title: Datatables & JQuery - make each row clickable or linkable
body: <p>I need some help in understanding how to make each row "clickable" with Datatables...</p>
  
  <p>Server-side, I'm using Coldfusion to handle queries, etc.  I display information about people in a Table rendered by Datatables.net.</p>
  
  <p>The <a href="https://datatables.net/examples/advanced_init/events_live.html">help pages</a> say I ought to use a DOM / jQuery Event hander, like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    $(document).ready(function() {
      $('#example').dataTable();
  
      $('#example tbody').on('click', 'tr', function () {
          var name = $('td', this).eq(0).text();
          alert( 'You clicked on '+name+'\'s row' );
      } );
  } );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So, this seems the route I want to take, but I'm not personally familiar enough with jQuery to facilitate what I want to do...</p>
  
  <p>Instead of an "Alert", what function, method, or process will allow me to send the data in my row to a new page?</p>
  
  <p>In other words, how do I get the data inside of the selected row, and output it on a new page?</p>
  
  <p>To give you a practical example:  1)  a service-desk technician clicks a row containing an employee, 2) info about the selected employee contained in the row, and is sent to a new page, like a form submit, or a URL variable... 3)  options will exist to reset a password or unlock an account.</p>
  
  <p>Your help is always appreciated, thank you in advance.</p>