Issue with empty state being triggered when manually unchecking filter in V2 filter setup

I’m in the process of transitioning from V1 to V2 of the CMS Filter and have successfully implemented V2 on several pages without any issues — thanks for the great improvements!

However, I’m running into a problem on our Case Studies page.

Setup overview:

  • I have three dropdowns, each containing a collection list of checkboxes.
  • These dropdowns act as filters for a main collection list of case studies.
  • When I check items in the dropdowns, the filtering works perfectly.
  • The “Clear All” button also works great and resets the filters as expected.

Issue:
When I manually uncheck a checkbox in one specific dropdown (Industry), the main collection list immediately triggers the empty state, even though there should be results showing. It’s as if removing that filter is removing valid results instead of expanding them.

This issue only seems to happen with the Industry dropdown when another dropdown filter is also checked — the other two work as expected when unchecking filters.

What I’ve tried:

  • Verified that the checkboxes are properly connected to CMS Filter attributes.
  • Compared the working dropdowns to the problematic one — structure and attributes seem identical.
  • Ensured there are matching items in the collection when the problematic filter is removed.

Has anyone experienced this kind of issue or have suggestions for debugging it? Could it be something specific to how that one filter group is structured or named?

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Hi @talia!

I talked with the team and they told me this:

Users should make sure that all the radio buttons in the same group, or all the checkboxes in the same group, have the same name .
For radios, it is displayed in the Webflow settings panel as Group Name , for checkboxes, it is displayed as Name .And no other form element should have that same name if it’s not part of the radios/checkbox group.

We will update the docs. Let me know how it goes!