How to filter requests? It seems that filtering doesn't work now

Please see the screenshot. This is a piece of response for "GET /user/submissions". The goal is to select ONLY those submissions that have "type: control_paypal" and/or "type: control_payment". And it seems that the filtering doesn't work. My request url is this: "https://api.jotform.com/user/submissions?apiKey=.....&limit=20&filter=%7B%22type%22%3A%22control_paypal%22%7D". I encode desired uri component like this "encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify({"type":"control_paypal"}))" and append it to my request url. As you can see I do "limit=20". It means I have to get 20 entries with "type: control_paypal". But for some reason I get 20 entries and only 12 of them have "type: control_paypal". So the response is the same as without adding a filter, as if I only use "limit=20". My question is: How to filter? Does this feature work?here is much better markup http://developers.jotform.com/forum/post/56545743387b5d6518000015

Hi there,

Actually, filtering the submissions with "type" is not working. To do the filtering, you need to get all of the submissions, then you need to filter those with answer/content.

 

To illustrate (not the actual code),

for (answers) {

if(answers[content][type] == "control_paypal")

}

 

Also, you can use the following guide and the examples to understand how to filter the data of the API. I assume that this link will be very beneficial:

http://api.jotform.com/docs/#form-id-submissions

 

For further assistance, please feel free to contact us.

Thanks.

In addition, you can also use the app called "JotPayments". You can easily add this app to your form by using the following link:

http://apps.jotform.com/app/jotpayments