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it .. and see that initially it works sEcho passes

first time (so the initial screen just has search

but including all columns initially and then removing the

Sure you can. Just do it as you would for a normal HTML table before initialising the DataTable. Allan

work and covers my initial post about what I

for example your table initialisation would go something like:

export buttons to show. Initially I tried to use

iSortCol_{i} is not an initialisation option - hence why trying to set it has no effect! The default sort is controlled using the aaSorting option. Allan

seconds around your DataTables initialisation, does that help at

Hi Allan, Yes I've enabled bServerSide in the jQuery..... [code] // data table basic initialisation jQuery(document).ready(function() { $('#table_id').dataTable( { "bProcessing": true, "bServerSide": true, "sAjaxSource": "functions/server_processing.php" } ); }); [/code] Also using the default GET.