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set the display and filter operations to the format

a check box to filter only Software Engineers and

You would use Orthogonal data for this. Use columns.render to replace the desired letters for the filter operation. Here is a simple example: http://live.datatables.net/hejimuke/1/edit Kevin

You can use a where condition to filter the data - please see this section of the manual for PHP. If you're using another library, they will have a similar section in the documentation. Colin

INPUT_', searchPlaceholder: 'Type to filter...' }, ajax: { "url": "?ts=" + Math.floor(Date.now()

be returned for sort, filter etc The types are

I'm not too clear on what you're after, but this example from this thread should help, it's showing how to filter on a multi-select Select2 element. If not, please can you explain further, Colin

so, a bit more digging and while the column().search() doesn't seem to let me at the node properties, building a custom search and using $(table.row(dataIndex).node()).find("td:nth-child(1)").hasClass("urgent") does allow me to filter these on and off

actions whenever the SearchPanes filter is used. There is

I looked at the docs and realised the code I had found and copied was not very clever. I went to this instead: var table = $('#BookingTable').DataTable(); /* SCHOOL filter for data table */ $("#schoolFilter").change(function (e) { table.search(this.value).draw(); }); This solved it for me.