Hello
I want to enable filtering by “subject”, “course & programs” and “schools & partners” in the search page.
I cannot find any documentation about how to set this features. I think I will need 2 things:
This is what I have
This is what I want
Thanks for any help you can provide me
Regards
The default course catalog is…super limited.
EdX.org’s isn’t using the Open edX course catalog, it’s using its own marketing site frontend and the edX discovery service with a Drupal (last I heard) site on the front.
You might want to check it out for ideas - https://edx-discovery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html or https://github.com/edx/course-discovery - but basically if you want a decent catalog, you’re better off building one yourself using the APIs.
Thanks Matthew
I’ve been searching and found two possible overrides:
On paper, I prefer the second one because the first requires a modification in some core code, but I have to try.
Thanks for the help, I’ll try to post my solution, if I find it…
Hi @Yago, did you manage to get any solution to this? I also wanted to achieve a similar feature (i.e having subjects/categories) in Open edX courses.
Thanks
First of all sorry for the late response, I was very busy at the moment and just forgot to reply to you 
I finally filter all in the front page with Javascript. I just do not manage to do it any other way, so I just show all the courses, add a “data” attribute for each element of the list with whatever data I need and with jquery filter the items based on that data values.
You can see it running here https://uamx.uam.es/courses
In fact if you open Developer’s Tools and inspect the code in courses.html, the scripts are at the bottom of the page with some comments. Yeah, I know I should put it outside and minimize/uglify them, but hey, there you have it to copy/paste whatever you might need 
I am not sure if this is the right solution but was the one I found
My apologies again, good luck with this!
Hi @Yago
Thank you very much for sharing this issue.
I have a question for you. I am trying to implement the filters “org”, “models” and “languages”.
So what I did it was create a pluging called custom_enable_course_discovery.yml in which I enable the variable from lms/envs/common.py called ENABLE_COURSE_DISCOVERY.
The problem is that in my webpage appears the bar refined research but I does not appear the org, models, and language. I search about this and I saw that the variable COURSE_DISCOVERY_FILTERS is always commented and maybe that´s why it does not appear. My question is how can I uncomment this variable? Because it appears in common.py, devstack.py and devstack_descentralized.py and I do not think is recomendable to edit directly files which are .py
Hi @Andres1 . I am sorry but I have changed of project and currently I just dont remember… Maybe my old post about searchs can be useful Problems enabling Open edX Search - #3 by Yago Maybe you can search for this issue in Slack and ask there if someone has found the solution.
BTW I use to do a big search for variables, for example from /edx, to find where the variable is set and used. Check out How to use grep command in UNIX / Linux {With Examples} if like me you have bad memory 
Good luck!
Thank you so much!! 
