aagghh how to link a Cell to a Table?

aagghh how to link a Cell to a Table?

lw1990lw1990 Posts: 3Questions: 0Answers: 0
edited September 2012 in General
Visualize two DataTables.
Table 1 has two columns, ID and ITEMS
Table 2 has two columns, ITEMS and DESCRIPTION

The ITEMS row in both tables are the same, except that in Table 1 there are many items seperated by ; symbols.
When you click a ITEM in Table 1, I need Table 2 to filter only matching items of that within Table 1's ITEM cell.


The end result would have this Before and After I made in Excel:
You can see I selected an item on Table 1 and that's why Table 2 is filtered to those items.

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4007/ebd5774b7e804d8f83b2a24.png

Even if this can be accomplished easily by merging the tables somehow, I need to know how to do this without merging the tables because the actual project I'm working on has extremely long descriptions for each item!

If you solve this you're my God!!!

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  • allanallan Posts: 63,534Questions: 1Answers: 10,475 Site admin
    Have you tried using the filtering API method ( fnFilter )? It looks like you just need to replace the semi-colon with a pipe (|) and filter as a regular expression on the column.

    Allan
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