Hi, all!
I've created the new Plugin as a replacement for old fnFakeRowspan (http://datatables.net/plug-ins/api/fnFakeRowspan) plugin. It works both for standalone and server-side processing. Now it has several drawbacks but will be implemented in future.
Now it:
- Supports nested multi grouping rows
- Works with standalone
- Works with server side processing
- Initial order initialization for not groupped columns
- Support change order while running (also multi-columns with 'Shift' button)
Please try it Live at http://live.datatables.net/bodanole/1/
and Fork or make Feature request at Github https://github.com/ashl1/datatables-rowsgroup
Example usage:
var data = [
['subgroupN', 'Group1', 'sub-subgroupN', 'ElementN', '2Element N'],
['subgroup1', 'Group2', 'sub-subgroup1', 'Element1', '2Element 1'],
['subgroup2', 'Group2', 'sub-subgroup1', 'Element1', '2Element 1'],
['subgroup2', 'Group2', 'sub-subgroup1', 'Element2', '2Element 2'],
['subgroup2', 'Group2', 'sub-subgroup2', 'Element3', '2Element 2'],
['subgroup2', 'Group2', 'sub-subgroup2', 'Element4', '2Element 4'],
['subgroup2', 'Group2', 'sub-subgroup2', 'Element2', '2Element 2'],
['subgroup3', 'Group1', 'sub-subgroup1', 'Element1', '2Element 1'],
['subgroup3', 'Group1', 'sub-subgroup1', 'Element1', '2Element 1'],
['subgroup2', 'Group2', 'sub-subgroup2', 'Element1', '2Element 1'],
['subgroup4', 'Group2', 'sub-subgroup2', 'Element1', '2Element 1'],
['subgroup4', 'Group2', 'sub-subgroup3', 'Element10', '2Element 17'],
['subgroup4', 'Group2', 'sub-subgroup3', 'Element231', '2Element 211'],
];
var table = $('#example').DataTable({
columns: [
{
title: 'First group',
},
{
name: 'second',
title: 'Second group [order first]',
},
{
title: 'Third group',
},
{
title: 'Forth ungrouped',
},
{
title: 'Fifth ungrouped',
},
],
data: data,
rowsGroup: [// Always the array (!) of the column-selectors in specified order to which rows groupping is applied
// (column-selector could be any of specified in https://datatables.net/reference/type/column-selector)
'second:name',
0,
2
],
});