Cannot change settings after initialization without an alert

bwlang

I'm using many datatables on my site...
Most have the same initialization settings so i put that it its own little js file.

Sometimes I need to override though.
Unfortunately i don't have the dataTables object so I have to look it up - which causes an error

var tbl = $("table").dataTable();
tbl.fnSettings.bStateSave = false;

sigh... any chance to avoid this alert?

allan

Changing features on-the-fly is not supported in DataTables (also the call tbl.fnSettings.bStateSave is wrong :-), it should be tbl.fnSettings().oFeatures.bStateSave = false ). In this case it might work (although it will already have saved state from the first draw - which I doubt you want). But long and short of it is that this is not currently supported behaviour. Sorry.

This thread might possibly (?) be of interest to you: http://datatables.net/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=1314

Allan

bwlang

this is now supported using the bRetreive option
so I think it can be closed.