Can an element in the dom external to dataTables fire a DT event?

An_Alien

I have a chart which I am rendering above DT. I'd like the user to feel like the chart and dataTable are one. If user interacts with chart, DT should perform search/filter.

The DT is using server side processing.

Is there an example I can reference for this?

kthorngren

You can use the search() or column().search() API's for this. In your events for the chart just use one of the search APIs along with draw() and Datatables will send the search request, via server side processing, to the server.

Kevin