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  Public Ticket #3167102
Setting Predefined value(s) in filtering
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  • Patrick started the conversation
    November 14, 2022 at 6:29pm

    So I set a predefined value in filtering on this page of "adartistry" - and the page displays those results which is great. The problem is the user can delete "adartistry" and see all the other results. Can I set the filter so that it CANNOT be changed? We want this tables on private pages where only those submitters can see them and should not be able to see any other results.

    Thanks

  • Patrick replied
    November 14, 2022 at 6:34pm

    tried this, same result:

    You can add a placeholder as a predefined filtering value to a column (in column settings). For example, you can add %VAR1% as a predefined filtering value. Then, change the shortcode to [wpdatatable id=1 var1=car] and the column that has %VAR1% as a predefined value will be filtered per “Car”.

  • Patrick replied
    November 14, 2022 at 6:59pm

    Duh, never mind - just eliminate that column from being seen on front end

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    Aleksandar replied
    November 16, 2022 at 11:35am

    Hey Patrick

    Unfortunately, you can't set predefined values for filtering, and prevent users from seeing other values when they clear the predefined values.

    If I'm not mistaken, this is what you did: You created an SQL query-based table with a query similar to this:

    SELECT * FROM your_database_table
WHERE filtered_column = %VAR1%

    Then, when you add the table to the page, you can use the shortcode (as mentioned in your previous response) to change the value for different pages.

    If that's what you need, then you only need to disable filtering for that column, and the table will be filtered by the data defined in the MySQL query + the placeholder.

    Kind Regards, 

    Aleksandar Vuković
    [email protected]

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