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[Resolved] Filter archive results like in a search view

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Problem:

The customer wanted to enable users to filter archives on their website hosting academic texts, similar to how search results can be filtered. The customer specified that they needed the ability to filter texts by various criteria like publication year and language when viewing a specific category of texts. While they could easily set this up in a search view, they were unsure how to implement it in an archive view.

Solution:

We guided the customer to utilize the "Screen Options" tab available when editing the archive. By expanding this tab, they could enable search sections that are typically used when editing a View. This feature had been previously introduced in a pop-up when they first created a custom archive, which they may have dismissed.

The customer was advised to explore these options to achieve the desired filtering functionality for their archives.

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Last updated by szymonF 2 months, 1 week ago.

Assisted by: Mateus Getulio.

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I'd like to allow users to filter the archives the same way they can filter search results.

My website hosts academic texts. They're categorised, have keywords, etc. I'd like the users to be able to open a category, see all texts in that category, and then also filter them down by publication year, language, or other filters. I can set this up easily in a search view, but I don't see how to do it in an archive view.

I am using the legacy editor.

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Hi there

When editing your archive you can expand the Screen Options tab at the top of the page and it will enable you to expose the search sections that you are familiar with when editing a View.

(When you first create a custom archive there is a pop-up describing this, and I suspect you dismissed it a long time ago.)

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Thanks, I'll look it up