humanitarian filter - switch instead of dropdown?

[stevieflow]

Currently the humanitarian filter is a drop down

As there will only ever be two choices (yes or no), could this be dealt with by an on/off switch , similar to :

[notshi]

Actually, the humanitarian filter is 3 states:

1. Disabled
2. Yes
3. No

So it can't be a switch! :}

[andylolz]

Ahhh, good point! So that's:

• All activities
• Only humanitarian
• Only development

[stevieflow]

Is the first state when the attribute is not present? If so, then I'd suggest it's a No..?

[stevieflow]

I think an on/off switch can still apply though. In effect, if you select "yes", you just want to filter to activities that have attribute ''@humanitarian="1"'' (or similar) at the ''iati-activity'' element

[andylolz]

Right, yeah – so in that case, the options would be:

• Humanitarian only
• All activities

I.e. no way of specifying "development only".

[notshi]

When we apply filters for the search, we need it to be 3 states.

Apply filters when @humanitarian =1 or true Apply filters when @humanitarian =0 or false Apply filters regardless if @humanitarian exists or not; ie. all activities.

The default for no filters is always all activities.

[stevieflow]

I see your point @andylolz

My understanding of the humanitarian flag is it is just that - you use it to declare when an activity has some humanitarian aspect. It's a positive addition you make to the data, rather than an assumption. Before this, it was just assumed that all data was development, i guess

I dont think ^^ helps, although it could paint the user story

• as a d-portal user I want to filter to activities that only have the humanitarian flag, so that I am clear this data is relevant to humanitarian (or something)

[andylolz]

as a d-portal user I want to filter to activities that only have the humanitarian flag, so that I am clear this data is relevant to humanitarian (or something)

Yes, exactly.

Expressing this as user stories is helpful. I find it a bit difficult to come up with the user story for the "@humanitarian =0 or false" filter. It’s guaranteed to only return a subset of all development activities, because the @humanitarian attribute was only added at v2.02.

[amy-silcock]

This has been implemented as a drop down option. This keeps it in the same style as the other filter options.

[stevieflow]

This keeps it in the same style as the other filter options.

Is that the end of the discussion therefore?

[notshi]

Closing this as resolved.