Ordering/Searching stops working with more hidden columns

Ordering/Searching stops working with more hidden columns

eliw00deliw00d Posts: 10Questions: 2Answers: 0
edited June 2014 in Free community support

I'm having a really weird problem that I can't figure out. I am trying to add some hidden columns that I can use to filter/search with. However, as soon as I add the additional columns to the targets field, ordering/searching stops working.

Here is before adding additional targets: http://d.umn.edu/sit/high-school/cits/dev/view.php

Here is after adding additional targets: http://d.umn.edu/sit/high-school/cits/dev/view2.php

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? Here is what I changed:

"columnDefs":
[
{
"targets": [ 14 ],
"visible": false
},
],

to

"columnDefs":
[
{
"targets": [ 14, 15, 16 ],
"visible": false
},
],

I am using the server-side processing files included with 1.10, only modifying the first with columns and information specific to my own database.

Answers

  • eliw00deliw00d Posts: 10Questions: 2Answers: 0

    Actually, it seems to be related to the number of columns. Is there a limit on the number of columns you can work with in server-side? If I add a 16th column, it breaks and doesn't even show the data.

  • eliw00deliw00d Posts: 10Questions: 2Answers: 0
    edited June 2014

    I have narrowed it down to this:

    if ( isset($request['order']) && count($request['order']) )

    In ssp.class.php.

    I put some error_log calls and discovered that $request['order'] is no longer set with this many columns. So, this seems like a bug somewhere in the Datatables JS.

  • eliw00deliw00d Posts: 10Questions: 2Answers: 0

    Pagination also no longer works.

  • tangerinetangerine Posts: 3,348Questions: 36Answers: 394
    edited June 2014

    I think your <thead></thead> needs <th></th> tags for every column even when some columns are hidden. But I can't say if that will fix your problem. I don't see how the thing would fail beyond a certain number of columns, though

  • eliw00deliw00d Posts: 10Questions: 2Answers: 0

    Thank you for the response. However, I have tried that to no avail.

  • eliw00deliw00d Posts: 10Questions: 2Answers: 0
    edited June 2014

    Any other thoughts? I may have to switch back to 1.9 if there are no solutions.

  • eliw00deliw00d Posts: 10Questions: 2Answers: 0
    edited June 2014

    I created an arbitrary table with 26 columns (a-z), without hiding any of them, and it definitely seems to be tied to number of columns.

    http://d.umn.edu/sit/high-school/cits/dev/test/

    Here is part of my server-side script, which is based on the included file.

    $table = 'test';

    $primaryKey = 'pkey';

    $columns = array(
    array( 'db' => 'a', 'dt' => 0 ),
    array( 'db' => 'b', 'dt' => 1 ),
    array( 'db' => 'c', 'dt' => 2 ),
    array( 'db' => 'd', 'dt' => 3 ),
    array( 'db' => 'e', 'dt' => 4 ),
    array( 'db' => 'f', 'dt' => 5 ),
    array( 'db' => 'g', 'dt' => 6 ),
    array( 'db' => 'h', 'dt' => 7 ),
    array( 'db' => 'i', 'dt' => 8 ),
    array( 'db' => 'j', 'dt' => 9 ),
    array( 'db' => 'k', 'dt' => 10 ),
    array( 'db' => 'l', 'dt' => 11 ),
    array( 'db' => 'm', 'dt' => 12 ),
    array( 'db' => 'n', 'dt' => 13 ),
    array( 'db' => 'o', 'dt' => 14 ),
    array( 'db' => 'p', 'dt' => 15 ),
    array( 'db' => 'q', 'dt' => 16 ),
    array( 'db' => 'r', 'dt' => 17 ),
    array( 'db' => 's', 'dt' => 18 ),
    array( 'db' => 't', 'dt' => 19 ),
    array( 'db' => 'u', 'dt' => 20 ),
    array( 'db' => 'v', 'dt' => 21 ),
    array( 'db' => 'w', 'dt' => 22 ),
    array( 'db' => 'x', 'dt' => 23 ),
    array( 'db' => 'y', 'dt' => 24 ),
    array( 'db' => 'z', 'dt' => 25 ),
    );

  • eliw00deliw00d Posts: 10Questions: 2Answers: 0

    Greater than 16 columns is when Ordering/Paging/Searching breaks.

    Equal to 16 columns is when it says "No matching records found", but at the same time says "Showing 1 to 2 of 2 entries".

    I cannot post in Bug Reports, but this is definitely a bug.

  • eliw00deliw00d Posts: 10Questions: 2Answers: 0

    Just in case anyone else has this issue: rolling back to 1.9 fixed it.

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