Hiding entire columns in Query (grid)

Jaymer

see this pic: hide columns.PNG

both buttons have Applicability conditions on them - and its based on a User Right/Access Level, so when a button is missing, the entire column is blank.
sometimes, both columns are blank.

would be nice if in a Render script, I could totally hide those columns. or change the columns to 1px width.

does anyone else get feedback from users about these empty columns?

Jaymer

Solution:

var a = new AwareApp_SystemValueAction (
	"AccessLevel",
	null,
	function (value) {
		console.log(value);
		if (value == "OEM" || value == "OEMAdmin" || value == "Cust")   {
			// widget.hideColumn("ColView");   *NOTE, this doesn't work.  left here for example
			widget.hideColumn(widget.columns[1]);
			widget.hideColumn(widget.columns[0]);
		}
	},
this,
false);

a.run ();

Based on an old JT post: Query ResultSet VS Dislay Order (comment)&hilit=hideColumn#p36627
And Support's help here:

Jaymer

In the code above, you can see this line:
widget.hideColumn("ColView");

Well, if you had a real column named "Name", or "Address" in your grid, then this format of hideColumn works.
Problem is that "Operations with Rows" columns do not get names [that I can see], so I had to hardcode in "hide column 1 & 0".
I tried putting an ID in the button (ie. ColView for ColumnView, and had ColDetails for the Details button) but none of that worked.
Luckily the Kendo docs also had a way to hide them specifically by Col #.

And I still have Aware's applicability condition active, so even if someone was to poke around and show the columns, all they'd get are 2 empty columns, so I don't really see a downside to using this.