Hi,
We have requirement to provide a User Filter for a Record with free Text field not with the options using a!facet(). For example Product Names field have to a user filter. if some one enter the product name we need to fetch the respective orders which contains that product. here we dont have any options to drop down. its free text field.
how to provide the user filter using a!facet for a free text field.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi Ram. This is not currently possible with the out-of-the-box User Filters / a!facet() component. Can I ask what the rationale is for a free-form filter actually is? The purpose of the Record List is to provide a searchable "entry point" for Users to find a given Record (and possibly to conduct processing on it). Given that you also have the 'Search' omni-box (which will perform a 'contains' based search across any field you display in the list-view Grid Layout, isn't that sufficient a solution for your needs?
Perfect. here we are not showing required field in the grid layout. where as Client needs a search filter on not displaying field in the grid. is there any work around to include the field in grid and hide it.
-Thanks for the reply.
It's best practice to display a column that contain the values you're searching on. It's part of the "dialogue" concept where you ask the system to do something and it tells you it's done it. Without displaying that value it's impossible to walk away from the list and then come back to it and work out if it's a filtered list or not.
Thanks a lot for quick response. will check with our BA to discuss with business on this.
I agree with Stewart Burchell that this request is not a great user experience, but I do want to point out it is technically possible if you switch your record to be expression backed. You can configure what fields the search box is querying against with this type of setup.