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• colin Posts: 15,142Questions: 1Answers: 2,586

  September 2020

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

  Colin
• bbrindza Posts: 300Questions: 69Answers: 1

  September 2020

  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 Posts: 20,257Questions: 26Answers: 4,761

  September 2020

  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 Posts: 3,348Questions: 36Answers: 394

  September 2020

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