Configurable Filters in Menus and Landing Pages

Use Configurable Filters to open the dialog to enter one or more filter options. If more than one filter is added, this results in a logical AND of the filter application.

• Filter By - attributes of the selected Type can be selected from the drop-down list.
• Filter Type - select the matching operator to apply when the attribute is matched to the Filter String value:
  • Contains
  • Does Not Contain
  • Starts With
  • Ends With
  • Equals
  • Not Equal
• Filter String - select the value that the matching operator should match by.
• Ignore Case - check box to manage the case of the Filter String value.

When the menu item or landing page link is then selected, a pop-up filter box is displayed and the administrator is prompted to apply or modify the filter. If a Filter String value is entered on Configurable Filters, this value can also then be accepted or modified in the pop up box.

The list view of the results footer row indicates that a filter has now been applied to the list and this filter can then be further modified and removed from the list view as usual - see “Filtering Lists”.

Important

Standard list view filters on model types (for example if accessible by other landing pages or menu items) can still be used as described in “Filtering Lists”, but these will be removed and replaced by any Configurable Filters on landing page links or menu items for the corresponding model type.

Fixed Filters

Only high-level administrators can add and modify pre-defined Fixed Filters to menus and landing pages. For these administrators, this option also shows on the Menu Layout and Landing Page design input forms and presents the same interface options as Configurable Filters.

These filters are not visible to the lower level administrators and will always apply when the menu item or landing page link is used by them. Fixed filter results can however be filtered further by Configurable Filters.