Search should only search for license key or license name

[chinyeungli]

Searching 'mit' in the licensedb returns 307 licenses.
https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/?search=mit
It is because the search pick up the Copyleft Li"mit"ed in the Category field. However, I think the search should only apply to license_key/license_name, all other fields should not be in the query for the search.

[m-g-rathod]

Hello sir, here's my approach to this issue:

Currently for querying the Datatable in scancode-toolkit\src\licensedcode\templates\license_list.html we have :
table.search().draw() function in js which queries the entire datatable.

For applying search to only first 2 columns i.e. key and short_name columns we can use columns() method and pass the respective column names or indexes as argument in the function like:
table.columns([0,1]).search().draw()
OR
table.columns(column_names or id).search().draw()

I referred to this Link for solving this issue.

Please check and suggest whether my approach to this issue is correct or there's something more to do.

[AyanSinhaMahapatra]

@m-g-rathod yes that makes sense to me. See also #30 (comment) and follow the conversation there.