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sort by the grouped column(s) first - then apply the

I just noticed that columns initialisation is within the ajax - it isn't supposed to be. Could you your current client-side initialisation code so we can verify again, please.

sorts composed of multiple columns for all of the

not set explicitly for columns else using targets... Generally

triplett , When you hide columns, they are being removed

columns.data to define the columns. Since your row data

lt;script> $('#table-member').DataTable({ ajax: 'member_data', columns: [ { data: 'name', name: 'name'

Perhaps you could echo out the SQL that is being generated when the use clicked on one of the name columns. That is where I would start (as suggested before :)). Allan

This is an example that @kthorngren did for another thread that OR searches across multiple columns - this would be a good place to start. Colin

some of the other columns so the text inside