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Latest post by sakinho on Wednesday, 28 September 2022 13:40 EEST

arnaud@agdg.fr
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Tuesday, 27 September 2022 18:03 EEST

Hi there.
Some new features that could be great to use for better design:

  • add an id or class with parameters (for example class="filter-name-item-name") to each item in each filter jfilters module to help designing layout;
  • add a waiting svg, gif or any animated trick when updating front end page with ajax;
  • option to hide root menu item alias (the hidden one) in sef urls. For example, if the results hidden menu item has the alias "cat", the url of the filtered results could be /filter/value/filter-2/value-2 rather than /cat/filter/value/filter-2/value-2. The idea is to hide completely the root menu item alias in sef urls. Perhaps it's a bad idea... Tell me!

Thanks again for your great extension. Works great, very powerful and quite easy to use.
Arnaud

sakinho
sakinho
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 13:40 EEST

Hi

Thanks for the feedback.

1. Each filter has a container div with an id using the following format: jfilters-filter-container-MODULE_ID-FILTER_ID

Using that you can target any element within the filter block.

2. It is a bit oldfashioned to show loading icons with ajax. You will not see that in major sites anymore.
Also if the loading time is such that the user has the time to wait to see a loading icon, it is against the user experience guidelines as defined by the web core vitals.

3. You cannot access any page in Joomla without including it's menu item alias. This is what tells Joomla which component to call.

What you can do it is to use the Primary Filter setting.
With this setting, your primary root filter can use the alias of the menu item.
In short you can set the filter's alias as the menu item's alias and have a shorter url.

Kind regards,

Sakis Terzis

Founder and Lead Developer