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Yep, it's working fine here (using data rather that ajax but the principle would be the same) - so something on your end I'm afraid, Colin

unfortunately it is on an intranet so I am not able to provide a link. I suppose I will have to just live with the extra ajax call to manually populate the options.

Thank you. Is there a way to add custom parameters while Datatables APIs send Ajax requests to the server? I would like to create custom search panes

would have an empty Ajax response but the table

Got it working now. I removed success: and datasrc: from the ajax declaration and it started working. Thank you for the suggestions and comments.

You can use ajax.data to send a search

You would use either columns, or columnDefs, not both. If you need to define all columns (perhaps because you're using ajax objects), then put all the config into columns, Colin

Thanks Allan! issue resolved I had to restart visual studio. at that point, I had already sorted the issue using ajax.. editor.on('preEdit', function (e, json, data, id) { $.ajax... });

Use the search event and in the event use the search() API to get the search term. The docs show an example of this. You can use a jQuery ajax() request to send to your server. Kevin

true; var table = $('#datatable').dataTable({ "ajax": { 'type': 'POST', 'dataType': 'json',