Not sure I understand. If you want to hide it, why are you showing it? Are you asking if a user who ran the report can then go through and hide columns that are displayed? Besides giving them different Views as options, I haven't seen where you can do that.
I find hiding columns very useful when I need to sort data large data sets by a certain column, but I don't ever need it to display on the report. I do this by adding the following to text mode:
sortOrder=1 sortType=asc textmode=true usewidths=true width=0
If it were just to have a column and hide it permanently without any sort, I'm sure the following would work:
textmode=true usewidths=true width=0
As Greg stated, though, if it's just to have the option to hide a column at certain points it would be easier to create a view to use for the report that illuminates the column you don't want.
Greg,
It is the 'id' column and I'm sorting on it, to force the results to be in the proper order, however, i don't want it to show on any of the reports.
Thanks.
Does width=0 still work in the current release? I'm able to get a very narrow column, that does not display values, and which sorts as expected, but can't seem to completely hide it. William English
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