Hey Guys I m trying to make my filters be initially selected typesense #community-help

Hey Guys, I’m trying to make my filters be initial...

Digamber Pradhan

01/16/2022, 7:11 AM

Hey Guys, I’m trying to make my filters be initially selected according to the initial query or actually the initial selected value: So suppose if I have my initial query to be search collection and i want to filter by category (facet) I would like the widgets - refinementList, starRating, currentRefinements all to be pre-populated with the currently selected category. I was looking for a way of doing this without having to transformItems on each widget and them to be automatically updated. Is this something that can be done ?

Digamber Pradhan

01/16/2022, 7:58 AM

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instantsearch({
            searchClient,
            indexName: defaultIndex,
            searchFunction(helper) {
                if (catFilter !== undefined && catFilter !== '') {
                    helper.addDisjunctiveFacetRefinement('category', catFilter).search();
                    catFilter = '';
                } else {
                    helper.search();
                }
            }
        });

Update was able to do this by using searchFunction and DisjunctiveFaceRefienement

Jason Bosco

01/16/2022, 8:09 PM

Nice, thanks for sharing!

Jason Bosco

01/16/2022, 8:10 PM

Question: how is

catFilter

populated?

Digamber Pradhan

01/17/2022, 6:43 AM

catFilter is the initial value sent as a data attribute in the wrapper. So data-cat=“tshirts” and then on iniital load we get that value to filter by category

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