Hi, John

Firstly, I would like to sincerely apologize for the delayed response as we have been experiencing an unusually high number of tickets. I am sorry that it has taken longer than usual to respond to your concern and your patience is highly appreciated.

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I am honestly not 100% sure if i fully understood your use-case in full details, and if something like that is possible with the current capabilities of our plugin.

I will check with our 2nd level Team to get a second opinion and we will report back as soon as they respond.

I will also let you know if we need any further clarification from your end, or access.

Thank you for your patience.

Hi, John

We got advised by our 2nd level Team. Here is what you can try.

Supposedly, let's say your URL is https://yourwebsite.com/?value_x=123

The data pulled from the database creates a table using a query similar to this:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE value_x = %VAR1%

After that, you can use a hook for dynamic placeholders (place it in functions.php of your theme, or your child theme):

function updateVAR1($tableID){
  global $wdtVar1;
      //check is set GET parametar value_x
    if(isset($_GET['value_x'])){
        //get value from form field
        $wdtVar1 = $_GET['value_x'];
    }
  }
add_action('wpdatatables_before_get_table_metadata', 'updateVAR1');

I hope this helps.

Hi, John

You're welcome.

Let us know how it goes when you try out the workaround idea.

We hope that it works, fingers crossed.