Buttons text from Column Title

ThomD

I noticed that when using Buttons with the ColVis module (the new one, not the stand alone), the buttons get their names from the TH element, not the Title of the column as defined in the columns setup. So, rather than having "Title", "Name", Salary", I get
"Column 1", "Column 2"....

Is there a way to get Buttons to pick up the Titles?

ThomD

The answer is to use the new $.fn.dataTable.Buttons() constructor technique, rather than initiate the Buttons as part of the table definition setup. This makes sense because when the Buttons are created during that process, the column headers have not been converted to the Column Titles.

Using the example here works

http://datatables.net/extensions/buttons/examples/initialisation/new.html

note that you cannot include the 'B' parameter in the dom configuration because when that code runs, there are no Buttons to insert.

allan

Hi,

Thanks for raising this. I've just committed a change for Buttons to use the TableTools behaviour and read from DataTables' internal data store rather than the DOM. There was another thread which noted that you can't use columns.title with Buttons (which I now can't find...), which also requires this change.

I think longer term DataTables need to add a column().title() get / set API for this, but in the short term, this is possibly the best option.

It will be included in Buttons 1.0.1 which I'm going to release on Friday.

Allan