Can i do a custom filtering?

fai1012

In my situation, all data in the table are separated into three group.
there are three button outside the table.
when users click button A, only group A of data will be shown.
can i do it in datatable?

i am trying something like that, use a Temp var to store the original table,
after the user click the button, use fnDeleteRow to delete the row and use the Temp to restore the table later on. However, i have no idea how to find the wanted row to delete.

fbas

if your table is oTable, and you know the column number you want to filter on:

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oTable.fnFilter(value, colnum);
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attach onclick events to your buttons, i.e. on "button_a":
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var oTable = null;

$(document).ready(function() {
oTable = $('#example').dataTable( ); // change the name of the target table, if you need
} );


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and of course use the right id name for the table, and change the value="" values for your criteria. also remember that column indexes start at 0.