Filtering a collection for the table layout using url parameters #6493
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Ideally you'd want to create a O2M field from project to task. This would show a listing of related tasks that can open in a drawer when clicked. |
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I think it would be best to build pagination into the relational interfaces... and/or show the first X and then have a button to "Show All" in the drawer (which uses the Layout and already has pagination). Thoughts on this approach? |
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Yeah, right. I think the approach with showing only a certain amount of items (definable via interface options) and having a "Show All" button would be fairly easy to implement and would fit absolutely my needs... "Show all" could then open the existing drawer with a title like "Browse items" and no select checkboxes. The drawer in its current form features layout, pagination, sorting and filtering... So everything which is needed basically. Clicking an item in the drawer could open the detail view of the content item, as the relational interface does already. Totally overlooked that, great solution! ❤️ One other side note: I had several use cases where I would have wanted that the relational interface opens the nested item fullscreen, not in the drawer. Would it make sense to make the "target" for opening items in relational interfaces configurable? |
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Nice! For the "Open Item" thing, I think it might be best to add an "Open as Page" button to all item drawers. That way, you can easily open in a drawer (without losing your location or staged changes) but have the option to open the full item page from any drawer. It's TWO steps instead of one, but requires less configuration and works for all drawers. |
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Right, staged changes are tricky in that context. Opening an item as page would always require to discard any staged changes, right? |
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Discard or save, yeah. Eventually we will have staged changes save to localstorage... but not yet. |
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Hi @rijkvanzanten , @benhaynes I'd like to get both your feedback on what I'm trying to do to see if there is a simpler short term solution for my use case. I'm building out an OKR mvp and timing is pretty important. It's going to be used by executives, they aren't power users. My current issue is drilling through from Objective to Key Result to Tasks isn't a particularly smooth experience when going a few relationships deep. Forms that a great for data entry aren't as 'nice' for browsing the data. The list O2M style is very flexible but having a large number of tasks in a list is quite hard to work with. Each line is a different length, you can't sort, filter etc. A future opportunity for inline editing probably isn't possible? Are there features of the list O2M that I am not appreciating that would help with this? Because it does appear that a new table interface component addresses a different type of usecase / data to the list. Could you suggest another way of structuring / accessing / displaying this task data with current capabilities the suit browsing vs editing? Another feature that may be nice is to differentiate between the form that creates a new item and one that updates an item. During creation, things like the name, description make sense to be first, however during updating, it's more likely to be fields like status, assignee etc that will need to be updated. I think having a unique layout for both would improve the experience. Thoughts? |
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Just noting that you can show/hide/disable fields in create versus edit, but rearranging them isn't possible as of now. Not sure that's 80/20 either. |
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Lets keep discussing implementation details here until we reach a final plan which we can execute 🙂
It's a little hard for me to imagine/visualize the exact flow you're working with just based on the above description alone 🤔 Would it be possible to share a database dump of a minimal setup you're trying to achieve, so we're all looking at/discussing the same thing? Always down to discuss ways to improve Directus! Sounds like there's some low-hanging fruit that can greatly improve things on the relational interface side. As for the difference between create and update, I get where you're coming from, but that creates a whole lot of overhead for a feature that might be a bit too "power user only" 🤔 |
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I face the same problem. Lets capitalize on the project / tasks of the OP. Each tasks has a key referring to a project's id. It's possible to have a hundred tasks for a project. Each task has a status, a manager, due dates... In such a condition, the advantage of having a filtered collection by the project's id is that, on the filtered collection of tasks,
The URL could be like Sort of preset bookmark but with the value of the project's |
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I am designing a system where there is a One Blog Post - Many Comments relationship, and Admin can Approve or Disapprove comments. The number of Comments on a Post can be large, so listing them all in a One-to-Many field in a Post detail page can be very inefficient. I would like to create a Button Link on the Post detail page, which will direct Admin to the Comments list page, and set the filtering field appropriately. I think the way to go for this is to store and infer the filtering on the List page directly from URL query. |
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You can try the "Button Link" interface. It might allow you to build a dynamic URL to link to the desired page. |
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Since my discussion on this topic and PR got closed I guess I'll settle to support this :) It isn't a must have, but would make have made onboarding users a lot easier I believe. Now we have resorted to our own custom modules since the content module is too complicated for non technical users. |
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@u12206050 Hi, do you have a code example of how you made a custom module that allows filtering items by url? |
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I implemented it on the native content module: #14081 |
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Am I understanding correctly that the Directus team did not accept your changes? And I can take the code from your PR to apply this to my custom module? |
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Hi,
I'm looking to create an internal project management app for my business leveraging the Directus admin app. I'd like to be able to access all the tasks related to a project via a button on the project detail screen.
Eg on /admin/collections/projects/1 use a button that links to /admin/collections/tasks/?filter[project.id]=1
Is there a way to apply this kind of filter to the table layout dynamically rather than relying on bookmarks?
Thanks
Mark
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