Search in hidden columns

[eaton010]

How to search while the columns is hidden.
eg I have a 'city' [7] column and I'm hide it.
examples code:

new simpleDatatables.DataTable('#house', {
                columns: [
                    {
						searchable: true,
                        select: [0, 6, 7],
                        hidden: true,
						
                        render: (data, cell, row) => {
                            row.dataset.name = data // Will add data to row instead.
                            return data // Will not be shown as column is hidden.
                        }
                    }
                ]
				})

because the results is there when I'm not hiding the city column, but blank result when I hide the column.

[johanneswilm]

It is unclear what you are trying to achieve. Do you want to let users search for a city name (for example "Clacton") and show them rows from Clacton but with the word "Clacton" hidden? That sounds like a more exotic UC than what we have encountered so far. It sounds like the column is not really hidden in all respects then. Have you tried hiding the column by other means? For example CSS?