Does saved table break if you add or remove fields?

  • Resolved Tympanon

    (@tympanon)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hello!

    Thanks for a great plugin, my platinum version is working perfectly for my purposes. I save the data from the form and now I want to remove some questions which anyway seldom give any insights. If I remove a few fields, will this cause a problem with the resulting saved table (message list)? Also, is it safe to reformulate some of the answers to the radio buttons?

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  • Plugin Author codepeople

    (@codepeople)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hello @tympanon

    Q: If I remove a few fields, will this cause a problem with the resulting saved table (message list)?

    A: Not really, summary with the information collected by the form is not affected.

    Q: is it safe to reformulate some of the answers to the radio buttons?

    A: As the equations use the values of radio buttons, if you edit their texts, the equations should not be affected.

    Best regards.

    Thread Starter Tympanon

    (@tympanon)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    “A: Not really, summary with the information collected by the form is not affected.”

    Unfortunately, the “Export to CSV” button removes all columns which are not part of all messages in the “Calculated Fields Form – Message List”. The data is still not entirely lost, you can find it if you scroll on the word-press page. Fortunately, I created a back-up of the CSV export before I removed the fields. But this seems like an issue that maybe could be solved?

    Plugin Author codepeople

    (@codepeople)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hello @tympanon

    This is a different question. The data are not affected in the database or the messages section, but, if you export the entries to a CSV file, would be taken into account only the fields that are included in the form.

    Best regards.

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