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are used to disable sorting on this column along

desired format. This allows sorting to be done on

desired format. This allows sorting to be done on

allowing paging, filtering and sorting of the data.

everything else such as sorting and filtering.

column should not be sortable, and will change dynamically

had something like this: // Sort column 4 (dob_for_display) using

th').unbind('click.DT') to unbind the sort event and it works

You would use Ortogonal Data for this. For example using columns.render you can assign numeric values to active, inactive and deleted for the sort operation to sort in the order desired. Kevin

directions. Assigning values for sorting in the columnDefs, works out great. render: { sort: function (data, type, full,

title appear inside the sort select field. initComplete:function(){ this.api().columns([2,3,6]).every(function(){

multiple pages and the sort displays a row that

yap - this works! but how to sort first column usig data from hidden [second] column?

Use the orderCellsTop to move the sort functionality to the top header row. Kevin

to the top when sorting by other columns. Maybe

@kthorngren, thank you for that suggestion. It got me looking into those docs and I discovered data-order which allowed me to sort the table as expected and still keep the styling I wanted. Sample: <td data-order"1500">1,500:1</td>