Toggle column visibility without name or index

northamerican

I am defining my columns as such:

columns: [
    { 
        'data': 'location',
    },
]

and in drawCallback I want to toggle its visibility dynamically:

myTable.column('location:name').visible(bool);

i don't want redundancy:

columns: [
    { 
        'data': 'location',
        'name': 'location'
    },
]

and i don't want to target it by index. what can be done to target it by 'data'?

allan

what can be done to target it by 'data'?

There is no option for that at the moment - and given that columns.data can be a function it is unlikely one will be added.

Currently the redundancy is the only option to set a name you can use in the selector.

Allan