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• kthorngren Posts: 21,343Questions: 26Answers: 4,954

  October 2023

  Use columns.render to display a URL containing the ID number. See the forth example in the docs. You may just want to generate the URL for the display operation. Similar to the fifth example. See the Orthogonal data docs for more details.

  Kevin
• matthean Posts: 10Questions: 3Answers: 0

  October 2023

  I went and modified the code. I'm getting no errors with the code and yet all I get is just the ID displayed.

  {
      "data": "ID",
      render: function (data) {
          var s = "<a href=\"results.aspx?\">" + data + "</a>";
          return s;
      }
  },
  
• allan Posts: 63,535Questions: 1Answers: 10,475 Site admin

  October 2023

  That looks like it should render a link tag correctly. Can you link to your page so I can take a look at it please?

  Thanks,
  Allan
• matthean Posts: 10Questions: 3Answers: 0

  October 2023

  It is being done via an internal site for a client, so there is no way to link it. Here's the complete column definition.

  columns: [
                  {
                      data: "ID",
                      render: function (data) {
                          data = "<a href=\"results.aspx?\"> + ID + </a>"
                          return data;
                      }
                  },                    
                  { "data": "Assignee" },
                  { "data": "Status" },
                  { "date": "CreateDate" },
                  { "date": "CDate" },
                  { "data": "HLQ" },
                  { "data": "HLQDevCenter" },
                  { "data": "RequestType" },
                  { "data": "Group" },
                  { "data": "Requestor" },
                  { "data": "Title" },
                  { "data": "Description" }
                  ]
                  columnDefs: [{
                      "targets": 3,
                      "type": "date"
                  }]
  
• allan Posts: 63,535Questions: 1Answers: 10,475 Site admin

  October 2023

  data = "<a href=\"results.aspx?\"> + ID + </a>"

  ID is undefined there. Use:

   data = "<a href=\"results.aspx?\"> + data + </a>"
  

  since the value from the ID parameter will be passed in to the rendering function as the data parameter.

  Allan
• kthorngren Posts: 21,343Questions: 26Answers: 4,954

  October 2023

  I copied your code snippet into this test case and it seems to be working:
  https://live.datatables.net/dodobuge/35/edit

  Although the link doesn't work, the name is being displayed as clickable a URL. Can you update the test case to show the issue you are having?

  yet all I get is just the ID displayed.

  Are you expecting something more than the ID to be displayed? If so what do you expect to see?

  Kevin
• matthean Posts: 10Questions: 3Answers: 0

  October 2023

  I changed ID in the URL to data, and I still just get the plain text ID number. I do an inspect and all I see is the ID in text.

  I need a link with the ID so someone can click on it and have it go to a page where I can display just that record.
• kthorngren Posts: 21,343Questions: 26Answers: 4,954

  October 2023

  I took your code snippet and showed that it works in the above test case:
  https://live.datatables.net/dodobuge/35/edit

  Maybe the change to data is being loaded an you need to clear the browser's cache. Place a break point in the colums.render function to see what is happening.

  To help debug we will need to see a page that replicates the issue. Can you post a link to a test case that shows the issue?
  https://datatables.net/manual/tech-notes/10#How-to-provide-a-test-case

  Kevin