Sorting/Searching Recently Stopped Working For SOME Users

  • Resolved Kenner82

    (@kenner82)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    We’ve been using TablePress since it was released for our database at http://www.clothdiaperretailers.com Last week it was brought to my attention that the search and sort capabilities had stopped being displayed – the table displayed fine, but the search box no longer displayed, and the columns were fixed in place. I looked at it on my computer (Windows 7/Chrome) and it was fine, but more people complained so I started asking around. I received responses for Mac and PC users, and people who used a variety of different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE). The only people for whom it works properly is one user on her iPhone, and me on Chrome (though not IE or Firefox). I keep WP and all my plugins up to date with the latest versions, and was all set to tell people the page was best viewed with Chrome, but am now stumped as to why it’s only working on Chrome on MY PC! Any suggestions?

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/

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  • Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    My assumption as to why it’s only working in Chrome on your PC is, that you are logged-in into WordPress there, while everybody else (or you in the the other browsers) is not. Thus, this is probably a problem that is only visible to not-logged-in users.

    I can see two possible problems here:
    The first is a JavaScript error in another plugin, that might be responsible for stopping the evaluation of JavaScript in the browser entirely (and with that the search function).
    That error is “Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method ‘indexOf’ of undefined” in line 17 of the file pin-it-button-custom-btn-img.js of the Pinterist Pin It Button plugin.

    Te second problem is a typo in one of the table cells: In row 41, column 4, there’s wrong link HTML in this:

    program, <a href-"http://padd

    The - should be a =. This raises a few parsing errors, which could also stop the JS execution.

    So, please fix that typo, and if that doesn’t help, please try deactivating that Pinterest plugin.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter Kenner82

    (@kenner82)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    It was the plugin! I can’t thank you enough for your help (because I’m just a mom of two kids helping out on a friend’s website – I never would have known or had the time to check all the plugins individually!) Thank you thank you thank you!

    Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    great to hear that this fixed it! 🙂
    And no problem, you are very welcome!

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    P.S.: If you want, you can rate TablePress here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

    Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    thanks for your rating and the nice words, I really appreciate it!

    Just out of curiosity: What features are you missing in the plugin? Maybe I know a solution, that might make you consider giving TablePress that fifth star in your rating 🙂

    Thanks!
    Tobias

    Thread Starter Kenner82

    (@kenner82)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    I frequently need to reorganize the rows in the database, and as far as I know, dragging and dropping is the only way to do that (when you need to move row 254 to row 5, that is pretty tedious! It’s a small complaint, but one that grates on your nerves if you have to do it often enough!) We’ve also been having issues setting the width of the table and the columns in it (some tables end up too wide and bleed into the sidebar, so that the data is unreadable. Other times, when you search through the database for a subset of records, the columns end up so narrow that it’s difficult to read. I found a piece of code in one of the other threads that might help, but as I’m not familiar with coding, it’s intimidating. It’d be nice if you could have the option of setting a static column and/or table width from within the plugin itself).

    Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    thanks for your feedback!

    I’ll try to give my thoughts on this:

    – Drag and drop for reorganizing: Yes, you are right, that this is the only way, and it is usually a good way, but I agree that it can be tedious in the case of row 254 to 5. Is the need to move rows that “far” a result of your data, or how does it happen that a row has to be moved that far? (If this is a newly added row, you could use the “Insert” feature instead, maybe.)
    About drag and drop itself: The predecessor of TablePress did this differently. It had drop downs to choose which rows shall be moved there. With that, I got complaints about why there’s no drag and drop. So, either way, I guess I can’t make everybody happy 🙁

    – About the width of columns: Yes, that is tricky, unfortunately. The reason is however not TablePress, but how tables are handled in browsers, in general. From a technical point of view, they behave differently than most other elements, in that their widest content defines the minimal width of a column. And all of those column together then force a minimum width on a table. So, the effect of bleeding into the sidebar is not TablePress’ fault, but a consequence of the content in the table. There are just too many columns (or content in those columns that is too wide, or too big). (I sometimes compare this to a sheet of paper in a notebook: When that is full, I can’t write on it, but have to “bleed” onto the next page.) The only way to fix this properly is to reduce the amount of content or columns, reduce the white space in the cells, reduce the font size in the table, or enable the Horizontal Scrolling.
    Now, there are some ways to influence the widths with CSS code (as shortly described in the TablePress FAQ at http://tablepress.org/faq/ ) and as that is such a flexible method, there’s just no point of adding a user interface for this, as that could never match that flexibility.

    – And about the search leading to too narrow columns: Now, that’s strange, and I’m not really sure what is happening there, but if you give me an example for this happening, I’ll gladly take a look!

    – “Static column”: I’m not really sure what you mean with that, unfortunately. Could you explain this to me a little bit?

    Regards,
    Tobias

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