Generally I understand and love the wpDataTables tool and how I can bring in data from Google Sheets to WP. Once i edit a record on my table and save it, does that information then get reflected back in Google Sheets automatically? If it's not automatic, how can I make sure the data (at the end of the day) is the same between what's imported to WP and saved from WP back to Google Sheets? (hope that makes sense)
Hi pdotkeller, Thank you for your interest in wpdatatables.
Sorry for late response.
We are located in Serbia and our working time is from 10:00 to 17:00 CET. business days.
In many cases, you might have an initial file with the table data, but this table needs to be regularly updated (e.g. if it is a price list, a catalog, etc.). wpDataTables has two options here for you:
Creating tables linked to existing data source, in which case you will upload the file and initialize the table, whereupon it will be read every time on page load. Then you can overwrite this file to update the data. Such tables won’t be editable within WordPress, and if they are larger than 3000-5000 rows, the page load and generation time will be slow.
Importing table data to WordPress. The initial data will be read and imported from a Google Spreadsheet. You can select to skip certain columns, or add columns. You can edit both the structure and the data within the table at an any point later, but the table won’t be synced with the source file as is the case with the first option, but this table will be editable through wpdatatables; e.g., if you change something in source Google Spreadsheet, your wpDataTable data will stay the same because the data will be already imported to the database.
So unfortunately, at the moment that is not possible what you need to edit data in wpdatatables and to be reflected on Google spreadsheet source.
You can try our sandbox site: Front-end & Back-end - you can find a fully functional version there to try out all plugin features.
Generally I understand and love the wpDataTables tool and how I can bring in data from Google Sheets to WP. Once i edit a record on my table and save it, does that information then get reflected back in Google Sheets automatically? If it's not automatic, how can I make sure the data (at the end of the day) is the same between what's imported to WP and saved from WP back to Google Sheets? (hope that makes sense)
Hi pdotkeller,
Thank you for your interest in wpdatatables.
Sorry for late response.
We are located in Serbia and our working time is from 10:00 to 17:00 CET. business days.
In many cases, you might have an initial file with the table data, but this table needs to be regularly updated (e.g. if it is a price list, a catalog, etc.). wpDataTables has two options here for you:
So unfortunately, at the moment that is not possible what you need to edit data in wpdatatables and to be reflected on Google spreadsheet source.
You can try our sandbox site: Front-end & Back-end - you can find a fully functional version there to try out all plugin features.
Best regards.
Kind Regards,
Isidora Markovic
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