AJAX Filtering Question

I’m using a block to show a category of posts and want to use AJAX to allow viewers to further filter by additional categories. For example, I’m showing all “Blog” posts and would like to allow people to filter by Technology, Science, etc. These are not sub-categories. When I set up the AJAX filtering on the block, the tech and science tabs show all tech and science content, not just those that are also blog posts.

What’s the best way to address this? Can I use some sort of Boolean argument on the AJAX filter ID selection? Or is there a way to force the AJAX request to respect the filter identified on the main filter tab?

Thanks for the help!

Thanks Bogdan. To clarify, you’re right that the ajax filter is only displaying posts. The problem is what post categories are being displayed. My initial impression from the block settings was that the main filter tab would control what categories could be displayed, then the ajax filter would further refine those based on other conditions (like author id or tag id).

Let me give a clearer example of what I’d like to accomplish. Let’s say I want to show posts with the “Technology” category. That’s easy to do with the filter settings. I also have two different authors who write about technology. I want to use the ajax feature to allow readers to filter technology posts by each author. Right now, specifying author IDs in the ajax filter will show all of their posts, not just technology posts.

What’s the best way to keep the technology category as the main filter criteria but still allow further specification in ajax for author or tag IDs?

Thanks!

Cheers,
Oasontu