Hi Keoni,

Firstly, I would like to sincerely apologize for the delayed response as we have been experiencing an unusually high number of tickets. I am sorry that it has taken longer than usual to respond to your concern and your patience is highly appreciated.

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Yes, you can achieve this with our Conditional Formatting feature.

You can set a rule, if any of the cells are empty - then hide the column.

For example, if i do this on my table here, at first i have a lot of values in this Column "name",

I will set this Condition,  if any cell value becomes empty, then add a CSS class to that Column of "hide".

"hide" is a pre-made CSS class that basically visually hides elements.

Then if i edit any cell in this column, set it as empty - the entire column will hide.

So if i understood, this should work in your use-case,

just to show it if all the Column rows have Entries - otherwise if there is any entry cell to hide it?

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The same method can be used for any of our Tables, as well as Tables connected with a Formidable Form as data source.

Please note :

Formidable Forms integration for wpDataTables is an add-on that requires premium (full) versions of both wpDataTables and Formidable Forms plugins, 

They need to be installed and activated on your WordPress website in order for this add-on to work.

Please check more about this integration here;

Before purchase you can test all plugin and Add-on features on our sandbox site.

You will find other Demo links for all add-ons in my Signature, if you wish to try them out.

And i just wanted to point out that

there is a 15-day money-back guarantee period, 

so if you purchase the plugin, you can safely fully test it out, and if it doesn't fit your needs you can request and receive a refund in that period. ( same goes for all plugins and add-ons)

Let me know if you have any additional questions. 

Hi Keoni,

I would like to extend my heartfelt apologies for the delay in our response. We have recently experienced a higher volume of tickets than usual, which has regrettably caused this delay. Your understanding and patience during this time are greatly valued and appreciated.

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This is a bit more complex use-case, so i am not sure if we have an ideal solution for both of the cases, at the moment,

we will check if we have any workaround to offer, and going to report back as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience.

Hi Keoni,

I checked for any available workaround, and sorry to disappoint you,

but we do not have a way to set a Condition that checks in case if all the cells are empty.

So, we can either say " if any cell is empty",

or if a cell "contains" some value,

or it "does not contain" some value.

But we do not have a possible Condition at the moment that can check if "all cells are empty" then hide the entire column.

That is an interesting idea for a future option, though.

Please feel free to search on our suggestions page, 

 to see if someone may be already suggested this feature. If you can't see it, feel free to add your suggestion there,  and as more people vote, the feature will move higher on the priority list.

You can certainly follow our changeLog page if you'd like ( it is also available in the plugin dashboard), where we state any changes/new features/bug fixes during updates;

and our newsletter, so you're informed about new features, bug fixes, freebies, etc.

Hi Keoni,

My apologies, please disregard what i sent as the original Reply,

deleted it and sent a new one, i actually think i have a good idea what could be a solution for your use-case.

In our Conditional Formatting Logic, we can add several Rules, and each "next rule" has higher priority over the previous Rule.

So, let's say if you set the first Rule to check, if there is any empty Column,

 to add a CSS class to the Column, which will do a custom CSS code to set "display" as "none" to that Column.

But then, add another Rule beneath it, that adds a new CSS class if any cell is not blank,

and on this CSS we say set the Display of that Column to : table-cell. ( which is the original/default display property)

I made a Test on my Table and happy to say, it seems to work exactly as intended.

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Here is my example in more details. If i add this Column, just named it "Empty Column", then i first make all cells empty to see if it hides it, and it does.

Then, if i add just one cell with some Data, then the Column is shown.

I did these two Rules in that Column :

In my case, i name the one that hides "hidecustom" and the other Class that shows ( if there is any cell which is not empty)  as "showcustom".

Then, add this CSS to the Customize/Custom CSS of the Table :

.hidecustom {
    display : none;
}
.showcustom {
    display: table-cell !important;
}

( Of course, you can rename the classes anything you wish)

So, it works because the 'second' rule has more importance/overrides the first rule.

The same logic applies to setting CSS lines, it is always the last line that has priority over the 'older lines above', so i think this should work for your use-case.

Please try it if you can and let me know how it goes.

I hope you still did not start a refund process.

Thank you again for your patience, i realise this took me a lot longer than it should, took a lot of testing and brainstorming, so to speak, before i figured it out.

Hi Keoni,

I am happy to see this helps, at least with this major point of your use-case.

As you can see, i tested this method on a couple of Tables, so it should definitely work without any issue.

No problem at all, you can check if you have enough features working for the use-case and you can purchase a new premium licence if you wish.

We will be here if you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to open other/new tickets, since our policy is to keep one subject per ticket.

Thank you.