Forums / Developer / Most effiecient way to filter
Brendan Pike
Sunday 27 August 2006 5:51:35 am
I do recall seeing a conversation about this some time ago but couldn't locate it.
I'm using several view_parameters to allow users to filter a fetch of usually around 200 - 300 objects. Like only show objects with a location of node_id, 432 and a ezselect state of 3 etc. My question is what is best method of filtering. Is it with a {section-exclude} within the loop or is there a way to perform the filtering within the fetch itself?
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Kristof Coomans
Sunday 27 August 2006 11:19:34 am
Hello Brendan
Info on filtering attributes of the selection datatype (single select only):http://ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/filter_content_passing_values_from_url
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Sunday 27 August 2006 8:48:39 pm
Thanks Kristof, that thread was very informative. After reading that thread I realised I am trying to filter a "ebhanced selection" datatype. I was hoping to avoid the complexity of the extended_attribute_filter but its starting to feel that's the only way. Perhaps I shouldn't be reaching for the "enhanced selector" quite so often after all.
Can you give me your opinion on how to filter on: A. Enhanced SelectorsB. Node locations, (inspect locations and filter out certain nodes)
Achieving this with section-excludes within a loop is relatively easy but I thought it was a slow method since your fetching larger volumes of objects.
Thanks for any tips.
Monday 28 August 2006 1:43:36 am
With the enhanced selection datatype, you can just use the identifier of your option as the filter value. Again this only works for a single selection.