Hi Felix

We will now try to cover multiple questions on the same ticket, but for the future, please note :

When you have multiple questions or issues which are for different subjects/topics,

 please open a new ticket for each subject, and we will help/advise more effectively. 

In that way, issues and questions which are related to different subjects will be in separate tickets so other users or our support agents can find them easily. 

Our policy is to have one issue or question per ticket for the reasons described already.

Thank you for understanding.

1. 

It's possible to change the layout/position of the search field?

Eg. that the search bar is bigger/wider and centralized. As per standard configuration it's on the top left of the table. I like to change it in a way, that it's bigger/wider and centralized on top of the table.

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We don't have a built-in way to achieve this, but you can try a custom solution with CSS.

Please be advised that customizations are not covered by our support, but we can help with some basic idea to get you started.

For example, you can use this CSS selector to manipulate the position of the "search block" of the Table.

.wpDataTablesWrapper .dataTables_filter {
    left: 589px !important;
    position: relative !important;
    margin-bottom: 30px !important;
}

By default, the Search bar on this Table skin is at the top left, but with this CSS, I moved it close to the centre and increased the bottom margin to make it 'stand out' a bit more.

You can, of course add any other styles you need such as width, etc.

Add this to the table's Customize/Custom CSS if you wish it just for one table;

or if you wish the same style applied on all tables, add it to the main Plugin settings/Custom Js and CSS/Custom CSS.

I hope that helps.

2. To have the table hidden before users search for something :

You can achieve this with our Powerful Filters Add-on.

It has a feature "Hide table before filtering" which can be used combined with "search" button;

Then a user needs to choose one or more filters, and only when they hit Search, the table will load only the filtered data.

Please check more about this functionality here.

Before purchase, you can test all Powerful Filters Add-on features on our sandbox site.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

3. It's possible to query 2 different tables at once with the same search field?

At the moment, we don't have anything for this solution.

Each table can only have its own search and filters - we can't have one filter/ or search affect multiple tables on same Page.

The only current way how you can technically affect multiple tables on same page with a filter is via Pre-Filtering URL, but that is if for example two tables have same column name and you pass a parameter for a column filter in the URL, then both tables would be affected.

Other than that, there is no current other way.

You can make a development suggestion if you wish.

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.