how to re-sort a tablepress table

Resolved wadlinger
(@wadlinger)

8 years, 2 months ago

I would like my tablepress table to be in alpha order by the first column in the backend display. Somehow the data went in in reverse alpha order. I can’t find a way to re-sort the table. Any help would be appreciated.

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Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge
(@tobiasbg)

8 years, 2 months ago

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

You can sort the table on the “Edit” screen by clicking the small sorting arrows icons that appear when you hover the mouse cursor over the letter in the column header cell.

Regards,
Tobias

Thread Starter wadlinger
(@wadlinger)

8 years, 2 months ago

Oy! I’m such an idiot. Just never noticed those little arrows. I’ll still have some tweaking to do,however. The column contains titles of eastern European folk songs (folk dance music), and “Ceresna” (but with a hacek over the see) sorted to the top of the list above “Ada’s Kujawiak.” 🙂 I’m moving a table of downloadable music to a WordPress site from an ancient FrontPage 2003 site. (You may stop laughing now!) I had hoped to pretty much duplicate the old site, but it looks like that ain’t gonna happen!

Anyway, thanks so much for your quick response to my dumb question. Much appreciated. BTW, I noticed you play baseball! Anyone who loves that game is a friend of mine!

Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge
(@tobiasbg)

8 years, 2 months ago

Hi,

no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this helped!

For such one-offs in the sorting, just drag and drop the row to the correct position, by clicking and holding the row number on the left of the row 🙂

Best wishes,
Tobias

P.S.: In case you haven’t, please rate TablePress here in the plugin directory. Thanks!
atndlr
(@atndlr)

7 years, 9 months ago
Well, it would be nice if you could reorder the table for columns containing dates from within the editor. I know there is the plugin for date-sorting, but this does not help when editing the table…
- This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by atndlr.
Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge
(@tobiasbg)

7 years, 9 months ago

Hi,

I see what you mean. Yes, unfortunately, date sorting is not yet possible on the “Edit” screen, sorry.

Regards,
Tobias

atndlr
(@atndlr)

7 years, 9 months ago

Unfortunately. I accidentically clicked that and saved the table. Guess what, had to resort the whole table afterwards by hand 🙁

Now I put a new invisible row with date in this format into the table, to sort when needed from within the editor: YYYYMMDD

It is a workaround, but I had rather saved the time to do this by hand 😉

Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge
(@tobiasbg)

7 years, 9 months ago

Hi,

sorry that this happened 🙁 The trick with YYYYMMDD is actually very nice! I’ll have to remember that!

Regards,
Tobias

marikamitsos
(@marikamitsos)

7 years, 8 months ago

@atndlr and @tobiasbg

Now I put a new invisible row with date in this format into the table

Do you probably mean column (or am I mistaken)?

Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge
(@tobiasbg)

7 years, 8 months ago

Hi,

yes, columns are meant here, of course!

Thanks for spotting this!

Best wishes,
Tobias