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• sandy Posts: 913Questions: 0Answers: 236

  November 2020

  Hi @Mockingbird26 ,

  Typically to stop filtering plugins clashing with SearchPanes you need to add this code to your plug-in code.

  if (settings.nTable.id !== 'myTarget'){
    return true;
  }
  

  I'm guessing that this is what you want? If not, please post a link to a running test case showing the issue so we can offer some help. Information on how to create a test case (if you aren't able to link to the page you are working on) is available here.

  Thanks,
  Sandy
• Mockingbird26 Posts: 6Questions: 2Answers: 0

  November 2020

  Thank you, @sandy. I think so. I looked up a few of the places you have answered this exact question, and I have an elementary question. I'm not using any external plugins nor custom search functions. Just a searchpanes button and a quick search button, both of which act on the table #TABLEID.

  A simple conceptual question.

  Does this code go outside and above our table declaration, like this, or within/below it? Is anything written within the if statement?

  $.fn.dataTable.ext.search.push(
      function(settings, aData, iDataIndex) {
          if (settings.nTable.id !== '#TABLEID'){
              return true;
          }
      }
  )
  $(document).ready(function() {
      var table = $('#TABLEID').DataTable( 
      { 
          ...
          data: dataSet,
      language: {
          search: "Quick Search:",
                  searchPanes: {
              collapse: {0: 'Search Things', _: '(%d) Things Selected '},
          }
      },
          dom: 'Blfrtip',
      buttons: [
      {
              extend: 'searchPanes',
              config: {
              columns: ':eq(5)',
              dtOpts:{
                  dom:"ti",
                  info: true,
              }
                  },                                          
         }]
  }
  
• sandy Posts: 913Questions: 0Answers: 236

  November 2020

  Hi @Mockingbird26 ,

  Are you just using the standard DataTables search box? If so then this won't help you. I think I'll need to see a test case in order to help further.

  Thanks,
  Sandy