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Elements

ZOOfilter auto categories elements into six groups, when an element is assigned to a form it will present options specific to it group.

Groups

Category

OptionDescription
DefaultWill render a Dropdown form field.
CheckboxWill render a Checkbox form field.
RadioWill render a Radio form field.
AjaxIs used for search in categories hierarchy. Will render a Dropdown form with parent categories list. When the category is selected, the second Dropdown form with sub-categories will be displayed.

Date

OptionDescription
DefaultWill render a date Input form field.
RangeWill render two date Inputs form fields for range searches.

Input

OptionDescription
DefaultWill render a text Input form field.
RangeWill render two text Inputs form fields for range searches.

Option

OptionDescription
DefaultWill render a Dropdown form field.
CheckboxWill render a Checkbox form field.
RadioWill render a Radio form field.

Rating

OptionDescription
SelectWill render a Dropdown form field.
CheckboxWill render a Checkbox form field.
RadioWill render a Radio form field.
RangeWill render two text Inputs form fields for range searches.

Tag

OptionDescription
SelectWill render a Dropdown form field.
CheckboxWill render a Checkbox form field.
RadioWill render a Radio form field.

Custom Elements

In order for ZOOfilter to recognize a custom element it must be searchable and manually grouped:

  1. Open the custom element XML file and localize the <element> tag.
  2. Add a zfgroup attribute with the appropriate group.
xml
<element zfgroup="input">`
  ...
</element>

Incompatible elements

The following elements are not compatible with ZOOfilter:

  • Access
  • Item Link
  • State
  • Author
  • Edit
  • Frontpage Enabled
  • Previous/Next Link
  • Comments Link
  • Hits
  • Print
  • Searchable
  • RelatedItems/Pro
  • RelatedCategories/Pro
  • Media/Pro
  • Link/Pro
  • Image/Pro
  • GoogleMaps/Pro
  • Download/Pro
  • Gallery
  • E-mail.

TIP

The Category element can be used instead of RelatedCategories/Pro.