Hi, I am looking to purchase wpDataTables as it looks an incredibly powerful tool.  I was wondering though, is it possible to have permanent urls (eirther through url parameters or perhaps just using a hash) for a 'view' of a table with filters applied?  For example http://sandbox.wpdatatables.com/large-table-demo/?Name=Butler&Product=Product%205 would load the table with the filters preset and hence the view just displaying the two matching rows?

A second question, though lower priority - has any consideration been given to having a location data type and filtering and charts based on this?  Whilst not trivial, it would be a very powerful addition I think

Apologies, I can now see from https://wpdatatables.com/documentation/table-features/advanced-filtering/#filter-in-url that such filters are possible. But is there any way to have the url update when a new filter is applied?

I also see from previous forum discussions that there have been other requests for location charts but are there any firm plans to implement it?

Thanks

Sorry to reopen an old ticket, but I have now bought the plugin and had a chance to test this.

Do you know why http://www.catchingtherain.com/wpdatatables-merged-column-test/?wdt_column_filter[0]=55689 returns zero results?  It fills in the Filter input box, and if I go to that and edit it (for example remove the last digit then type it in again) it works fine and retrieves the record.

Hi Miljko

Done, and confirmed working. Thanks for the fix.

Best, James

FYI, this bit of custom js will update the browser url (without triggering a reload) to reflect what values have been entered in filters, thereby generating a direct link to the current 'view'. Note this only works for separate filter forms, but should only need a couple of tweaks to do a version for the simple in-table filter boxes ...

jQuery(window).load(function(){
  wpDataTables.table_1.addOnDrawCallback(function(){
    var params={};
    jQuery('.wpDataTableFilterSection').each(function(i, obj) {
      if ( inputbox = obj.id.match("table_1_(.+)_filter_sections") ) {
        if (jQuery(obj).find('input').val()) {
          var key='wdt_column_filter['+inputbox[1]+']';
          params[key] = jQuery(obj).find('input').val();
        }
      }
    }); 
    history.pushState('','','?'+jQuery.param(params));
  });
});

See it in action at e.g. http://www.catchingtherain.com/wpdatatables-merged-column-test/?wdt_column_filter%5B1%5D=Socotra&wdt_column_filter%5B7%5D=APIACEAE

Of course. I'm not a trained programmer so I am sure your guys can make improvements, firstly to make sure it is robust and tested properly, and secondly to extend it to work with both styles of form. Glad it's of help!