Prefiltered links - boolean field

The Yes/No is the text of the field. It may be True/False, Mail/Femail, etc... But ture values are always 1/-1.

Also what is item_id=134? If it is Joomla parameter it should be Itemid=134.

I changed item_id to Itemid in docs.

filter_val[0]=true works now.

What about possibility to reset and apply filters at same time with prefiltered links?

You should use filter_val[0]=1 or filter_val[0]=-1

klox7 What about possibility to reset and apply filters at same time with prefiltered links?

You want to reset all filters before apply others?

In the new version I'll release today, you can use clean=1 in the URL. I updated the document. See reset and Set filters block.

Sergey You should use filter_val[0]=1 or filter_val[0]=-1

I coundn't done it like this! It just says 1 or -1 in filter alert.> Sergey

You want to reset all filters before apply others?

Yes. I love prefiltered links because I can add different options for people. But if some other filter is applied from before then it has no meaning.

Right, it is true and false for filters.

Do prefiltered links have the option to populate values in markup filter and filter module when applied?

Just found out that you have to put exactly the same value as it is in field options. If it is 'Car' filter value has to be filter_val[0]=Car in if it's 'car' then filter value has to be filter_val[0]=car and so on.

Related question:

• Why can't we use a similar approach and syntax for "Sorting order" ?
• Where and how is sorting applied (technically) ?

Theoreticaly it is possible. But it is too complicated.

Sergey Theoreticaly it is possible. But it is too complicated.

? From my point of view... it feels very similar. And logically I expect it to work similar.

What is the difference between "apply filters" and "sorting"? I mean, what happens when I change the order?

(PS: As long as there is no backend record order number, I would need a default ordering on a custom field. Otherwise Cobalt is not an option for one of my next projects. What a pity.)

You can add to section root URL filter_order and filter_order_Dir parameters. filter_order_Dir may be asc or desc. And for field filter_order mast be field^k7b707926e5695cbaf6a90706436a2614^digits. It is a 3 values separated by ^. First keywork field always the same. Then field key. And then indicate what is the value of this field digits or string.

Sergey You can add to section root URL filter_order and filter_order_Dir parameters. filter_order_Dir may be asc or desc. And for field filter_order mast be field^k7b707926e5695cbaf6a90706436a2614^digits. It is a 3 values separated by ^. First keywork field always the same. Then field key. And then indicate what is the value of this field digits or string.

Cool! Why isn't it mentioned in the docs?

And most important, why isn't it implemented in section/template parameters? (you may know my other related topics ;-) )

Sergey You can add to section root URL filter_order and filter_order_Dir parameters. filter_order_Dir may be asc or desc. And for field filter_order mast be field^k7b707926e5695cbaf6a90706436a2614^digits. It is a 3 values separated by ^. First keywork field always the same. Then field key. And then indicate what is the value of this field digits or string.

Please, can you write a complete example URL... before I am going to waste hours with a simple syntax error. Just want to be sure I got the whole idea. Thanks in advance.

Just take any URL and add

 http://mysite.com/link/to/cobalt/section/?filter_order=field ^k7b707926e5695cbaf6a90706436a2614^digits&filter_order_Dir=DESC 

@Sergey
Aah! Thank you. Maybe too easy and I was too tired! ;) (night shift)

BTW, wouldn't it make sense to add something like this as menuItem parameters? I mean, advanced tab where you can build this type of URL? Simply by multiple (cascading) selectboxes? Something like an "input wizard".

I think I'll finaly add parameter to select field to order by by default.