Filter Two Tables on same page

  • Resolved coconasher

    (@coconasher)


    11 years ago

    Hi, I have two tables on one page. Both contain a common field called Company. So table 1 shows address details and table 2 shows accounting details.

    For reasons beyond control I can’t have all the data in one table only.

    Does anyone know – (as each table has a search box), that I can grab the entry in the first search box and apply that string to the second search box, rather than he user having to type the same company name in twice ?

    thanks

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/tablepress/

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  • Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    11 years ago

    Hi,

    thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

    I see what you mean, but unfortunately, I can’t offer a readily usable solution. 🙁
    Something like this should definitely be possible, but it will involve developing some custom JavaScript code that uses the API functions of the DataTables JavaScript library from http://datatables.net/ (which is the JS library that TablePress uses for the search function).

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter coconasher

    (@coconasher)

    11 years ago

    Hi Toby, thanks for the quick eponse, so I thught I may have another way around this. If I include a hyperlink with the filtered wrd in the first table – it would go and open a new page with just the data I want.

    I saw the plugin extensions to test them and downloaded and installed as guided on your site.

    But the filter in the url doesnt seem to have any effect. I am using a test site for now with test data : so I used

    http://www.cardiffgiftshop.com/sample-page/?table_filter=Natwest

    Hoping this would display only all the records for that company. But it still shows all of them?

    Am I missing something here? I have tried in a few browsers,

    thnaks,

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    11 years ago

    Hi,

    did you install both the Row Filter and the Shortcode Filter from GET parameter Extensions and did you activate both of them?
    Then, did you change the Shortcode as described on https://tablepress.org/extensions/shortcode-filter-get-parameter/ ?

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter coconasher

    (@coconasher)

    11 years ago

    Oh deary me, sorry to waste your time, but thanks for pointing me in the right direction – I had [table id=3] without the table_filter included. Put that in and works like a dream,

    Now on to the rest of the trials…..

    Thnakyou very much.

    Thread Starter coconasher

    (@coconasher)

    11 years ago

    P.S. Regarding theoriginal question – this sort of solves it as the filter value from the URL actualy filters the two tables on the same page . Awesome!

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    11 years ago

    Hi,

    no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this helped!

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    P.S.: In case you haven’t, please rate TablePress here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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