It there a better way to dynamically search a table than newing another one?

The code I'm about to show you works as intended. My question is whether there is a way to improve the code by: (a) not needing to new up a table when I search it dynamically, and (b) whether there are ways I can reduce repeating myself with the code in common between the two tables.

What I mean by "newing up a table" is is initializing a table countsTable.DataTable({}) and when dynamically searching it, having to writevar table1 = countsTable.DataTable() and apply the search commands on table1. For one, I'm having to come up with a new naming scheme for each table when applying dynamic operations.

Here is the code in question.

// Data Table initialization
countsTable.DataTable({
    dom: "lBfiprt",
    buttons: ["excelHtml5", "print"],
    saveState: true,
    paging: false,
    createdRow: function(row, data, dataIndex) {
        $(row).addClass(data[1]);
    }
});

actionTakenPercentsTable.DataTable({
    dom: "lBfiprt",
    buttons: ["excelHtml5", "print"],
    saveState: true,
    paging: false,
    createdRow: function(row, data, dataIndex) {
        $(row).addClass(data[1]);
    }
});

I have some buttons on the page that allow the user to search the table for those specific values.

var table1 = countsTable.DataTable();
var exactCampus = "^" + campus + "$";
var exactCategory = "^" + category + "$";
var exactActionTaken = "^" + actionTaken + "$";

table1.column(0).search(schoolYear);
campus !== "All" ? table1.column(1)
    .search(exactCampus, true, false) : 
    table1.column(1).search("");
category !== "All" ? table1.column(2)
    .search(exactCategory, true, false) : 
    table1.column(2).search("");
actionTaken !== "All" ? table1.column(3)
    .search(exactActionTaken, true, false) : 
    table1.column(3).search("");
table1.draw();


var table2 = actionTakenPercentsTable.DataTable();
table2.column(0).search(schoolYear);
campus !== "All" ? table2.column(1)
    .search(exactCampus, true, false) : 
    table2.column(1).search("");
category !== "All" ? table2.column(2)
    .search(exactCategory, true, false) : 
    table2.column(2).search("");
table2.draw();