thanks..
that adds it to the actual listview... I'm hiding 3 fields there (country, region city), but want those 3 fields available on the search panel.
EG:
I can hide them on the list view no problem, but I'd like the fields to be available in the search panel for searching even though they're not displayed on the list view....
You should not hide the field from Fields setup -> List Page. You should keep enable it.
To hide the field from the table in the generated List page, simply set Visible's property of the field to false under Page_DataRendering server event that belongs to the List Page.