How to add backend filter for custom classifications

Hi,

Long story short: in News (for example), on the right side bar, you have the ability to filter news items by tags or categories. I'd like to add the same feature for custom classifications I created. Is it possible? If so, how?

I tried doing it by messing with the advanced settings, but keep getting into errors, then try to modify the config files manually, but still can't get it to work for now. I was wondering if I was on the right track or not.

Thanks.

Hi,

I try to made the same thing. The first time by Settings > Advanced on backend unfortunately I got an error then I try to modify xml configuration but it doesn't works too.

Regards,
Nicolas

Hi,

Please check the following thread in which my colleague Boyan discussed similar scenario.

Kind regards,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team

Hi Victor,

I check the thread, it's the same procedure that I made.

When you create an item under NewsBackendList > SideBar > Sections with similar settings as tag or category, you break the list of News in Backend it doesn't load (blank page because of JS error).

If under your custom section you try to create a DynamicCommandWidgetElement, you obtains this error :

Hi,

As Nicolas said, it doesn't work. Due to this, we had to use Categories rather than our own classification, which is unfortunate.

Hi Thomas and Nicolas,

After deeper investigation of the issue it seems that adding a custom classification ( based on custom field or other type of custom data ) for the already built - in modules that come with Sitefinity is not easy at all because the whole side view configuration must be altered. However it will be easier if you are creating such classification for a custom module.

Regards,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team