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If you are trying to sort the "plain" column, based upon the "filter" column, then yes, you can do that using the orderdata(). https://datatables.net/reference/option/columns.orderData

tried to apply a filter on the client side;

DataTables, it is a filter. So an empty string

You would need to filter the table using search()

when you use the filter option it only displays

wouldn't be able to filter on the string "Yes"

some code that puts filter dropdowns under each column

that matched the passed filter , "data" :[ length # of records

set up any server-side filter processing yet). To help

you need to use filtering - the documentation for how to create a custom filter is available here. Alternatively,