Refreshing from another context

jim

Hi all, i am trying to refresh the table from inside a .js file, actually from the success callback of a ajax form submit, and the thing is that the table is created in the html file as :
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var dt = $("#dataTable").dataTable({
"bProcessing": true,
"bServerSide": true,
"sAjaxSource": 'list',
"sPaginationType": "full_numbers",
});
[/code]
so i can't call dr.fnDraw() from inside the .js file because dt does not exist there, so here is the question is there a way to do something like
[code]
$("dataTable").fnDraw()
[/code]
or any other way to call fnDraw() outside the context where the dataTable was created?

I tried searching in the forum and found nothing, hope you guys can help.

Best regards, Jim

allan

Hi Jim,

No I'm sorry to say that this is not currently possible. I plan to make it possible with the next release - but haven't had a chance to actually do that development work yet. At the moment you need to retain the object returned from the constructor.

I suppose one option might be to use the settings objects in $.fn.dataTableSettings ( $.fn.dataTableSettings[0].oApi._fnDraw( $.fn.dataTableSettings[0] ) for example _might_ do it - but it's a real work around...

Allan

jim

Thank you for your answer Allan, and for GPLing this great piece of software and saving me and many others lots of hours of development, has been a great help on a SaaS project i am working on and if i ever manage to sell this thing i'll make sure to send you your cut.

Jim