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• colin Posts: 15,240Questions: 1Answers: 2,599

  April 2021

  You can use orthogonal data for that. In columns.render, you can return a different value for the ordering. If you're using HTML5 tags, like data-order, that should happen automatically, see example here: https://datatables.net/examples/advanced_init/html5-data-attributes.html

  Colin
• kiwis Posts: 15Questions: 10Answers: 0

  April 2021 edited April 2021

  Here's what I have. My two date columns sort perfectly. My first name column doesn't.

   $('#myTable').DataTable({
          paging: false,
          "searching": false,
          "autoWidth": false,
          columnDefs: [
              {
                  targets: [0,7,8],
                  data: {
                      _: "0.display",
                      sort: "0.@data-order",
                      type: "0.@data-order"
                  }
              }
          ]
      });
  

  On a click even I'm loading content via fetch and row.add

  fetch('getmyContent.php').then(function(response) {
              return response.json().then(function(data) {
                  for(var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
                      var obj = data[i];
                      var rowHtml = $('#refRow').html()
                          .replace('{{Surname}}', obj.Surname)
                          .replace('{{personName}}', obj.personName)
                          .replace('{{MinTime}}', obj.MinTime)
                          .replace('{{First}}', obj.MinTimeF)
                          .replace('{{MaxTime}}', obj.MaxTime)
                          .replace('{{Last}}', obj.MaxTimeF)
                     
                      t.row.add($(rowHtml)).draw();
  
                  }
              });
          });
  

  Finally my template

  <script id="refRow" type="text/html">
      <tr>
          <td data-order="{{Surname}}">{{personName}}</td>
          <td data-order="{{MinTime}}">{{First}}</td>
          <td data-order="{{MaxTime}}">{{Last}}</td>
          <td>{{View}}</td>
      </tr>
  </script>
  

  I'm removed other columns but 7 & 8 need sorting like the first (0).

  Edited by Allan - Syntax highlighting. Details on how to highlight code using markdown can be found in this guide.
• allan Posts: 63,498Questions: 1Answers: 10,471 Site admin

  April 2021

  Can you link to a test case showing the issue (as noted in the forum rules), so we can offer some help. Information on how to create a test case (if you aren't able to link to the page you are working on) is available here.

  Allan