{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1989#issuecomment-1491357104", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1989", "id": 1491357104, "node_id": "IC_kwDOBm6k_c5Y5E2w", "user": {"value": 1231935, "label": "xavdid"}, "created_at": "2023-03-31T06:17:23Z", "updated_at": "2023-03-31T06:18:05Z", "author_association": "NONE", "body": "I'm running into a similar use case as pax above- I made a `nice` view that just has the data I'm interested in (which doesn't include the `id`, since it's not important in this case). But, by excluding `id` from the view, I can't do fts queries against it because the view has no `id` field to tie to `rowid`:\r\n\r\n```\r\nERROR: conn=<sqlite3.Connection object at 0x106521210>, \r\nsql = 'select time, text, permalink, num_children from nice where id in \r\n(select rowid from items_fts where items_fts match :search)  limit 101', \r\nparams = {'search': 'whatever'}: no such column: id\r\n```\r\n\r\nIt works fine when I include `id` in my view, but now my `nice` view is cluttered up. Would be great to hide it permanently in the `config.json`.", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 1531991339, "label": "Suggestion: Hiding columns"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}
{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1989#issuecomment-1402347667", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1989", "id": 1402347667, "node_id": "IC_kwDOBm6k_c5TliCT", "user": {"value": 116795, "label": "pax"}, "created_at": "2023-01-24T17:48:59Z", "updated_at": "2023-01-24T17:48:59Z", "author_association": "NONE", "body": "The problem (in my particular use case) with using a VIEW is that I'd need one of the columns to be searchable \u2013 but that ([enable-fts](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-search-all)) doesn't work with views :/\r\n\r\n__\r\nside-suggestion: I don't know how feasible this might be, but when one column (or table) would be marked as hidden, could the _Download SQLite DB_ link take that into account? \ud83e\uddd0", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 1531991339, "label": "Suggestion: Hiding columns"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}
{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1989#issuecomment-1397734424", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1989", "id": 1397734424, "node_id": "IC_kwDOBm6k_c5TT7wY", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2023-01-19T23:18:45Z", "updated_at": "2023-01-19T23:18:45Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "There's a `?_nocol=x` argument you can use to hide a column when you link to a table, but that won't help you if you need to hide the column for privacy reasons: https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/json_api.html#special-table-arguments\r\n\r\nOne solution right now is to define a SQL view for the things that you DO want people to be able to see, and then use Datasette's permission system to hide the tables (`'\"allow\": false` in metadata for each table) but show the views.\r\n\r\nIf you want to redact specific columns there's a plugin for doing that: https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-mask-columns\r\n\r\nThis does make sense as more of a core Datasette feature though - tagging it as a feature suggestion.", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 1531991339, "label": "Suggestion: Hiding columns"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}