I have an issue with the reinitialisation of my datatable. My code below works by pulling in a json from getOrderStatus.php and upon success of this puts all the json data into javascript variables and then from this i can set these variables to div tags and display the data i need on my webpage. However the Datatable cannot be reinititalised once the ajax loop runs and displays the following error message "DataTables warning: table id=mytable - Cannot reinitialise DataTable". I believe i need a way to kill the table and recreate it upon the ajax refresh however i cant seem to find a way to do this ?
$(document).ready(function ajaxLoop(){
$.ajax({
url: 'getOrderStatus.php', // Url of Php file to run sql
data: "",
dataType: 'json', //data format
success: function updateOrder(data) //on reciept of reply
{
var OrdersSubmitted = data.OrderStatus[0].SUBMITTED; //get Orders Submitted Count
var OrdersFulfilled = data.OrderStatus[0].FULFILLED; //get Orders Fulfilled count
var LastTransaction = data.LastTransaction[0]; //get Last Transaction
//--------------------------------------------------------------------
// 3) Update html content
//--------------------------------------------------------------------
$('#OrdersSubmitted').html(OrdersSubmitted);
$('#OrdersFulfilled').html(OrdersFulfilled); //Set output html divs
$('#mytable').dataTable({
"data": LastTransaction,
"aging": false,
"searching": false,
"columns": [
{ "title": "ORDER_ID" }, // <-- which values to use inside object
{ "title": "STATUS" },
{ "title": "ACC_NUMBER" },
{ "title": "SORT_CODE" }
]
});
setTimeout(ajaxLoop, 2000);
}
});
});
Did you try using "bDestroy": true.
$('#mytable').dataTable({
"data": LastTransaction,
"aging": false,
"searching": false,
"bDestroy": true,
"columns": [
{ "title": "ORDER_ID" }, // <-- which values to use inside object
{ "title": "STATUS" },
{ "title": "ACC_NUMBER" },
{ "title": "SORT_CODE" }
]
});
Another way is if you check if datatable is already init. on your table
var table = $('#mytable');
if ($.fn.DataTable.fnIsDataTable(table)) {
//It's already a datatable
//clear and destroy
table.dataTable().fnClearTable();
table.dataTable().fnDestroy();
}
**It seems your are using latest datatable version:**
then option should be destroy:true (aging should be changed to paging):
$('#mytable').dataTable({
"data": LastTransaction,
"paging": false,
"searching": false,
"destroy": true,
"columns": [
{ "title": "ORDER_ID" }, // <-- which values to use inside object
{ "title": "STATUS" },
{ "title": "ACC_NUMBER" },
{ "title": "SORT_CODE" }
]
});
and check on existing datatable would be:
if($.fn.DataTable.isDataTable("#myTable"))
{
$('#myTable').DataTable().clear().destroy();
}