Filtering news

Hi all!

Can it be done to have somekind of filter (choosed from homepage with drop-down menu) that would show only news listed with certain tags (something like categories with tag’s).

Example:
- I have 5 categories with news- category1 ,category2 etc.
- each category is "filtered" with a certain tag (category1 = "category1" tag)
- when I choose some filter (non-related with categories) from drop-down menu (example: clubbing) that should show all news with clubbing tag associated with it)
- filter must be active (until user choose another filter) through all pages and categories

Any ideas?

Maybe with sessions or something....

filter must be active (until user choose another filter) through all pages and categories

I don’t understand this part, but the rest can easitly be done using Dittos tagging features.

Check out the different options for &tagMode. This is like filtering but based on tags.

I have 2 MAIN filters that would filter ALL news in ALL categories depending on the combination of those 2.

For example:
User choose these filters on homepage: "family" and "region 1"
Then, all of the news are filtered, thus showing ONLY those which are tagged with family and region 1 (excluding the rest)

If a user selects other combination of filters, like: "with friends" and "region 2"
it would display the news across the site showing only those which are tagged with with friends and region 2 (excluding the rest)


I managed to acomplish that with adding some custom code into the wayfinder.inc.php (for the menu because this is when tags are lost if a user clicks another category)

Still testing it....


P.S. with Dittos tagging features I made categories

Hi Mproject,
First of all, if you haven´t already, check out this article: http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Category_Tagging_with_Ditto
And then what I would do is create a folder, unpublished, called something like "News Categories", inside news categories create your 5 documents: Category 1, Category 2, Category 3 etc etc.
In category 1 content area you are going to make a ditto call that just calls the Category 1 tagged news items, eg.
[!Ditto? &summarize=`5` &total=`20` &tpl=`ditto_articles` &paginate=`1` &alwaysshow=`1` &sortBy=`createdon` &sortDir=`DESC` &trunc=`1` &truncLen=`300` &commentsChunk=`` &displayArchive=`1` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1` &descendentDepth=`1` &tagDelimiter=`,` &tagData=`tvcategoryOptions` &tagMode=`onlyTags` &tags=`Category 1`!]
And continue like that in each document, and then wherever you want a dropdown to those items just create it by styling a wayfinder call that starts at the document id of your "News categories" pages.
Hope that made sense!
Good luck