# Filtering using JSON

**URL:** <https://community.weweb.io/t/filtering-using-json/16960>\
**Category:** How do I?\
**Created:** [March 2, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/filtering-using-json/16960 "2025-03-02T17:54:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Martin\_E](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/martin_e/32/12765_2.png) [@Martin\_E](https://community.weweb.io/u/Martin_E)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/filtering-using-json/16960/1 "2025-03-02T17:54:39Z")

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I only discovered WeWeb a few days ago and I love it!

Heres my first question of likely many.

I am following the filtering demo:

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/2X/a/ad690d6e93cc2ef5974a87e4f6a87a8ff528660e.jpeg "Filter data from a collection with a dropdown select") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpVTMSrCol0&t=53s)

When I try to do that I only have fields but I can’t dig into the fields to get the actual field value. It would need to dig into item.data.fields[4].values[0].value. Whats the best way to do that

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**Author:** ![sam1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/sam1/32/6724_2.png) [@sam1](https://community.weweb.io/u/sam1)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/filtering-using-json/16960/2 "2025-03-03T00:07:57Z")

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Im not 100% on your situation but you likely can solve it buy using a filterbykey in the formula rather then using the add on. Another option is to use the custom JS to filter the list