How to Build Category Filters and Search Lists in Flutterflow

Description:
In this FlutterFlow tutorial video, join our host Jos from Flexperts as he guides you through the process of building category filters and search lists in FlutterFlow. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this tutorial will equip you with the knowledge to enhance your app's functionality.
Topics Covered:
Filter Data: Learn how to implement category filters to allow users to sort and display specific data based on their preferences. Jos will demonstrate step-by-step how to create a dynamic filtering system using FlutterFlow.
Categories: Discover how to set up and manage categories within your app. Jos will show you how to create and organize categories to efficiently group and categorize your data.
Setup Firestore Collections: Explore the integration of Firestore collections into your FlutterFlow app. Jos will walk you through the process of setting up Firestore and establishing a connection to store and retrieve your data.
Search Data: Dive into the implementation of a powerful search functionality for your app. Jos will demonstrate how to build a search list that enables users to quickly find relevant content within your app.
Whether you're building a personal project or a client app, understanding how to incorporate category filters and search lists in FlutterFlow will take your app development skills to the next level. Join Jos and become a FlutterFlow pro with this comprehensive tutorial.
Keywords: FlutterFlow, tutorial, app development, category filters, search lists, Firestore collections, search functionality, Flexperts
Host: Jos from Flexperts
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[@beratdeniz9766]

Been trying to do this non stop for 2 days, you are a life saver. Thanks!

[@Workerrworker]

Awsome video !
Here is an idea for the next video:
In the video, you will start with a simple search interface. You will select a specific category from the available options. After making your selection, the video will take you to another page.
On this new page, you will see multiple dropdown menus. Each dropdown menu will present a specific question related to the chosen category. Additionally, each question will have multiple specific answers for you to choose from.
As you select your answers from the dropdown menus, each answer will have a specific value assigned to it. These values are designed to represent the importance or relevance of your choices.
Once you have made selections for all the questions in the dropdown menus you press continue and will transition to a third page. On this page, you will find a quick recap or summary of the answers you provided in the previous step.
Finally, on the third page, you will have the option to post your resume or provide any additional information based on the answers you provided.
Than just post it all on a forth page.
Thanks!

[@flexpertsdev]

Sounds like a cool jobs app you are building ;-)
But more seriously, that's fine, don't have to hide that 😜
Is obviously quite a big (and very specific haha) use case for a video - is there a part of that flow that you are struggling with right now? It definitely involves some cool and fairly advanced logic which I'd be interested in making a video on, but definitely piece by piece and a bit more 'generic' so it doesn't just have you as the only person who watches it haha
To be honest there are an unlimited number of use cases but actually only a quite small number of methods / techniques for approaching stuff like this and once you master them you can quite literally build almost anything

[@andresgordillo4414]

YOU ARE THE BEST !!!! 😎🙌

[@MaggieKayy]

Amazing video! I'm curious, what software do you use to record your screen that zooms in and out like that?

[@Block_byBlock]

I have exactly the same template page as you. As of 02/06/2024, if I do like you (querying my list of documents from a firestore collection) on the first column, flutterflow tells me that it will generate dynamically the children. Does anybody have the same problem ?

[@tracymedina2097]

Great video! I got stuck in the conditional filter with the search bar because I used lists instead of column and I dont have the option to conditional value in lists. Do you know how to do that in this case?

[@EMERSONSA2004]

Perfect! You gained a subscriber... Very grateful from Brazil.

[@flexpertsdev]

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[@Alpagut40]

Now I'm jealous and I'm going to subscribe to the channel too

[@mellxx3710]

Hi, thanks for a tutorials. Could you build a cost estimator app? I checked all over the net and could not find anything like that.

[@alikibao3744]

Great video Jos. Thanks. Does this work for millions of records as well? Do you have any suggestions on sorting?

[@flexpertsdev]

So pulling in millions of records will definitely slow down your app and is normally not an ideal solution (unless it is truly a.one off query that you do once, cache it and never need to pull in new data again)
For millions of records I think you will need to structure your data very carefully and 'denormalise' it to get good performance - also I think using something like mellisearch can significantly improve performance of searches
Once you have your search results as a more manageable data set this approach would work but yea, you definitely need to limit your results in some way I rhink

[@getDEKKD]

This is an awesome video, but I am a bit stuck on filtering an array of data - I can get through all your instructions until the point comes when I need to choose what piece of data I am looking for to compare my original array to. In your case you had the option for combined text or code expression, but for my case I want to use a widget state or app state and both would be strings. Flutterflow is only giving me the option to select lists of strings (single strings are non-selectable) and when I select the list of strings, it too tells me the variable is not valid. Any suggestions??

[@PA20243]

hi Bro, what about image preparation? To show them in this consistent, beautiful way

[@Themagiciangr]

I have created list on firebase with 2 items how can i display both in the same text

[@Creafusion]

Nice demo ! Very useful.
Did you ever tried with multiple languages? Cause I experience a weird bug that my filters works perfectly when they are in english as the terms are in english, but when they are translated (ex: in french) the filters don't work anymore, cause even dough the categoriez are translated, it keeps filtering on english and look into french so ofc .. it doesn't work ^^
Any idea to fix this ?
Keep the good work !

[@robinsola1115]

love the video, but the camera movement makes it hard to follow what is going on.

[@inzimamali]

god it's really confusing , the cursor feels like it's about to inter the another dimention or somethin..

[@flexpertsdev]

Thanks for that feedback guys, is a new editing tool I was using as in previous videos people said things were too hard to see...seems like I need to tweak the settings w down a bit haha

[@ermanozkaya]

I'm trying to watch the video to learn how to use the checkbox, but I have to rock like I'm on a small boat in stormy weather. Why are there so many scrolling, zooming in and zooming out effects in the video? I can't keep watching anymore :(

[@flexpertsdev]

Thanks for the feedback, when I make the next batch of videos I'll try to adjust this down a bit

[@Markard0]

the mouse zoom thing is nauseating not gonna lie...

[@flexpertsdev]

Thanks for the feedback, really helpful : 😃

[@Good-and-Geeky]

mumble mumble...