Question about what to put as swf file in TableTools

Question about what to put as swf file in TableTools

JaGoJaGo Posts: 5Questions: 1Answers: 0
edited August 2014 in Free community support

Hello,

DataTables is a great plugin, and I've really enjoyed using it so far. I'm a very new programmer with no experience with tabletools or swf paths whatsoever. I'm trying to implement Table Tools to print/export/etc but so far only print is working for me. Most solutions have said that means the swf path is incorrect. But I have no idea what to put as my swf path. Could anybody please help? Sorry for such a basic question. :(

Here are my plugins and script for dataTables.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
 <head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css">
<script src="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.2/css/jquery.dataTables.css">
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf8" src="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.2/js/jquery.dataTables.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="https://datatables.net/release-datatables/extensions/TableTools/js/dataTables.tableTools.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://datatables.net/release-datatables/extensions/TableTools/css/dataTables.tableTools.css" />
<script>
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $('#table_id').DataTable({
            "dom": 'T<"clear">lfrtip',
            "tableTools": {
                "sSwfPath": "/swf/copy_csv_xls_pdf.swf"

            }

        });

    });
</script>

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  • allanallan Posts: 63,516Questions: 1Answers: 10,472 Site admin

    But I have no idea what to put as my swf path

    Where is the SWF file on your server?

    The above code suggests that it is in the web root directory inside a directory called swf.

    Allan

  • JaGoJaGo Posts: 5Questions: 1Answers: 0

    Well I believe the swf file is under "\*****1\dfs\Users*****.******\Downloads\DataTables-1.10.2\DataTables-1.10.2\extensions\TableTools\copy_csv_xls_pdf" but when I put that in front of sSwfPath, it still isn't working. :/

  • JaGoJaGo Posts: 5Questions: 1Answers: 0

    To be blunt, I'm not totally sure what a swf path is and how I can find it on my computer...

  • allanallan Posts: 63,516Questions: 1Answers: 10,472 Site admin
    edited August 2014 Answer ✓

    Is the SWF file available inside the http documents directory for your web-server (I am assuming you are using a web-server, the swf file won't work using file:// - that's an Adobe security restriction)? If so, what is that full path and also the path to your http docs?

    Allan

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