# Filtering collection entries

**URL:** <https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/filtering-collection-entries/403>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 15, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/filtering-collection-entries/403 "2018-11-15T15:37:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![LucaL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc29f/32.png) [@LucaL](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/LucaL)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/filtering-collection-entries/403/1 "2018-11-15T15:37:50Z")

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I’ve discovered this wonderful CMS and was “playing” with it for a couple of days and i need some help to achieve some simple queries cause i cant finde the docs (the ones on the website are very poor ☹ ). I’ve a simple “Event” collection with these fields:

- title (Textfield)
- description (WYSIWYG)
- date\_from (Date). Isnt publishing date, but when the event start (EX: a week-long festival)
- date\_to (Date)

1. How can i filter my entries by title? I tried with filter[title] but i think its and exact match and not a “Start With” or “Contains”. I’m missing something?
2. How can i filter my entries by a range of date? EX: I want to fetch all the events that will start this week, so today \<= date\_from \<= to today+7. I noticed that the Date field type is returned as a string based on format I’ve specified on creation

Btw, very nice work.

PS: just to know, why the /api/collections/get/{collectionname} return the “fields” definitions too and not just the entries + total?

PPS: sorry for my english, but it isnt my former language 😕