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#207 Managing the filter[bydate]=custom

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Latest post by b2z on Thursday, 04 December 2025 08:44 EET

Wednesday, 26 November 2025 13:28 EET

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Hello,
We are getting back to you with a new request based on feedback from our users.
We use this URL to display the agenda page by default, supposedly without any filters:
“https://www.mairie-melle.fr/agenda?cfilter=1&filter[bydate]=custom&filter[field]=21&filter[field_order]=asc”
Then users can filter by month on the right.

However, in reality this initial display seems to already filtering on the current month, and users don’t understand why, for example, when they navigate to the second page via the pagination at the bottom (especially now that it works ^^), they are stuck on November.

I explored several hypotheses:
– When they land on this page, it displays a fixed number of items defined somewhere in the settings. I’m not convinced by this option since it will always raise questions about the arbitrary limit.
- Load all the articles/events that will then be paginated.
– A UX approach: clarify what they are seeing by displaying something like “Events in November.” In this case, how should I code this in my template override?

Thanks

Wednesday, 26 November 2025 17:54 EET

b2z

Hi Nicolas,

When the month or year is not passed in the URL then the module code simply assigns the current year and current month.

It won't be possible to display the fixed amount, because the articles query does know anything about the limit defined outside of the category model. At least we want to define on more URL parameter like filter[limit]. But in that case there we need to define how this parameter should behave in case when year, month or day are in the URL. Should it override or nor and so on. Complicated.

UX approach is quite tricky, because you need to override articles blog and as for my undestanding to anylize URL query parameters. Something like this:

$cfilter = Factory::getApplication()->getInput()->get->getInt('cfilter');

if (!empty($cfilter)) {
$filter = Factory::getApplication()->getInput()->get->get('filter', []);

if (!empty($filter) && !isset($filter['year']) && !isset($filter['month'])) {
echo 'Events in November';
}
}

To load all the articles/events that will then be paginated souns like a good idea, but I am not sure that it is a perfect solutiuon. Not sure about the caldendar behaviour in that case. Also the tricky part is when the month is present in the URL and the year is not present. So it will filter all years within defined month and that will be a messy thing.

Kind regards,

Dmitrijs