Search/filter/sort functions, how?

Lets say i have a category view with 5 fields and a few items, the first field is the title.

I can type for example "abc" in the search box and only the title fields that contains this phrase will show up. But how do I make it possible to filter the other fields?

I have tried enabling filter and advanced search on all fields that I'm using, but it isn't working.

I have also edited the category parameter to enable filtering, and marked the items I'm interested in and then saved.
Still can't search through the other columns.

I would also like to be able to sort each column in alphabetical order ascending/descending just by clicking on each column header. Is this possible?

Any clues?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I don't know exactly how the flexicontent text filter works, i will try to have a look soon.

May be a beginning :
Upgrade to the latest version ( code.google.com/p/flexicontent/d ... z&can=2&q= ) if you are not using it.

In the database, have a look in the table #__flexicontent_items_ext and verify that there is data in the 'search_index' column.
If not, you have to open all items in the administration and re-save them.

To sort your table may be you can use this script:
I didn't try it but may be it can help. If yes, don't hesitate to share the way to implement it on the Tips and Ticks Forum.

Regards

Yeppa - cool tip - works fine!

Download www.joostdevalk.nl/code/sortable ... rtable.zip
put unzipped 'sortable.js' into …/components/com_flex…/assets/js/
set proper rights
put arrow images into …/images/stories/

add into new line #33 of 'category_items.php' of your template
change class param in line #90 - same file to
adjust the path to the arrow images in 'sortable.js' around line #12

et voilà - the category-view is sortable

Muchas gracias to yopyop001!

Merci ! :mrgreen:
Ca marche bien ! Mais il y a une petite erreur a changer :

add into new line #33 of 'category_items.php' of your template

Encore Merci !

Well it depends on how you set up your path delimiter.
In our case 'DS' is the constant that holds the '/' to separate the path from the filename. Anyway- please format the path to the *.js file the way it works for your setup

Another thing sucks - the date sort algorithm shows some strange behaviour and doesn't work if you combine date + time.
We'll see…

Oki Doki
Thanks !