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  Public Ticket #2560844
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  • Ben Ward started the conversation
    October 6, 2020 at 3:12am

    Hi! I have a client using front-end editable tables extensively. I set up a "template" and they have been duplicating and changing name and inserting on pages via shortcode. When they got to table 80 they got a message saying the Identifier name was too long. Each table (based on the original "template") is being auto named and has resulted finally in this: wp_wpdatatable_4_4_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1. This field is not editable.

    How do I setup to create new table numbers when duplicating?

    Please see attached screenshots.

    Thanks!

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    Aleksandar replied
    October 7, 2020 at 8:21am

    Hello Ben

    Unfortunately, you cannot change this in any way. That's how the plugin is creating duplicate tables, and it seems your client reached the database's maximum length for a table name.

    What you can do, though, is this:

    1. Go into your database, and access this table. Then, click on the Operations tab, and change it's name to (for example) wp_wpdatatable_4_2 (or if that name's taken, change it to something else):

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    Then, click on GO in the bottom right corner of that section:

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    2. Go to the database table "wp_wpdatatables", find this table in the list, and edit the content field:

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    Change it from:

    SELECT * FROM wp_wpdatatable_4_4_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1

    To this:

    SELECT * FROM wp_wpdatatable_4_2

    And save that.

    The duplicated wpDataTable in the plugin will also change the database table it needs, and you'll keep all your settings for this table:

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    After that, make sure your client is duplicating this table, not the original one.

    I hope that helps.

    Kind Regards, 

    Aleksandar Vuković
    [email protected]

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