feat(twenty-front): relation traversal in filter dropdown (stacked) (#20533)

**Stacked on #20527** 




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## Summary

Surfaces the one-hop relation traversal added in #20527 through the
existing **composite sub-field dropdown pattern**. Clicking a
MANY_TO_ONE relation field in the "+ Filter" picker now opens the same
second-level dropdown that composite fields (FULL_NAME, ADDRESS,
CURRENCY, etc.) already use — populated with the target object's
filterable fields. Picking one (e.g. `Company → Name`) builds a filter
that serializes to the nested GraphQL filter the backend now accepts: `{
company: { name: { ilike: "%X%" } } }`.

No new components. The whole feature reuses
`AdvancedFilterSubFieldSelectMenu` + the existing
`subFieldNameUsedInDropdownComponentState` + the existing `MenuItem
hasSubMenu` indicator. Only the conditions that gate the sub-menu (and
the sub-menu's content for relations) were broadened.

## What landed

| File | Change |
|---|---|
| `ObjectFilterDropdownFilterSelectMenuItem` | Sub-menu chevron now
shows on MANY_TO_ONE relations (`isManyToOneRelationField` util). |
| `AdvancedFilterFieldSelectMenu` | Relation clicks open the sub-menu
alongside composite clicks. |
| `AdvancedFilterSubFieldSelectMenu` | New branch: when the sub-menu
type is `'RELATION'`, render the target object's filterable fields via
`useFilterableFieldMetadataItems(targetObjectMetadataId)`. Composite
logic untouched. |
| `objectFilterDropdownSubMenuFieldType` state | Widened to accept a
`'RELATION'` sentinel. Role-permissions sub-field menu narrows it back
out (it doesn't traverse relations). |
| `useSelectFieldUsedInAdvancedFilterDropdown` | New optional
`targetFieldMetadataItem` arg. When present, the stored RecordFilter's
`type` is the target field's type so the operand picker and value input
render the target's operands (`'TEXT'` operators when filtering
`company.name`, etc.). |
| `turnRecordFilterIntoGqlOperationFilter` (shared) | When the filter
targets a `RELATION` field with a `subFieldName`, synthesize a
field-metadata for the target, recurse to build the inner filter, then
wrap it under the relation field's name → `{ relationName: {
targetFieldName: { ...operator } } }`. |

`RecordFilter.subFieldName` stays narrowly typed as
`CompositeFieldSubFieldName` so the wide downstream consumers
(`shouldShowFilterTextInput`, composite handlers in the serializer,
etc.) don't change. The relation target field's name is stored through a
narrowly-scoped cast at the dropdown's storage point — the serializer
checks `filter.type === 'RELATION'` before interpreting it as a target
field name, so the cast can't be mis-read by composite-only code paths.

## Test plan

- [ ] Open a table view on People, click "+ Filter", click "Company" →
sub-menu opens with Company's filterable fields
- [ ] Pick "Name" → operand picker shows TEXT operators (Contains,
Equals, …)
- [ ] Type "Airbnb" → filter applies, table shows people whose company
name contains "Airbnb"
- [ ] Verify network tab: the GraphQL filter variable is `{ company: {
name: { ilike: "%Airbnb%" } } }`
- [ ] Same flow with a composite target field (e.g. `Company →
annualRecurringRevenue → amountMicros`) — should work end-to-end
(backend supports composite-within-relation; #20527 has an integration
test covering this)
- [ ] Composite fields (FULL_NAME, ADDRESS) still open their normal
sub-menu and filter correctly — no regression
- [ ] Role-permissions field-select sub-field menu is unaffected (it
bails out early on the RELATION sentinel)

## Out of scope

- ONE_TO_MANY traversal (no backend support yet)
- Aggregates (`people.count > 5`)
- Persisting relation-traversal filters into a saved view (ViewFilter
has no `relationPath` column yet; that's a separate slice)
- REST API DSL changes
- AI Tools

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Félix Malfait
2026-05-15 16:42:47 +02:00
committed by GitHub
parent eca92ca559
commit c938fbf4d6
88 changed files with 1809 additions and 414 deletions
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ describe('mapViewFiltersToFilters', () => {
type: FieldMetadataType.FULL_NAME,
positionInRecordFilterGroup: undefined,
recordFilterGroupId: undefined,
subFieldName: undefined,
relationTargetFieldMetadataId: null,
},
];
expect(
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ export const areViewFiltersEqual = (
'value',
'operand',
'subFieldName',
'relationTargetFieldMetadataId',
];
return propertiesToCompare.every((property) =>
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
import { type EnrichedObjectMetadataItem } from '@/object-metadata/types/EnrichedObjectMetadataItem';
import { type FieldMetadataItem } from '@/object-metadata/types/FieldMetadataItem';
import { turnSortsIntoOrderBy } from '@/object-record/object-sort-dropdown/utils/turnSortsIntoOrderBy';
import { type RecordFilterGroup } from '@/object-record/record-filter-group/types/RecordFilterGroup';
import { type RecordFilter } from '@/object-record/record-filter/types/RecordFilter';
import { augmentFieldsWithRelationTargets } from '@/object-record/record-filter/utils/augmentFieldsWithRelationTargets';
import { type RecordSort } from '@/object-record/record-sort/types/RecordSort';
import { type RecordFilterValueDependencies } from 'twenty-shared/types';
import { computeRecordGqlOperationFilter } from 'twenty-shared/utils';
@@ -12,6 +14,7 @@ export const getQueryVariablesFromFiltersAndSorts = ({
recordSorts,
objectMetadataItem,
objectMetadataItems = [],
flattenedFieldMetadataItems,
filterValueDependencies,
}: {
recordFilterGroups: RecordFilterGroup[];
@@ -19,10 +22,15 @@ export const getQueryVariablesFromFiltersAndSorts = ({
recordSorts: RecordSort[];
objectMetadataItem: EnrichedObjectMetadataItem;
objectMetadataItems?: EnrichedObjectMetadataItem[];
flattenedFieldMetadataItems: FieldMetadataItem[];
filterValueDependencies: RecordFilterValueDependencies;
}) => {
const filter = computeRecordGqlOperationFilter({
fields: objectMetadataItem?.fields ?? [],
fields: augmentFieldsWithRelationTargets({
baseFields: objectMetadataItem?.fields ?? [],
recordFilters,
allFieldMetadataItems: flattenedFieldMetadataItems,
}),
filterValueDependencies,
recordFilterGroups,
recordFilters,
@@ -13,5 +13,7 @@ export const mapRecordFilterToViewFilter = (
positionInViewFilterGroup: recordFilter.positionInRecordFilterGroup,
viewFilterGroupId: recordFilter.recordFilterGroupId,
subFieldName: recordFilter.subFieldName,
relationTargetFieldMetadataId:
recordFilter.relationTargetFieldMetadataId ?? null,
};
};
@@ -14,27 +14,50 @@ import { type ViewFilter } from '@/views/types/ViewFilter';
export const mapViewFiltersToFilters = (
viewFilters: ViewFilter[] | GqlViewFilter[],
availableFieldMetadataItems: FieldMetadataItem[],
fieldMetadataItems: FieldMetadataItem[],
): RecordFilter[] => {
return viewFilters
.map((viewFilter) => {
const availableFieldMetadataItem = availableFieldMetadataItems.find(
const sourceFieldMetadataItem = fieldMetadataItems.find(
(fieldMetadataItem) =>
fieldMetadataItem.id === viewFilter.fieldMetadataId,
);
if (!isDefined(availableFieldMetadataItem)) {
// Todo: we we don't throw an error yet as we have race condition on view change
if (!isDefined(sourceFieldMetadataItem)) {
// Todo: we don't throw an error yet as we have race condition on view change
return undefined;
}
const filterType = getFilterTypeFromFieldType(
availableFieldMetadataItem.type,
);
const relationTargetFieldMetadataItem = isDefined(
viewFilter.relationTargetFieldMetadataId,
)
? fieldMetadataItems.find(
(fieldMetadataItem) =>
fieldMetadataItem.id === viewFilter.relationTargetFieldMetadataId,
)
: undefined;
const label = isSystemSearchVectorField(availableFieldMetadataItem.name)
// A relation-traversal filter is meaningful only if both ends
// resolve — drop it otherwise (same race-condition handling as the
// source field above) instead of rendering a chip whose filterType
// and label fall back to the relation source, since the dispatcher
// would silently drop the GraphQL filter anyway.
if (
isDefined(viewFilter.relationTargetFieldMetadataId) &&
!isDefined(relationTargetFieldMetadataItem)
) {
return undefined;
}
const filterType = isDefined(relationTargetFieldMetadataItem)
? getFilterTypeFromFieldType(relationTargetFieldMetadataItem.type)
: getFilterTypeFromFieldType(sourceFieldMetadataItem.type);
const label = isSystemSearchVectorField(sourceFieldMetadataItem.name)
? 'Search'
: availableFieldMetadataItem.label;
: isDefined(relationTargetFieldMetadataItem)
? `${sourceFieldMetadataItem.label}${relationTargetFieldMetadataItem.label}`
: sourceFieldMetadataItem.label;
const operand = viewFilter.operand;
@@ -54,6 +77,8 @@ export const mapViewFiltersToFilters = (
label,
type: filterType,
subFieldName: viewFilter.subFieldName as CompositeFieldSubFieldName,
relationTargetFieldMetadataId:
viewFilter.relationTargetFieldMetadataId ?? null,
} satisfies RecordFilter;
})
.filter(isDefined);