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• dwissmann Posts: 4Questions: 0Answers: 0

  April 2014

  just for a brief time with fake data, I made the page available on line at https://www.downtownsoccer.org/DSLMobile/CMA/parentManagement.php
• allan Posts: 61,650Questions: 1Answers: 10,094 Site admin

  April 2014

  It looks like the file the DataTable is requesting for data is just returning empty: https://www.downtownsoccer.org/DSLMobile/admin/parent/parent.ajax.php?action=list .
  
  Allan
• dwissmann Posts: 4Questions: 0Answers: 0

  April 2014

  Oh for crying out loud - after two days, I had to find out that I spelled the word list lower case and it expects it UPPER CASE.
  
  Well, my cursing continues but I sure appreciate you making me like a fool - Thanks for your help even thought I will hate myself for a while that I didn't catch that
  
  it works well now - thanks - you can close that post - or even better delete it
• dwissmann Posts: 4Questions: 0Answers: 0

  April 2014

  I have a follow up question (for now I put the page back behind auth). So, now the table shows up beautifully - I use "mData..."mRender" with a function to display an image of a checkbox when the data equals true. like this:
  [code]mDataDefinitions.push({ "mData": "ISCOACH","mRender":function ( data, type, full ) {return drawCheckMark(data,'is allowed to work as a coach');} });
  [/code]
  the function drawCheckMark just returns an HTML-string of that image if data = true. Now... I would like to filter on that column to only show rows with a checkmark. I use a click function on the column header that call following function:
  [code]function booleanFilter(colObj) {
  $(colObj).toggleClass( "colClickFilter-on colClickFilter-off" );
  currentColumnNumber = $(colObj).index() +3;
  //alert('filtering column ' + currentColumnNumber);
  tableObject = $('#parentList').dataTable();
  if ($(colObj).hasClass('colClickFilter-on')) {
  tableObject.fnFilter('true',currentColumnNumber);
  } else {
  tableObject.fnFilter('',currentColumnNumber);
  }
  }
  [/code]
  all is fine, but the result is that all rows are now gone - I assume it is because of the cell containing HTML instead of the value. So I looked into the mData function example at https://www.datatables.net/usage/columns - but it isn't clear to me if how I have to use it. Do I still initially retrieve the data with above example using aoColumns and then add the aoColumnDefs for the columns I want to alter or do I have to switch everything to aoColumnDefs?