Questions about functionality

Hi @byalik,

Thank you for reaching out!

There is no default feature to display search panes on the side, but is possible using CSS. You can achieve this using the dom option in advanced settings. Just wrap the search panes in one div and all other elements in another div. This allows you to display the parent as a grid showing the search panes left and the other elements right.

Using advanced settings is explained here:
https://wpdataaccess.com/docs/data-tables-advanced-features/advanced-settings/

Using the DOM option is explained here:
https://datatables.net/reference/option/dom

Your dom could like something like this:

{ "dom": "<'my-grid'<P><Blfrtip>>", "searchPanes": { "layout": "columns-1" } }

The layout change is necessary to display all search panes below each other.

Your CSS something like this:

.my-grid {
	display: grid;
	grid-template-columns: 300px 1fr;
}

You can change the layout of your search panes using CSS. But there are limitations.

Does this help?

Best regards,
Peter

Thanks Peter.

So you’re saying there’s no simple way to control the functionality of the filters/search panes? I’m just confused – if there are thousands of records, why would you possibly have them by default appearing below each search area.

Hi @byalik,

You need to enable cascading for your search panes so that all other options adjust to your initial option.

Please add the following option for searchpanes:

"cascadePanes": true 

If you’re following Peter’s code above, your complete dom would be:

{ "dom": "<'my-grid'<P><Blfrtip>>", "searchPanes": { "layout": "columns-1", "cascadePanes": true  } }

Hope that helps! Let us know if you have more questions.

Hi there,

I’m going to mark this as resolved as we haven’t heard from you in a while.

Feel free to create a new thread if you have other questions.

Thanks!