AngularJS filter only on certain objects

You can pass an object as the second parameter to achieve this if you can have two search fields

<div ng-repeat="friend in user.friends | filter:{name:searchNameText, age:searchAgeText}">

Otherwise you'll need to write a custom filter to use the same field for both, or pass a custom filter function as the third parameter which is described in the docs.

http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.filter:filter

I'm not sure if this is what you are after. If you want to have one input field to matched multiple properties you need a filter function to be passed to filter.

$scope.user = {id: 1, friends: [{name: 'John', age: 21, sex: 'M'}, {name: 'Brad', age: 32, sex: 'M'}, {name: 'May', age: 64, sex: 'F'}]};$scope.searchFilter = function (obj) {    var re = new RegExp($scope.searchText, 'i');    return !$scope.searchText || re.test(obj.name) || re.test(obj.age.toString());};

Here's a fiddle examplehttp://jsfiddle.net/fredrik/26fZb/1/

This is not the cleanest way to accomplish what you want, but it is the simplest way to accomplish an OR filter using the standard ng-repeat filter.

Controller:

$scope.user = [{id: 1, friends:    [        {name: 'John', age: 21, sex: 'M'},        {name: 'Brad', age: 32, sex: 'M'}    ]}]$scope.buildSearchData = buildSearchData;function buildSearchData(friend){    return friend.name + ' ' + friend.age;}

HTML

<input type="text" ng-model="searchText"><div ng-repeat="friend in user.friends | filter:{searchData:searchText}"     ng-init="friend.searchData = buildSearchData(friend)">  {{friend.name}} {{friend.age}}</div>