JQuery Data Tables

JQuery progressive enhancement of tables

Adds paging, searching and formatting to your tables automatically - just add %JQREQUIRE{"datatables"}% to your topic or template, and wrap your tables into a .jqDataTablesContainer.

<div class="jqDataTablesContainer>
| *Header* | *Header* | *Header* | *Header* |
| Data | Data | Data | Data |
| Data | Data | Data | Data |
| Data | Data | Data | Data |
| Data | Data | Data | Data |
</div>

Use jquery.metadata {options} to configure the DataTable. See http://www.datatables.net/usage/options for a full list of all options.

Some useful parameters are:

Name	Description	Default
aaSorting	an array specifying the columns to be sorted initially; e.g. 'aaSorting':[ [2,'asc'] ] will sort the third column in ascending order	'aaSorting':[ [0, 'asc'] ]
aLengthMenu	an array of integers to chose from in the length select control	[ 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 ]
bFilter	switch on/off the filter control	false
bInfo	switch on/off the info control	false
bLengthChange	switch on/off the length select	false
bPaginate	switch on/off the paginate widget	false
iDisplayLength	number of rows to display initially	10
sPaginationType	'full_numbers' - a more verbose pager, or 'two_buttons' - only a forward and backwards arrow	'full_numbers'

Use this to enable additional controls for filtering and pagination:

<div class="jqDataTablesContainer {'bFilter':true, 'bInfo':true, 'bLengthChange': true, 'bPaginate':true }">
| *Header* | *Header* | *Header* | *Header* |
| Data | Data | Data | Data |
| Data | Data | Data | Data |
| Data | Data | Data | Data |
| Data | Data | Data | Data |
</div>

Here's an example generating a table dynamically and then add a filter and pagination on top:

%STARTSECTION{"example1"}%
<div class="jqDataTablesContainer {'bFilter':true, 'bPaginate':true, 'bInfo':true }">
%SEARCH{
  "1"
  type="query"
  topic="*Plugin"
  header="| *Name* | *Date* | *Author* |"
  format="| $topic | $date | $wikiname |"
  nonoise="on"
}%
</div>
%ENDSECTION{"example1"}%

JQDataTablesPlugin comes with additional sorting features for specific types of data:

• numeric
• string
• date (extended to be able to parse Foswiki's default date format)
• currency
• metrics (e.g. killo, mega, giga, tera, ...)

Click on the table headers to sort the columns according to their data type.

%STARTSECTION{"example2"}%
<div class="jqDataTablesContainer">
| *#* | *String* | *Date* | *Number* | *Currency* | *Size* |
| 3 | ActionTrackerPlugin | 27 Jan 2010 - 17:07 | 1 | 1,00 € | 10KB |
| 1 | AntiWikiSpamPlugin | 03 Jan 2013 - 09:07   | 10 | 10,00 € | 3GB |
| 2 | BibtexPlugin | 13 May 2012 - 02:59 | 0.01 | 1,01 | 100MB |
| 5 | CommentPlugin | 10 Apr 2011 - 23:39 | 100 | 0,10 | 2024kB |
| 4 | FindElsewherePlugin | 23 Dec 2012 - 17:06 | 20 | 100,- € | 0.1kB |
| 6 | FindElsewherePlugin |  | 0 | -100,- | 1024TB |
</div>
%ENDSECTION{"example2"}%

Installation

You do not need to install anything in the browser to use this extension. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the extension on the server.

Open configure, and open the "Extensions" section. Use "Find More Extensions" to get a list of available extensions. Select "Install".

If you have any problems, or if the extension isn't available in configure, then you can still install manually from the command-line. See http://foswiki.org/Support/ManuallyInstallingExtensions for more help.

Info

This foswiki plugin encapsulates version 1.9.4 of the http://www.datatables.net/ jQuery plugin.

Author:	Foswiki:Main.SvenDowideit, Foswiki:Main.michaelDaum
Copyright:	© 2012, SvenDowideit@fosiki.com, © 2013-2014 Michael Daum http://michaeldaumconsulting.com
License:	GPL (GNU General Public License)
Release:	2.01
Version:	2.01
Change History:
18 Mar 2014:	remove console.log() leftover; improve sorting date columns
09 Nov 2013:	implemented sorting for currency, and metrics
08 Nov 2013:	make it work under {NoConflict}; enable jquery-ui theming by default now; created a non-goofy default look and feel to play nicely with a skin's table design; only add DataTables support to specific tables, not all; make it configurable with declarative metadata; compress and minify plugin assets; remove files not required by the plugin; clean up controls and css classes added by TablePlugin's; added type detector for foswiki date columns
18 Jan 2013:	Initial version
Dependencies:	Name Version Description Foswiki::Plugins::JQueryPlugin >=4.10 Required
Home:	http://foswiki.org/Extensions/JQDataTablesPlugin
Support:	http://foswiki.org/Support/JQDataTablesPlugin