We have child template of Cassiopea running on Joomla 5.3.2. PHP 8.2.
We have the menu item: "Interviews" set as JFilters » Results
On this page we use prefilter to show only Articles of the category "Interviews". And it works perfectly.
We have filtering module on the page (this page Interviews is set as result page for filtering) that allows us to filter results and it works perfectly as well.
Now we want to enhance the filtering with a smart search module that allows to search on this page but only within this "Interview" category. I created the Smart Search module and set field "Set ItemID" to the same "Interviews" menu item (not sure if it needed)
I switched on the option "Combine Filters with Smart Search" in the settings of filtering module, but search is still shows the results from all possible categories.
How can achieve that the smart search module shows only the results from this predefined category Interviews?
From the description from docs, it should be somehow possible if I get it right. What I am doing wrong? :)
Thanks a lot in advance :)
Cheers,
Anton from creationell
Support
How "Combine Filters with Smart Search" setting actually works?
Latest post by sakinho on Monday, 28 July 2025 14:13 EEST
Hi
Your question is strictly related with the Smart Search and has nothing to do with JFilters.
To my knowledge, the way to restrict Smart Search to look up at a specific group of items, is by using its Filters functionality.
For details on that, you better address to the Joomla docs and forums.
I created the Smart Search module and set field "Set ItemID" to the same "Interviews" menu item (not sure if it needed)
I don't think that this will have any effect. It will still use the Smart Search menu item
Kind regards,
Sakis Terzis
Founder and Lead Developer
Thank you very much, I will take a look on documentation of the smart search. Just out of curiosity, what does the setting "Combine Filters with Smart Search" actually do then?
what does the setting "Combine Filters with Smart Search" actually do then?
Allows you to filter the results of the Smart Search.
Regards,
Sakis Terzis
Founder and Lead Developer
We solved our problem with the search on the filter result page.
The filtering of smart search module didn't help, cause the results of the search were placed on the smart search result page and it did break our layout, that we created for jfilter results page. So we made an template override for mod_jfilters_filters and placed an input field with name q there. So we were able to "simulate" search on the jfitlers result page as we wanted.
Thanks :)
Hi
Great!
You can also point the Smart Search module (mod_finder) to use the JFilters results page by using that solution.
Kind regards,
Sakis Terzis
Founder and Lead Developer