This functionality is essential for any data-driven application. It is simply a must, IMO.

I need to be able to filter across different types of the same APP,

Any ideas?

Please add this into ZOO, please!

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It would be great to have filtering...... been waiting soooo long. Most other CCK's have this ability. I would love to see something like http://isotope.metafizzy.co/ incorporated.

Also it is mentioned in other places but https://www.zoolanders.com/extensions/item/zoofilter?category_id=9 may help some people.

Yootheme why so quite on this issue? People pay a lot of money for these extensions and I don't think its unreasonable to request such a feature.

I am on the brink of purchasing Zoo but when I found out it didn't have a filter feature I started to have second thoughts! I mean... what other basic things is Zoo missing?

I don't mind paying the extra, but why don't you guys develop these sorts of features and charge for them instead of sending perfectly good paying customers over to Zoolanders?

....Unless you guys own Zoolanders? I don't know ...i'm just speculating.

I mean no disrespect to YooTheme developers, but doesn't an integrated filtering / searching mechanism seem only natural in a product like this? Seriously?

I have gone down the Zoo road only to run into problem after problem trying to filter results. ZooFilter only goes so far and, WHOA, just try to effectively query the JSON data using SQL for installations with a larger database? Besides, I've not even found a good way to query JSON data stored in the Zoo DB.

Quite honestly, I see the lack of filtering and the use of JSON data within a relational database to be two parts of the same problem ... expediency and laziness. I couldn't think of a better word for Laziness here, so I'm not calling YooTheme developers Lazy, but it seems clear to me that using JSON and NOT including filtering was a "quickie" way to get this product out the door.

JSON data has no business being stored in a MySQL database in a product like this. That doesn't make sense since JSON is object oriented and MySQL is relational.

I understand Joomla utilizes JSON to some extent for params, etc., but to offer a product with customized fields, displays, etc. and throw all of that into JSON is the simple way out and offers little in the way of performance improvements and does nothing for users needing very customized interfaces and queries.

OK, I've vented...

All I ask is, if we're going to be forced to deal with JSON, can we not have a built-in way to filter and query the database? How about some good plugins to do this?

If I ignore this issue entirely, I've been very impressed with YooTheme, its themes (except this Months theme --- ew!) and its products... the lack of filtering is just a big issue for my company and makes no sense to me.

YOO recommend ZOOfilter, then support it. I have been trying to get answers for days and I can't. I am getting pissed off. I have been a paying customer for three years and have been having a bunch of issues (ZOOfilter being one of them and the others being completely unrelated). Start responding or I will start trashing you.

I once bought a commercial database - but it had no report generating functionality. For me a DB is an alternative to a filing cabinet. A filing cabinet that I can put things into but can't take them out of is called a post box and should be clearily painted red.

I think the idea was that the company quoted me £800 per day for creating reports (that I ended up creating myself using MS Access to query the commercial DB). Which was their call.

I would rather Yoo Theme inflated the prices up front and included the functionality people wanted rather than using seperate addons to provide basic functionality.

YooTheme? Any chance of an answer to this question?

I also agree. I went ahead and purchased ZooFilter as recommended but I don't understand at all why ZooFilter isn't already included in the ZOO Package.

This is a must.

Any idea when this might get implemented? If you have no intention of doing it, that would also be good to know.

I have ZooFilter installed, but I'd rather not have to resort to third-party plugins to obtain functionality that should be standard.

I can't believe that this still hasn't been implemented. Any official answer from YooTheme? Or is your business model just simply to ignore your customers?

Hello,

anybody out there ??

Whats with the ability to filter ?

YooTheme's ZOO business model is somewhat along the lines of: charge $120 a year for bug-fixes.

There has been no new core features added to the Zoo in 2 or 3 years - aside from allowing WidgetKit fields, and updating to stay compatible with Joomla releases.

Anything NEW for the Zoo requires yet another subscription for Zoolanders. At this point I wish Zoolanders had their own CCK and wasn't reliant on YooTheme. At least then the product would actually move forward.

Yootheme doesn't care about improving zoo or its customers request for that matter. The Features Request area of this forum is a barren wasteland, nothing happens over here. All anyone would say is "no" and then never check back in the topic.

If this bu11sh1t keeps up I am gonna start hammering #shameonYOO on twitter. I am tired of this support, they get trashed over on the JED for this and dont seem to care at all.

First thing i looked for is the filter... Where is it??
Its strange to see its not in Zoo.

I Agree! Would like the filter option too.

Especially for a app like product catalogus: Filter on tags!

It would be great to have a filter with some statistical functions such as K-Nearest Neighbor or pearson corel .... thanks again for your help Yootheme team !

I just had a quick look at JB Zoo, it's a russian site but google does a good job of translating. It's $23 and looks fairly comprehensive - more so than Zoo Filter which is more expensive.

I saw that this was mentioned earlier in the thread, is anyone actually using this?