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Course Catalog - apply filters using URL parameters

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Hi,

We use the enhanced course catalog to display our courses (/totara/coursecatalog/courses.php). Once there users can search for courses or filter the results by Category, Delivery Method or Tags.

I haven't found any information on how to display a filtered list of courses automatically for example when I want to only show them courses belonging to:

a particular category (eg categorized under business unit Operations) via a URL like /totara/coursecatalog/courses.php?category=Operations
a particular tag (eg Compliance has a tag id of 85) via a URL like /totara/coursecatalog/courses.php?tagname=compliance or /totara/coursecatalog/courses.php?tagid=85

Any idea on how I can achieve this?

I don't want to take them to tag page (/tag/index.php?id=85), or category page (/course/index.php?categoryid=65) since they don't have any options to apply filters etc to see all courses if they want to.

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Hi Vijay

It is possible to apply a filter to the course report and the save the search and apply the search to the report .

The search will have a search id that is attached to the report URL e.g. Totara site URL'/totara/reportbuilder/report.php?id=100&sid=5

This link can be added to a custom menu or the report can be added to a Report table block with the saved search.

Regards

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That's great Craig. We are using saved searches for our reports. However, the course catalog is an embedded report and I received this message when I tried to view it like other reports "Embedded reports can only be accessed through their embedded url"

Is there any way to overcome this?

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Hi Vijay

If you select the Clone report icon for the embedded report this will make a copy of the report and make it a user report that can then be modified and the URL should then be accessible.

Regards

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