Looking for a plugin that I thought I had seen

kender

I thought I had seen a plugin or extension that would create a multi-select filter for columns and when an option was selected it would grey out and make not selectable options that are not a valid combination with the selected options

if not, is there a redraw function that would allow me to loop through existing options and mark invalid options as disabled?

kthorngren

Are one of these extensions what you are looking for?
https://datatables.net/extensions/searchbuilder
https://datatables.net/extensions/searchpanes

Kevin

kender

neither of those are what I had seen, and don't look like what I was looking for

if you look here (not datatables example)
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/crystal-oscillator-resonator-accessories/175

when you select an option in the first select box, options throughout the other filter boxes grey out and become unselectable

allan

I'm not aware of any extension that operates that way in DataTables I'm afraid. It is very similar to our SearchPanes extension that Kevin linked so, but SearchPanes won't update to deselect options like that when an external filter is activated.

Allan

kender

@allan

Is there a function that would do this?

onfilter redraw , collect available options per column and if not available then add class/attribute?

kthorngren

This example will update the select options by removing the options that have been filtered from the table.
https://live.datatables.net/gejojiqu/1557/edit

You could do something similar to highlight the not available options.

Kevin

kender

That looks like it will be a great start.. I would need to find a way to allow multi select on the active selection and instead of remove go with adding class/attribute

Thanks @kthorngren

I will mark resolved if I can get it to work

kthorngren

Here is a select2 example. Doesn't have the cascading but shows how to use select2.
https://live.datatables.net/jetupuda/86/edit

Kevin