Search

to have the default search input do it, didnt

If you use the search engine, search on "ordering"

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