title: Datatable Filter by external buttons/link
body: <p>I'm trying to filter the searching of my table using a treeview type of buttons/links beside my table. This is the design:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/LAJXf.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/LAJXf.png" alt="Prototype"></a>
  Here's the tricky part. So when I click the year, the table will filter by year. Then if I also clicked the category below the year it will filter with the year and so forth. 
  I really don't have any idea customizing the API in datatables. </p>