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• allan Posts: 63,400Questions: 1Answers: 10,452 Site admin

  November 2010

  I'd forgotten about that inner table example :-). Yes it is possible - simply use the row_details example to construct a table inside the "opened" row, and then run DataTables over it. fnOpen ( http://datatables.net/api#fnOpen ) returns the opened TR node, so you could do $('table', nTr).dataTable() (where nTr is the row from fnOpen).
  
  Allan
• secondacc Posts: 5Questions: 0Answers: 0

  May 2011 edited May 2011

  I want to manage nested comments with Datatables.
  Background:
  I store visitor comments together with their parent ids in a database.
  
  As GregJ said, it would be nice to expand additional data for an entry.
  I would need to either hide the replies to a comment and just show them or query them on the click of a button.
  I have it all running with un-nested comments. I see that fnOpen would work well indeed.
  
  I realiyed that I could just add the additional rows to the server response.
  So instead of adding the data to $output['aaData'], I add it to extra rows like this
  [code]$output['additional_data'][$id_of_parent_row] = $content;[/code] (and then json_encode the whole server response).
  The question now is how I can access the extra data on the client side?
  
  The solution must be in the fnCallback function used in fnServerData. I don't know how to use it, though.
  [code]
  "fnServerData": function ( sSource, aoData, fnCallback ) {
  $.ajax({
  "dataType": 'json',
  "type": "POST",
  "url": sSource,
  "data": aoData,
  "success": fnCallback
  });
  }
  
  function fnCallback( oObj, oSettings, oData ) {
  
  //???
  
  return oObj;
  }
  [/code]
• secondacc Posts: 5Questions: 0Answers: 0

  May 2011

  I was able to solve this problem in the fnServerData() function by working with the json response. :-)