docs(sistent): add UniversalFilter component documentation

[Ayush-1812]

Description

This PR fixes #7984

UniversalFilter is one of the core filtering components exported by Sistent, but it had no entry in the centralized component reference at https://layer5.io/projects/sistent/components. Developers reusing it across Layer5 projects had no documented reference for its filter schema, its date-range integration, or how selections are committed — the API had to be read from the library source.

This PR adds that documentation, following the new Sistent MDX documentation structure.

What was added

Three new files under src/collections/sistent/components/universal-filter/:

File	Tab	Contents
index.mdx	Overview	What the component is for (multi-attribute filtering across tables and catalogs), anatomy of the control — filter trigger, active-filter badge, panel, filter groups, date-range section, Apply button — variants, and accessibility notes.
guidance.mdx	Guidance	Do / Don't guidance, the filter schema shape as a field table, date-range picker integration, quick date options, and active-filter handling.
code.mdx	Code	Three live examples paired with copyable snippets, plus the full props table.

The examples in code.mdx are:

1. Attribute filtering — a two-attribute schema demonstrating that selections are held as a draft and committed only when Apply is pressed.
2. Filtering a table — the common pairing of a free-text search input with UniversalFilter, both feeding a ResponsiveDataTable.
3. Date range filtering — datePicker enabled with custom quickDateRanges, showing the applied window.

How it was done

• Matched the conventions of the already-documented components (table, permissions): same frontmatter fields (name, title, published, component, description), the same <a id="..."> section anchors that drive the in-page TOC, the same showcase / items markup, and the same props-table markup for the API reference.
• Live previews render inside <ThemeWrapper> so they follow the site's light/dark mode, and each is paired with a collapsible <CodeBlock> holding the copyable source.
• Demos are wrapped in <NoSsr> because the component branches on useMediaQuery — a popper on desktop, a bottom sheet below the sm breakpoint — which would otherwise risk a hydration mismatch.
• Documented behaviour was taken from the component's actual implementation rather than assumed. Specifically:
  • selections are drafted internally and only committed to setSelectedFilters / handleApplyFilter on Apply;
  • "All" is the per-attribute reset value, and is excluded from the active-filter badge count;
  • date-range changes apply immediately, unlike the attribute selects, and the pickers clamp start and end so the range stays coherent;
  • the default quickDateRanges are last 7 days, 30 days, 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year;
  • a selected value no longer present in options falls back to the first option rather than rendering blank;
  • datePicker requires the optional peer dependencies @mui/x-date-pickers and date-fns, which the component loads on demand.

No existing files needed changes. gatsby-node.js derives the routes from the directory name, and both the components landing page and the Sistent TOC build their lists from GraphQL, so the new pages are picked up automatically at:

• /projects/sistent/components/universal-filter
• /projects/sistent/components/universal-filter/guidance
• /projects/sistent/components/universal-filter/code

Notes for Reviewers

• All three files were verified to compile with @mdx-js/mdx v3 — the version the site builds with — before committing.
• The props table documents every prop the component accepts, including data-testid, whose derived ids (-apply-btn, -select-<key>, -option-<value>, -start-date, -end-date) are useful when writing tests against views that embed the filter.
• The guidance page deliberately calls out that date-range changes bypass Apply, since that asymmetry is easy to miss and affects how consumers wire up their fetch.

Signed commits

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added comprehensive UniversalFilter documentation covering setup, usage, anatomy, accessibility, and responsive behavior.
  • Added interactive examples for attribute, table, search, and date-range filtering.
  • Documented draft-and-apply workflows, reset behavior, URL synchronization, quick date presets, and active-filter indicators.
  • Added guidance on schemas, state management, dependencies, option limits, and fallback behavior.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Added UniversalFilter documentation with an overview, usage guidance, interactive examples, date-range demonstrations, and a comprehensive API reference.

Changes

UniversalFilter documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Component overview and usage guidance src/collections/sistent/components/universal-filter/index.mdx, src/collections/sistent/components/universal-filter/guidance.mdx	Documents component anatomy, filtering variants, responsive behavior, accessibility, state management, schemas, date ranges, active filters, reset behavior, and URL synchronization.
Interactive filtering examples src/collections/sistent/components/universal-filter/code.mdx	Adds controlled attribute-filter, table-filter, search, and date-range examples with quick presets, applied-filter state, and immediate date-range updates.
API and props reference src/collections/sistent/components/universal-filter/code.mdx	Adds an API and props table covering filter schemas, controlled values, setters, date ranges, quick ranges, styling, and test identifiers.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 57d89

The PR adds the missing UniversalFilter documentation and is merge-ready after normal checks; one minor follow-up remains to use URL-safe heading IDs so section links work reliably.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the addition of UniversalFilter documentation to Sistent.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR adds all three requested MDX files and covers the documented UniversalFilter examples, guidance, integrations, and centralized component reference for issue [#7984].
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes support the requested UniversalFilter documentation and remain within the specified Sistent component documentation directory.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
In `@src/collections/sistent/components/universal-filter/code.mdx`:
- Around line 365-372: Update the parent data-fetching flow around
selectedDateRange so fetchActivity is triggered whenever the date range changes,
including quick-range and picker updates, rather than only through
handleApplyFilter. Preserve the existing attribute-filter application behavior
and avoid duplicate fetches when both values change together.
- Around line 242-316: Define or explicitly import filterSchema in both copyable
examples in src/collections/sistent/components/universal-filter/code.mdx: lines
242-316 need a schema covering the used filters, and lines 331-375 need a
one-attribute type schema consistent with the initial { type: "All" } state.
Ensure both snippets render without an undefined filterSchema reference.

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173-175: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use URL-safe IDs on the headings. The wrapper anchors use IDs with spaces. Put a lowercase, hyphenated ID on each <h2> so fragment links target the semantic heading directly.

• src/collections/sistent/components/universal-filter/code.mdx#L173-L175: use id="attribute-filtering" on the <h2>.
• src/collections/sistent/components/universal-filter/code.mdx#L230-L232: use id="filtering-a-table" on the <h2>.
• src/collections/sistent/components/universal-filter/code.mdx#L337-L339: use id="date-range-filtering" on the <h2>.

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[KumarNirupam1]

could you please address the CodeRabbit suggestions and properly explain whether you consider them or not?
You have just resolved them without providing your input.

[Ayush-1812]

Apologies for resolving those threads without explanation — here's my reasoning on each of CodeRabbit's suggestions.

1. filterSchema referenced but not defined in two snippets — accepted, fixed in 57d8953.

This was a genuine defect. Only the first copyable snippet declared filterSchema; the table-filtering and date-range snippets both passed it to filters={...} without declaring it. Since each <CodeBlock> is meant to be copied on its own, both would have thrown ReferenceError on paste. Each snippet now declares the schema it uses — the table example gets both type and visibility, the date example just type, matching what each one actually renders.

2. Date-range changes not reflected in the fetch — accepted, fixed in 57d8953.

Also correct, and worth fixing because it contradicted the surrounding prose. UniversalFilter treats the two kinds of state differently: the attribute selects are drafted internally and committed only on Apply, but setSelectedDateRange fires immediately on every quick-range pick and every start/end change. My original example only called fetchActivity from handleApplyFilter, so changing the range updated the pickers while the data sat stale until the user pressed Apply — exactly the inconsistency flagged. The example now routes setSelectedDateRange through a handler that updates state and refreshes the data, with a comment explaining why it doesn't wait for Apply.

3. ESLint tool failure ("Assigning to rvalue" ×3) — not actionable here; it's a config artifact rather than a content issue.

eslint.config.js registers eslint-mdx only for content-learn/**/*.mdx and src/pages/**/*.mdx. Sistent docs live under src/collections/**/*.mdx, which matches no files glob, so npm run checklint (eslint .) doesn't lint them at all — and the repo's CI lint passes accordingly. CodeRabbit passes changed files to ESLint explicitly, which forces linting with the default JS parser; that parser can't read MDX, so it fails on the frontmatter delimiter. The same three errors reproduce on any existing sistent component doc already on master (e.g. table/code.mdx), so this isn't something this PR introduced or can fix in isolation.

Rather than silence it locally, I'd suggest widening the MDX glob to cover src/collections/**/*.mdx — happy to open a separate issue and PR for that if you'd like, though it will likely surface findings across the existing component docs and is better handled on its own.

For what it's worth, all three files were verified to compile with @mdx-js/mdx v3 (the version the site builds with) before each push.

I've also merged the latest master into the branch, which should regenerate the preview deployment that was pruned earlier.