Class: Filters

Filters

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
});

Methods

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
  • 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 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 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).

Parameters:
Name Type Description
column Number

Visual column index.

name String

Condition short name.

args Array

Condition arguments.

operationId String

id of operation which is performed on the column

Example
const container = document.getElementById('example');
const hot = new Handsontable(container, {
  date: getData(),
  filter: 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();

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.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
column Number optional

Visual column index.

destroy()

Destroys the plugin instance.

disablePlugin()

Disables the plugin functionality for this Handsontable instance.

enablePlugin()

Enables the plugin functionality for this Handsontable instance.

filter()

Filters data based on added filter conditions.

Fires:

getDataMapAtColumn(column){Array}

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

Parameters:
Name Type Description
column Number optional

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(){Object|null}

Gets last selected column index.

Returns: {Object|null} Return null when column isn't selected otherwise
object containing information about selected column with keys visualIndex and physicalIndex

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 than the Filters#enablePlugin method is called.

Returns: {Boolean}

removeConditions(column)

Removes conditions at specified column index.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
column Number

Visual column index.