How do you use fnSortListener?

chobo2

Hi

I am wondering if fnSortListener is what I need but I don't understand how it works(from the example). This is my problem. I have a column that has dates like this

Aug 13 @ 4:04 PM

This date would be very hard to make a sorter for especially since no year is shown(it is not really useful to the user).

So what I want to do is have a hidden column with a date stamp something that datatables already knows how to sort by.

So when a user clicks on the column with these Aug 13 @ 4:04 PM dates in it. It actually sorts the hidden column.

Can fnSortListener do this? All my other columns should be fine and sort so they don't need hidden fields.

siel

sounds good,but I don't know how to help you:(

allan

I would recommend using iDataSort rather than fnSortListener for this: http://datatables.net/usage/columns#iDataSort . It's probably possible to do what you want with fnSortListener, but a lot more complicated that using the built-in method for doing what you are looking for :-)

iDataSort will tell DataTables to sort by a different column for the column that is the 'target'.

An alternative, if you didn't want to use a hidden column, would be to use the hidden title numeric sorting plug-in: http://datatables.net/plug-ins/sorting#hidden_title . This will take a number from a span tag's title attribute and sort on that.

Regards,
Allan