I've searched into the documentation of data tables of how one can add data to the table here
https://datatables.net/examples/data_sources/index.html but no where I could find a way to insert data into a single cell for a given column. For example, I need sth like:
"columns": [ {target (0), "value which will be inserted"} ]
if this date column (from the table) == json object date then put it there
It seems like after a lot of researching this feature is not available in DataTables. So that's why I've solved the problem with jQuery. Using the code below I can iterate through a column and insert values in it.
//change 1 to the column at hand
$("#table tr > :nth-child(1)").each(function(index) {
//skip the column header
if (index > 0){
//insert value
$(this).html("<span class='fixed-size-square'> value to be inserted");
}
});