A couple of suggestions/bug-ettes

Hello Peter,

While you are off enjoying a well-earned break, I thought I might add a couple of your things to the to-do list or the to-be-considered list?!

1) A tiny typo: Data Publisher -> Edit any of the publications. 9 fields down: Type. The drop-down list says ‘Modal, Collaped or Expanded’. The second one is a typo: it’s “collapsed”, not “collaped”. If you pile all the options in to do a manually-created shortcode, for example, you definitely type “collapsed”.

2) Suggestion: I may be using the Data Publisher wrong, but if I have an underlying table and want to create different pages that display different parts of that table depending on the WHERE clause that I can add in on Data Publisher’s 12th option, it would be really helpful to be able to copy an existing publication and then just edit the copy’s WHERE clause. At the moment, I’m having to create a new one in one window, have the original in a separate window, and type or copy across each of the options, one-by-one. (My use-case is all of Mozart’s compositions: I want to list all his symphonies on one page, all his concertos on another. The only difference is WHERE dzno like ’01___’ in one case and where it’s like ’03___’ in another, but unless I missed it, I wasn’t able to use the original publication to create the second).

3) Suggestion: When you are editing data in a table, you pick a row, click ‘Edit’, make your edit and then click “save changes to the database”. Fine -except that the ‘Edit table’ screen then still continues to display the same record you just edited. You have to click the left-arrow at the top of the page to get back to the list of rows, which reset themselves back to the top of the list, so you have to scroll around a bit to find the next record you’re interested in, before you can pick it, select edit and so on. It would be really helpful to have navigation buttons on the data editing page itself. So after you edit a record and click ‘Save to the database’, you could click ‘Next record’ and the data page would load with data belonging to the next record. If that’s not the record you wanted to change, just click ‘Next record’ again or ‘Previous record’ and so on. In other words, stay in data editing mode, but be able to step forward and backward through records without needing to go back to the row-by-row listing of table data. For a series of quite similar edits to a dozen rows at a time, this would be much faster than save – back arrow – scroll to find the next record – edit – save etc, I think.

None of which is to detract from your plugin in any way: I think it’s brilliant to have database functionality exposed like this at all! Thank you for it and all the work you’ve put into it.

Anyway: hope you aren’t too swamped in the new year!

All the best,
HJR