Hide a column that is still searchable

  • Resolved matthewfriedman

    (@matthewfriedman)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    I am trying to create a column for keywords/ filtering by state, basically a tag column. We provide a course catalog, and some of the courses are only geographically relevant. Is there any way to hide the state column from visibility on the front end, but make it so that when a user, or script searches for a particular state, it the table responds with the rows that have a coorisponding value match in the “omitted” or “hidden” column?

    My experience thus far has been that if i hide a column from visibility, it also becomes hidden from the search capability of the global table search and filter.

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  • Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

    Yes, the “Hide column” feature on the “Edit” screen of a table is not helpful here, as that will indeed hide the data in that column from searching.
    Instead, you can hide the column with a “Custom Command” for the DataTables JS library. Please try pasting this into the “Custom Commands” textfield on the “Edit” screen:

    "aoColumnDefs": [ { "bVisible": false, "aTargets": [ 4, 5 ] } ]

    This would hide the fifth and sixth columns (counting starts with 0 in the code), so just adjust that as necessary.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter matthewfriedman

    (@matthewfriedman)

    Tobias, this was perfect thank you!

    Where can I find a comprehensive list of custom JS commands ?

    Reguards

    -Matt

    Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    no problem, you are very welcome! ?? Good to hear that this helped!

    For the full list, you can check out the documentation of the DataTables JavaScript library at https://www.datatables.net/ which is the library that TablePress uses here.

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    P.S.: In case you haven’t, please rate TablePress here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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