Remove/Restrict Columns returned by CSUI Widgets - using ColumnMatch

Anthony Miller

Hi,

I'm trying to restrict the columns returned in the page using the UI Widgets. I've tried to use the columnMatch in the constructor. Alas, this is not being honoured and continues to display all the columns.

I can see that there is also another option to remove the columns using a query using buildingColumnDefinitions, but this seems a long winded approach to removing columns and that I have to do it for each pane or tab rendered hence why I would prefer to put this into the Constructor.

Can someone offer some guidance (and an example too) on how to use the ColumnMatch option in the constructor.

Kindest,

Anthony

Anthony Miller

Hi,
So I don't have a specific answer to this as yet, but thought I would update those who are trying to solve the same thing as to what I have found so far.

My biggest issue is that I can't figure out the syntax for the key in the columnMatch argument. I've tried columnMatch["Name"] and the other variations on changing this to upper and lowercase. I then tried to understand how the key could be rendered and got to the point in another example where I thought I'd cracked it with the following columnMatch["wnd_owner"] - nope this didn't work, so I tried columnMatch[{ column_key: "wnd_owner"}] - nope that didn't work either!

I tried the last option above as there is another way that I did get to work which was using the query option around the "buildingColumnDefinitions" but this requires a number of searches to be performed before rendering the display. The function makes a list of columns using browser.nodeTable.columns, then create a variable for each column you want to remove e.g

var owner = columns.findWhere({ column_key: "wnd_owner" });
if (owner)
columns.remove(owner)

and so on and so forth.

As a tenacious person, I really want to know how efficient this approach is compared to the columnMatch (it was this that I was trying to understand) but I'm stumped with getting the syntax for the columnMatch correct.

So, can you please out me out of my misery and let me know what syntax I need for the columnMatch option in the constructor and perhaps lets see some more complex examples for this.

Thanks,

Anthony