This example demonstrates Editor's multi-item editing capabilities, showing specifically that multi-item editing is not limited to rows, but columns and cells can also be selected and edited with a single click. Furthermore, it is possible to combine the selection of rows, columns and cells to provide complex data updates with ease.
The item selection here (and all other examples) is provided by the Select extension for DataTables. It has the
ability to select the individual components of the table - which item type is selected can be controlled through the select.items() method, or the selectRows, selectColumns and selectCells buttons that Select provides.
These buttons are utilised in this example to allow the end user to easily change what items will be selected.
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 | var editor; // use a global for the submit and return data rendering in the examples$(document).ready(function() { editor = new $.fn.dataTable.Editor( { ajax: "../../controllers/staff.php", table: "#example", fields: [ { label: "First name:", name: "first_name" }, { label: "Last name:", name: "last_name" }, { label: "Position:", name: "position" }, { label: "Office:", name: "office" }, { label: "Extension:", name: "extn" }, { label: "Start date:", name: "start_date", type: "datetime" }, { label: "Salary:", name: "salary" } ], formOptions: { main: { scope: 'cell' // Allow multi-row editing with cell selection } } } ); $('#example').DataTable( { dom: "Bfrtip", ajax: "../../controllers/staff.php", columns: [ { data: null, render: function ( data, type, row ) { // Combine the first and last names into a single table field return data.first_name+' '+data.last_name; }, editField: [ 'first_name', 'last_name' ] }, { data: "position" }, { data: "office" }, { data: "extn" }, { data: "start_date" }, { data: "salary", render: $.fn.dataTable.render.number( ',', '.', 0, '$' ) } ], select: true, buttons: [ { extend: "create", editor: editor }, { extend: "edit", editor: editor }, { extend: "remove", editor: editor }, "selectRows", "selectColumns", "selectCells", "selectNone" ] } );} ); |
In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:
Editor submits and retrieves information by Ajax requests. The two blocks below show the data that Editor submits and receives, to and from the server. This is updated live as you interact with Editor so you can see what is submitted.
The following shows the data that has been submitted to the server when a request is made to add, edit or delete data from the table.
// No data yet submittedThe following shows the data that has been returned by the server in response to the data submitted on the left and is then acted upon.
// No data yet received