Custom Defined FIlters

  • Resolved trorie

    (@trorie)


    5 years, 10 months ago

    Is there way to add custom defined filters to perform searches on a form? Meaning, a drop-down list of keywords or search links.

    Thanks,
    Trorie

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  • Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    Do you mean pre-defined search terms? Or the entries from a certain column? For the latter, the TablePress Extension from https://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-columnfilterwidgets/ could maybe be worth a look.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter trorie

    (@trorie)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi TobiasBg,

    Thanks for the quick response! Yes, I do mean pre-defined search terms. For example, if I have a table with “Washington”, “Virginia”, or “California” as location values, I want users to be able to select one of these options to see all the entries that exist with these options. However, I want this to work as a search option, not a sort.

    Thanks,
    Trorie

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    then, the mentioned TablePress Extension might be worth a try here. It can generate such dropdowns from the table columns automatically.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter trorie

    (@trorie)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Thank you! I will give it a try!

    Trorie

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    hope this helps 🙂

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter trorie

    (@trorie)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    One more question. Is there a way to make the search box itself into a list of drop down values, or will this require a little coding?

    Thanks,
    Talvina

    Thread Starter trorie

    (@trorie)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Tobias,

    Please disregard my last question. I think I figured it out with the Plugin that you suggested.

    Thanks,
    Talvina

    Thread Starter trorie

    (@trorie)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    I do have one question about the ColumnFilterWidgets extension. Is there a way to specify what I want to display in the drown-down? I don’t want to pull it from the column, because the some columns in the table may have multiple values.

    Thanks,
    Talvina

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    no, sorry, manually specifyfing these values is not possible.
    However, if there are multiple terms in the same cell of the column, you could use the datatables_columnfilterwidgets_separator Shortcode parameter that is explained on the Extension’s webpage, to use all of them automatically.

    Regards,
    Tobias

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