentNames
-
-                        filters.push({
-                            field: "vendor.name",
-                            operator: "in",
-                            value: vendorNames,
-                        })
-                        break
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-
             filters.forEach(filter => {
                 if (!("field" in filter)) {
                     throw Error("Filter must be a LogicalFilter.")
                 }
                 const field = filter.field
-                const fieldValue = Array.isArray(filter.value) ? filter.value.join(",") : filter.value
-                if (fieldValue.length > 0) {
-                    queryParams[field] = fieldValue
+                if (filter.value.length > 0) {
+                    const filterValueArray = Array.isArray(filter.value) ? filter.value : [filter.value]
+
+                    const filterValue = filterValueArray.map((value) => {
+                        if (value === "<empty>") {
+                            return ""
+                        }
+                        return value
+                    }).join(",")
+
+                    queryParams[field] = filterValue
                 }
             });
         }