hide column [data: {}] with conditional?

cris19n

   let user=$('#user').val();

 "columns": [
           //{ data: 0 },
           { data: 1 },
            { data: 2 },
           //here how can I do something like that?
           if(user=='admin'){
                 { 
                     "render" function ( data, type, row ) {
                     }
                   }           
            }else{
                //If you do not comply, do nothing.
             }
    ]

How can I do something like this?

what I want is that if the user is an administrator,
Show me the action buttons.
if it is another user it does not show anything.

thanks for the answers

kthorngren

IF you want to hide the whole column if not an admin then use column.visible, something like this:

  let user=$('#user').val();
 
"columns": [
          //{ data: 0 },
          { data: 1 },
           { data: 2 },
           { data: null,
             visible: user === 'admin' ? true : false,
                    "render": function ( data, type, row ) {
                       return '<button>...';
                    }
                  }          

   ]

Otherwise if you want to show the column but no button then put you if statement inside the columns.render function, like this:

  let user=$('#user').val();
 
"columns": [
          //{ data: 0 },
          { data: 1 },
           { data: 2 },
           { data: null,
                    "render": function ( data, type, row ) {
                       if (user === 'admin) {
                         return '<button>...';
                       }
                       return '';
                    }
                  }          

   ]

Kevin

cris19n

thanks @kthorngren , I had more or less the idea with visible property, I was injecting everything into a function.

Thank you so much