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• allan Posts: 63,481Questions: 1Answers: 10,467 Site admin

  October 2016

  What version of Editor are you using? Can you five me a link to the page showing the error so I can debug it?

  Thanks,
  Allan
• gbenett Posts: 14Questions: 5Answers: 0

  November 2016 edited November 2016

  Using Editor 1.5.6 (latest). Can't readily simulate the app outside our firewall -- maybe this is enough? Debug info at http://debug.datatables.net/atodox

  The relevant table is #mainTable; relevant row code begins around line 407:

                                  "name": "GuardiumInventory1.HostName",
                                  "classes": "-- Previously seen object. Not included due to circular reference possibility --",
                                  "host": "-- Previously seen object. Not included due to circular reference possibility --",
                                  "opts": {
                                      "className": "",
                                      "data": "GuardiumInventory1.HostName",
                                      "def": "",
                                      "fieldInfo": "",
                                      "id": "DTE_Field_GuardiumInventory1.HostName",
                                      "label": "HostName*:",
                                      "labelInfo": "",
                                      "name": "GuardiumInventory1.HostName",
                                      "type": "select2",
                                      "opts": {
                                          "placeholder": "Select a Host",
                                          "tags": false,
                                          "minimumInputLength": 2,
                                          "ajax": {
  
• allan Posts: 63,481Questions: 1Answers: 10,467 Site admin

  November 2016 Answer ✓

  Embarrassingly, that's a bug in Editor 1.5.6 I'm afraid! It is just completely ignoring the placeholder value because of how the value is read from the select element (Editor stores the value on a property of the element to allow for strict type checking).

  To patch a local copy against this issue open dataTables.editor.js in your Editor and find:

              elOpts[0].hidden = disabled; // can't be hidden if not disabled!
              elOpts[0].disabled = disabled;
  

  Immediately after those two lines add:

  elOpts[0]._editor_val = conf.placeholderValue !== undefined ?
      conf.placeholderValue :
  '';
  

  I'll have that fix in the next release! Thanks very much for letting me know about this and my apologies for the issue.

  Regards,
  Allan
• gbenett Posts: 14Questions: 5Answers: 0

  November 2016

  Great answer, as usual. Works like a charm.