onCollectValues

fires after a datatable has collected options

void onCollectValues(string id,object data){ ... };

id	string	the id of the column
data	object	the object that contains options

datatable.attachEvent("onCollectValues", function(id, data){
    if (data.values[0].value == "")
    data.values[0].value = "Select something";
});

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