Anyone initializing datatables to sort by the last column?

irax

I am trying a negative column index, but that seems to not get processed into the right column offset, and causes an exception.

My code:

$('.generic-table').DataTable({
        'order': [[-1, 'desc']]
    });

irax

Could not get the initialization to work. Ended up ordering after init:

    $('.generic-table').DataTable({
    });
    
    $('.generic-table').DataTable().columns(-1).order('desc').draw();

ashl1

I'm interested in the case you are working on where you don't know the number of columns. Why using count-1 is harder?