Latest post by sakinho on Thursday, 11 June 2026 13:53 EEST
Hi,
After various tests, some Joomla fields were permanently deleted (including from the trash); 10 remain. However, the deleted fields are still appearing in the jfilters filter list (see attached images).
Some filters appear twice, despite purging and reindexing. How can this be fixed ?
Kind regards
Yacktati
Hi
1.
After various tests, some Joomla fields were permanently deleted (including from the trash); 10 remain. However, the deleted fields are still appearing in the jfilters filter list (see attached images).
If you deleted them completely from the database, pressing the Synchronize button should delete them in JFilters as well.
But if they exist as records in the database this will not have any effect.
2.
Some filters appear twice, despite purging and reindexing. How can this be fixed ?
The cases when this can happen are the following:
a. Custom Fields used inidivisually but also in subform custom fields.
In that case you see a filter for the individual custom field and a filter for that custom field used inside the subform.
b. Multi-lingual.
If your website is multil-ingual you will see filters like categories and tags for each of your website's languages, as well as for all languages.
I.e. The same happens in Joomla itself.
Kind regards,
Sakis Terzis
Founder and Lead Developer
This answer concerns tickets 911 and 912
Hi sakinho,
The errors were numerous and complex. Several tables in the Finder and in jfilters components were even corrupted. The source of the initial corruption predated the installation of jfilters, but jfilters exacerbated the situation.
Furthermore, the jfilters
uninstallation left behind files (particularly in plugins and administration) and entries in Finder tables. I spent 35 hours manually reorganizing and ensuring consistency in the tables—a very arduous task because the causes were interconnected. It was also necessary to reinstall the Finder core files. It's working now.
I no longer plan to install jFinders without guarantees of stability with Joomla 6.1.1 or later and that the uninstallation process is performed correctly. For jFinders to be more robust, it should perform stricter consistency checks, both internally and with Finder, especially in the database. This could be a database verification option, as Akeeba offers.
I await your response in due course before reusing JFilters.
Regards,
Yacktati
PS : Foprme, both tickets can be closed
I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, but I think your arguments feel a bit rush and miss critical variables.
1. JFilters does not insert, alter or delete any record in the Finder tables or any other core database table of Joomla.
It uses its own 3 database tables (they all have the prefix jfilters) and these are the only tables it is dealing with.
2. Uninstallation of JFilters removes all our 3 tables.
Joomla itself is responsible for removing an extension's files from your server.
The extensions themselves have no code for their uninstall (except a very few exceptions and JFilters is not one of them).
Issues can arise if you try to uninstall core extensions which are locked (by Joomla) or if files haven't got the right permissions to do so.
3. Finder aka Smart Search is a Joomla core component.
We are not related with its functionality or its development.
4. Smart Search provides tools (under Maintenance) to optimize and fix its tables which can really become big and corrupted.
Sakis
Sakis Terzis
Founder and Lead Developer