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to do this on initialisation - the place to do

I'm not sure what "aoSearchAndSortByElements" is trying to do? You can define an initial filtering using oSearch: http://datatables.net/usage/options#oSearch Allan

seeing aoData as an initialisation option? aaData can be

Hi akmalkhon, Two things to check initially: is the json valid (www.jsonlint.com) and is sEcho being correctly returned? Allan

Hi laurel, Please see this example: http://datatables.net/examples/advanced_init/events_post_init.html for adding events post initialisation. The second question in the FAQs for server-side processing also notes this: http://datatables.net/faqs Allan

Hi rulo, Yes - you need to set iDisplayLength as well to let it select which one of the options you want to use initially: http://datatables.net/usage/options#iDisplayLength Regards, Allan

column to be sorted initially then you could set

these two parameters at initialisation time. You could modify

lot of confusion over initialisation parameters like this "$('#Users').dataTable({"bSort":false}).fnAddData([

Thanks for the tip. It was caused by the wrong order of code. I was initializing table first, then adding the function when it should have been the other way around. Now everything works, thank you.