Using either the default GridView or Kartik Gridview, how could I give the user the ability to show/hide the columns to display?
The idea is that the Gridview displays a lot of information and certain users don’t need to see certain column and others do, so I was hoping that there might be a way to select which columns are displayed.
add “visibility” => false inside the column array
How does that enable users to select/deselect columns to display?
You can add if statement and change visibility status false or true according to user’s role or id
I had thought of that, but it will not suffice for this instance. The end-user needs to have the ability to make the selection (and change it if they so choose) in real-time.
@DBCreator you can add some kind of button/filter/link with some flag parameter example the url can be /test?hide_columns=1
And you could simple pass that variable from your action to your view and set it to your gridview, if you don’t want any refresh, you can use pjax, or a simple Ajax request and leload the updated content
You can also use checkboxes to select the content the user wants to see
Could you elaborate. Are you saying to use javascript/jQuery?
I got it working. jQuery was the ticket to hiding columns, in combination with a multiselect table column list that the user chooses the columns to show/hide. It ended up being quite straightforward at the end of the day. Thank you all for the help.