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• allan Posts: 61,972Questions: 1Answers: 10,160 Site admin

  February 2017

  The serverSide option is the one that is used to enable server-side processing, so no, the above code does not utilise server-side processing.

  How long does the server take to load the JSON data? Your browser's "Network" panel will give you this information.

  Allan
• Sunilgoel Posts: 48Questions: 19Answers: 0

  February 2017 edited February 2017

  Hi Allan,
  I had added the following

  Processing : true,
  serverSide : true,

  if i add this then pagination do not come and show entire table data without pagination.

  I had also checked and found it is taking

  Waiting 253 ms
  Receiving 883 ms for 344 records.

  Regards.
  Sunil
• allan Posts: 61,972Questions: 1Answers: 10,160 Site admin

  February 2017

  HI Sunil,

  if i add this then pagination do not come and show entire table data without pagination.

  It sounds like the server isn't implementing server-side processing in that case. The first thing I would suggest is that you use ajax rather than the legacy sAjaxSource option. That will make sure that the modern parameters are sent to the server rather than the legacy.

  Can you show me your server-side script please?

  Allan
• Sunilgoel Posts: 48Questions: 19Answers: 0

  February 2017

  Hi Allan,
  Find below my serverSide scripting.

  $sql="select * from crm_leads a,crm_rep_master b"
  $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
  while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
  $data[] = $row;
  }
  //

  $results = array(
          "sEcho" => 1,
      "iTotalRecords" => count($data),
      "iTotalDisplayRecords" => count($data),
        "aaData"=>$data);
  

  echo json_encode($results);
  mysql_close();

  Regards.
  Sunil
• allan Posts: 61,972Questions: 1Answers: 10,160 Site admin

  February 2017

  That's not server-side processing though. There is no code there to do paging (LIMIT), filtering (WHERE) or sorting (ORDER BY).

  That's just getting the full data set from the database table and sending it to the client. It is the client that is then doing the processing (i.e. sorting, filtering and paging).

  This page fully documents the parameters sent to the server and those that are expected back by the client in order to correctly implement server-side processing.

  If this is one of your Editor tables, the Editor PHP libraries have server-side processing support built in.

  Allan
• Sunilgoel Posts: 48Questions: 19Answers: 0

  February 2017

  Hi Allan,
  Thanks for Update.
  As per you suggestions and example, i will change my code accordingly. I have one question ,

  here i am adding new row with data dynamically , how this will reflect when i will be using serverSide Processing.

  Regards.
  Sunil
• allan Posts: 61,972Questions: 1Answers: 10,160 Site admin

  February 2017

  When you are adding a new row with Editor (which is what I presume you mean by adding a new row with data dynamically?), the table will automatically redraw when the new row has been added (with an Ajax call to the server).

  You can see that happening in practice with the link I gave above.

  Regards,
  Allan
• Sunilgoel Posts: 48Questions: 19Answers: 0

  February 2017

  Hi Allan,

  No i will not use editor to insert new row rather i will use table.row.add after success received from ajax response.

  I hope i am able to explain clearly .

  Regards.
  Sunil
• allan Posts: 61,972Questions: 1Answers: 10,160 Site admin

  February 2017

  Hi Sunil,

  The row.add() method is basically useless if you are using server-side processing. Any draw of the table will make an Ajax request to the server to get the data to be displayed (that's the whole point of server-side processing). row.add() is client-side only and thus not appropriate for use with server-side processing.

  Allan
• Sunilgoel Posts: 48Questions: 19Answers: 0

  February 2017

  Hi Allan,

  i understand row.add() is client side, Now i will give you an example

  I am using server side processing
  i am on page no say 5
  i have given NewRow button in Table header and user click and add row [ using bootstrap modal ]
  and programatically newly inserted row show on current page ( Page 5 in my case ) using row.add.
  i don't now due to order by (desc) behaviour in DataTable , DataTable will be refresh automatically and set table on Page No 1 or insert in current page ( page No 5) without doing anything.
  i guess, draw triggered manually not automatic.

  Regards.
  Sunil
• allan Posts: 61,972Questions: 1Answers: 10,160 Site admin

  February 2017

  Hi Sunil,

  You can use draw( false ) (i.e. pass false as the parameter to draw()) to have it not change the page. However if you have server-side processing enabled it will still make an Ajax request to the server to get the latest information and redraw the current page.

  The result is that if you have added a row on the client-side (using row.add()) it will be immediately removed. As I say, row.add() is not suitable for use with server-side processing.

  If you want to add a new row, you have to add it at the data source (in the case of server-side processing, that is at the server-side - typically a database table).

  Does that clarify things a bit?

  Allan