Jquery DataTable order by first column in Metronic admin theme

Question

I'm using admin theme whichone created by some guy and it orders all dada by second column in my dataTables. I tried to change datatable jquery file, but nothin happened. He uses different initialization to call it..

jQuery(document).ready(function() {    
     App.init(); // initlayout and core plugins
     TableAdvanced.init();              
  });

And I don't know what to change to disable ordering or make it order by first column.. This is the theme: http://keenthemes.com/preview/metronic_admin/table_advanced.html Maybe someone know a answer?

Answer 1

If you want to add the Sorting by the first column you will need to use something like this

$("#sample_1").dataTable({
   "aaSorting" : [[0,"desc"]],
   "bDestroy":true
});

Note: Using "bDestroy" it will replace your datatable with one with the new properties, so doing this will overwrite the previous configuration of the dataTable.

I think that the best solution is to look out where the datatable is created inside that TableAdvanced.init()

And add the parameter aaSorting to it

"aaSorting" : [[0,"desc"]]

This could work http://datatables.net/examples/basic_init/table_sorting.html

Answer 2

In metronic admin theme there is a file "../assets/global/scripts/datatable.js" in the file find "columnDefs" you will see the below code

"columnDefs": [{ // define columns sorting options(by default all columns are sortable extept the first checkbox column)
                    'orderable': false,
                    'targets': [0]
                }],

This code is stopping first column to be sortable. And the above mentioned answer by @Eduardo Quintana is a way to making a column sortable.

Answer 3

I m currently used this one. Any kind of setting this js file just adds another column like [ID] returns from your query which have no effect for sorting desc order and search option how ever other columns works fine