Possibility to enable / disable filters

[edwinvdpol]

Somewhat related to this discussion.

I would like to see that you can enable / disable filters.
If the filter value of a disabled filter is set, it should act as if it is set (aka should be used in the builder etc.), and this value should be selected / filled by default.

It should apply the disabled attribute to the HTML input / select.

I have published all the filter views to add this to the existing filters.

I hope I am not the only one who would like this feature. 😉

Thanks!

[lrljoe]

There are the following methods to hide a filter:
#hiddenFromMenus
#hiddenFromPills
#hiddenFromFilterCount
#hiddenFromAll

What additionally were you thinking?

[edwinvdpol]

These methods will hide the filter without disabling the filter itself. I have a table property where you can define a kind of "preset".

For example, consider an invoice table with three boolean filters: paid, open, and to_late (where open and to_late represent payable statuses, and paid is non-payable).

I’ve created a "payable" preset that sets the paid filter to No, and to_late and open filters to Yes. When this preset is active, users cannot modify these filters on the frontend. However, I still want them visible in the filter list so users can see that these filters are applied.

To achieve this, I add a disabled property while looping through the filters when rendering the component. If this property is set, the filter is displayed but cannot be modified on the frontend.

<select name="..." disabled />

Does that make sense?

[lrljoe]

That does make sense.

It'll probably come in properly when I add in the feature to set custom attributes on a filter input, which is in the works, I just need to ensure that nothing is breakable (i.e. only permit certain attributes to merge)

For now - I do something similar with a property, apply the behaviour, and add a custom view into the toolbar configurableArea that gives a relevant message

[lrljoe]

For clarity, this is really more a "locked" filter, rather than a disabled one.

Worth noting, while you may disable the form input, a savvy user could still use an event via their browser.

What I'm thinking, is the ability to lock a filter, so that it prevents the value from changing from the one that was initially set, full stop. But also presents a clean UX

It'll come after the next larger release to enable customising filter input attributes (which should help you out with your current disabled approach)

[lrljoe]

So to give an update. There's an imminent feature for setting attributes on the filter input field, this should provide this feature at least to an extent.