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Quick Filters
Overview

Placement

View 

or

Profile View

Required KM objects

Record.Attribute

KM Filters

Introduction to Quick Filters

Use the "Quick Filter" component on Views to allow users to quickly filter on relevant attributes with as few clicks as possible.

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Basic configurations
Basic configurations

Please find below an example of the most basic configuration of a "Quick Filter" component. There are two different ways on how quick filter component can be configured:

  • Filter by Knowledge Model or

  • Filter by Attributes

The two different filter options can also be combined. 

If you want to make use of quick filters for dates. Please factor in the time difference. This can be done by using unix timestamp such as "{t 1451595600}" which is "Thu Dec 31 2015 21:00:00 GMT+0000"

Option 1: Filter by Knowledge Model
Option 1: Filter by Knowledge Model

You can use KM filter if you want to create complex and reusable filter queries. Before setting up the component you need to define KM filters first. Check out the YAML example in the filter section below.

Attribute

Required

Type

Description

filters

true

List of filter

Contains a list of filter.

filter

true

KM Filters (deprecated)

References a KM filter.

Knowledge Model

filters:
  - id: JAN01
    displayName: Jan01 +03GMT
    pql: FILTER ROUND_QUARTER("PizzaP2P_xlsx_Sheet_0"."EVENTTIME") = {t 1451595600} #Factors in user timezone (+03GMT) by using unix timestamp
  - id: FEB16
    displayName: Feb16 00GMT
    pql: FILTER ROUND_QUARTER("PizzaP2P_xlsx_Sheet_0"."EVENTTIME") = {d'2016-04-01'} #Doesn't factor in user timezone

 selected

true

Boolean

Defines a default selection state for the quick-filter 

 

View

id: qf1
type: quick-filters
settings:
  filters: 
    - filter: JAN01
      selected: true
    - filter: FEB16
Option 2: Filter by Attributes
Option 2: Filter by Attributes

You can use the filter by attribute. To create quick filters quickly based on the existing record. attributes from your KM. Please find below the different attributes you need to define the quick filter.

Attribute

Required

Type

Description

attributeFilters

true

List of attribute filter

Contains a list of attributes.

attribute

true

Record.Attribute

References the attribute from the Knowledge Model by which you want to filter.

type

true

String

Defines the attribute type of the Attribute.

values

- name: Zoe value: Zoe

true

List of values consisting of name and value

Defines the values by which the attribute can should be filtered.

 

View

id: qf2
type: quick-filters
settings:
  attributeFilters:
    - attribute: ACTIVITY.USERNAME
      type: string 
      values: 
        - name: Zoe
          value: Zoe
        - name: Fabian
          value: Fabian
Advanced configurations
Advanced configurations

Attribute

Required

Type

Possible values

Default Value

Description

single

false

Boolean

true

false

false

Defines if only one single filter or multiple filters can be applied.

label

false

String

 

 

Defines a label should be displayed above the quick filter.

Click here to see screenshot

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styles

false

Enum

overflow

styles

 

Contains different styling options such as overflow or styles.

overflow

false

Enum

full-width

line-break

scroll

full-width

Defines the orientation of a list of dropdowns when the width of the selected dropdowns exceeds the component size.

styles

false

Enum

horizontal

vertical

-

Contains different style options such as horizontal and vertical alignment.

horizontal

false

Enum

full

right

center

left

full

Defines the horizontal alignment of the component.

vertical

false

Enum

top

center

bottom

bottom

Defines the vertical alignment of the component.

 

View

id: qf1
type: quick-filters
settings:
  label: Custom label
  single: false
  filters:
    - filter: FILTER_FABIAN
    - filter: FILTER_ZOE
  styles:
    overflow: full-width
    position:
      horizontal: full
      vertical: bottom