JavaScript Data Grid Filters

In this article

• Description
• Options
  • filters
• Methods
  • addCondition
  • clearConditions
  • destroy
  • disablePlugin
  • enablePlugin
  • filter
  • getDataMapAtColumn
  • getSelectedColumn
  • isEnabled
  • removeConditions

Description

The plugin allows filtering the table data either by the built-in component or with the API.

See the filtering demo for examples.

Example

const container = document.getElementById('example');
const hot = new Handsontable(container, {
  data: getData(),
  colHeaders: true,
  rowHeaders: true,
  dropdownMenu: true,
  filters: true
});

Options

filters

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filters.filters : boolean

The filters option configures the Filters plugin.

You can set the filters option to one of the following:

Setting	Description
false	Disable the Filters plugin
true	Enable the Filters plugin

Read more:

• Column filter
• Plugins: Filters
• dropdownMenu

Default: undefined
Example

// enable the `Filters` plugin
filters: true,

Methods

addCondition

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filters.addCondition(column, name, args, [operationId])

Adds condition to the conditions collection at specified column index.

Possible predefined conditions:

• begins_with - Begins with
• between - Between
• by_value - By value
• contains - Contains
• date_after - After a date
• date_before - Before a date
• date_today - Today
• date_tomorrow - Tomorrow
• date_yesterday - Yesterday
• empty - Empty
• ends_with - Ends with
• eq - Equal
• gt - Greater than
• gte - Greater than or equal
• lt - Less than
• lte - Less than or equal
• none - None (no filter)
• not_between - Not between
• not_contains - Not contains
• not_empty - Not empty
• neq - Not equal.

Possible operations on collection of conditions:

• conjunction - Conjunction (opens new window) on conditions collection (by default), i.e. for such operation:
  c1 AND c2 AND c3 AND c4 ... AND cn === TRUE, where c1 ... cn are conditions.
• disjunction - Disjunction (opens new window) on conditions collection, i.e. for such operation:
  c1 OR c2 OR c3 OR c4 ... OR cn === TRUE, where c1, c2, c3, c4 ... cn are conditions.
• disjunctionWithExtraCondition - Disjunction on first n - 1* conditions from collection with an extra requirement computed from the last condition, i.e. for such operation:
  c1 OR c2 OR c3 OR c4 ... OR cn-1 AND cn === TRUE, where c1, c2, c3, c4 ... cn are conditions.

* when n is collection size; it's used i.e. for one operation introduced from UI (when choosing from filter's drop-down menu two conditions with OR operator between them, mixed with choosing values from the multiple choice select)

Note: Mind that you cannot mix different types of operations (for instance, if you use conjunction, use it consequently for a particular column).

Example

const container = document.getElementById('example');
const hot = new Handsontable(container, {
  data: getData(),
  filters: true
});

// access to filters plugin instance
const filtersPlugin = hot.getPlugin('filters');

// add filter "Greater than" 95 to column at index 1
filtersPlugin.addCondition(1, 'gt', [95]);
filtersPlugin.filter();

// add filter "By value" to column at index 1
// in this case all value's that don't match will be filtered.
filtersPlugin.addCondition(1, 'by_value', [['ing', 'ed', 'as', 'on']]);
filtersPlugin.filter();

// add filter "Begins with" with value "de" AND "Not contains" with value "ing"
filtersPlugin.addCondition(1, 'begins_with', ['de'], 'conjunction');
filtersPlugin.addCondition(1, 'not_contains', ['ing'], 'conjunction');
filtersPlugin.filter();

// add filter "Begins with" with value "de" OR "Not contains" with value "ing"
filtersPlugin.addCondition(1, 'begins_with', ['de'], 'disjunction');
filtersPlugin.addCondition(1, 'not_contains', ['ing'], 'disjunction');
filtersPlugin.filter();

Param	Type	Default	Description
column	number		Visual column index.
name	string		Condition short name.
args	Array		Condition arguments.
[operationId]	string	"conjunction"	optional id of operation which is performed on the column.

clearConditions

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filters.clearConditions([column])

Clears all conditions previously added to the collection for the specified column index or, if the column index was not passed, clear the conditions for all columns.

Param	Type	Description
[column]	number	optional Visual column index.

destroy

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filters.destroy()

Destroys the plugin instance.

disablePlugin

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filters.disablePlugin()

Disables the plugin functionality for this Handsontable instance.

enablePlugin

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filters.enablePlugin()

Enables the plugin functionality for this Handsontable instance.

filter

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filters.filter()

Filters data based on added filter conditions.

Emits: Hooks#event:beforeFilter, Hooks#event:afterFilter

getDataMapAtColumn

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filters.getDataMapAtColumn([column]) ⇒ Array

Returns handsontable source data with cell meta based on current selection.

Param	Type	Description
[column]	number	optional The physical column index. By default column index accept the value of the selected column.

Returns: Array - Returns array of objects where keys as row index.

getSelectedColumn

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filters.getSelectedColumn() ⇒ Object | null

Gets last selected column index.

Returns: Object | null - Returns null when a column is not selected. Otherwise, returns an object with visualIndex and physicalIndex properties containing the index of the column.

isEnabled

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filters.isEnabled() ⇒ boolean

Checks if the plugin is enabled in the handsontable settings. This method is executed in Hooks#beforeInit hook and if it returns true then the Filters#enablePlugin method is called.

removeConditions

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filters.removeConditions(column)

Removes conditions at specified column index.

Param	Type	Description
column	number	Visual column index.