Column grouping show/hide with 'colvis' ?

Tishman

I was wondering if theres a way to pair or group columns together into one button while using colvis.
I found an older forumn post asking about it in the depricated ColVis : https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/8052 and wasnt sure if any progress was made on that in the new version.

It looks like the functionality exist in columnToggle, however I would like to add the button into the already existing 'colvis' collection.

For more clarity:
I have these two columns:

one column is a date, the other is just an icon which indicates a state (related to the date). I would like to be able to hide both the date and the icon columns under one button, rather than 2 separate buttons that colvis generates.

Is there a way to do accomplish this?
Thanks,
-Tish

colin

Hi @Tishman,

Yep, see this column groups example here.

Cheers,

Colin

Tishman

Thanks! I looked into it and ended with this result, which is exactly what Im looking for:

 buttons: [
        {
            extend: "colvis",
            postfixButtons:[{extend: 'columnToggle', text:'Due Date',columns:':gt(9)'}],
            titleAttr: 'Column Visibility',
            text: 'Column Visibility',
            background: false,
            fade:0,
            columns: ':gt(1)'
        }
  ]

Emphasis on the postfixButton line. Thats the code snippet added to make it function how I wanted.