DataTables Views with VBO Bulk Operations

I am facing the same issue on Drupal 8. I can select multiple items, but all the items have to be on the same page.

VBO and DT have different approaches to show table items. I think it should not be used together. I am even not sure if this can be implemented without a huge amount of patches on both sides: VBO and DT itself (not the Drupal module, which only manages the implementation). This is not a bug, rather a feature request. And consider it as possible unfullfilled dream.

... and, BTW it's a duplicate of #1477850: VBO and DataTables

I just ran into this issue and was able to resolve by implementing a hidden checkbox to capture the selections from datatables.

Add hidden checkbox to VBO form using all values from $form['views_bulk_operations']:

function hook_views_bulk_operations_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $vbo) {
  if ($form_state['step'] == 'views_form_views_form') {
    $options = array();

    foreach ($form['views_bulk_operations'] as $key => $value) {
      if (!empty($value['#type']) && $value['#type'] == 'checkbox') {
        $options[$value['#return_value']] = $key;
      }
    }

    $form['vbo_datatables_selection'] = array(
      '#title' => t('VBO Selections'),
      '#type' => 'checkboxes',
      '#description' => t('A placeholder checkbox field to hold selected VBO items.'),
      '#options' => $options,
      '#prefix' => '<div class="hide">',
      '#suffix' => '</div>',
    );
  }
}

Then in the form definition for a given operation I added the following to take the checkbox values and add to $form_state['selection'] so VBO has the values:

$lookup = $form_state['complete form']['vbo_datatables_selection']['#options'];

foreach ($form_state['values']['vbo_datatables_selection'] as $key => $value) {
  if ($value > 0) {
    $form_state['values']['views_bulk_operations'][$lookup[$key]] = $value;
    $form_state['selection'][$lookup[$key]] = $value;
  }
}

return $form_state;

From here VBO does the rest. I implemented this for D7, but I assume a similar technique could be used for D8.

@smulvih2 Thanks for your reports. But it is still a duplicate. Please report it in the first issue.