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• allan Posts: 63,542Questions: 1Answers: 10,476 Site admin

  March 13

  Sure - use the API. Specifically you could use rows() with a function selector to find out if any rows exist with the data you are matching against (then use any() to determine if any matched).

  Use row.add() to add the new row.

  I'm presuming it isn't with Editor you are doing this? If it is with Editor, then I'd use a server-side validator to check if a row exists.

  Allan
• canwejustcode Posts: 36Questions: 10Answers: 0

  March 13

  No, I'm not using Editor. So, once the user clicks on the item, then clicks the button to add, the button function will first.

  1. look through the table to see if it exists or not in the table.
  2. if it exist, kick back a message { exists }
  3. if not, take that ID, call my API and get the data for that ID to add to the table row on the page. The table is already rendered on the page
• kthorngren Posts: 21,352Questions: 26Answers: 4,955

  March 13

  Basically repeating what Allan suggested:

  look through the table to see if it exists or not in the table.

  Use rows() with a row-selector of a function to find matching rows. Chain any() to see if it exists.

  if not, take that ID, call my API and get the data for that ID

  Use jQuery ajax() to send the ID to the server API.

  add to the table row on the page.

  Isn the success function use row.add() to add the row to the table.

  Kevin
• canwejustcode Posts: 36Questions: 10Answers: 0

  March 13

  I'm looking at the selector now. I have the API call already built and working for another section of the app.