Most effiecient way to filter

Sunday 27 August 2006 5:51:35 am

I do recall seeing a conversation about this some time ago but couldn't locate it.

I'm using several view_parameters to allow users to filter a fetch of usually around 200 - 300 objects. Like only show objects with a location of node_id, 432 and a ezselect state of 3 etc. My question is what is best method of filtering. Is it with a {section-exclude} within the loop or is there a way to perform the filtering within the fetch itself?

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Sunday 27 August 2006 8:48:39 pm

Thanks Kristof, that thread was very informative. After reading that thread I realised I am trying to filter a "ebhanced selection" datatype. I was hoping to avoid the complexity of the extended_attribute_filter but its starting to feel that's the only way. Perhaps I shouldn't be reaching for the "enhanced selector" quite so often after all.

Can you give me your opinion on how to filter on:
A. Enhanced Selectors
B. Node locations, (inspect locations and filter out certain nodes)

Achieving this with section-excludes within a loop is relatively easy but I thought it was a slow method since your fetching larger volumes of objects.

Thanks for any tips.

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