Hi Merlin,
Thank you for your flattering words and valuable suggestion! 💡 I have planned to improve the documentation, but never thought about the integration issues with all those different tools and features. Good point!!! Can you tell me which table columns and functionality you like to have in your data app? Next week I will be on a holiday. Maybe I can create a video tutorials after my holiday specifically for your mailing list? 🙂
Best regards,
Peter
Hi Peter,
thanks for the prompt reply. I did get a bit more into the details and tried to figure out how to get my table set up and so far have come up with
CREATE TABLE mastermailing
(ID
int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT
,Last
varchar(60) NOT NULL
,First
varchar(60) NOT NULL
,Source
varchar(16) NULL DEFAULT NULL
,Email
varchar(100) NOT NULL
,Status
enum(‘enabled’,’disabled’) NULL DEFAULT NULL
,Added
date NULL DEFAULT NULL
,PRIMARY KEY (ID
,Email
)
);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX email
ON mastermailing
(Email
);
… and want to continue from here. The plan is to have a new page – maybe private, so that office personnel has to be logged in to see it – with this table content showing for searching and editing/adding. I know you have a tutorial for that – I will just have to review that.
But in general, a tutorial that takes a complete newbie like me by the hand and shows how to accomplish the whole setup – I think that would help not only me.
Cheers,
Merlin
PS: beside that – any idea how I could get a default for the column ‘Added’ that only inserts the date when the record is created?
Hi Merlin,
I released a new version of the plugin yesterday. Your request made me thinking about the documentation and help. Yes! I didn’t forget you!
I decided to move the documentation to a public location and add some step by step instructions how to work with the plugin, hoping this will give users more insight information and a beter understanding how the different features of the plugin work together.
I created two quick tours which can be found here: https://wpdataaccess.com/docs/documentation/getting-started/quick-tours/
From my perspective these quick tours should be helpful, but I’m curious whether it is helpful for users like you. May I ask you to have a look at these quick tours and let me know if this is what you need?
If not, I’m interested in how I can better serve users like you. I’m trying to learn from my plugin users. Your help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Peter
Excellent!
I finally got to work on that part of the web site again and have to say that the tutorial is just what I was hoping for.
Thank you so much!
Cheers,
Merlin
Great to hear the tutorial was helpful Merlin! 🙂 It was a pleasure!
Best regards,
Peter
I’m closing this topic. Just let me know if you need more help.
And you already did… 🙂 Peter