Search

Yup, that's the legacy syntax. Documentation is here for the current version. http://datatables.net/examples/index Some examples of sorting. If you use the search engine, search for "order", not "sort". That's the current term.

I don't know asp, so this might be nonsense, but I notice you clear and reset "SessionInfo.kitBacklogData" in your click function while your search function is referencing "SessionInfo.BacklogData". Is "SessionInfo.BacklogData" getting cleared and reset anywhere?

to use a custom search plug-in to perform a

As in the search input? No that should work out of the box as you can see in the examples on this site. Allan

like this: LengthMenu--------------------------------------------------------- Buttons--------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------Search It takes three lines!

upon click on the search button, clearing the datatable

B = buttons f = filter (search) r = processing t = the

it's just a string search. Please note, I'm assuming

write something into the search box. UPDATE: The problem

was to add "live search" capabilities to a pre-existent