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Pre-filtering list view

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Hi guys, I’ve got an entity: Region with one attribute: Name (String) that is associated with entities: Company and Person. Wondering if there’d be a way to create a pre-filter so once a region is added to the user’s profile, it would only show the companies that are associated with the chosen region as you can see below on My Account > preferred region/s:

asked 2021-06-22

Alejandro Castrelo

2 answers

Conner Charlebois · Answer 1 · 2021-06-22

You can use xpath for this. On your listview, add the xpath constraining the Regions shown to only those “preferred” by the user. The xpath would be something like:

// show the regions preferred by the current user
[MyFirstModule.Region_Account__Preferred = '[%CurrentUser%]']

Eline Bijkerk · Answer 2 · 2021-06-23

Alternative to Conner's approach would be to use the Listview Controls widget – that one allows you to add various filters with a default value. It has the advantage over the Xpath approach that people can still uncheck the filter and see the entire result set, instead of only the filtered result set.