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django-datatable-view

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Server-side datatable representations for Django querysets for automatic rendering in templates

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# Installation Guide

1. Get the code

git clone https://github.com/pivotal-energy-solutions/django-datatable-view

Downloads the entire project code from GitHub to your computer.

cd django-datatable-view

Moves into the project folder you just downloaded.

2. Official Install Script

Easy Recommended

Prerequisites

Python 3 Python is required to use pip.

pip install django-datatable-view

Installs the package published on PyPI directly — no need to clone the source.

✅ After installing, open a new terminal and run the program's version command (e.g. --version) to confirm it worked.

Pulled directly from this repo's README.

3. Python

Easy

Prerequisites

Git Needed to download the project code from GitHub.
Python 3 On Windows, be sure to check 'Add Python to PATH' during installation.

pip install django-datatable-view

Installs the package published on PyPI directly — no need to clone the source.

(datatableview)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Installs the Python libraries listed in requirements.txt (or similar).

✅ If it runs without errors and prints output in the terminal, it worked.

Pulled directly from this repo's README.

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# Datatable View

This package is used in conjunction with the jQuery plugin [DataTables](http://datatables.net/), and supports state-saving detection with [fnSetFilteringDelay](http://datatables.net/plug-ins/api).  The package consists of a class-based view, and a small collection of utilities for rendering table data from models.

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[rtfd-image]: https://readthedocs.org/projects/django-datatable-view/badge/?version=latest

Dependencies:

* Python 3.8 or later
* [Django](http://www.djangoproject.com/) >= 2.2
* [dateutil](http://labix.org/python-dateutil) library for flexible, fault-tolerant date parsing.
* [jQuery](https://jquery.com/) >= 2
* [dataTables.js](https://datatables.net/) >= 1.10

# Getting Started

Install the package:

```bash
pip install django-datatable-view
```

Add to ``INSTALLED_APPS`` (so default templates and js can be discovered), and use the ``DatatableView`` like a Django ``ListView``:

```python
# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    "datatableview",
    # ...
]

# views.py
from datatableview.views import DatatableView

class ZeroConfigurationDatatableView(DatatableView):
    model = MyModel
```

Use the ``{{ datatable }}`` provided in the template context to render the table and initialize from server ajax:

```html

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"
        integrity="sha256-FgpCb/KJQlLNfOu91ta32o/NMZxltwRo8QtmkMRdAu8="
        crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf8" src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf8" src="{% static 'js/datatableview.js' %}"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function(){
        datatableview.initialize($('.datatable'));
    });
</script>

{{ datatable }}
```

# Features at a glance

* ``DatatableView``, a drop-in replacement for ``ListView`` that allows options to be specified for the datatable that will be rendered on the page.
* ``MultipleDatatableView`` for configurating multiple Datatable specifications on a single view
* ``ModelForm``-like declarative table design.
* Support for ``ValuesQuerySet`` execution mode instead of object instances
* Queryset caching between requests
* Customizable table headers
* Compound columns (columns representing more than one model field)
* Columns backed by methods or callbacks instead of model fields
* Easy related fields
* Automatic search and sort support
* Total control over cell contents (HTML, processing of raw values)
* Search data fields that aren't present on the table
* Support for DT_RowData
* Customization hook for full JSON response object
* Drop-in x-editable support, per-column
* Customizable table templates
* Easy Bootstrap integration
* Allows all normal dataTables.js and x-editable Javascript options
* Small library of common column markup processors
* Full test suite

# Documentation and Live Demos
Read the module documentation at http://django-datatable-view.readthedocs.org.

A public live demo server is in the works.  For version 0.8, we will continue to keep the live demo site alive at http://django-datatable-view.appspot.com/  Please note that 0.8 does not reflect the current state or direction of the project.

You can run the live demos locally from the included example project, using a few common setup steps.

```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/pivotal-energy-solutions/django-datatable-view.git
$ cd django-datatable-view
$ mkvirtualenv datatableview
(datatableview)$ pip install -r requirements.txt
(datatableview)$ datatableview/tests/example_project/manage.py migrate
(datatableview)$ datatableview/tests/example_project/manage.py loaddata initial_data
(datatableview)$ datatableview/tests/example_project/manage.py runserver
```

The example project is configured to use a local sqlite3 database, and relies on the ``django-datatable-view`` app itself, which is made available in the python path by simply running the project from the distributed directory root.

## Authors

* Autumn Valenta
* Steven Klass

## Copyright and license

Copyright 2011-2026 Pivotal Energy Solutions.  All rights reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this work except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License in the LICENSE file, or at:

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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