I’m building a repeating group that the user can filter. The data is text i.e. a string.
I have ‘Is’, "Is Not’, ‘Contains’ and ‘Does Not Contain’ filters working. But there is no operator for ‘Starts With’ or ‘Ends With’.
I found this old post Constraints - How about 'Starts with' and 'Ends with' - #2 by NigelG from @NigelG which suggests that both are available as an Advanced Filter but I can’t see anything relevant there.
What am I missing?
Hey @wrightj2
It’s all about structuring your repeating group search query properly, my guess is something is a bit amiss there which is why it’s not working. Perhaps post some screenshots of your search query? You should be able to use the ‘Contains’ filter.
Depending on how big your data set is / how complex the search queries are - you might even like to look at a product like Algolia. They have a pretty good free plan and it’s not that difficult to set up, even through the API connector on the personal plan.
The challenge with using the ‘Contains’ filter is that it’s an exact match and users make way more spelling mistakes than you’d like. So having some intelligence to know that cofee is coffee etc. goes a long way on user experience.
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Hi Josh - I have ‘Contains’ working fine but it’s ‘starts with’ and ‘ends with’ that I’m trying to achieve.
In this use case, an exact match is a good thing, I don’t want a fuzzy Algolia type result.
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