write "titleAttr" to variable

write "titleAttr" to variable

abickfordabickford Posts: 15Questions: 5Answers: 0
edited October 2021 in DataTables

I have created a custom button that runs a function to create a word document. One of the inputs to the dataTable is a "titleAttr" value (which specifies the type of table). I want to write the titleAttr value to a variable that I will pass to a function that will create a table. The code:

The function that manages the custom button:

//Data Table WordButton creator
$.fn.dataTable.ext.buttons.word = {
    className: 'buttons-word',
 
   action: function ( e, dt, node, config ) {
                var colhead = dt.columns().header().toArray().map(x => x.innerText); //The table headers
            var colfooter = dt.footer().toArray().map(x => x.innerText);  //The table footer
            var table = dt.rows().data();  // The table itself
                     var tableTitle = ???
                    genWordTbl(colhead, colfooter, table, tableTitle); //The code to create and download a word document
        } //action function....
}

The creation of the custom button:

    $('#summtab').DataTable( {
                dom: 'Bfrtip',
        buttons: [
        { 
         extend: 'word',
         titleAttr: fileName, <- this is the value I want to write to genWordTbl 
         text: "Word",
         footer : true
        },
     {Other buttons...}

How do I recover the value of titleAttr and write it to the genWordTbl function?
I have to note that with the other buttons (csv, excel, and PDF) this functionality exists.
TIA

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  • allanallan Posts: 61,439Questions: 1Answers: 10,053 Site admin
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    In your action function, config.titleAttr will give you the value of whatever titleAttr is been set to (in this case whatever fileName is.

    Allan

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