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• anjibman Posts: 115Questions: 10Answers: 0

  November 2010

  What I can suggest is you can write your own custom sorting function (see examples at http://www.datatables.net/plug-ins/sorting) and type detection (see examples at http://www.datatables.net/plug-ins/type-detection).
  
  And while sorting you can give weight to each status and sort according to that weight.
  
  Anjib
• condond Posts: 6Questions: 0Answers: 0

  November 2010

  Thank you but I do not understand.
  
  This makes sense but none of the values in each of those links talks about weighted values.
  
  What i would like to do is create a custom ordering to make my statuses line up right for my end users.
  Order:
  
  Active
  Part-Time
  Inactive
  
  instead of alpha numeric:
  Active
  Inactive
  Part-Time
  
  Is there a coding example on how to weight the values?
  
  Thanks
  
  Doug
• allan Posts: 63,531Questions: 1Answers: 10,475 Site admin

  November 2010

  Yes indeed: http://datatables.net/plug-ins/sorting#Priority
  
  Allan
• condond Posts: 6Questions: 0Answers: 0

  November 2010

  Like this?
  
  [code]
  
  $(document).ready( function () {
  fnPriority( a )
  {
  if ( a == "Active" ) { return 1; }
  else if ( a == "Part-Time" ) { return 2; }
  else if ( a == "Inactive" ) { return 3; }
  return 4;
  }
  
  jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.oSort['priority-asc'] = function(a,b) {
  var x = fnPriority( a );
  var y = fnPriority( b );
  
  return ((x < y) ? -1 : ((x > y) ? 1 : 0));
  };
  
  jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.oSort['priority-desc'] = function(a,b) {
  var x = fnPriority( a );
  var y = fnPriority( b );
  
  return ((x < y) ? 1 : ((x > y) ? -1 : 0));
  };
  
  TableToolsInit.sSwfPath = "../inc/datatables/media/swf/ZeroClipboard.swf";
  var oTable = $('#example2').dataTable( {
  "sPaginationType": "full_numbers",
  "sDom": 'T<"clear">lfrtip',
  "iDisplayLength": 100
  } );;
  } );
  
  
  [/code]
• anjibman Posts: 115Questions: 10Answers: 0

  November 2010 edited November 2010

  That's should work for sorting but I am guessing now we have new data type 'priority' so I think you have to write type detection for 'priority'. And your table initializations looks like:
  [code]
  var oTable = $('#example2').dataTable( {
  "sPaginationType": "full_numbers",
  "sDom": 'T<"clear">lfrtip',
  "iDisplayLength": 100,
  "aoColumns": [
  { "sType": "priority" }, //Status column
  ........................ //your other columns
  ]
  } );
  [/code]
  Correct me Allan if I am wrong.
• allan Posts: 63,531Questions: 1Answers: 10,475 Site admin

  November 2010

  As anjibman states you need you use sType. Have a look at this example: http://datatables.net/examples/plug-ins/sorting_sType.html
  
  Allan