External link to filtered table

[gbalme]

Hello !

First, thanks for the plugin, it's a great help for me :)

I would like to know how could I pass a parameter that would select the correct data in the table.

Example : I have a datatable with different products, and each product has a category (it's a column of the table). For the moment, the user choose his category from a dropdown list and the table shows only the products of that particular category thanks to your plugin.
Now, I would like to have the same effect, when I click from an external html page, to this specific category link. So I click on the category link, and I fall on the datatable already filtered on that category (so the category is already selected in the dropdown list).

Sorry for my bad english, but I hope you understood my question :)

Thanks a lot !

[vedmack]

You are welcome.
There is no way to do so right now, but I will think of something... maybe providing a way to trigger change event in filter...
b.t.w for what kind of a filter type you want this ability?

[gbalme]

Thanks it would be awesome !

I specialy need it for the dropdown list filter. So if somebody click on a specific category, then we fall on the table with the category already selected in the dropdown list

[vedmack]

If you use DOM source (and not AJAX source) you can try out a temp release of the 0.4.5 from my showcase I already placed it there and using it too http://yadcf-showcase.appspot.com/multiple_tables.html

src file: http://yadcf-showcase.appspot.com/resources/js/jquery.dataTables.yadcf.js

Because it will take me a few more days to implement it for AJAX source...

[vedmack]

Ok, feature implemented and documented and working example can be found here :
http://yadcf-showcase.appspot.com/multiple_tables.html

works for both DOM and AJAX source , grab it from master :
https://github.com/vedmack/yadcf/blob/master/jquery.dataTables.yadcf.js

example usage : yadcf.exFilterColumn(oTable, 0, "Some Data 3");

[gbalme]

I don't know why, but it's not working for me :( table not filtered, and select not selected

I'm trying to debug it now, but I'm quite bad with js

Looks like this is the problem : TypeError: Cannot read property 'filter_type' of undefined on line 1069

my select is in a filter_container, could it be the reason ?

[vedmack]

I tested it with filter_container_id and it works just fine, so it must be something else, please post your datatables init/constructor code, jsfiddle or a complete example will be even better

[gbalme]

$(document).ready(function() {
var oTable = $('#tableau').dataTable( {
"aaSorting": [[ 1, "asc" ]],
"iDisplayLength": 999,
"sDom": 'rt',
"aoColumns": [
{ "sWidth": "5%", "bSortable": false },
null,
null,
{ "bSortable": false },
{"sType": "currency"},
null,
null,
null
]}).yadcf([
{column_number : 2, column_data_type: "html", html_data_type: "text", filter_default_label: "Toutes les marques...", filter_container_id: "external_filter_container"},
{column_number : 6, filter_default_label: "Type de soin...", filter_container_id: "external_filter_container2"},
]);
yadcf.exFilterColumn(oTable, 6, "Masques");
});

I don't know what is jsfiddle sorry

I can give you the link to my website by private msg if you want ?

[vedmack]

send me the url to vedmack@gmail.com, cause the code looks fine...

[vedmack]

should work now...