column filtering

acho

I'm looking to apply the default filter on a set of columns and a custom filter without the default filter on another set of columns. Eg, I want to use the default filter on a column with names and a custom range filter for numerical values. How can this be accomplished?

allan

To apply a default filter on columns you can use the http://datatables.net/ref#aoSearchCols initialisation option - you'll need to build the array up based on your table's configuration and which columns you want to have what defaults, but that's the parameter to use.

Allan

acho

Hi Allan, thanks for the response. I think I need some further clarification. I have two columns that use a range filter (basically >=min) and two columns that use the default string matching filter. I have pushed two range filtering functions into afnFiltering (hardcoded the specific column numbers for range filtering) and assigned a jQuery change event to call fnFilter('',column#). Although everything seems to work properly (range and string filters used on appropriate columns) I was wondering if there a) a way to explicitly call which filter function to use with the event handler, and b) how I can access the column # within my custom filter when fnFilter is called. Thanks!