Hi Geert,

Yes. There can be two ways to have the initial Field selection load on Desktop, then to reveal others.

You could try to set up the Responsiveness Feature to activate on all devices;

or you can try with our master-Details Add-on, it has a nice PopUp Feature which can load 'more details' section for some hidden Columns.

I will advise on both, then you can check them out and see which is the best.

1. Responsiveness on 'all devices' workaround :

You can enable Responsiveness in the table, and choose which columns will be hidden from the front-end on tablet devices. 

Then, you can go to wpDataTables settings, and change the tablet's width to a bigger value (2000 for example). When you do this, the plugin will consider all screens below 2000px as tablets, and hide the selected columns which would be available on click. 

A "+" sign will appear in the first column, so when you click on it the data hidden will be displayed.

2. Or, if you wish to check out how the Master-Details work :

It can be used if you wish to first present an initial table with less data/ less columns;

then if a user makes an action you set up,  it can load "more details" only for the selected row

(1. If the “Row click” is selected, users will be able to access details for a row by clicking on it. 

2. If the “Button click” is selected, a new column will be added to the table, where each row would get a button opening the details for it.)

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You an also set up in which way you wish the details to load;

1. It can be as a Pop Up to reveal more columns of that row

2. A template Post with placeholders

3. Or a template custom Wordpress Page with placeholders to load data for more columns of that row.

Please check more about Master Details here, with an example.

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You can also test Master Detail Add-on features on this sandbox site.

Let me know how that seems,

or if you need something different entirely for your use-case?

Thank you.

Hello,

You are right.

The first use case will affect all tables, while with the master Details features, we can set up each table individually with different configurations.

If anything else comes up, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.