Out of the box with Formidable each view is based on a single form. However, with the use of nested views and developer hooks, you can incorporate information from other forms into your view. As with most things, it depends on what your design and goals are.
https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/formidable-hooks/
https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/advanced-view-concepts/#kb-set-up-a-nested-view
A search form can be used across multiple forms. You can't do that with Datatables. That tool has it's own search built-in that is form specific.
Using a single search form for multiple forms is not intuitive and definitely requires custom code.
I politely beg to differ. While WP Datatables doesn't have that flexibility, or at least it didn't last time I checked. native Datatables one of the things I like about it is that it doesn't have to care about the source of the data as it can just operate on what is inside the table tags. Once you've created a table with data from all over the place, it's just a "static" table. Either way, it's probably easiest to use the hooks and custom code to create a solution.
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