Filter on custom fields produces unexpected results

Hi, I have installed FC 2.0.0 RC9b (r1601) on a Joomla 2.5.

Only one problem: I have a list of member profiles I have set up as flexicontent items. I want the first and last name to be filterable by the search filter box in the category list. This works well, until i enter a short word like "May". I have a person with May as last name, so the item should appear, but it doesn't.

Now I checked what happens if I enter "Mille" as a filter, and realised, Mr. Miller does not appear then either.

If I enter "Miller", he does appear though, so the field is actually included in the filter, just not always.

One way it seems the filter is only showing results when the filter word has a certain number of characters, but then again it seems to filter only full words in some cases, I can't see a pattern. If there is any way to get this to work that would be nice to know.

Otherwise it works like a dream - even with multilingual content, great work!

Terry

There has been a backend clean-up about what is marked a filter for category view and what for search view

upcoming final version is more easy to configure filters in backend

-- about what you ask , you speak of search view or category view?

(also when you mark as filter as filterable for search view search-index must be redone ONCE, upcoming version cleanly warns you of this)

you field type is text?

Hi,

- my field type is text, yes
- I have marked the field as filterable in the field configuration
-I use the filter of the category view, which for a text field gives me a text input (like a search field, but it's not the normal search you can find via search module)
- I have no search index at all.

Where in the backend do I have the different possibilities, did I overlook something? One thing with flexicontent is that there are so many possibilities to configure, but that's certainly not a reason to complain.

Best regards,
Terry

I see the confusion

you have not enabled the appearance of the filter YET

-- the search text field that you see in category view is for searching the fields marked as searchable

-- to filter through the field, mark it as filterable in fields management and then go to category configuration and enable it as a filter,

NOTE: to quickly enable it as a filter in ALL categories: DO not select any fields as filters in the category but Go to Global Configuration and UNDER "Content List" select the field there.

Search things have been made more intuitive to configure in upcoming version

NOTE: your filter will appear as a drop-down select, upcoming version has multiple appearance text-range, drop-down select, toggle buttons (like radio), multiple toggle buttons (like checkbox)

Ok. Thank you for the clarification. I am sure ti have enabled the Filter in the config. But as it is a list of people, i would like a Search Box, so this means i have to activate searchable right? This is different to fc for Joomla 1.5 it seems.

I will check and let you know.

By default a text field is not searchable via the search box in category view

After marking it as searchable , you need to go to search Index and click to recalculate search index (ONLY need to do this ONCE after marking a field a searchable or non-searchable)

This is clear stated in upcoming version to avoid confusions (you get a message to update search index)