A use-case

Hi Tobias

I’m still experimenting with the filtering and search capabilities of your table plugin. All the extensions you provide are excellent but I can’t quite get them to support my use case. Perhaps you have some advice.

Here’s what I want to do.

I have a table of about 220 publications (and growing): author, year, title and a column for tags that categorise the article content. Each item in the table could have more than one tag.

The most convenient tool for the user is the drop down filter field for the column.

However, if there’s more than one tag in the field the filter picks up the the entire column contents and lists it as one item.

E.g.All the cases below are treated by the filter as individual, unique tags:

Row 1: Communities
Row 2: Computing
Row 3: Games-based learning
Row 4: Professional development
Row 5: Professional development Computing Communities
Row 6: Ganes-based learning Communities.

etc.

Could there be a way of populating the filter column with each tag listed as a separate item? E.g. supposing a separator were used, the above would look like:

Row 1: Communities
Row 2: Computing
Row 3: Games-based learning
Row 4: Professional development
Row 5: Professional development, Computing, Communities
Row 6: Ganes-based learning, Communities.

Then each delimited item is treated as a separate tag, and listed only once, i.e:

Communities
Computing
Games-based learning
Professional development

The column filter is particularly useful because of course it acts hierarchically – i.e. you can filter the filtered list. (Search does not do this, but that might be another way of solving this question, i.e. retain the search list and then do a new search on that.)

I hope this is clear enough. Your advice is appreciated.

Thanks

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