Wiser Filter Widget

April 17, 2018 21:02

Download: WiserFilterWidget (click the latest .zip)

Purpose/Benefits

While filtering is available to dashboard designers in the right-side filter pane, this pane may be hidden or otherwise unpreferred or unavailable to dashboard users. In order to still allow the user to filter by a dimension, this widget adds a dropdown in the UI to afford such action.

This dropdown will contain all values for a given dimension, respecting dashboard filters (except any on the same dimension to avoid self-filtering). It will also reflect the current filter settings.

Steps

For more information, please see installation and usage instructions on this plugin's GitHub page.

Notes

For the most up-to-date information please see the project README

Support

For issues, questions, or feature requests for this plugin, please:

leave a reply in this forum thread,
file an issue on GitHub, or
send an email to opensource@wiser.com

References

Inspired by Takashi Binns's post on Custom Filters widget. Differs from the referenced plugin by enabling the ability to select multiple items from the list to include in the filter.

Comments

22 comments

Ed DiCosmo June 27, 2018 15:46

I love the plugin, however it was causing abnormal behavior of the X axis value labels when they are set to dates

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Wiser Source June 27, 2018 16:20 (Edited June 27, 2018 16:21)

Hello Ed,

Thank you for the feedback! With regards to your issue, would you be able to provide some additional info? Are you using a specific level of a date field (i.e. Days, Weeks, Years, etc.) as the dimension to filter on, or is it an issue with any level? Would you be able to attach a screenshot of the issue you are seeing?

Also, what version of Sisense are you currently using?

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Ed DiCosmo September 13, 2018 17:06 (Edited September 13, 2018 17:07)

Hi Love the plugin, I found another bug in it though. When there are not enough filters the background of the drop down is transparent. I am using the new release (V7.2)

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Wiser Source September 13, 2018 20:37

Hi Ed,

Thanks for letting us know. We've fixed the issue you reported in v0.3.0: https://github.com/WiserSolutions/WiserFilterWidget/releases/tag/v0.3.0

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Ed DiCosmo September 19, 2018 13:44

Thank you Wiser!

I downloaded the new version and implemented the plugin, the background of the drop down is fixed! However, now the menu seems like it is centered to the drop down. If the widget is at the top of the dashboard, the top of the drop down menu gets cut off because it exceeds the page.

Best Regards,

-Ed

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unified insights April 17, 2019 01:05

Is there a possibility of being able to sort the values of the filter?

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Wiser Source April 17, 2019 18:24

Hello Ed,

Apologies for the lack of response. We have actually addressed the issue a few months ago, but unfortunately neglected to package a formal release of it. If you go to our GitHub repository and download the latest release (version 0.4.0), it should address the issue (and apply some other stylistic changes). Thanks for using our plugin and please continue to provide us with feedback!

https://github.com/WiserSolutions/WiserFilterWidget/releases/tag/v0.4.0

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Wiser Source April 17, 2019 18:30

Hello Unified Insights,

Unfortunately at this time there is no way to specify a sort for the contents of the widget, but this is a great idea! I have forwarded this along to our Product Owner to consider for a future enhancement. Thanks for using our plugin!

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unified insights April 17, 2019 21:02

Hi,

I noticed that with the new version the filters dont' resize if you make your window smaller:

It should look like this:

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Wiser Source April 17, 2019 21:13

Hello Unified Insights,

Thanks for letting us know about the issue. Keeping a fixed width was partially done on purpose to better align with some of our other plugins. However we will let our Product team know about it to put it on their radar. If you could, please create a new Issue here so that we can be sure to keep track of this (and notify you on any updates):

https://github.com/WiserSolutions/WiserFilterWidget/issues

Thanks again for providing feedback!

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Paul Lam May 16, 2019 16:15

I'm encountering issues with this widget not working with Internet Explorer 11. Is this widget not designed to support Internet Explorer 11?

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Sunil B May 24, 2019 10:52

Wiser filter displays timestamp when using a date fileld and i wanted to remove the time stamp is there any way to remove it.

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Hendrik Venter July 04, 2019 02:11 (Edited July 04, 2019 02:13)

Found this filter extremely useful (and I'm surprised Sisense hasn't officially created one)!

However, ran into a bug. When there is only 1 item in the select list, it won't select but default back to "All". Below is some printscreens. Hoping this could be resolved?

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Sunil B July 05, 2019 07:49

Hi,

Can we have dependent filters in wiser filter as we have the option "add dependent filter" in sisense.

Thanks

Sunil B

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Wiser Source July 08, 2019 20:33

Hello Sunil B. Sorry for the late response. Regarding your question on the timestamp issue, are you able to edit the format of the timestamp field within the designer panel to a format that you prefer (seen below)? We also have plans of open sourcing another plugin which should provide a better experience (no explicit ETA, but hopefully soonish).

Regarding your other question, that's an interesting suggestion. We will need to see if that's something that can be done in a custom plugin. Regardless, I have notified the Product Owner for this of the suggestion and have put it through our normal process to have the enhancement it considered.

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Wiser Source July 08, 2019 20:36

Hello Paul Lam,

Sorry for the late response. What issues are you seeing with it? Are you able to provide a screenshot of the issue/error that you experience?

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Wiser Source July 08, 2019 20:38

Hello Hendrik Venter,

Thanks for the details around the issue you are experiencing. I have forwarded this information along to our Product Owner/Developer to see what the potential issue could be.

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Sunil B September 16, 2019 14:44 (Edited September 16, 2019 14:46)

Hi

When i work with date filters the filter doesn't work as expected. I have created a date filter for month and year using wiser filter.

Now when the value is selected to all it shows the value but when i selected individual month it doesnt show any thing in my indicater widget. I found that in my dashboard filter it shows default value as year and when i manually make it to month & year then the filter is working fine.

Is there any solution for it without doing it manually.

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Antti Wolk September 17, 2019 11:38

Hi,

I use the Wiser Widget Filter, which is a really cool widget and should be available by default.

Somehow the widget does not work on IE Edge. It shows up and I can type in something and it delivers the results. But I can´t select anything.

Is there any known issue with EDGE??

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Michael Schram September 18, 2019 19:23

I implemented Wiser Filter in all our dashboards since it provides advantages over the Filter widget. However, it is difficult to suggest to users that they should only use Chrome or Firefox.

Does anyone know if it'll be enhanced to work with IE?

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Heather Sheely September 18, 2019 19:44

Having an issue with the filter name not displaying or showing what values were selected once we have chosen something. Also, I have to select the box at the top to select all before I can select individual items from the dropdown list.

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Louisa Carpenter-Winch October 09, 2019 19:50

I'm having the same issue as Heather above: the filter doesn't show the selected value.

However, this issue is only on some dashboards and not on others.

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