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original publication: 1st March 2024: Updated to use layout

original publication: 28th Feb 2024: Updated to use layout

original publication: 1st March 2024: Updated to use layout

Back in 2015 I introduced a plug-in

original publication: 1st March 2024: Updated to use layout

Since this blog post was published SearchPanes prove to be quite popular and we've introduce SearchPanes as a full extension of DataTables. Please use the extension rather than the experiment introduced on this page. Normally when I release new software for DataTables, I'll build it in a way that suits my own needs, generalising where I think it suitable, and then publish it and iterate from there. However, this time I'd like to take a slightly different approach and introduce a new plug-in for DataTables, called SearchPane, before including it in the DataTables extensions. This is both to see if there is interest in the features it provides and to request feedback for things that you would like to see modified / improved / added / removed / etc. First things first - what is SearchPane? Quite simply it is a column filter interface for DataTables. It presents a list of values that can be found in a column, displaying them for an end user to be able to click, searching the table for matching data. It is a column OR based filter - i.e. adding multiple options will display the rows which match any of those data points. Let's take a look at it in action: You can also see this example on its own and with a vertical display.

Since this blog post was published we have introduced a private registry for Editor packages which allows a simple install command to install a licensed Editor package. Please see the documentation here for details. npm has become the de facto package manager for Javascript libraries, owing in part to how easy it makes it to install software and dependencies, but also due to the huge amount of software that is available through the npm directory. DataTables and its extensions are available on npm making installation and integration of DataTables very easy with any given tool chain / build process (and there are plenty of them in the Javascript world!). npm is ideally suited for distribution of open source software such as DataTables, but it doesn't work so well for commercial software such as Editor. The full Editor package is only available to license holders, a license which npm knows nothing about. The source for Editor could be placed on npm for distribution but there would be no way to enforce the license - and the license fees from Editor is what makes continued development and support of DataTables and its other extensions possible!

original publication: 1st March 2024: Updated to use layout

original publication: 1st March 2024: Updated to use layout