dc.js - data table using jquery data-table plugin

Question

I'm using dc.js to create charts and data table.

I wanted to add some pagination styles and search option in the table.

jQuery Data table script :

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#data-table').DataTable();
})

problem is - i get all the jquery data table options displayed like search box, number of entries. But none of them work.

Some one please help.

Found this post. But nothing useful.

Answer 1

I like to use DynaTable for this - http://www.dynatable.com/

1) Define your table html:

<table id="dc-data-table">
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th data-dynatable-column="client_name">Client</th>
        <th data-dynatable-column="project_name">Project</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
 </table>

2) Hook in dynatable with your preferred options and the crossfilter dimension:

         var dynatable = $('#dc-data-table').dynatable({
                features: {
                    pushState: false
                },
                dataset: {
                    records: tableDimension.top(Infinity),
                    perPageDefault: 50,
                    perPageOptions: [50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000 ,10000]
                }
            }).data('dynatable');

3) Write a method to refresh the table - dc.events helps to limit the number of times this is called on brush changes:

            function RefreshTable() {
                dc.events.trigger(function () {
                    dynatable.settings.dataset.originalRecords = tableDimension.top(Infinity);
                    dynatable.process();
                });
            };

4) hook this method into each charts filter event:

            for (var i = 0; i < dc.chartRegistry.list().length; i++) {
                var chartI = dc.chartRegistry.list()[i];
                chartI.on("filtered", RefreshTable);
            }

5) Call Refresh table once to display the current data:

            RefreshTable();

6) Render the DC charts:

            dc.renderAll();

Here is a jsfiddle for this: http://jsfiddle.net/djmartin_umich/5jweT/2/

Note that in this fiddle I used the group rather than the dimension to feed the dynatable data.