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• allan Posts: 61,623Questions: 1Answers: 10,090 Site admin

  April 2021

  Thanks - I'm really excited to see this new field type being fully exploited - I suspect it has a lot of use cases beyond what I've shown in the examples.

  1) Is it possible to include a datatable field type in an editor form that is not linked to a field that is part of a join.

  Sure - its data feed (the options) can be loaded from anywhere. As long as it comes back in a known JSON format (default is label/value pairs) then the table can be configured to show it. You could use the config.select.style option to disable user selection on the rows:

  type: 'datatable',
  config: {
    select: {
      style: 'api'
    }
  }
  

  the config option just lets you pass in a regular DataTables configuration option. Defaults will be set that are sensible for Editor, but you can override them if you want.

  2) Under the config: section i see how to set paging for scrolling display, are all of the other options available such as setting the dom, ordering etc available.

  Yup .

  You can even access the api if you wanted to:

  var table = editor.field('myField').dt();
  

  I actually missed adding that method in the docs - corrected for the next patch release already.

  Allan