After our upgrade to V6, we have noticed that report filters behave differently.
By setting a Filter for a field to a wildcard “%”, I expect to get all records, just as if the filter was not present. However, a filter with the wildcard ‘%’ suppresses all records.
Removing the same filter then causes the report to display all records. See screenshots illustrating both cases
@rmehta yes, it is a redundant filter. The reason it is there is as follows;
I save some reports with predefined filters all set to like = #. When a user opens the reports, they can quickly edit the existing filter, instead of adding a new filter, choosing the field name, choosing the ‘like’ operator, and setting the filter value.
I tested this on v6.4.6, the default filter value when choosing like is “” empty string. “%” doesn’t work either, in that no records return. like “%next%” works, in that it will match anything with the string ‘next’ in it.
I just found that specifying two % symbols works
Given the following Customer names:
next
erpnext
erpnext inc
And given a filter of Customer like . I get the following behaviour;
Customer like "" no results
Customer like "%" no results
Customer like "%next% 3 results
Customer like "%%" 3 results
I’d argue that the filter Customer like "%" is not working as one would reasonably expect.