Filter a list of Items based on Item Category

[jmb2021]

Hi,

Would appreciate all the help i can find to keep me going,

My app issue is on the creation of items > filtering process, let me explain: say Some items are created by bars, others are created by fitness studios, others by shops for instance.

So now i have a screen for each of those businesses,

• bars
• fitness studios
• shops.

Only those that own a business can create an item.

Users that don’t, can not create them. But only see what others have created them.

so now i have a list of items created by these users who own companies,

I made a collection named: types of industry > with a relationship > a business can have one industry, an industry can have many businesses.

This assignment of industry to the businesses helps me identify that the item was created by a business in industry ‘X’.

So now i have assigned all items to its corresponding industry - and i have 4 screens - All Items - Bars - Fitness Studios - Shops.

When i add a list of items into my screen - ‘Bars’ > link the list to a list of Items (My Items Collection) - (Filter) ALL Items.

HERE IS MY ISSUE

When adding a custom filter,

• i can very well state filter > Item Industry Name
• using: EQUAL TO
• Theres no other option but to work a solution around Logged In User > ETC.

*** I cant simply Apply Custom Filter: Item Industry Name > To Equal To > Bars for example.

Why is this not possible, is there a work around?

I am very confused and would really appreciate your comments and assistance.

Thanks

Jordan

[axme]

did you try using filter if equal or “contains” (sometimes contains works and Equal to does not work for filters) “other components” → then select: “selected type of business”

[jmb2021]

I did use that for items that are active or inactive - it works, but was hoping to have a more dynamic approach on the type of industry and not a list of 10 industries with check boxes. a dropdown seemed cleaner. As a last resort that will do but was hoping to see if theres any work around using this kind of method.

[jmb2021]

I was hoping that this collection would have 10 venues, and all items created by these venues would display accordingly on the respected screen.

[Victor]

Hi @jmb2021,

Did you try to type the industry name in the bottom field of the filter?

Best,
Victor

[jmb2021]

Yes but no luck

[jmb2021]

I am wondering if you just type the industry name, or if there is a “industry Name” or another type of specific quote to specify?

Its confusing… I thought it should work just with the typed name.

Thanks for your reply,

[Victor]

@jmb2021,

Ok, let me try to explain differently.
In the app I have “Photos” collection and “Photo Categories” collection. Each photo belongs to ONE category.
Here is the screen with list of ALL photos, no filter set:

Then I add the Custom filter to “hardcode” the filtering by Photo Category → Name:

Then I type the Category Name (this is what you wanted to do as I understood - you have a separate page for Bars, where you hardcode the category):

And here is the result:

Hope this helps

Best,
Victor

[jmb2021]

Ahh,

Ok now i know what you mean, did not know that could be done. Let me try and get back to you. Thanks so much for your detailed reply.

Best

Jordan

[jmb2021]

Done and worked well, thank you