Add a print button on each row

lolopo

Hello everyone,

I need to let my users print one row at a time. In the past I've used the print button at the top to allow the users to use a checkbox to print one or more rows. Unfortunately in this case I cannot use that same functionality, and this is why I've been looking for an example to add a button to each row and trigger the print from it.

Has anyone seen/done something similar with Datatables?

Thanks in advance,
Manuel

kthorngren

Here are a couple examples of creating buttons.

Uses columns.defaultContent:
http://live.datatables.net/xijecupo/1/edit

Uses columns.render:
http://live.datatables.net/qemodapi/1/edit

These aren't the Datatables Extension buttons. You would need to still create the normal print button but you could hide it, maybe something like this thread . The you would use the button().trigger() API to trigger the button in your event handler.

HTH,
Kevin

lolopo

I ended up using the columns.render to add a button and call a function with the index of each row. Once I had the index, I collected the row data and printed it using a regular window.print().

Thanks for your assistance Kevin!!