columns.orderData

krutovdl

I recently used this sorting feature and it is a very useful function indeed. However, the only way to reference another column is by its index number such as orderData: [0]. Instead of using the column index number, is there a way to use the actual column name like orderData: ["Column1"] for readability reasons?

kthorngren

The columns.orderData state that it expects integer indexes. Using a name won't work. You could create a var Column1 and assign it the column index and use orderData: [Column1].

You may be interested in this other thread from today. The developers can comment if they are looking at doing something similar with columns.orderData.

Kevin

krutovdl

order: [['Column1:name', 'asc']] because my employer is requiring me to use DataTables() rather than dataTables().

Te be consistent, i would expect an overload function to exist for orderData that expects a string array parameter and converts it to an integer array. Then would work as it currently does which just expects an integer array.