bVisible for column doesn't work with in 1.5 beta?

andrew_m

Hi Allan.

I tried to hide a column, adding column array to configuration ( "aoColumns": [{"bVisible": false}, null...] ) and error appears - no data displays and header has some invalid values. But if i try to hide last column it works as expected. We are using 1.5beta3.

allan

Hi Andrew,

Yes indeed you are correct. This is a but in 1.5 beta 3 which is causing a Javascript error here when a table header is already in place and columns are made invisible. I've got a fix in my development build now and I'm just doing some work towards 1.4.3 and 1.5 beta 4. Hopefully it will be available in the next few hours...

Regards,
Allan

andrew_m

Ooh, thank you very much for such quick fix provided. We waited so long for server-side processing, so decided to go even with beta :)

pnflynn

I am still having this problem in 1.4.3 and in 1.5b9. I get Javascript errors when I hide a column using bvisible other than the last column and the table does not load any rows.

Error (from firefox's error console):
Error: oSort['null-asc'] is not a function
Source File: js/jquery.dataTables.js
Line: 2569

allan

Hi pnflynn,

I'm not seeing this with my hidden column demo: http://www.datatables.net/1.5-beta/examples/basic_init/hidden_columns.html . Do you have a link you can provide so we can see what might be going on?

If it's trying to work on 'null-acs' then that suggests that the column has no type - which should never happen (assuming it's being detected automatically).

Allan

pnflynn

Ok

I tried the 1.5b9 again and the hidden columns are working. I was actually getting a different error in 1.5b9, but that had to do with how my script replaced NULLs in the JSON data so that the grid would not choke on it.

But I have it working now. Thanks