Filter Parameter of Category not filtered to a specific entity

Ideas
#1

When building a new filter which has a parameter of Category, there is no way to specify which entity you are selecting from. This leads to the drop down list of categories containing categories from all entities. I would like to suggest the ability to filter out the available categories based on the entity. I imagine this would look similar to the dialog that is presented when adding a dynamic attribute as a parameter when you are prompted to specify the category.

#2

I’ve also experienced this issue. Seems like it would be a pretty simple fix, to filter this control to only categories on the entity. Any chance this is addressed?

#3

This seems like a fix that would be easy to implement. Is there no answer to why Categories on the filter control don’t filter to the entity you’re working with for that parameter?

#4

Is there any update on this? We have received no response as of yet and this is still a major issue for us.

#6

You can create a custom condition for the category where items in the dropdown list are filtered by any criteria you want.

The custom condition in the filter XML should look like this:

        <filter id="filter"
                applyTo="authorsTable"
                dataLoader="authorsDl">
            <properties include=".*" excludeProperties="category"/>
            <custom name="myCategory"
                    caption="msg://myCategory"
                    paramClass="com.haulmont.cuba.core.entity.Category"
                    paramWhere="{E}.entityType = 'sample_Author'">
                    {E}.category.id = ?
            </custom>
        </filter>

Only categories for the sample_Author entity will be in a dropdown list.

#8

Thank you for the reply! I believe this solves our issue.