Sort function is broken

TheMatador

hello,
first, thank you for your great Datatables.
I use Datatables with dragtable (http://www.danvk.org/wp/dragtable/), which helps to reorder the columns. But when I reorder the columns, the sort function doesn't work correct. It mixes the different columns. I hope you can fix this someday, so that I can use both libraries. By the way, dragtable does work with sorttable, but which is not almost as good as datatables. Thanks in advance.

allan

Hi,

I'm not too surprised that this doesn't work. The dragtable jQuery plug-in will only re-arrange the DOM - it won't re-arrange DataTables' internal storage. It's not so much a case of fixing this since nothing is actually broken, but rather it will require implementation of re-ordering of columns in DataTables. The internal storage of DataTables 1.5 allows for this - it's just that a plug-in for this needs written... And that's just a case of finding the time!

Allan

TheMatador

ok. what does that mean? a plugin could help to use dragable with datatables. but you are not sure if you implement it someday and you even more don't know when you could do that. I hope you can find some time :). thanks for your fast reply!

allan

What I mean is that the functionality you are looking for could be provided by a plug-in for DataTables (it might involve using the dragable jQuery plug-in - I'm not sure...). Having thought about it, it's probably not all that difficult to do.

It's something I would like to do, but at the moment getting 1.5 released with the unit test suite is my top priority for DataTables. However, it's open source, so anyone can have a go at writing this plug-in :-).

Allan