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Hello,

I figured out what my issue was:

I found myself having to do something non-traditional today and it reminded me of this post.

Have spent a few days getting my head around this DataTables v1.8 and am very impressed. Just need assistance with two problems.

If you want to keep the button, that's fine. And that will be the entry point to kicking off the server-side fetch.

Traversing this forum I found a way to achieve solution 2 I described in my question. Basically instead of returning button html by fnRender I use:

I tried with "aoColumnDefs": [

Hello all,

when you click your button, you can get the button's parent cell or parent row

The best way to add parameters to a call to the database script is by overriding fnServerData, and adding objects (with name and value) to the aoData collection:

Hi All,

I am not sure what you mean by saying

I went back through and found an older post by someone but I think this may have me confused because this isn't working for me.

if you have a backend database, using server processing is probably better than ajax source (however it does require more work to set up the sorting, filtering). I'm guessing this is why the ID was …

This is the tab code

you can write custom sort functions. sort functions just compare the values of 2 columns. return -1 if the first item is smaller, 0 if they are equal, and 1 if the first is greater. so for empty s…

I came up with this but somethign isn't right here.

oh, I'm sorry. I used the wrong function. not standing redraw, ajax re whatever. totally my fault.

I'm trying to figure out how to have it remove the pagination div when there is no data returned into the table and the code I have is not working.

I've found one way of doing this that works for my scenario.