TableTools buttons not working properly

pablofaria

I am trying to use TableTools and everything seems to be fine except that when I click on any of the buttons Copy/PDF/CSV/Excel the buttom become light blue and its text get underlined, but nothing happens. I tried all the tips that I could find on the internet: changing z-index of DTTT_button class, trying both a local and the DataTables CDN link for the SWF file and changing Flash security settings.

I can't provide a link or create a fiddle for it, because its a password protected context. But, in sum, the HTML table is created dynamically (for a database query) and the DataTables activation is also done dynamically.

DataTables debug link: http://debug.datatables.net/iyekut

But, still, no luck. Does somebody have any other idea?

pablofaria

Well, I still don't know what the problem is, but I just got things working by adding an explicit "aButtons" entry to TableTools initialization:

  "aButtons": [ 
    "copy",
    {
        "sExtends": "print",
        "sButtonText": "<?php echo _('Imprimir'); ?>",
        "sToolTip": "<?php _echo('Visualizar impressão'); ?>"
    },
    { "sExtends": "collection",
      "sButtonText": "Save",
      "aButtons": [
        {
            "sExtends": "csv",
            "sButtonText": "CSV",
            "sToolTip": "<?php _echo('Salvar em formato CSV'); ?>",
            "mColumns": "visible"
        },
        {
            "sExtends": "xls",
            "sButtonText": "Excel",
            "sToolTip": "<?php _echo('Salvar como lista de valores separados por tabulação'); ?>",
            "mColumns": "visible"
        },
        {
            "sExtends": "pdf",
            "sButtonText": "PDF",
            "sToolTip": "<?php _echo('Salvar como arquivo PDF'); ?>",
            "sPdfOrientation": "landscape",
            "mColumns": "visible"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]

Before that I was just initializing it as:

"sDom": 'T<"clear">lfrtip',
"oTableTools": {
  "sSwfPath": "http://cdn.datatables.net/tabletools/2.2.2/swf/copy_csv_xls_pdf.swf" }

Hope that it helps somebody.

pablofaria

Another observation: I had to put all buttons inside the collection button in order for them to work properly. I noticed that if I click any button AFTER clicking a collection button, they work; otherwise, they don't. What does it mean?