AJAX sorting - send column names to the server instead of column index

andy_250

Hi devs!

I am quite new to datatables.net, yet I am really happy with it - it is nicely structured and has a wide range of options. I have built a custom sortable grid - it works great. But I have one thing I'd like to improve. Scenario:

• the data is fetched from server with ajax
• on column sort an ajax call is made with parameters: order[0][column] = "0", order[0][dir] = "asc"
• this is fine, however this requires a mapping between "0" and the column name I want to sort on i.e.the server needs to know that column 0 actually is column "userName"
• is it possible for me to tweak the ajax sort request parameters so I can replace "0" with proper column name (using datatables api I can easily get the column name)?

Regards
Andy

miya

I have the same issue. Will be great to setup the mapping on the client side, otherwise this becomes tricky when using ColReorder.
Any help will be much appriciated