Hi,
thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
You are in the right place for feedback on TablePress 2.0-beta1 🙂 Thanks for taking the time to test it and for your notes here! I really appreciate it!
Good to hear that you like the new release! Regarding your questions:
Minimizing the table view is already possible (and actually has been in TablePress 1.x already 🙂 ). For that, just click on the heading of that box, labelled “Table Content” (in fact, this will work for all these boxes). The box will then be collapsed, so that the table view will be minimized.
As for the FixedColumns Extensions: I’m already working on that as part of a major feature overhaul for the TablePress premium versions! So, this will also be coming soon, and it will be much easier to enable/use these features compared to the Shortcode changes that are needed with the current versions! Stay tuned!
Regards,
Tobias
Aha. Thanks I see it’s easy to minimize table view I was clicking on the wrong down arrow, the one that reorders the sections in the admin view. My mistake.
Sometimes we want to see the table view, but only the top X number of rows so that we can still select the columns or rows and hide/show, change header name of column, etc. But only way to do this is to maximize the table view which would then show for example 1000’s of rows which is not necessary.
Perhaps there is a way to set the preferred minimized table view pixel height or # of rows displayed, but if admin selects column in this minimized view it would still apply changes to the entire rest of column without having to have the table view maximized.
Just a thought. What do you think? Thanks
Hi,
great to hear that this helped!
As for showing only a certain number of rows: I’m not sure how a user interface for that could look like without being confusing to inexperienced users (who might be thinking that some data was removed or something like that)… I’ll think about it!
In the mean time, remember that TablePress 2.0 also has context menu on the “Edit” screen, i.e. just right-click (or click while holding the “Ctrl” key if you are on a Mac) on a table cell or cell selection to see possible actions. This way, you won’t have to scroll down to reach the buttons.
Regards,
Tobias
I see what you mean about confusing w/ table display height/rows. Perhaps an “advanced settings” link in the top bar of the table display module to the left of the arrows in right side of the bar. “Display __% of table height”, user could input any value from 0-100% and that % of table height would be displayed. Default is 100%. But maybe you are right this could be confusing for some. Anyway, food for thought.
Thanks
Hi,
yes, something like this could maybe work. I’ll think about it!
Best wishes,
Tobias
Is there any documentation on correct way to upgrade/update Tablepress existing plugin to Tablepress 2.0? I want to test out the plugin update see if it works w/ no issues.
Thanks
Hi,
the update is nothing special, and all ways to update a WordPress plugin will work:
– You can delete/overwrite the /wp-content/plugins/tablepress/ folder.
– You can use the “Install via plugin ZIP upload” method (WordPress supports updating there as well.)
– You will be able to use the (most common) regular WordPress update mechanism once TablePress 2.0 is released.
Regards,
Tobias
Suggestion for v2.0 feature > Option to enable/disable search hidden columns. For example we have list of books with title, author and publish date (visible sortable fields) while in same table there are hidden columns for genre. Book Genre sometimes includes multiple words like fiction, thriller, novel, autobiography, novella, science, mystery, etc … so don’t want to display the column where some rows have ten genre terms in them.
So we hide the genre column in front-end but still would like to enable search for hidden column of genre which would result in showing the rows for corresponding book title and author.
A simple check-box to allow searching in hidden columns (could even specify column letter like H,J,L to only allow search of hidden field with these letters.
Hi,
this essentially just means that you’ll have to hide the column in a different way. Instead of using the button on the table’s “Edit” screen (which gives the column that red background color there, and results in the data not even being sent to the browser), you’ll have to instead hide it after it’s been sent to the browser. For that, un-hide the column via the button and then add this to the “Custom CSS” textarea on the “Plugin Options” screen of TablePress:
.tablepress-id-123 .column-4 {
display: none;
}
(where 123 is the table ID and 4 is the column number).
Regards,
Tobias
Thanks, that Column hide CSS trick works.
v2.0 beta is giving me critical error trying to import .ODS (libre office) calc spreadsheet. Able to select file for upload, tried creating new table and also overwriting existing table. It goes directly to the following error message when click on the Import button…
“There has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.”
I have html code (links) in some columns I wonder if the <a href=""> quotes are interfering with the string delimiter. libre office keeps wanting to save regular quotes in my link code as some other kind of backwards quote, which imports ok as a CSV but the links don’t work because of the backwards quotes. When I try changing the backwards quotes to regular quotes and re-import again it does import but totally breaks the structure of the table.
Here is the environment:
WordPress version 6.0.1
Active theme: Blocksy (version 1.8.46)
Current plugin: TablePress (version 2.0-beta1)
PHP version 8.0.22
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wordmax.
Hi,
I don’t think that the quotes in that link HTML code play a role here. These normally only affect CSV files, but ODS is different from that, from what I know.
Now, could you maybe email me that ODS file so that I can run a few tests myself? My address is on https://tablepress.org/impressum/
Also, can you please set the WP_DEBUG constant to true in your site’s wp-config.php file, see https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/#wp_debug , in order to get more descriptive error messages?
Regards,
Tobias
Sure thing. I will email you the .ods file trying to import/upload that causes the critical error. I have enabled debug on config file. Will copy/paste the detailed errors resulting to you at specified address on site. Thanks
Hi,
thanks for the email! The file and the error message helped a lot!
Indeed, I had overlooked something in the ODS import, which is now fixed 🙂
That change will be part of the 2.0-beta2 release, coming likely in the next few days, so that importing the ODS file will work fine then 🙂
The changes that you mention about the quotation marks in the link HTML code are indeed only necessary for the CSV format, but they are irrelevant for the ODS format.
Thanks again for reporting this and for assisting with finding the cause! I really appreciate it!
Regards,
Tobias
