Tablesorter: Only allow external filter to search child rows

Question

Goal:

• Have the "internal" filters (that is to say the individual columns' filters) only filter based on their own respective columns. Ignore child row data.
• Have an external filter that can filter based on all the table's data including child rows.

Issue:

• I can get the external filter access the child rows by including filter_childrows: true in the widget options of Table Sorter. However, that leads to the individual column filters to access data in every other column, too.

Is there a way for me to essentially say: "Internal column filters, only pay attention to your data and disregard child rows. External filter, pay attention to everything including the child rows."?

If it's of any help to understanding my question, I've attached a screenshot of what I'm working with.

Answer 1

According to the tablasorter documentation, there is a property from version 2.22.0 called filter_childByColumn that states:

If true, queries will search child row content by column (v2.22.0)

So you should set it to false, but actuallly that is its default value so either you are setting it manually to true or you don't have the 2.22.0 version.