Hi, I’m trying to use the Shopify Polaris Index Filter in the example (https://polaris.shopify.com/components/selection-and-input/index-filters) but none of the views, filtering and sorting features work.
Topic summary
A user reports that the Shopify Polaris Index Filter component example doesn’t implement functional views, filtering, or sorting capabilities.
Root Cause:
Another participant clarifies this isn’t a bug—the Polaris documentation only provides the UI wrapper component. Developers must implement the actual search, sort, and filter logic themselves since Polaris cannot know the specific data structure being used.
Suggested Improvement:
A third user suggests the Polaris documentation should include or link to a complete working implementation example to help developers understand how to integrate the functionality.
Status: The issue remains unresolved as a documentation gap rather than a technical problem. No concrete examples or implementation guidance have been provided.
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From my understanding, its not a case of it “not working”, its just the code which performs either the search, sort or filter isn’t included and you need to handle that yourself as Polaris doesn’t know what data you’re feeding into the table. The docs just give you the outer wrapper to use and you can then add whatever you need. Hope this helps.
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It would be nice if the Polaris page could at least point to an example implementation.