Events Filters Configuration

At the top right of the admin UI a set of predefined filters for events are available, displayed with a description and the amount of events currently matching that filter. By default, the following filters are visible:

Statistic	Description
Yesterday	All events with a start date sometime yesterday.
Today	All events with a start date sometime today.
Tomorrow	All events with a start date sometime tomorrow.
Scheduled	All events with status Scheduled.
Recording	All events with status Recording.
Running	All events with status Running.
Paused	All events with status Paused.
Failed	All events with status Failed.
Todo	All events with status Finished and open comments.
Finished	All events with status Finished.

Filters can be added or removed by editing the file etc/listproviders/adminui.stats.properties. For example, the Finished filter is defined as follows:

FINISHED=\
{"filters": [{"name": "status", "filter": "FILTERS.EVENTS.STATUS.LABEL", \
"value": "EVENTS.EVENTS.STATUS.PROCESSED"}],\
"description": "DASHBOARD.FINISHED",\
"order":12}

• filters defines a list containing at least one filter. Each filter is defined with
  • a name that defines the event property to filter on for the backend
  • a filter that defines the event property to filter on for the frontend
  • and the value that property is supposed to have
• description contains the (possibly translated) description displayed in the UI
• order controls the order the filters are shown in the UI

Filters with relative time spans

For defining filters that contain a relative time span like yesterday or this week value can contain an object instead of a string. This object has to contain a relativeDateSpan property which itself contains the fields from, to and unit. The unit defines the unit of time that is being considered, e.g. hour, day, week, month or year, while from and to specify the beginning and end of the time span by defining an integer offset relative to the current hour, day, ... depending on the unit. So if the unit is defined as day, 0 is the current day while -1 is yesterday and 1 is tomorrow. If the unit is week instead, 0 is the current week while -1 is the last and 1 the next week, and so on.

Every date/time unit below the one defined by unit depends on whether the offset is defined by to or from. So if the unit is day, from: -1 would be the beginning of yesterday (so the time is 00:00:00 in the user's timezone) while to: -1 would be the end of yesterday (23:59:59). If the unit is week, from: -1 is the beginning of last week (which day is the first day of the week is defined by the user's locale) and to: 0 would be the end of this week, so a filter defined as

LAST_TWO_WEEKS=\
{"filters": [{"name": "startDate", "filter":"FILTERS.EVENTS.START_DATE",
              "value": {"relativeDateSpan": {"from": "-2", "to": "0", "unit": "week"}}}],\
 "description": "DATES.LAST_TWO_WEEKS",\
 "order":15}

would cover all events whose start dates occur sometime during the last or current week.

This functionality is implemented with the library Moment.js by adding the values of to or from to the current date and time while considering the defined unit. A list of valid unit strings can be found in the documentation.

To be considered

Since only one unit can be defined per filter, time spans like the beginning of this month until tomorrow are currently not possible.

Be advised that a too big amount of filters can lead to filters disappearing from view depending on the width of the user's screen.