Hi Mandeep

I watched all of your Live Visualizer videos and you used allrecipes.com as an example. On all recipes.com the user can select all of the filter criteria. If what I see here is correct the end user using the visualizer has no way of doing the same. Only the users with access to the visualizer settings can create the filters to display to the end user. Is that correct?

That's correct. 

Finally got into the visualizer and created my first app. I am glad that at least search is on the roadmap. However in it's current state the end result isn't really usable in that on all recipes.com for example, as a user I can filter by any of the criteria. To achieve the same thing using the visualizer, I would have to create many many visualizers or pages to accomplish the same thing. In other words for recipes, I would have to create a page for American food and sub pages for food categories and sub pages for food type Yikes! You mentioned a custom plugin etc how would this work?  Why not just display the visualizer content filter on the results page? Maybe have an option to turn it on or off. I think this is an important feature as many times content needs to be user filterable.

Thanks Mandeep

Carl,
Can you provide a use case for filtering? A real life website example? Thanks

Hi Mandeep

A perfect example is allrecipes.com as a USER I can select BROWSE and then choose by meal type, ingredient, Dish type etc.  to view those recipes. With the visualizer, only the admin can choose what is displayed but this does not enable a user to select what they want to see.

On my website I have a user that wants to post recipes and asked if there was a way to categorize them so a user can choose what recipe type they want to look at breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack or appetizers. There is no way to do this in the visualizer. I thought I could use sql and parameters but then entry of the recipe would be an issue.

It would be nice to be able to expose the visualizer filter on the display page for the user to use.

Another scenario might be events. As a user, I might want to view events for a certain day and need to select the day and time.

I am building a site where contributors can add Scouting resources (camping, hiking, skills, etc).  Currently the way the visualizer works I will create the different pages with filtered content.  This is great if you don't know what you are looking for, but if you are looking for a specific camping spot, then you will have to look through all of the pages to find it.

I don't know if this would make it more straight-forward, but implementing ISearchable and being able to search from the website search bar would work as well.

Another way I would like to search is if a troop marks their items with a hash tag in an HTML editor field then it would be nice to be able to search for items that are tagged as the troop's.