Filter search results by author

Squiz Matrix General Discussion
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Hi


Using the search page, is it possible to filter search results by the name (or ID) of the user that created them? If so, can anyone tell me how to do it?



I've looked through the various options on the search fields screen and in the documentation, but there's nothing obvious.



Any help greatfully appreciated. Apologies if this is a dumb newbie question.



Matt

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Do you mean after performing a search filter them, or only search files that were created by a specified user?

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Unless it's using the permission system I can't find a way to configure the search page to search just on 'asset created by name'. I'm sure it could be exposed by the developers for searching, but it's not in 3.24 system that I have available which generally means no one has requested it as a feature, or funded development.


You could output it as a value and have a javascript filter on the results though. You would be limited to only filtering the results that appeared on that page (unless you returned all results on the same results page with no pagination options configured), and it has the usual javascript limitations (ie, if user disables js in their browser they see everything).\



(off topic @ nic - what happened to gumby?!)

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(off topic @ nic - what happened to gumby?!)

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Yeah, bad idea to change it. It is back. :slight_smile:

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Unless it's using the permission system I can't find a way to configure the search page to search just on 'asset created by name'. I'm sure it could be exposed by the developers for searching, but it's not in 3.24 system that I have available which generally means no one has requested it as a feature, or funded development.



You could output it as a value and have a javascript filter on the results though. You would be limited to only filtering the results that appeared on that page (unless you returned all results on the same results page with no pagination options configured), and it has the usual javascript limitations (ie, if user disables js in their browser they see everything).\

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Thanks for the swift reply. Shame that the functionality isn't there, glad that I hadn't missed something obvious though!



I wanted to use it to filter blog entries by author, I guess that setting the author in the article's metadata might be the best workaround.

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Thanks for the swift reply. Shame that the functionality isn't there, glad that I hadn't missed something obvious though!



I wanted to use it to filter blog entries by author, I guess that setting the author in the article's metadata might be the best workaround.

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Or, when an author creates a blog entry, you could link it under their user. Then, you could create a listing, grouped by user, that would show all the entries that was created/linked to each user. This would pretty much do the same thing you are wanting.