Grouping Rows by Column like JQuery Accordion

datatables_user1

To be clear, I am new to DataTables, and JQuery in general.
I have looked at the example "row_details" for awhile on the site,
and seemed to only find legacy matches containing "fnDrawCallback" or "fnOpen/fnClose."
What is different about mine is, the Table is already displayed on the website.
I was hoping to use DataTables for the manipulation of the table.
The data is already sorted, but would like the alteration specified:

A Student can have many Classes
So I would like a Row to just have the Student name,
and then each matching row with the same Student's name be hidden,
then expanded like in the "row_details" example.
There is no need to show the Students name again when expanded.

Does DataTables have the ability to scan thru a list of data, find and group by Student Name in an Accordion style?

I will drawn a table to be sure we are clear.

Currently:

 Student1  |  Class 1  | 
 Student1  |  Class 2  |
 Student2  |  Class 2  |
 Student2  |  Class 3  |

Would like to look like..

 | (+) Student1             |                  
 | (+) Student2             |                  

And Visually look like this when expanded.

 | (+) Student1            |
 | (-) Student2            |
    Class1                 |
    Class2                 |                                                      

Any help on howto proceed would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance :)

allan

How about this example?

Allan

datatables_user1

Unfortunately to my understanding it does not, please let me know if wrong.
How can I allow grouping of rows based off of Student?
The "row_details" example only allows hiding of data per specific row.
I want the ability to have multiple duplicate rows of StudentX be grouped together into one, and then expanded to see all classes they would be taking like the drawing I did above.

allan

Okay - thanks for the clarification. Row grouping in such a fashion is not something that DataTables supports at this time.

Allan