Filter expressions: and/or logic in text fields with default operator

[martintaal]

Hi,
I would like to be able to do and/or logic in text filter fields, using a default operator. For example the following would give all records which have east or west in their name:

east or west

as no operator is specificied the default operator of the text field should be used (iContains for example).

is this possible in a latest nightly? Or what can I override to accomplish this behavior?

gr. Martin

[Isomorphic]

This seems to be the same as the allowExpressions feature? If not, can you explain in detail how it's different?

Note you can override getCriterion() on FormItem to have a FormItem that has a custom approach for how it parses it's value and returns criteria.

[martintaal]

Hi,
Yes, or override parseValueExpressions, I see that the or/and are only allowed for numeric/date fields and not for text fields. So I need to completely override the parseValueExpressions method.

Is there a change that it will somehow be made parameterizable to specify which field types can support or/and?
(I think I asked this before but could not find the answer)

gr. Martin

[Isomorphic]

This is not something we want to implement because the user may be searching for the literal text "a or b". If you're OK with this ambiguity, or you have a different approach that would make it unambiguous, an override of getCriterion() is the supported approach.