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  Public Ticket #3503422
Saving filters
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  • Syed Omar started the conversation

    Hi, Is it possible for users to save their filters. So when they come back they can use their saved filters instead of doing all the filtering again. 

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    Miloš replied

    Hi Syed,

    Firstly, I would like to sincerely apologize for the delayed response as we have been experiencing an unusually high number of tickets. I am sorry that it has taken longer than usual to respond to your concern and your patience is highly appreciated.

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    We do not have any built-in solution to save the filter selection for users, so when they come back, to see their last filtering choice.

    If you wish to see a built in option for this,

    Please feel free to search on our suggestions page

     to see if someone may be already suggested this feature. If you can't see it, feel free to add your suggestion there,  and as more people vote, the feature will move higher on the priority list.

    You can certainly follow our changeLog page if you'd like ( it is also available in the plugin dashboard), where we state any changes/new features/bug fixes during updates;

    and our newsletter, so you're informed about new features, bug fixes, freebies, etc.

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    If you have coding skills and wish to try to make a custom solution now,

    you can check out our available hooks for Developers on this documentation and see if you can find any hook that might help.

    Please be advised that custom solutions with hooks are not included in our support.

    You can also research resources such as Stack Overflow to see if any other user perhaps found a workaround.

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    I will give you one custom example of a JS Script that can save the filter selection from front-end :


    this bit of custom js will update the browser url (without triggering a reload) to reflect what values have been entered in filters, thereby generating a direct link to the current 'view'. Note this only works for separate filter forms, but should only need a couple of tweaks to do a version for the simple in-table filter boxes ...


    jQuery(window).load(function(){
      wpDataTables.table_1.addOnDrawCallback(function(){
        var params={};
        jQuery('.wpDataTableFilterSection').each(function(i, obj) {
          if ( inputbox = obj.id.match("table_1_(.+)_filter_sections") ) {
            if (jQuery(obj).find('input').val()) {
              var key='wdt_column_filter['+inputbox[1]+']';
              params[key] = jQuery(obj).find('input').val();
            }
          }
        }); 
        history.pushState('','','?'+jQuery.param(params));
      });
    });

    I hope that might help.

    Kind Regards, 

    Miloš Jovanović
    [email protected]

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