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• allan Posts: 61,831Questions: 1Answers: 10,132 Site admin

  July 2023 Answer ✓

  Is there a way to create a button of some sort that allows users to limit columns they want to see for given session

  Two options:

  1) A custom button that will implement whatever hiding logic you want (use columns().visible() to hide columns, or
  2) Use columnVisibility to set visibility for a set of columns.

  It really depends on how you want to hide what columns and under what conditions.

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  stateSave doe basic state saving, including column visibility. For more control, including multiple states, use the StateRestore extension.

  Allan
• MadBoyEvo Posts: 119Questions: 38Answers: 0

  July 2023

  Well, I would like for user to have checkboxes or something within a list that allow to choose which columns should be there, and which should go away. Since a lot of data may be unnecessary by whoever is looking at it.

  As I see from your answer there's nothign that's mostly built-in, or some sort of extension - and I don't have a skill high enough to pull it off I guess I know my answer :-)
• kthorngren Posts: 20,371Questions: 26Answers: 4,779

  July 2023 Answer ✓

  Here are a bunch of column visibility examples. Its part of the Buttons extension.

  Kevin
• MadBoyEvo Posts: 119Questions: 38Answers: 0

  July 2023

  Awesome! This will work:
  - https://datatables.net/extensions/buttons/examples/column_visibility/layout.html

  Thank you!