Multiple tables with same data but different search filters set on each table

harmenzon

I have six tables on my website. They all use the same data set. Therefore I used the Multiple Tables Example. Which works great.

But now I would like to use different search filters for each table. How can I achieve this?

colin

Hi @harmenzon ,

You can either initialise them all individually, by table's ID or some other unique selector, or you could group them with classes and initialise each group.

Cheers,

Colin

harmenzon

Thank you for the quick reply @colin . The six tables all got there own ID. And the six tables all got a class name. The initialisation by the class name is going fine. So the six tables are loaded with exactly the same data. So far so good.

Now I would like to, for example, hide column A in table 1 and hide column B in table 2, etc. How can I achieve this? Do you have a some example code on how to do this?

kthorngren

As Colin mentioned you would access them using a unique selector. Maybe this doc will help:
https://datatables.net/manual/api

Kevin

harmenzon

Strange. That's what I am trying to do, but somehow it is not 'drawing' my 'search'. Must be doing something wrong cause the search worked on many of my datatables before. I will investigate further.

colin

If you could link to your page, or create a test case, we're happy to take a look. Information on how to create a test case (if you aren't able to link to the page you are working on) is available here.

Cheers,

Colin

harmenzon

Thanks @colin. While trying to create a test case, I have found why it was not working. Since I wanted to hide all control items, I had coded "searching": false. Removing that piece of code fixed my problem. So it was that simple. And I am hinding te control elements now using the dom. So all good. Thanks for the help @colin and @kthorngren