Ability to send hyperlink to filter or text search

This is an interesting idea.  We could see during our evaluation that we would likely need many filters but we're really out of control, partly because we seem to do as many one-off projects where we have to invent new approaches in our use of Jama.

Truth be told, we've ... err I've gotten sloppy about deleting filters when they are no longer needed making the mess even worse to deal with.  There have been a few suggestions that would help with "filter management" in the previous forum that sounded useful to me...

Oh by the way, I discovered recently that you can create filters with the same name.  Someone independent created the same filter I did, and named it identically, but did see it because he was only looking at his favorites!!!   I expect a link would be less ambiguous!

Tom, I wanted to let you know that direct linking to a filter URL is going to be made available in our hosted offering soon. This means our fall on-premises release should have this function in it. We're working on creating contextual URLs to projects, items, containers and filters.

Hi Kristina, we are using 2015.3 version of Jama (Dec build) but cannot see options for sharing URL to filters described here. This is an excellent feature that we would like to utilise as one way of reporting changes and status to managers and stakeholders. We can see the direct link to item options for individual items, as in the previous versions just not for filters. Are we on the correct version to see this enhancement? Thanks.

Kristina, thanks for explainining. Are there known timelines for when this feature would become available? Thanks.

One other quick note: regarding the original feature request to be able to manually build a filter via URL encoding, it looks like this is possible with the new contextual URLs.  If you create a new filter and click the "View in List" button, the filter results will be shown under a filter preview URL with all the parameters. 

Fair warning: the URL is crazy long and would undoubtedly require a lot of tinkering to make sense of it, but thought I'd share just in case.

Example URL:
[...]/jama/perspective.req#/filters/preview/{%22id%22%3Anull%2C%22filterAuthor%22%3A72%2C%22name%22%3A%22My%20Filter%22%2C%22scopeId%22%3A3%2C%22refId%22%3A87%2C%22isPublic%22%3Afalse%2C%22testCenterItemCategory%22%3Anull%2C%22currFilterId%22%3A8%2C%22smartFilterQuery%22%3A{%22filterRule%22%3A{%22id%22%3A0%2C%22operator%22%3A%22GROUP_AND%22%2C%22filterRules%22%3A[{%22id%22%3A1%2C%22parentId%22%3A0%2C%22operator%22%3A%22GROUP_OR%22%2C%22filterRules%22%3A[{%22parentId%22%3A1%2C%22id%22%3A2%2C%22docType%22%3A37%2C%22field%22%3Anull%2C%22operator%22%3A%22GROUP_OR%22%2C%22values%22%3Anull%2C%22filterRules%22%3A[{%22parentId%22%3A2%2C%22id%22%3A6%2C%22docType%22%3Anull%2C%22field%22%3A{%22id%22%3A256%2C%22name%22%3A%22name%22%2C%22display%22%3A%22Name%22%2C%22fieldDataType%22%3A2%2C%22type%22%3A1%2C%22actualDataType%22%3A%22string%22%2C%22canRemoveField%22%3Afalse%2C%22dataType%22%3A%22string%22%2C%22dataTypeId%22%3A2%2C%22documentFieldId%22%3A2%2C%22enumType%22%3A%22%22%2C%22field%22%3A%22name%22%2C%22hidden%22%3Afalse%2C%22isSocialTraceabilityField%22%3Afalse%2C%22isSynchronizeField%22%3Atrue%2C%22isWorkflowField%22%3Afalse%2C%22label%22%3A%22Name%22%2C%22mappedForImport%22%3Afalse%2C%22readOnly%22%3Afalse%2C%22required%22%3Atrue%2C%22sortOrder%22%3A7%2C%22triggerSuspect%22%3Afalse%2C%22userConfigurable%22%3Atrue}%2C%22operator%22%3A%22CONTAINS_WORD%22%2C%22values%22%3A[%22leak%22]%2C%22filterRules%22%3A[]%2C%22subQuery%22%3Anull}]}]}%2C{%22parentId%22%3A0%2C%22id%22%3A4%2C%22docType%22%3Anull%2C%22field%22%3A{%22name%22%3A%22modifiedDate%22%2C%22field%22%3A%22modifiedDate%22%2C%22dataType%22%3A%22date%22}%2C%22operator%22%3A%22IS_WITHIN_LAST%22%2C%22values%22%3Anull%2C%22filterRules%22%3A[]}]}%2C%22name%22%3A%22%22%2C%22projectList%22%3A[]%2C%22orderByRule%22%3A{%22id%22%3A7%2C%22field%22%3A{%22id%22%3A251%2C%22name%22%3A%22sequence%22%2C%22display%22%3A%22Heading%22%2C%22fieldDataType%22%3A2%2C%22type%22%3A1}%2C%22direction%22%3A1%2C%22nextRule%22%3Anull%2C%22value%22%3A251}}%2C%22showCategories%22%3Afalse%2C%22typeId%22%3A37}?projectId=87


Same URL without % character encoding for slightly easier reading:
[...]/jama/perspective.req#/filters/preview/{"id":null,"filterAuthor":72,"name":"My Filter","scopeId":3,"refId":87,"isPublic":false,"testCenterItemCategory":null,"currFilterId":8,"smartFilterQuery":{"filterRule":{"id":0,"operator":"GROUP_AND","filterRules":[{"id":1,"parentId":0,"operator":"GROUP_OR","filterRules":[{"parentId":1,"id":2,"docType":37,"field":null,"operator":"GROUP_OR","values":null,"filterRules":[{"parentId":2,"id":6,"docType":null,"field":{"id":256,"name":"name","display":"Name","fieldDataType":2,"type":1,"actualDataType":"string","canRemoveField":false,"dataType":"string","dataTypeId":2,"documentFieldId":2,"enumType":"","field":"name","hidden":false,"isSocialTraceabilityField":false,"isSynchronizeField":true,"isWorkflowField":false,"label":"Name","mappedForImport":false,"readOnly":false,"required":true,"sortOrder":7,"triggerSuspect":false,"userConfigurable":true},"operator":"CONTAINS_WORD","values":["Altitude"],"filterRules":[],"subQuery":null}]}]},{"parentId":0,"id":4,"docType":null,"field":{"name":"modifiedDate","field":"modifiedDate","dataType":"date"},"operator":"IS_WITHIN_LAST","values":null,"filterRules":[]}]},"name":"","projectList":[],"orderByRule":{"id":7,"field":{"id":251,"name":"sequence","display":"Heading","fieldDataType":2,"type":1},"direction":1,"nextRule":null,"value":251}},"showCategories":false,"typeId":37}?projectId=87

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Trent Hirsch
Plexus Corp (On-Premise)
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-17-2015 16:46
From: Tom Strader
Subject: Ability to send hyperlink to filter or text search

I would really like the ability to hyperlink to filters and to URL encode text search.

For example, if i have a filter named "items for team X", i would like an easy ability to send an email with a hyperlink to "items for team X". It is often difficult to get users to go find the filter for themselves, especially managers who aren't in Jama every day.
A simple url extension such as ?projectId=11&filterId=1234 seems perfect.

In addition, being able to URL encode a filter would be even better
?textSearch=id:123456 OR 123457, which when URL encoded would look like ?textSearch=id:123456%20OR%20123457

or more advanced searches such as
?textSearch=+custom_field_a:some value +custom_field_b:some other value

I have a specific use case where if I can simply URL encode the list of API IDs and get jama to load that, we would be in really good shape.