Hello, EllisonEngenius

Thanks for reaching out to us

This is a bug that we encountered some time ago.

Our developers realised that, if you use Cascade Filtering from Powerful filters, in combination with search on a selectbox or multiselectbox, it is not going to function properly;

so at the last couple of updates, they have completely disabled this option.

You probably have one of the older versions of wpDaTaTables, because you can still enable this option.

The developers are doing their best to improve this so that the search can be used on selectbox and multiselectbox for Cascade filters;

But at this time it is best to simply disable the search on the cascading selectbox/multiselectbox, or to update the plugin to the latest version, where we removed the option for now.

In the future, when the devs add a working solution, we will implement it again in the plugin.

Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you

Hi, EllisonEngenius

Yes, i can see what you mean, i will report this to our developers, to see if we can make some kind of "automatic disabling" for users who already had this enabled before, and then updated...

It seems that the table simply left the old setting, after the update.

What i did here, i had to quickly disable Cascade filtering, so that i can "save" that the filter search on the filter selectboxes is now properly disabled;

then i re-enabled Cascade filtering, and it seems better now :

So, i will pass this to developers, they will do their best to come up with any possible improvements for the future;

but at this moment it is a bit of a workaround which i did for you.

Let me know if everything works OK now.  Thank you

Hey, EllisonEngenius

You're welcome, i am happy to be of any kind of assistance or at least to advise.

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The developers will do their best to create a fix to disable this automatically for users, in case they had it enabled, like we mentioned previously;

but of course, they will also work on adding the search for selectbox/multiselectbox with Cascade filters to work in the future.

Thanks again, and if you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to open a new ticket.

Hi, EllisonEngenius

I am truly sorry to hear that the client feels that way, but i understand.

- Yes, we can confirm, i apologise, i did not explain everything correctly before, i was not 100% sure myself,

but i got confirmations, when the Powerful filters add-on was created, the search on the selectbox/multiselectbox never worked as intended, we just made an oversight on this and released it with the possibility.

The developers did their absolute best to test everything before launch, and it seemed it will work, but later discovered that it has issues.

Then they decided to remove it completely, but it took some time to see if they could find a workaround,  or to disable it without confusing the users, especially the ones that tried to use it already, if that makes sense?

So we made that "tooltip explanation", when you hover over it, and disabled it for the time being.

The developers are still intensively working to make the search on checkbox/selectbox filters work with Cascade filtering, but we don't  have an ETA when they will finish it.

Once again my apologies for not being able to correctly explain everything before.

Hi, EllisonEngenius

No problem at all

Thank you, we will certainly do our absolute best on this.

If you have any other questions, we will be here to assist, please don't hesitate to open a new ticket. Thank you