Let the editor create the form based on Ajax

OlivierOlmer

Hello,

I have a datatable and within this table only a small part of my data is shown. To preserve bandwith I only send the data that should be shown in the datatable.
When I edit however it should fetch more data about that certain row from the server first, before building the form.
Is this somehow possible?

Example:
The data for the datatable:

{
"data":[
{
"testColumn1": "a",
"testColumn2": "a",
"testColumn3": "a"
}
]
}

The data when editing:

{
"data":[
{
"testColumn1": "a",
"testColumn2": "a",
"testColumn3": "a",
"testColumn4": "a",
"testColumn5": "a",
"testColumn6": "a",
"testColumn7": "a",
"testColumn8": "a",
"testColumn9": "a"
}
]
}

allan

There isn't any built in option for this.

However, you could possibly trigger you Ajax data fetch, then use row().data() to update the row's data in the DataTable and only then start the edit (since the full data is then available).

That is the only way I can think of at the moment for this case.

Allan

OlivierOlmer

Thanks, that should do it :D