Hi, Francisco 

Sorry for the delay

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I am not sure if i understood, if by a placeholder, you mean a link that will redirect the user, when they click on the cells of first column;

for example, if they click on "892" ,  it can redirect to a page with another table;

if that's the case, it can be done.

What you can do is,  if you only need one link per each cell;

the easiest way will be to use our URL type column.

“URL link” columns are used to render hyperlinks that can be clicked to open pages within your website, or in external websites.

• Rendering rules: If the content of the cells contains a combination of “two sticks” – || – everything to the left of this combination is used as an URL address for the link, and everything to the right as displayed text. For example:
  https://wpdatatables.com||Check out wpDataTables
  will be rendered as:
  Check out wpDataTables
  If the “||” combination is not found in the content, the entire content will be used both for the link and as the display value. For example:
  https://wpdatatables.com
  will be rendered as:
  https://wpdatatables.com

Please check more details here how to make it and how it works.

Let us know if that is the solution that you need? Thank you

Hi, Francisco 

Just wanted to add something.

In case i misunderstood;  and if you wish to make something like an URL pre-filter;

to show the same table, but with filtered data - please check out our URL prefiltering here.

So, you can use URL column, and combine it with a URL prefilter, in each cell > and that can work, it will then lead to a prefiltered table result.

Let me know how all that seems > and if i still didn't understand your goal - please elaborate with more details.

Thank you

Hi, Francisco 

Thank you for further clarification, i believe we are getting closer to fully understand exactly what you need.

I will have to get help from senior colleagues from our 2nd level - we will go through all the details together,

and i will report back to advise you further on the matter.

Thank you for your patience - we will do our best to be as quickly as possible.

Hi, Francisco.

Sorry for such waiting time - the 2nd level Team will still advise me about this, i don't have the confirmation yet.

We will be as quick as possible to advise you.

Thank you for your patience.

Hi, Francisco.

I've been advised.

The closest we can get to the solution you need is by using a combination of CONCAT function, a placeholder, and a hook.

Here is an example video on how to use CONCAT with our plugin.

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Now, if using CONCAT after viewing the video is clear; here is an example that the devs advised;

you could make something like this form your table :

SELECT your_wpdatatable.`id`, 
        your_wpdatatable.`column1`, 
        your_wpdatatable.`column2`,
CONCAT('',your_wpdatatable.`id`,'') FROM your_wpdatatable

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These individual tables you can make with a placeholder, so that there is an ID value %var1% .

Then you can dynamically change var1  with this hook :

function updateVAR1($tableID){ global $wdtVar1; 
//Replace with your table ID 
if ($tableID == 1){ 
if(isset($_GET['id'])){
 $wdtVar1 =(int)$_GET['id']; } }
}
add_action('wpdatatables_before_get_table_metadata', 'updateVAR1');

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This way, anytime when a link in the concatenated table is clicked, it will go to the same page with a GET parameter of the clicked ID ,  and the second table will update var1  to that value.

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Let us know if you have any questions. Thank you

Hi, Francisco 

Thank you for this update, when the developers sent me this suggestion - 

 i think possibly they meant to add the hook to the functions.php  of the theme, or child theme. 

( At least i think so, that is where they usually advise me for users to place hooks - i should've asked them this additional detail, sorry about that),

and i can see that you tried to implement it directly in the plugin JS - i think it won't work that way.

But to be honest, i am not 100% sure -  you can try to add the hook to the functions.php file and see if that works;

in the meantime i will get further advice from the developers - since using hooks is above my skill level.

As soon as they respond, we will report back once again.

Thank you for your patience.

Hi, Francisco

My sincere apologies for the waiting time.

We have additional advise by the developers.

They confirm that the hook should go into the functions.php file of your active theme or child theme;

because this is PhP code, not a script.

Also, this part "$tableId == 2 "  ,  the number 2   you should replcate with the ID of your table, we just wanted to point this detail out, to be sure.

Let us know how it goes. Thank you

Hey Francisco

I'll take over this ticket since Milos is on a vacation.

From what I can see, you added this to a file called "custom-functions.php", while it should be in "functions.php". This file should already exist in your theme's folders.

It's usually in the main folder, for example ..wp-content/themes/storefront/functions.php

This is an example for the StoreFront theme.

Hey Francisco

As far as I can see, they should be correct. As long as the table you're targeting is table #2, it should be OK.

Hi, Francisco 

Sorry for the delayed answer.

I have returned, and now Aleksandar is on vacation, but we will work as a Team, as always - to help you with any issues.

It seems to me that we got this one solved - but we will be here, please let us know if you have any additional questions regarding what we covered, or if you have a new question, please open a new ticket.

All the best. Thank you

Hi, Francisco 

That sounds good.

We will be here, so don't hesitate to reach out to us, once you get to the later phase - if you notice any issues.

Thank you