Disable Copy / CSV / Excel / PDF / Print options

  • Resolved apachevape

    (@apachevape)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    Just want to say what a great plugin this is – certainly helped me out when I was trying to find a way to display data and make is searchable without creating numerour posts!

    I have tried to search the forum in the hope that someone else had wanted this but couldnt find anything so I hope you don’t mind me asking if this is possible?

    I don’t want viewers of the page to be able to download or print the table or search results – is there a way to disable this functionality? Its not a major problem if not, I will simply make the page only visible to logged in users (customers) but it would be nice if I didn’t have too.

    Very many thanks – donation on its way if this can be implemented.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author Meitar

    (@meitar)

    I don’t want viewers of the page to be able to download or print the table or search results – is there a way to disable this functionality?

    That’s not how computers work. If a visitor can view something on your website, they have already downloaded (copied) it. That’s why they can see it in the first place.

    donation on its way if this can be implemented.

    That’s not how donations work. You are thinking of contracts or jobs.

    Just want to say what a great plugin this is – certainly helped me out when I was trying to find a way to display data and make is searchable without creating numerour posts!

    That’s great to hear. Maybe consider donating to a great plugin that you are using like this one?

    Thread Starter apachevape

    (@apachevape)

    Off to find another plugin where the developer is less arogant.

    Plugin Author Meitar

    (@meitar)

    Off to find another plugin where the developer is less arogant.

    Since you decided to use a plugin but not pay for it, whether or not you use this plugin doesn’t really change anything for me at all. Since you decided to use a plugin but not pay for it, then ask for additional free work from me, the fact that you would choose to use a different plugin actually improves my life, because I’d obviously be much happier to let you make yourself someone else’s problem. Good luck with finding a way to prevent Web browsers from working the way they have been designed. I’m sure someone of your negotiating caliber should have no trouble achieving that in short order elsewhere.

    My solution is to use CSS to hide those buttons.

    <style>
    .buttons-copy { display: none !important; }
    .buttons-csv { display: none !important; }
    .buttons-excel { display: none !important; }
    .buttons-csv { display: none !important; }
    .buttons-pdf { display: none !important; }
    .buttons-print { display: none !important; }
    </style>

    I agree this the author’s logic here. We should be thankful for the plugin, and not calling names.

    You can use datatables_dom=”lfrtip” to disable them

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