As a jQuery/Ajax/tablesorter novice, I was hoping someone could explain what this code is actually doing (rather than me continuing to go on my assumptions). It seems to me, if I am seeing this correctly, that the developer began with too much happening. 

I see the following happening:

1 - The campaign_array is getting loaded

2 - The $.ajax call on line 10 is happening

3 - The call to get _campaign_summary works, and the desired information is returned

4 - I can see the info required for the table in data through the console log - line 16

5 - Lines 17-19 seem to be calling get_campaign_summary again. This time the campaign_array parameter is empty so, as it should, my page does not show the table. (I can see this in a log file I write to in get_campaign_summary)

So, if what he wants is for the table to reload with the data retrieved by get_campaign_summary, what needs to come out (an assumption because of the two calls to get_campaign_summary) and what needs to change?

2. $("form").on("submit", function(e){
3. e.preventDefault();
4. campaign_array = multi_list.campaign_list.multiselect("getChecked").map(function(){
5.     return this.value;    
6. }).get();
8. console.log('Campaign Array: ', campaign_array);
9. 
   
10. var ajaxObj = $.ajax({
11. url : VALIDATION_URL + '?operation=get_campaign_summary&campaign_array=' + campaign_array,
12.             type    : $(this).attr('method'),
13.             dataType: 'json',
14.             data    : $(this).serialize(),
15.             success : function( data,html ) {
16.                         console.log('Submitted: ', data);
17.                   campaign_summary.table
18.                    .html(html)
19.                   .trigger("updateAll",[resort]);
20.                       },
21.             error   : function( data, xhr, err ) {
22.                         console.log('Oops: ', data, xhr , err);
23.                       }
24.         }); 
25. console.log('ajaxObj: ', ajaxObj);
26. return false;
27. });