Premade Groups Filter helps you limit the search results of the LFG Premade Groups tool. You can filter by difficulty or for groups with a specific composition of members, e.g. one tank, no heals and 3 dps. Filtering is done using a separate window next to the list of groups. Advanced users are able to enter powerful filter expressions to find exactly what they are looking for.
Examples of what can easily be found with Premade Groups Filter:
- mythic dungeon groups that still need a healer
- raids that have not yet defeated any bosses and already have more than 10 members and an item level requirement of 850
- PvP groups with an honor level requirement and voice chat
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It does not appear to be filtering instances tosl not listed but still showing.
Edit: it seems if you add ur instead of the proper value tur it breaks the filter.
In reply to Doadin:
Bit late of an answer, but I'd still like to give some insights: the problem exists since I added class-role keywords in late 2016. I was lazy and initialized all non-existing keywords with 0. Unfortunately, 0 evaluates to true in LUA, which means that suddenly all groups match the filter expression when you enter a non-existant keywords. I am planning to fix this issue in the future, which would also bring back semantic error messages!
In reply to baerenhard:
Thanks, I saw your changes on github and will test. Thanks!
Hi, thanks for a neat addon. Is it possible to see the party players' names? Sometimes I run into people I want to avoid but I don't know how to see if they could possible in the group I want to join. This is just for 5-man party only.
In reply to Meatballtko:
No this is not possible. Blizzard does not provide information about the names of the other players of the group, only the name of the leader.
Filter does not appear to work after 8.1.5 update. I have the oceanic script in the advanced text box which is no longer working. I have also tried looking for groups with 0 tanks and it does not appear to do any filtering of groups
In reply to Bigmorgz:
I just bought a month of game time to check if there are any problems. It works absolutely fine for me. Post a screenshot and the complete advanced expression, error is most likely somewhere in there.
In reply to elonoil:
Having trouble inserting an image so hopefully you can see here https://gyazo.com/92b4a21503d1991caddec179241a8839
The script used is
( leader=="" or myrealm or leader:find("aman'thul") or leader:find("barthilas") or leader:find("caelestrasz") or leader:find("dath'remar") or leader:find("dreadmaul") or leader:find("frostmourne") or leader:find("gundrak") or leader:find("jubei'thos") or leader:find("khaz'goroth") or leader:find("nagrand") or leader:find("saurfang") or leader:find("thaurissan") )
You will notice as well tanks set to 0 and 0 and there is tanks showing up in the filter after the search.
In reply to Bigmorgz:
Thank you for the screenshot. I see a lot of green groups and this could be one of the problems. Oceanic filtering works using the group leader name. As stated in the FAQ, the name is not immediately available when a group pops up (green colored), but takes some seconds to be retrieved. So if you remove leadername=="" or from the expression, you will won't get false positives, but new groups will show up a little bit later.
But this still does not answer the question why there is one group with a tank. One reason could be that the guy in the group switched from DD to tank after the filtering happened, but this is unrealistic if you say that you regularly encounter tanks in the listing.
I also see that you use some other addon to show [Oceania] or [US Pac] next to the dungeon name. It could be the case that this addon is interfering with PGF and prevent the groups from being filtered. Do you mind telling me the name so I can have a look at the source code? Or could you just try to disable the addon and see if that reactivates PGF filtering?
In reply to elonoil:
I tried removing the leadername=="" or from the field as you suggested but doesnt change anything unless im not completely understanding... here is the script now
(myrealm or leader:find("aman'thul") or leader:find("barthilas") or leader:find("caelestrasz") or leader:find("dath'remar") or leader:find("dreadmaul") or leader:find("frostmourne") or leader:find("gundrak") or leader:find("jubei'thos") or leader:find("khaz'goroth") or leader:find("nagrand") or leader:find("saurfang") or leader:find("thaurissan") )
Here is a screenshot from today which shows multiple tanks in the groups. https://gyazo.com/6fd3c6528e4b02ff4b78fc5e3cd705cb
I assumed the latest update added the region next to the group name but it turns out i had another addon called groupfilterregion which i removed which got rid of the region next to the group but still made no difference to how the premadegroupfilter addon worked and now with it off i have to manually inspect each group to see which one to join.
It actually turns out that ever since twitch was updated to the new format which is probably in the last 2 months, all of my addons were not up to date due to the install folder being incorrect so when i found this out a few days ago i updated all addons which is why i assumed the region name on the group title was part of a recent update. The addon worked perfectly for me prior to updating and i would have been on a previous out of date version.
In reply to Bigmorgz:
Script looks fine, screenshot shows indeed that something is not working as intended.
Alright let's turn off things until we find the problem. Does tank filtering work if you remove everything (click reset button) but set max-tanks 0?
If not, does filtering work if you disable all addons except Premade Groups Filter?
In reply to elonoil:
I disabled all addons but premade group filter. Pressed reset and set tanks to 0 and still shows up with tanks in the queue. I also tried reinstalling the addon but that didnt help either.
In reply to Bigmorgz:
Now I am a bit helpless. But the addon seem to work just fine for other players and me. The last straw are the saved variables. Quit WoW, doubkle check that you have the latest version (toc file should say 1.26 or 1.27) and move C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\_retail_\WTF\Account\ACCOUNT\REALM\CHAR\SavedVariables\PremadeGroupsFilter.lua (and also the bak file) to a different place and start WoW again. If that won't help, I have to come over to your place and debug it myself (visiting Australia soon!).
In reply to elonoil:
yeh way to much effort.. would have to muck around with addons once i put them back in place etc so ill just wait it out and hope the next update fixes it... im getting by with 1 of the other addons tagging the group regions
Thanks for the help
can the text box accept comment(--)?
comment as in commenting out the filter which i dont want to filter and uncomment the filter that i wish to use instead
In reply to shinjiat:
Is this still working? I've been using "mythicplus and dps<=2" for ages but in the last couple of days it seems to be ignoring both filters.
In reply to Meliika:
Still working. Please post a screenshot and the complete advanced expression you are using.
I love your addon,
do you think there would be any way to filter if a group has declined you before?
As far as I am aware you can still access the leader name of that group, that should be enough to identify the group (at least for that gaming session) but how to mark the group as previously declined (or simply not show this group at all after they declined you)
It would be somewhat imprecise without access to the group name but it should work well enough for most cases.
If you have any idea on how to accomplish this I would be deeply grateful if you could implement in PremadeGroupsFilter
In reply to cheshire: