jQuery DataTables Ordering By 2 columns

Question

I am using jQuery DataTables to style and give functionality to one of my tables:

My Goal

Order by whether or not the type of funding is active or not.. which is what it is doing currently as you can see. Now, I would like to order the Funding column alphabetically.. so my wanted outcome should be:

Funding One
Funding Two
Funding Three
Funding Four
Alpha
Beta
Charlie
Test
test2

Here is what I have so far my datatables script:

var codeFundingTable = $("#Code-Funding-Table").DataTable({
    "bPaginate": false,
    "bFilter": false,
    "aoColumnDefs": [
        { "bSortable": false, "aTargets": [2] },
        { "bSearchable": false, "aTargets": [2] }
    ],
    "columns": [
        { "orderData": [1] },
        { "orderData": [0] }
    ]
});

So I am first ordering by column 1 (Active, 0-based) then by column 0 (Funding) but it is not doing it alphabetically.

How can I make this happen?

Answer 1

It is a guess since we have no sample data. For example, what is the value of "active" (besides a checkbox is rendered)? But I believe you can just do

var table = $('#example').DataTable({
  order: [[1, 'asc'], [0, 'asc']]
})  

• active column is sorted first, if values is 0 and 1 asc should be used
• first column is secondly sorted alpha, with respect of second column order

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Here is a demo -> http://jsfiddle.net/0f9Ljfjr/949/ position is sorted first, then name is sorted within each position "type".