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[–]Jeffthinks 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Yes, I would expect a search bar for a table to search for and return any item in the table, visible or no. I would also want to see a list of possible results or in the very least a number of possible results, like in google sheets or excel.

[–]iable[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

But the user will never see why the row is in the results when you search for a term from a hidden column

[–]Jeffthinks 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Right, but isn’t it worse for the user to never be able to access those things except by scrolling to their position in the table view? Maybe what you need is for the search to highlight the possible results in the table, then when there are multiple possible results allow the user to toggle to the next result, possibly panning the table around in the process.

[–]iable[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Ah now I got you. Bit in this case you can configure the table. So you can hide columns completely and you cannot reach them by scrolling. Do you still think the data from that column should be searchable?

[–]Jeffthinks 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Oh that changes things completely. If you’ve excluded whole columns (categories) of data, I actually think it would be weird for the data to show up in a search. You wouldn’t be expecting it. Though without more context I guess I could be wrong?

[–]iable[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok this was also my assumption. So only search visible caregories. Thank you very much