You were right about calling api, it can be done succesively.

When declaring columns make sure every column is an object:

{
  label: 'Age',
  field: 'age'
},

If you put just a string, the datatable will initialize, but search won't work. To show this case I've created 'age' column with this error so you could check that.

https://mdbootstrap.com/snippets/standard/mlazaru/4434814#js-tab-view

so i reconsidered looking at the referenced url about advanced search.

is there a way to do the following:

text1 in field1; text2 in field2; etc

?

or, maybe via javascript that calls the api for datables to do effectively that?

datatableInstance.search(phrase: String, column: String|Array (optional))

seems only to be able to state for 1 column, is there a way to do say...:

datatableInstance.search([
phrase1: String, column1: String|Array (optional),
phrase2: String, column2: String|Array (optional),
etc...
])

Hi,

Check out this example: https://mdbootstrap.com/docs/standard/data/datatables/#section-advanced-search

To find 'tiger' anywhere in the table type just 'tiger'. To find 'tiger' but only in 'name' column, type 'tiger in:name'.