Filter on a text field
The inability to filter on a text field is becoming a real pain for our team.
An example, we want to update all of our contacts in a specific town... Town is a text field so we can't filter the list of contacts on that.
Filters are great at narrowing down the big list and then you can work on them one at a time hitting the right arrow key to jump to the next one. You can't do this on search results...
Is there any chance we can filter on text fields or maybe list search results for an app in a table view?
Thanks,
David
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Official comment
It is now possible to filter based on the new location field, for you to filter on towns, cities and countries!
//Sara - Podio
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Hello,
I'll +1 this as well - very much needed functionality imho to be able to search/filter on text fields.I've got a list with about 1,100 items, and just getting the records with a certain value for a certain column, is painful to do (Podio shows by default only 30 results, and by scrolling downwards adds some 30 more, and so on ... so it takes a lot of time to get through the (sorted) list)
Regards,
Mike -
Yes please! I have a huge list of accounts and end up using excel instead of Podio for managing sales as filtering and display of the list is too slow. If you guys could add an Excel like filter feature at the top of each column in the table view then this would make things very much easier. i.e. Have a filter arrow next to each column header that can be clicked and free text entered to quickly narrow down to searched items within columns.
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Hey guys,
We're looking into improving this functionality in the near future. Please check our blog and product news section for updates: https://help.podio.com/hc/communities/public/topics/200077273-Product-News - Christmas might come early.
//Sara - Podio
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Thats a real shame, we cant use the location field until there are places to put the necessary business address details. A form like this would be ideal:
http://www.pcapredict.com/en-gb/address-validation/try-it-now/
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a work around is to use the tag's field. When ever an item is created use a workflow or globiflow to generate a tag that has whatever text you want to be able to filter by later.
Once i figured this out, i created a flow that went through all my active parts and generated the tags of my 'auto name' field, which contains all the info i would need to be able to filter by.
It's a cheap work around, but it works for the most part.
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Yeah, this is just bulls**t.
Example:
I have structure of client-->project-->record to monitor my worktime.
I can filter records by project (as it's heritaged from project itself). But I cannot filter by client because it has to be changed to textfield in order to appear correctly to record entry.
So I cannot get report of records filtered by client in any way.
This is after all a feature that makes Podio usable or not. There cannot be ANY other more important thing to do to than this.
(I cannot use "Contact"-type for replacing the "Client" app because contacts are handled as persons, and I'm handling companies that may have (or not) persons in them) (That's btw another thing to consider fixing) -
+100 This is really important - to be able to filter on contents of text fields, or even whether or not they're populated! We often use these for custom data where no other type of field is appropriate.
(In fact, filtering on any field just for whether it's populated or not - e.g. links - would be super helpful.)
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This needs to happen.
It is a burden having to jump thru hoops to search for added on information specified in the client apps. We cannot search for our clients address just city, state or zip code and that would be great if not all our clients were locals with the same city, state, and sometimes the same zip code. We also search for our clients by the primary contact and company name meaning we need to have multiple contact fields that don't correctly filter and is confusing for our employees to use.
I wish there were a better way to search for the info we add to Podio instead of being so limited with the filters. It is taking more time to get work done, and that's not why we decided to use Podio.
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No filter on text fields, that seems like the biggest joke ever!
That makes the whole tool pretty much unusable unless you plan to NOT use a single text field (good luck with that), I wouldn't have even considered using it if I knew that before.
I can't believe it's not fixed in 4 years.
Looks like a "broken by design" issue.
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