Datatables with Angularjs: default sorting and searching not work

Question

I used a directive to buildup database after ng-repeat finished:

 app.directive('repeatDone', function() { return function(scope, element, attrs) { if (scope.$last) { scope.$eval(attrs.repeatDone); } } }); function InformationController($scope, $http) { $http.get("people").success(function(response) { $scope.people = response; }); $scope.initDataTable = function() { $('#employeeTable').DataTable({ }); }; }; 

 <table class="table table-striped table-bordered table-hover" id="employeeTable"> <thead> <tr> <th>id</th> <th>Name</th> <th>Gender</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr ng-repeat="result in people" repeat-done="initDataTable()"> <td>{{ result.id }}</td> <td>{{ result.name }}</td> <td>{{ result.gender }}</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> 

The data is displayed normally, but cannot use default sorting or searching.

Is there anything wrong? What should I do to enable the sorting and searching?

Answer 1

I had same issue with my table not searching nor sorting after populating the table.

the thing missing for angularjs is datatable="ng" on the table i had datatable="" initially.

Hope this helps

Answer 2

You cannot directly use datatables features in angular, since this is highly associated with execution sequences that gets overlapped and the functionality getting disturbed. You can induce a timeout specifically like below

setTimeout(function () {
   angular.element("#datatable").datatable();
  }, 10);

or do a tweak

add a blank element like this one below

$scope.temp = { "Name": "", "ID": "", "SSN": "" };

$scope.skills.unshift($scope.temp);

setTimeout(function () {
    $scope.skills.shift();
    $scope.apply;
}, 10);

What the above code does basically is adding a temp record(ie blank) initially to the existing record collection and pull that back again, by doing this way datatable search,sort functionality is retrieved in angular.

Again this will work with a directive being created for datatable like below

app.directive('datatable', function () {
        return {
            restrict: 'AC',
            link: function (scope, element, attrs) {
                //
                scope.$watch('skills', function (newValue, oldValue) {
                    if (newValue != undefined) {
                        if (newValue.length > 0) {
                            var rows = element.find("tbody").find('tr');
                            var fixedColumn = 3;
                            if ($.fn.dataTable.isDataTable(element)) {
                                var tbl = $(element).dataTable();
                                tbl.fnClearTable();
                                for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {
                                    tbl.fnAddData($(rows[i]));
                                }
                            }
                            else {
                                element.DataTable({ paging: true, sorting: true, "order": [[0, "asc"]], columnDefs: [{ orderable: false, "targets": fixedColumn }] });
                            }
                            element.find('tbody').on('click', 'tr', function () {
                                $(this).addClass('selected');
                                $(this).siblings('tr').removeClass('selected');
                            });
                            element.fadeIn();
                        }
                    }
                }, true);
            }
        }
    });