Re: [Tiki-devel] PluginTrackerFilter: filter by date range on the same date field?

[Xavier de P. <xav...@vh...>]

Yes, Wolfgang.

And $lowerRange and $upperRange are to be chosen by the user through the
filter form.

Xavi

On 26/03/15 13:45, wolfganga wrote:
> Xavier,
>
>  >We need for a client the feature to filter by date range on a tracker 
> field.
> Just to make sure no misunderstandings happen:
>
> You want a filter like (Pseudocode):
> $date >=  $lowerRange && $date <= $upperRange
>
> where $date can be of a format like: "2015-03-15 13:04" or "2015-03-15"
> and $lowerRange  / $upperRange of a format like = "2015-03-15 13:04" or 
> "2015-03-15"
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
> Am 26.03.2015 09:41, schrieb Xavier de Pedro:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> We need for a client the feature to filter by date range on a tracker
>> field. We have been using Plugins Tracker & TrackerList & TrackerFilter
>> to add, list and search items in pretty trackers. I know some devs
>> suggest that the future is "Plugin List" and "CustomSearch", but we'd
>> like to explore whether this minor improvement can be added to the
>> TrackerFilter plugin (which still is very useful and allow to reuse the
>> knowledge we acquired over the years, pretty extensive & up-to-date
>> documentation in doc.t.o and fairly well coverage in the official "Tiki
>> books"  ;-).
>>
>> I know that with current code base, you can not easily add the ability
>> to filter twice on the same tracker field (e.g., filter="1/r:2/>:2/<"  ;
>> i.e. field 2: arrival at the hospital; search for patients that arrived
>> between date X and Y to the hospital). Only the last one ("2/<" in this
>> example for field 2) is taken into account when passing the filters
>> among functions.
>>
>> I tried a workaround of placing an extra field 3, set to "computed" type
>> of field, with the formula: "#2" (i.e.: equals to field 2). But tracker
>> field "computed" is not implemented in TrackerFilter.
>>
>> Any known workarounds for this use case?
>>
>> Xavi
>>
>> P.D: I still don't know how to reproduce the equivalent feature of
>> Plugin Trackerfilter with Custom Search or similar. Maybe today at the
>> Tiki User Metting I'll learn that? ;-)
>>
>>