Possible to disable sorting of multiple columns?

techpeace

Hi Allan,

Apologies if this is already listed in your extensive and thorough documentation, but is it possible to only allow sorting on a single column at a time? I have a table with AJAX processing enabled, and I'd like to simplify the server-side logic by disallowing the multiple-column sorting. Thanks!

- Matt Buck

techpeace

I'm also willing to tackle adding this option myself - just wanted to check to make sure it didn't already exist. Thanks!

allan

There isn't a build in way to stop multi-column sorting. However there are a couple of avenues I can suggestion:

1. In the DataTables code look for the comment "/* If the shift key is pressed then we are multipe column sorting */" and remove that block.

2. You could unbind the default event listener and attach your own which will always override e.shift to be false.

Allan

techpeace

Great, thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Went ahead and added this as a feature option in my fork: https://github.com/DataTables/DataTables/pull/13

allan

That's awesome - thanks! I'll have a closer look at the pull request in the next few days.

Regards,
Allan