I am a professional software developer. I purchased your software in the belief that actions and hooks do work as I need this functionality.

In the first instance after adding a simple call to the functions.php file for my current theme for non of your actions appear to fire even though I do use actions for other plugins.

Also your documentation is quite scanty regarding the structure of the data you are passing around with your actions and filter functions hence I  do not find this documentation to be sufficient to use these functions.

I feel there should be a proper reference manual with one simple example per action or filter because this is the usual practice followed by other products being marketed. In fact the standard of documentation for other aspects of your products is extremely high and I was really encouraged until I tried to use actions and filters.

Please can you either tell me where to look in your php codebase or point me in the direction of where you have documented the structure of the arguments being used by your actions and filters.

Also please can you confirm that actions and filters do work with your plug-ins I for Wordpress version 4.6.1 and provide me with a simple working example if this is the case.

Thanks for your help.

Thanks for getting back Milan.

I have looked through your documentation already.

This is why I was able to attempt to call one of your action functions by invoking "add_action" in the functions.php file for my current theme.

I was easily able to invoke custom action functions for other plugins but was unable to get any action function for wpdatatables to work.

Any suggestions?

Hello Milan.

Please can you give me a quote to provide a simple working example for a specific action function which will work with my current theme and version of wordpress.

Please forward this to my registered email address.

Thank you.

Thanks for all your help Milan.

With the help of your clarification I was able to get wpdatatables_after_frontent_edit_row to fire as an action and I did print the contents of $formdata. 

However the problem I now have is how to modify the contents of a field after this action fires so that it is saved back to the database. Is this programmatically possible.

The real problem I have is that I want to record the user who amended a record without the user specifically entering his user id as an audit trail to anybody who makes changes. I tried setting an integer field to %CURRENT_USER_ID% but this only seems to apply when rows are added. Not when they are amended.

Any suggestions on how to do this will be welcome.

Hello is there anybody else out there who has any suggestions regarding this problem?

Hello Milan,

No worries as this issue has now been completely resolved. A painful learning process:-).

Here is the clue for anybody else interested: 

add_filter('wpdatatables_filter_frontend_formdata',do_custom_edit',10,2);

Also just to thank you for making available such a powerful and flexible framework.

But I wish you guys could provide some advanced training courses for which I would gladly pay good money:-).

Hello Milan,

No worries I understand.

But  I will mention again that I believe your team will benefit from providing paid advanced training which could be delivered online. What are your thoughts on this?

 I have another question for you actually. Now I have got this working I have another problem. 

I have two fields which I am setting to default values using wpdatatables_filter_frontend_formdata.

Now I found that in order to set these fields via the filter function they need to have "editor input types" defined.

But I would like these fields to be read only in the front end of my application. I have hidden them but when the popup dialogue is used to modify values the two hidden fields appear and can then be amended by the user.

Is there anyway to hide editable fields in the pop up editor by using custom CSS for example?

Your help will be appreciated.

Thanks a lot for your helpful response Milan. I will try that out with hiding the fields.

And yes in future I will open a new ticket with an appropriate title when posting.

Please also keep me posted on the possibility of any advanced training being made available in the future.

Best Regards.