Deselect rows in custom print button

bbrindza

How would I deselect row in a custom print function?

                { extend: 'print', 
                   //deselect rows before executing any script
                    .....
          }

colin

You can call api rows().deselect(),

Colin

bbrindza

I have tried that and received this error in the console log
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

{ extend: 'print', 
                     var table = $('#timeLogTable_Home').DataTable(),
                      table.rows('.important').deselect(),
                     
                     init: function(api, node, config) {
                        $(node).removeClass('dt-button buttons-print')
                      },
                     className: 'btn btn-primary',
                     exportOptions: {
                          columns: [ 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15]
                     },
    
                    title: 'Week Ending Report '+  $('#weekEndingDate').val() + " for Employee: " + employeeName ,
            
                    customizeData: includeSubtotals,
    
                    customize: function(win) {
                        $(win.document.body).find('h1').css('font-size', '15pt');   
                        $(win.document.body)
                        .css( 'font-size', '8pt' );
    
                       $(win.document.body).find( 'table' )
                       .addClass( 'compact' )
                       .css( 'font-size', 'inherit' );
    
                       var last = null;
                       var current = null;
                       var bod = [];
    
                       var css = '@page { size: landscape; font-size: 8px}',
                       head = win.document.head || win.document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0],
                       style = win.document.createElement('style');
    
                      style.type = 'text/css';
                      style.media = 'print';
    
                      if (style.styleSheet){
                            style.styleSheet.cssText = css;
                     }else{
                           style.appendChild(win.document.createTextNode(css));
                     }
                    head.appendChild(style);
                  }
          }
        ],
        dom: {
            button: { className: 'btn btn-primary'},
            buttonLiner: { tag: null }
           }   
    },    

kthorngren

You will need to create a custom button. Here is an example. The last example in the buttons.buttons.action docs show how to execute the desired export inside the action function.

Kevin

tangerine

That error is usually accompanied by a line number.
Otherwise use JSLint to debug your code. It's not a DT error.