Create button

mak1

Hi Allan,

I am following the tutorial here
https://editor.datatables.net/reference/button/create

as I want to add a 2nd button on the Create modal window. My first button does the normal Create....
for my 2nd button I have the following code

formButtons: [
                {
                    label: 'Create/Approve',
                    fn: function () { this.submit(); }
                },

What I want to do, is to make sure I have some way of differentiating between these two submissions so I know one is Create and the other is Create/Approve on the backend. Is there a way? Seems like "action" is "create" for both and there's no other parameter to distinguish the buttons.

allan

Would setting a variable be acceptable - I think that's the only way that you would be able to tell the server which has been clicked. You could have an extra field in the form which is hidden from the end user (hidden) and then call field().val() to set the value in your custom button, letting the server know that that button was clicked.

Allan

mak1

Thank you, yes that will work