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ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/DES-1280/auto-focus-newly-added-filter-fields-in-shade-filter

Scope: Shade only. This fixes the component. Admin needs a separate change (DES-1496) before the behaviour is visible on Members or Comments — see Testing.

Why

Adding a filter you type into — Name, Email, a number — left the caret behind, so you had to click into the empty box you'd just asked for. Filters that open a picker never had this problem, which made it read as an inconsistency rather than a missing feature. Reported by Peter.

What it does

The value input takes focus when its filter was just added. One file plus tests, no consumer changes.

Excluded on purpose: dates and ranges arrive already carrying a value rather than waiting on input, so taking the caret would interrupt; pickers already focus their own menu; booleans have nothing to type into.

Testing

This won't visibly fix Members or Comments yet. Those pages render two <Filters> and swap between them when the first filter is added, which destroys the component mid-action. Separate Admin bug — DES-1496.

To see it working: Storybook → Patterns / Filters, or add a second filter in Admin, which already works.

Tests

Three added — text and number take focus, date is left alone. The existing 20 pass.


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ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/DES-1280/auto-focus-newly-added-filter-fields-in-shade-filter

Adding a filter you type into — a name, a number — left an empty input on
screen with the caret still behind it, so answering the filter you had just
asked for meant reaching for the mouse. Picker filters never showed the
problem: they open a menu that takes focus on its own.

The value input now takes focus when the filter that owns it was just added.
What's held is that filter's id rather than a position, so it stays attached
to the right row as filters are added and removed around it.

Date-like types and numberrange are deliberately excluded. They arrive
already carrying a usable value rather than waiting on input, so taking the
caret would interrupt rather than help; whether they should instead start
empty for consistency is a design question of its own.
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The filter component forwards refs to value inputs and focuses newly added text, number, email, url, and tel filters. It tracks the newest filter by ID and passes focus state to its value selector. Picker-based filters do not receive this focus behavior. Unit tests verify focus for text and number filters and no focus change for date filters.

Suggested reviewers: peterzimon, 9larsons, rob-ghost

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 62057

New typed Shade filters now receive focus after being added, while date filters retain their existing behavior. The remaining risk is limited to a missing regression test for selecting the newly added typed input when another typed filter is already present.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: improved focus behavior when adding a filter. The emoji is minor and does not make the title unclear.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the focus behavior, scope, exclusions, testing, and related Admin limitation. It is fully related to the changeset.
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Type-Safe Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only internal Shade UI focus behavior and adds tests. Filters receives typed props and creates local filter state; the new inputRef, autoFocus, focus effect, and field-type …
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apps/shade/src/components/patterns/filters.tsx-2912-2913 (1)

2912-2913: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve autofocus for custom-rendered typed fields.

When a FilterFieldConfig with a typed field also defines customRenderer, addFilter sets autoFocusFilterId, but FilterValueSelector skips the built-in FilterInput and does not pass valueInputRef to the custom renderer. The renderer's input cannot receive framework autofocus. Exclude custom-rendered fields or add an explicit focus-ref contract to CustomRendererProps.

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In `@apps/shade/src/components/patterns/filters.tsx` around lines 2912 - 2913,
Update addFilter so autoFocusFilterId is set only for typed fields without a
customRenderer, preserving autofocus for fields rendered by the built-in
FilterInput. Ensure FilterValueSelector and CustomRendererProps remain unchanged
unless an explicit focus-ref contract is required instead.
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In `@apps/shade/src/components/patterns/filters.tsx`:
- Around line 2912-2913: Update addFilter so autoFocusFilterId is set only for
typed fields without a customRenderer, preserving autofocus for fields rendered
by the built-in FilterInput. Ensure FilterValueSelector and CustomRendererProps
remain unchanged unless an explicit focus-ref contract is required instead.

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apps/shade/test/unit/components/patterns/filters.test.tsx (1)

823-830: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test focus ownership with an existing typed filter.

These tests prove focus when only one typed input exists. They do not prove that focus targets the newly added row when another typed filter already exists. A regression that focuses the first typed row can still pass.

Render an initial typed filter, add a second typed filter, and assert that the second filter input is active.

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+    it('focuses the newly added filter when another typed filter already exists', async () => {
+      render(
+        <FocusTestFilters
+          initialFilters={[
+            { id: 'existing-name', field: 'name', operator: 'is', values: ['existing'] },
+          ]}
+        />,
+      );
+
+      await addFilterNamed('Count');
+
+      const input = await screen.findByRole('spinbutton');
+      await waitFor(() => expect(document.activeElement).toBe(input));
+    });

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In `@apps/shade/test/unit/components/patterns/filters.test.tsx` around lines 823 -
830, Extend the focus test around FocusTestFilters and addFilterNamed to render
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- Around line 823-830: Extend the focus test around FocusTestFilters and
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