Setting a minimum character limit for search

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

I see what you mean, but unfortunately, I’m not aware of a solution for that, sorry.

Regards,
Tobias

Thanks. Do you think this is something that can be implemented in the future?

Hi,

if so, it would not be directly in TablePress, but would have to be in the external DataTables JavaScript library that TablePress uses. It’s not impossible, but I don’t know how big the chances are. Sorry.

Regards,
Tobias

No worries. Hopefully someone else will need this kind of functionality (or may have already needed it, couldn’t find it) and will figure it out. Thanks, again.

Hi,

yes, that would be nice! We’ll have to be patient…

Best wishes,
Tobias

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

If you are using the Inverted Filter Extension, you could indeed modify it to check the length of the search term, before showing the table. With that, the filtering would still be done in the background, but it would not be shown.
For this, please try changing the line

$( '.dataTables_wrapper' ).find( '.tablepress' ).toggle( '' !== $( this ).val() );

to

$( '.dataTables_wrapper' ).find( '.tablepress' ).toggle( $( this ).val().length > 3 );

Note however that this is only cosmetics and nothing secure at all. A visitor could simply turn off JavaScript in the browser or inspect the source code of the HTML page in the browser and he would be seeing all data of your directory.

Regards,
Tobias

Works perfectly! Thanks so much!

By the way, I am aware that this is only a cosmetic fix at the moment. We’ve been using TablePress for the directory for over three years now. Until we find another solution, this will have to do. Thanks again!

Hi,

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

Best wishes,
Tobias

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

Consider it done!

Hi,

thanks, I really appreciate it!

Best wishes,
Tobias