Search only in selected columns

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

Yes, this is possible by adding a “Custom Command” for the JavaScript library. For that, please add this to the “Custom Commands” text field on the table’s “Edit” screen:

"columnDefs": [ { "searchable": false, "targets": [ 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ] } ]

In this example, searching would be turned off for columns 3 through 7 (counting starts with 0 in this code).

Regards,
Tobias

Ok, I got it. thanks

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by maddyssonn.
• This reply was modified 3 years ago by maddyssonn.

Hi,

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

Best wishes,
Tobias
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Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.
https://ibb.co/fpKGZw3
This is what the table looks like. The Region column and the City column are hidden but filtered. (Nation-4 column, Region-5 column, City-6 column)
1,2 columns and Nation and Region and City contain text
https://ibb.co/FYDNqF0
I need to search only on columns 1 and 2 in text search
I wrote the command: “columnDefs”: [ { “searchable”: false, “targets”: [ 4, 5, 6 ] } ]
https://ibb.co/SXH9NTf
4,5,6 (contain text)
But now 4,5,6 columns do not participate in filtration
https://ibb.co/4ZD17C5
I want to have search on only 1,2 columns and filter on selected columns including 4,5,6
How to do it?

Hi,

unfortunately, this is not possible, from everything I know. A column must be searchable for it to be filterable with a dropdown.
Having it in a dropdown without it being searchable is not possible in the external DataTables JS library from everything I know.

Regards,
Tobias