types with same field name - apply filter to both?

Here's some additional information... If I click a filterable field in my record listing, I get two filters: "Of Type" and the field I clicked on. If I then do a text search, I get a filter for the text search and a second filter labeled "Of Type" with the filter value being "Array" and no matching records. The filter for the filterable field disappears. If I then delete the "Of Type" filter, my filterable field filter comes back and the record listing is correct. If I could prevent the "Of Type" filter from automatically coming up, the problem would go away.

When I click on a filterable value in the record list, two filters are applied

Unfortunately in this case we cannot avoid to add type to filters. That is because there we do not know how many types are there with the same field name. You will probably need to turn filter links off. And use only advanced search filters.

When I click on a filterable value in the record list, two filters are applied

Here's some additional information...

Without changing anything, give us in private comment admin level credential to your site to check it out. And give exact instruction on what page you click what with links.

In my case I actually want to have a field with the same name to include filter results across all types. I guess in an ideal situation, it would be nice to define a field as unique for filtering (include type) or not but I don't need to do that in this case. All I need to do is turn off the inclusion of a type filter when selecting a filter link.

Thanks for the offer to check my site for me. Unfortunately it's behind a firewall I don't control. I'll try to give you some exact steps to help:

• record listing template is "simple"
• two types: Type A and Type B
• both types have a radio field called "myfield" that has two values, 1 and 2
• both types have a text field called "description" that is searchable but not filterable
• myfield filtering is enabled and Field Value Linkage = Value as filter link
• I click the filter link for "myfield" in the record listing and I get two filters: Of Type = Type A and Myfield = 1
• I then enter some text in the search box (markup layout template = default) and hit enter
• I now have two filters - Of Type = "Array" and Search Text = my search string with no filter results even though there should have been. The "myfield" filter is now gone
• I delete the "Of Type" filter and the myfield filter comes back - now there are two filters: myfield and search text, with the correct filter results.

Something seems to be broken with the "Of Type" filter when records of multiple types are present in a category.

You can only fix it with hardcode.

As I say, Cobalt architecture does not allow me to know if the field is the same across all section types. I only know if there is only one type or many types in section. So it either render filter link for field or for field and type.

I could not reproduce error with "Array" locally. Unfortunately in this situation there is very little I can do to solve it.

Anyway I made some changes in the code. Hope it will be fixed in updated version released later today.

As I say, Cobalt architecture does not allow me to know if the field is the same across all section types. I only know if there is only one type or many types in section. So it either render filter link for field or for field and type.

Maybe a "dumb designer" question... and maybe not related technically. (But from my limited point of view)

How does it work for "sorting" multi-types with same field name. Sorting seems to respect the same field name, no matter where the field belongs to.

When I remove the Of Type filter that gets automatically added, I get the results I want. I'll hunt through the code and see if I can find a way to disable it.

In followup to pepperstreet's comment, filtering also respects multi-type listings, as long as the "Of Type" filter is also not on and sorting multi-types for me also seems to work as expected.