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wps

I am trying to advance/retreat the pagination (next or previous page) within a script. I have seen how custom pagination controls can be made creating a plug-in with the API, but this is not what I want to do. I simple want to advance or retreat the pagination when certain conditions are met within a script.

I have tried

oSettings._iDisplayStart = newValue;
oTable.fnDraw();

but it does nothing. The only way I have gotten it to work is "clicking" the next/previous buttons virtually with jQuery's click() event

$('.paginate_enabled_next').click();

but that seems like a hack. How can I make this work using DataTables' building in functions/features?

allan

Hi wps,

The reason that setting _iDisplayStart before calling fnDraw() is discussed here http://datatables.net/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=607 and here http://datatables.net/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=573 . There are ways around it the display being set back to the first page - and you might want to implement one of these, as required.

There is also the option of invoking the click event on "oSettings.nNext" and oSettings.nPrevious" (two button paging only - a small modification would be needed for this in full_numbers) which is what I do in the unit tests.

Basically it comes down to the fact that there isn't really an API function for "paging turning" - perhaps one for a plug-in... :-)

Regards,
Allan

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