collective.collectionfilter 1.0.1

Plone addon for filtering collection results.

collective.collectionfilter

Faceted navigation filter for collection results.

This Plone addon allows you to filter collections results for additional catalog metadata. For example, you can add a subject filter, but also a filter for authors or portal types. This can also be used to build tag clouds.

The filter types can be extended (see: collective.collectionfilter.vocabularies).

Besides the “Collection Filter” portlet/tile there is also a “Collection Search” portlet/tile for doing a fulltext search on the collection results.

Overloading GroupByCriteria

collective.collectionfilter.vocabularies.GroupByCriteria is a singleton, registered as global utility and used to provide a list of possible indices, which grouped values will provide your filter criteria.

It uses a data structure like this:

self._groupby = {
    it: {                   # Index name
        'index': it,           # Name of the index to use
        'metadata': it,        # Name of the metadata column to use
        'display_modifier': _  # Function to prepare the metadata column value for displaying
    }
    for it in metadata
}

As you can see, the standard GroupByCriteriaVocabulary implementation implies, that the index name is the same as the metadata column name. Also, we use the collective.collectionfilter message catalog as standard display_modifier (you can register translations under the collective.collectionfilter domain to translate index values).

If you need a special display_modifier, or index or metadata columns do not have the same identifier, you can modify this data structure. For that, register an adapter for IGroupByModifier, which adapts to the GroupByCriteria utility. Within this adapter, you can modify the already populated _groupby attribute (do not use the groupby, which is a property method and at this point hasn’t finished).

This is how.

Write an adapter:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from collective.collectionfilter.interfaces import IGroupByCriteria
from collective.collectionfilter.interfaces import IGroupByModifier
from zope.component import adapter
from zope.interface import implementer


@implementer(IGroupByModifier)
@adapter(IGroupByCriteria)
def groupby_modifier(groupby):
    groupby._groupby['Subject']['display_modifier'] = lambda x: x.upper()
    groupby._groupby['my_new_index'] = {
        'index': 'my_new_index',
        'metadata': 'my_new_index_metadata_colum',
        'display_modifier': lambda it: u'this is awesome: {0}'.format(it)
    }

Register the adapter:

<configure xmlns="http://namespaces.zope.org/zope">
  <adapter factory=".collectionfilter.groupby_modifier" name="modifier_1" />
</configure>

Done.

Your adapter is called by collective.collectionfilter.vocabularies.GroupByCriteria.groupby.

Author

• Johannes Raggam

• Peter Holzer

This package is based on collective.portlet.collectionfilter and collective.portlet.collectionbysubject.

Changelog

1.0.1 (2018-02-09)

• Fix target collection selection via catalog vocabular and RelatedItemsFieldWidget. [agitator]

1.0 (2018-01-27)

• Implement AJAX search for the collection search portlet. [thet]

• Update the history / location bar URL with the current filter URL. [thet]

• Fix error where closest DOM method isn’t supported on IE. Fixes #6. [agitator]

• Register bundle to depend on * to avoid weird Select2 initialization error. [thet]

• Add input_type option to be able to better select the type of input. Add input_type support for dropdowns. Remove as_input attribute and provide upgrade step for it. [thet]

• Initial release from collective.portlet.collectionfilter. [thet]