Using Row Filtering Extension.

  • Resolved James Barr

    (@james-barr)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Tobias,
    Thank you for a great plugin.
    I am currently using the Row filtering to create categories for my song list, therefor I only need to use the one table data set.
    My site is under development by me at:
    https://dev.atomicband.com.au/?page_id=169

    I have created individual pages for each shortcode with rows filter except the “All songs page” which is just the standard shortcode, but I can easily create another column with row filter and tag all the songs.
    ie:
    page 1 – [table id=1 /]
    page 2 – [table id=1 filter=”2000tonow” /]
    page 3 – [table id=1 filter=”90s” /]
    etc…

    The table has all these categories as columns that are matched to each song. I just hide them so they don’t show up on the webpages.

    I have created a menu links bar to go to each page. 8 in total.
    It seems quite extreme to have to go to a new page for every category I need when its using the same data table set but just changing the filter set.

    Is there a more efficient way of doing this.

    It adds a lot of extra time to load each page, plus when on an iPad or iPhone and you are listening to the mp3 player while looking through the list, when you change categories it turns off the player. Plus on those devices its slowing down the browsing experience especially if its a slow connection.

    There must be some simple bit of code that on the menu link tells the filter what to display.

    Im hoping you have an answer or could point me to someone that would know how to do this, I’m sure it would be very useful to other people.

    Warm regards

    James

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  • Thread Starter James Barr

    (@james-barr)

    UPDATE:
    Apologies.
    I did a further search and found that my next port of call has been answered.
    Use the “Shortcode Filter from GET parameter” Extension.

    This does almost exactly what I’m after.

    I have now engaged my site to have multiple custom menu links on my songfest page with the filter extension which use the one main page with the single data table.
    The only problem at the moment is it loads a new page overtime, even though its the same page with a row filter, this triggers my mp3 to turn off on iOS devices and makes my sidebar Facebook feed restart also.

    Are there other options that can do the same thing except maybe a link on that page sends the GET info inside the same page to localise the filter like it does with the search. Therefor it wouldn’t set off anything else on the page as mentioned earlier?

    I have an idea, would it work for instance how when you can do on page linking to certain spots/locations down the page, creating shortcut links. Would this stop the whole page from reloading? If so, how would I do that exactly?

    Cheers

    James

    Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble as well as for the late reply. I’ve been on holidays and therefore couldn’t reply earlier.

    Sorry, for this sort of filtering, full page reloads are necessary, so there’s not direct way around that. You could however perform the filtering using the regular DataTables search. For that, the TablePress Extension at https://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-button-filter/ might be good starting point.

    Regards,
    Tobias

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