Title: Tablepress usage
Last modified: August 24, 2017

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# Tablepress usage

 *  Resolved [hergimenez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hergimenez/)
 * (@hergimenez)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-usage/)
 * Hello
    I find this plugin pretty nice and I would like to use it to manage a 
   flight school. Based on that, I have a couple of questions that I could not find
   an answer here. I will appreciate any help.
 * I need 5 tables. Planes, Instructors, Pilots, Students, Flight history.
    Lets
   supposed that flight school administrative employee wants to charge in tablepress
   1 flight in flight history table. Is there any chance to: 1- From flight history
   table, pick up value from Instructors/Pilots/Students/Plane involved in that 
   flight? 2- Once loaded flight duration in flight history table, Sum that flight
   time to: Instructor flight time, student/pilot flight time , Plane flight time,
   etc. 3- Have a clear visibility of the flight history table, where administrative
   employee can filter by date and see every flight performed on that date?
 * Thanks very much in advance,
    Looking forward to implement Tablepress on my site
   and start working with it.
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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-usage/#post-9438003)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * 1) No, sorry, such a combination of data in the tables is not possible. For this,
   you would need an actual database management system, e.g. based on mySQL and 
   then use e.g. JOIN SQL queries.
 * 2) TablePress does support basic math formulas, but not for times/hours/minutes,
   unfortunately.
 * 3) Filtering is possible by typing in the date, or maybe by also using the TablePress
   Extension from [https://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-columnfilterwidgets/](https://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-columnfilterwidgets/)
 * But as 1) is the major requirement here, I think, TablePress will probably not
   be the best solution here.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [hergimenez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hergimenez/)
 * (@hergimenez)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-usage/#post-9438267)
 * Tobias. Thanks very much for your response.
    1- so sad that cannot use this great
   plugin with that purpose 🙁 2- That would not be an issue. I just need to sum
   decimal numbers. 1 , 1.2 , etc. I assume that is possible? 3- Filtering options
   might be very helpful. Will try that extension and see if as a whole this package
   of things can work for me.
 * Thanks again
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-usage/#post-9438294)
 * Hi,
 * 2) Yes, see [https://tablepress.org/tablepress-features-formulas/](https://tablepress.org/tablepress-features-formulas/)
   for an explanations of how formulas work.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [hergimenez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hergimenez/)
 * (@hergimenez)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-usage/#post-9438924)
 * Thanks Tobias
    Sorry to bother. Do you know any way to work on requirement number
   1 with WordPress?
 * Hernán
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-usage/#post-9439007)
 * Hi Hernán,
 * no, sorry, I’m not aware of a solution that would not require custom programming
   🙁
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tablepress-usage/#post-9439007)
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