Angular datatable search

[Partheban Udayakumar]

Hi,

I am using Spring and angularjs in my project. I am using angular datatables to display tables. We were implementing the search feature and we have come across a different requirement. We would like to customize the search. I have explained the table structure and requirements below

1) Our table shows only these parameters: first name, last name, email and other general contacts.

2) This is a medical project, so there are lot of other columns which we don't show in the table.

3) But the client has requested for search with the hidden columns. For ex: there is a column for practitioner's code, when they search for a specific code, the name should appear in the data table.

4) The model(java class) that is used here has all the variables which are used for searching
ie., Following the above example, the model(java class) will have the practitioner's code

I think angular js offers search only for visible columns(correct me if I am wrong). But we want to search for columns which are present in model(java class) and show the results in the angular datatable. How can we solve this?

[Srikkanth Mohanasundaram]

Hi Partheban,

I'm not familiar with angular datatables ( sure there's a ton of directives out there trying to things with tables ). But what did you specifically try with this library , show us some code and we'll be able to help ?

I think angular js offers search only for visible columns(correct me if I am wrong)

Not correct. AngularJS doesn't have any search capabilities built-in ( sure it does have filters but most likely you might want to extend it)

[Partheban Udayakumar]

Hi,

I am using spring for server side so

@RequestMapping("/search")
public List<Class> getClasses(){
  return iClassService.getClasses();
}

Data tables is
var vm = this; vm.dtOptions = DTOptionsBuilder.newOptions() .withOption('ajax', { // Either you specify the AjaxDataProp here // dataSrc: 'data', url: '/angular-datatables/data/serverSideProcessing', type: 'POST' })

What I have to do now is. I have external search fields, so once I get List from the "/search" I will have to load it into the datatable. How can I do this?