ViewCriteria vs. attr showing up in Search Query

Question

I have added a ViewCriteria with an attribute that is now set as queriable.
HOWEVER
I want this field disabled for the Search Component -- This is an ID field -- the ID field should NOT show up
in the Search --
Is there a way to accomplish both -- allow this id field to be used in the ViewCritieria AND
not have this field show up in the Search Named Criteria Queriable attrs?
How do I hide this in the Search --
I was setting all attrs that I did not want to show up in the search as not queriable --
My scenerio is as follows
When I display my page I want to execute the default VO query to show a table of results and a search.
All the params I DONT want visible in the search I set as queriable = "false".
Then I needed to create a view criteria special case where I can use the query but filter it based on an id.
WHERE FacetId Equal to Bind Variable (param facetId)
When I tried to execute the view criteria, it gave an error saying id was not queriable.
The code I used to execute is as follows:
FacetVOImpl facetVO = (FacetVOImpl) getFacet1();
String q = facetVO.getQuery();
String language = getDBTransaction().getSession().getLocale().getLanguage();
String country = getDBTransaction().getSession().getLocale().getCountry();
ViewCriteria criteria = facetVO.getViewCriteria("FacetVOCriteriaFacetId");
VariableValueManager vm = criteria.ensureVariableManager();
vm.setVariableValue("facetId", id);
facetVO.setApplyViewCriteriaName("FacetVOCriteriaFacetId");
facetVO.defineNamedWhereClauseParam("plang", language, null);
facetVO.defineNamedWhereClauseParam("pcountry",country, null);
facetVO.executeQuery(); // only 1 row returned
This required me to set the attr facetId as queriable in order to use it in this executeQuery().
Now the issue is that is shows up in my search on my search/table (AllQueriableAttributes) details page. How
can I remove this from the search page? Is there another setting other than isQueriable to hide the attribute in the Search?
I could not find a way to do so in the default VO.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Just a follow up q re: your suggestion Amit.
Do I need to instantiate the view criteria if the viewcriteria 1 does not have any bind vars?
In other words when I drag this vc1 onto my page and create search/details. Will I also need to use backing code to set the criteria or will this execute by
default? I though when setting vc, you are required to call executeQuery and set the vc explicitly. This would then require a methodAction prior to do the executeQuer before rendering the table.
Just want to clarify before changing all this to try this suggestion out. I thought about this, but was hoping there was a simple toggle just to hide the field.
What I have right now is working -- I just want to remove one field that is displayed in the search -- seems like it should be easier -- like setting not visible = true somewhere ??? Guess not -- sigh ...