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• kthorngren Posts: 22,299Questions: 26Answers: 5,127

  April 11 edited April 11

  Maybe using columns.className will work for you. Will eliminate needing to apply it on the th tag and can be applied through columnDefs. Updated test case:
  https://live.datatables.net/vuronaje/2/edit

  Kevin
• slolo Posts: 123Questions: 25Answers: 2

  April 11

  Hello @kthorngren,

  Are you sure that your test case works?

  If you comment the line below (the one I already use to hide the column precisely), it does not work anymore:
  "columns": ':not(.unsearchable)'

  I don't want to specify a column number because it can be anywhere in the data table. I have multiple data tables, each containing different columns.
  That's why I want to use a class because it's more generic.
• kthorngren Posts: 22,299Questions: 26Answers: 5,127

  April 11 edited April 11

  You still need to define searchBuilder.columns to control which columns SearchBuilder uses. There isn't a SearchBuilder configuration option that can be applied directly using columns or columnDefs to control which columns are used.

  The test case shows that you can use columns.className to apply the class to one or more columns using columnDefs instead of applying them to the th. The test case does work. I don't see the Action column listed in SearchBuilder. The class unsearchable is not a SearchBuilder specific class. You can use any classname that makes sense.

  Kevin
• kthorngren Posts: 22,299Questions: 26Answers: 5,127

  April 11 Answer ✓

  The searchBuilder.columns uses any of the column-selector options. You could use the column-selector as a function to check the classes of row with orderCellsTop assigned. The third parameter is node which is the column().header() for that particular column. By default this will return the header defined by orderCellsTop.

  Updated test case:
  https://live.datatables.net/vuronaje/5/edit

  Note that the class unsearchable is assigned only to the top th.

  Kevin
• slolo Posts: 123Questions: 25Answers: 2

  April 12

  @kthorngren,

  Thanks for your answer, it works very nice.

  Who knows, maybe a future version of the searchBuilder component will allow us to configure columns using the "columnDefs" option.

  It's so much more practical and flexible too

  In the meantime, it does the job very well.