diff --git a/src/components/SearchableSingleSelect/SearchableSingleSelect.tsx b/src/components/SearchableSingleSelect/SearchableSingleSelect.tsx
index 3b1aaeb9..d0d749c5 100644
--- a/src/components/SearchableSingleSelect/SearchableSingleSelect.tsx
+++ b/src/components/SearchableSingleSelect/SearchableSingleSelect.tsx
@@ -58,11 +58,13 @@ interface SearchableSingleSelectPropTypes {
     selected?: string
     error?: string
     showAllOption?: boolean
+    label: string
 }
 
 export const SearchableSingleSelect = ({
     showAllOption,
     error,
+    label,
     loading,
     onChange,
     onFilterChange,
@@ -96,7 +98,6 @@ export const SearchableSingleSelect = ({
             const observer = new IntersectionObserver(
                 (entries) => {
                     const [{ isIntersecting }] = entries
-
                     if (isIntersecting) {
                         onEndReached()
                     }
@@ -124,7 +125,7 @@ export const SearchableSingleSelect = ({
             // any value to the "selected" prop, as otherwise an error will be thrown
             selected={hasSelectedInOptionList ? selected : ''}
             onChange={onChange}
-            placeholder={i18n.t('Category combo')}
+            placeholder={label}
         >
             <div className={classes.searchField}>
                 <div className={classes.searchInput}>
diff --git a/src/components/metadataSelects/CategoryComboSelect/CategoryComboSelect.tsx b/src/components/metadataSelects/CategoryComboSelect/CategoryComboSelect.tsx
index be222eec..0e79a2db 100644
--- a/src/components/metadataSelects/CategoryComboSelect/CategoryComboSelect.tsx
+++ b/src/components/metadataSelects/CategoryComboSelect/CategoryComboSelect.tsx
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import i18n from '@dhis2/d2-i18n'
 import React, { useCallback, useRef, useState } from 'react'
 import { SelectOption } from '../../../types'
 import { SearchableSingleSelect } from '../../SearchableSingleSelect'
@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@ export function CategoryComboSelect({
 
     return (
         <SearchableSingleSelect
+            label={i18n.t('Category combo')}
             showAllOption={showAllOption}
             onChange={({ selected }) => {
                 if (selected === selectedOption?.value) {
diff --git a/src/components/sectionList/filters/GenericSelectionFilter.tsx b/src/components/sectionList/filters/GenericSelectionFilter.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b21c3c92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/sectionList/filters/GenericSelectionFilter.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+import { useDataEngine } from '@dhis2/app-runtime'
+import React, { useState } from 'react'
+import { useInfiniteQuery, QueryFunctionContext } from 'react-query'
+import { useModelSectionHandleOrThrow } from '../../../lib'
+import { Query } from '../../../types'
+import {
+    BaseIdentifiableObject,
+    IdentifiableObject,
+    ModelCollectionResponse,
+} from '../../../types/generated'
+import { SearchableSingleSelect } from '../../SearchableSingleSelect'
+import { useSectionListFilter } from './useSectionListFilter'
+
+type SimpleQuery = {
+    resource: string
+    fields?: string[]
+    order?: string[]
+}
+
+type GenericSelectionFilterProps = {
+    label: string
+    filterKey: string
+    query: SimpleQuery
+}
+type WrapInData<T> = { data: T }
+
+const infiniteQueryFn =
+    (dataEngine: ReturnType<typeof useDataEngine>) =>
+    ({
+        queryKey: [query],
+        pageParam = 1,
+        signal,
+    }: QueryFunctionContext<[Query], number>) => {
+        const pagedQuery = {
+            data: {
+                ...query.data,
+                params: {
+                    ...query.data.params,
+                    page: pageParam,
+                },
+            },
+        }
+        return dataEngine.query(pagedQuery, {
+            signal,
+        }) as Promise<
+            WrapInData<ModelCollectionResponse<BaseIdentifiableObject, string>>
+        >
+    }
+
+export const GenericSelectionFilter = ({
+    filterKey,
+    label,
+    query,
+}: GenericSelectionFilterProps) => {
+    const dataEngine = useDataEngine()
+    const [filter, setFilter] = useSectionListFilter(filterKey)
+    const [searchValue, setSearchValue] = useState<string>('')
+
+    const handleChange = ({ selected }: { selected: string }) => {
+        setFilter(selected)
+    }
+
+    const optionsQuery = {
+        data: {
+            resource: query.resource,
+            params: {
+                pageSize: 20,
+                fields:
+                    query.fields?.length && query.fields?.length > 0
+                        ? query.fields
+                        : ['id', 'displayName'],
+                filter: searchValue
+                    ? `displayName:ilike:${searchValue}`
+                    : undefined,
+            },
+        },
+    }
+
+    const res = useInfiniteQuery({
+        queryKey: [optionsQuery],
+        queryFn: infiniteQueryFn(dataEngine),
+        getNextPageParam: (lastPage) => {
+            const pager = lastPage?.data?.pager
+            return pager.nextPage ? pager.page + 1 : undefined
+        },
+        getPreviousPageParam: (lastPage) => {
+            const pager = lastPage?.data?.pager
+            return pager.nextPage ? pager.page - 1 : undefined
+        },
+    })
+
+    const displayOptions =
+        res.data?.pages.flatMap((p) =>
+            p.data[query.resource].map(({ id, displayName }) => ({
+                value: id,
+                label: displayName,
+            }))
+        ) ?? []
+
+    return (
+        <SearchableSingleSelect
+            showAllOption={true}
+            onChange={handleChange}
+            onEndReached={res.fetchNextPage}
+            options={displayOptions}
+            selected={filter}
+            showEndLoader={!res.isFetching && !!res.hasNextPage}
+            onFilterChange={({ value }) => setSearchValue(value)}
+            loading={false}
+            label={label}
+            error={res.error?.toString()}
+            onRetryClick={() => {
+                res.refetch()
+            }}
+        />
+    )
+}
diff --git a/src/components/sectionList/filters/useSectionListFilter.ts b/src/components/sectionList/filters/useSectionListFilter.ts
index 535e9e98..8da8a8cd 100644
--- a/src/components/sectionList/filters/useSectionListFilter.ts
+++ b/src/components/sectionList/filters/useSectionListFilter.ts
@@ -126,6 +126,9 @@ const parseToGistQueryFilter = (filters: Filters): string[] => {
         restFilterGroup = 1
     }
     Object.entries(restFilters).forEach(([key, value]) => {
+        if (key === 'uid') {
+            key = 'id'
+        }
         const group = restFilterGroup ? `${restFilterGroup++}:` : ''
         queryFilters.push(`${group}${key}:eq:${value}`)
     })
diff --git a/src/constants/sectionListViews.ts b/src/constants/sectionListViews.ts
index ad3643ef..542a263e 100644
--- a/src/constants/sectionListViews.ts
+++ b/src/constants/sectionListViews.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import i18n from '@dhis2/d2-i18n'
 import { PublicAccessValue } from '../components/sectionList/modelValue/PublicAccess'
-import { uniqueBy } from '../lib'
+import { uniqueBy } from '../lib/utils/uniqueBy'
 import { SectionName } from './sections'
 import { getTranslatedProperty } from './translatedModelProperties'
 
diff --git a/src/pages/dataElements/List.tsx b/src/pages/dataElements/List.tsx
index d9b3fe48..faa50393 100644
--- a/src/pages/dataElements/List.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/dataElements/List.tsx
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {
     ValueTypeSelectionFilter,
     useQueryParamsForModelGist,
 } from '../../components'
+import { GenericSelectionFilter } from '../../components/sectionList/filters/GenericSelectionFilter'
 import { useModelListView } from '../../components/sectionList/listView'
 import { getFieldFilterFromPath, useModelGist } from '../../lib/'
 import { DataElement, GistCollectionResponse } from '../../types/models'
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ type DataElements = GistCollectionResponse<FilteredDataElement>
 export const Component = () => {
     const { columns, query: listViewQuery } = useModelListView()
     const initialParams = useQueryParamsForModelGist()
+
     const { refetch, error, data } = useModelGist<DataElements>(
         'dataElements/gist',
         {
@@ -52,6 +54,11 @@ export const Component = () => {
 
     return (
         <div>
+            <GenericSelectionFilter
+                label="Data elements"
+                filterKey="uid"
+                query={{ resource: 'dataElements' }}
+            />
             <SectionListWrapper
                 filterElement={
                     <>
diff --git a/src/types/generated/utility.ts b/src/types/generated/utility.ts
index 76206d0b..8a91db6d 100644
--- a/src/types/generated/utility.ts
+++ b/src/types/generated/utility.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,23 @@
 /* GENERATED BY https://github.com/Birkbjo/dhis2-open-api-ts */
-import { IdentifiableObject, GistPager } from './'
+import { IdentifiableObject, GistPager, Pager } from './'
 // import { CategoryCombo, DataElement } from "../generated";
 
 type ModelReferenceCollection<T = IdentifiableObject> = Array<T>
 type ModelReference = IdentifiableObject | ModelReferenceCollection
 
+export type ModelCollectionPart<
+    T extends IdentifiableObject,
+    PagedListName extends string = 'result'
+> = {
+    [K in PagedListName]: T[]
+}
+export type ModelCollectionResponse<
+    T extends IdentifiableObject = IdentifiableObject,
+    PagedListName extends string = 'result'
+> = {
+    pager: Pager
+} & ModelCollectionPart<T, PagedListName>
+
 type BaseGist<T> = IdentifiableObject & {
     apiEndpoints: GistApiEndpoints<T>
 }