Suggestion: Boolean ability to OR filter values (value groups?)

Post by pelf

Lo be it for me to suggest HOW you would implement this in your UI, but sometimes I find myself wanting the ability to || my filter values. For example:

http://www.wowhead.com/?items&filter=cr=107;crs=0;crv=increased+fishing

Because of inconsistencies in the way Blizzard writes Equip effects sometimes, they might have something that says "Increased fishing +35" and another that says "Increases fishing skill by 35". It would be nice to be able to do that on one page.

The sort of demonic, parenthesized thing I have in the subject line would be something like combining the options in these two queries:

http://www.wowhead.com/?items&filter=cr=51;crs=1;crv=50 (damage done by spells > 50)
http://www.wowhead.com/?items&filter=cr=53;crs=1;crv=50 (damage done by fire spells > 50)

with an || instead of an &&. That seems to be a fair can of worms, though. I've personally thought about how best to construct a UI that allows the creation of complex boolean statements and it inevitably gets really nasty in my head -- mostly because of the necessity of parenthesizing because of order of operations.

Maybe I just suck and can't see the forest for the trees or something.

Anyway the first suggestion stands as the more realistic of the two.

Oh and, yay for non-forum related suggestions. First?

Post by 20820

We got a lot of neat improvements coming soon to the item filters. Conditional filters are one of them :)

Post by pelf

We got a lot of neat improvements coming soon to the item filters. Conditional filters are one of them :)
I literally can't wait to see how you do that.

Post by SignupSucks

We got a lot of neat improvements coming soon to the item filters. Conditional filters are one of them :)

Would this include NOT operators as well as OR? Perhaps you could give us a teaser list of some of the new filter options in the works?

Suggestion: Boolean ability to OR filter values (value groups?)

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