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alexbea
alexbea

Reputation: 1370

Filtering and searching in Foundry Slate app using Platform source

I switched from using Phonograph2 queries to using Platform object sets as the data source for my POC app. This made displaying the basic table of data super easy, but I can't tell if this prevents me from using filters (including text search). Would I need to create a normal SQL or Phonograph2 query in order to add filter criteria for a widget? I could write a function to do the work, but that feels like more of a workaround.

Similarly I'm not seeing anywhere to configure the data source to use server paging and sorting. Is that something that I would need a query to do as well?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 199

Answers (1)

alexbea
alexbea

Reputation: 1370

I realized there's an option to add filters in the Object Set section of the platform tab. Documentation: https://pf.hdvi.com/workspace/documentation/product/slate/platform#object-set-filter-builder-mode

To create an object set s_object_set1, you need to select the base object type and optionally add filters with AND/OR logic. The filter’s fields will account for the object’s property data type. For example, numeric properties will take a number range as the filter. You can further nest individual AND/OR filters in each filter level to limit the objects to specific results.

You can also use Slate’s handlebars in the filter fields so that you can parameterize an object set based on a dynamically changing input.

Upvotes: 0

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