Set column.searchable = true after DataTable initialisation

guilhermemaranhao

Hi everyone,

I've initialised my dataTable with the following setting:

columnDefs: [
                    { targets: 1, type: 'diacritics-neutralise', searchable: true },
                    { targets: '_all', searchable: false}
                ],

But depending on some user interactions in my application, I'd like to make column(0) searchable.

Is it possible?

Thank you,

Guilherme

colin

Hi @guilhermemaranhao ,

Unfortunately not. Some properties (and behaviours) can only be set when the table is first initialised, and searchability is one of those.

What you could do perhaps, is when the user causes that interaction, is to reinitialise the table with the new searchable value. You could also pass in destroy so all other properties would be the same. A side-effect would be searching, paging and ordering would be reset, but if it was important to maintain those, you could include stateSave,

Hope that helps,

Cheers,

Colin

guilhermemaranhao

Thanks, @colin ! I'll try it