sNewLine equivalent?

veteze

How would I do the equivalent of "sNewLine" from the old "oTableTools" / "aButtons" params? I have a button that lets people get a list of comma separated IDs from all of the rows.

buttons: [
    {
        extend: 'copyHtml5',
        text: 'Copy IDs',
        header: false,
        //rowSeparator: ', ', 
        exportOptions: {
            columns: [3]
        }
    },
],

allan

There is no option for that in Buttons. What you would need to do is use the customize option of the copyHtml5 button type to modify the data to suit your needs.

Allan

veteze

i figured that, but i can't find any examples of the use of customize anywhere. i'll see if i can hack it together from the description of customize.

veteze

this does exist as a config param actually. in my efforts to figure out customize I discovered it in buttons.html5.js. Yahoo. It's just newLine.

buttons: [
    {
        extend: 'copyHtml5',
        text: 'Copy IDs',
        header: false,
        newLine: ', ',
        exportOptions: { columns: [3] }
    }
],

unrelated: I noticed is that config.customize is called after _exportData( dt, config ); If you're working with large datasets the customize call has to wait for it to first process data the default way and then it gets overwritten with the customized version. Maybe skip _exportData if customize is set.

allan

I had a feeling it was in there, but it was missing from the documentation. Doh - sorry.

I've committed the change and it will be published on the site shortly.

Maybe skip _exportData if customize is set.

Customize is really there to allow the data that _exportData gathers or sets up to be customised. it is possible to use the DataTables API to get your own data, but that wasn't the primary goal of that option.

Allan