Filters

A filter limits the number of items displayed in search results.

Note

Filters do not support multi-language properties.

There are three types of filters:

Type of filter

Description

Simple filter

Can be used to display entities with common characteristics (for example, assets of a specific asset type). With a simple filter, entities appear in the results only if all defined filters apply to them. Each simple filter represents a single condition. By default, single conditions that are not nested are resolved using an AND operator. You can change this by clicking Edit .

Composite filter

Let you create more advanced searches by grouping multiple simple filters using and/or operators. Nesting simple filters inside a composite filter causes the nested filters to be evaluated together, based on the composite filter’s operator, which can be one of the following:

  • AND operators are only satisfied if all the nested simple filters are satisfied.

  • OR operators are satisfied if at least one of the nested simple filters is satisfied.

Note

Every search component that uses filters has a top-level composite filter as standard, using the AND operator. You cannot remove this composite filter, but you can change its operator to OR if required.

Fixed filter

Display the content related to the selected entity and only apply to details pages. You can apply this type of filter to the page entity, or to a related entity. A fixed filter relies on dynamic data, such as entities not created by the current user, or the ID for the entity currently being viewed.

Note

To match multiple relations using a single fixed filter, you can use a wildcard (*). This lets you retrieve items linked through any relation that follows a naming pattern, without listing each relation individually. For example, the filter value BlockTo*Deliverables matches all relations that start with BlockTo and end with Deliverables, such as BlockToAssetDeliverables and BlockToFragmentDeliverables.

When you add filters, the following limitations apply:

  • You cannot filter an entity by a self relation.

  • You cannot filter an entity by its parents. You can only select children relations of the entity to configure the Search component.

  • You can only filter by relations linked to the entity definitions that you configured in the Search component.

  • If you select a parent taxonomy value as a filter, the list only shows entities with a relation set to the parent value.

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