ajax deep linking

lynn

I am using server side processing.

How do I provide a link to a specific page after the user has used filters and pagination and sorting?

Because datatables is using AJAX the URL never changes and the user can't book mark a page or share the link to specific pages.

Thanks.

allan

You need to use the API to apply a filter and sort based on the information in the link - this isn't a built in feature, but is easily done with fnFilter / fnSort .

Allan

lynn

Thanks.

Datatables is an amazing tool but I feel this is a very crucial missing feature.

Is there any example code using your suggestion to accomplish my goal?

Has anyone tried to create a plugin using http://www.asual.com/jquery/address/ or something similar?

If no to both questions then I think I will provide a button that converts the cookie to a link and then convert the link back to a cookie.

allan

No to both I'm afraid. You can use the API to get the state of the table, and listen for events such as page to update the history / url. It would also need to manipulate the init options to reflect the URL - should all be quite possible, but it might require a few hundred lines of code. The DataTables developer docs will probably be useful to you: http://datatables.net/docs/DataTables

Allan