I keep running into problems where for some reason, WPDT runs into an error saving a table. But instead of simply not saving, it corrupts the table!
The only ways to get the table back are to either restore from backup (if I even have one) or to get into MySQL and try to figure out what was corrupted.
And if that doesn't work, I have to recreate the table and then change all charts that referenced it.
Would you please make this stop breaking data!
(I can't provide access to my site because it's only on my localhost.)
The plugin cannot corrupt the tables on its own. You must be doing something that's causing tables to break.
I can only guess, as there are a lot of things that can cause this. For example, if you create tables linked to an existing data source (Excel, Google Spreadsheet, CSV, XML, PHP or JSON), and you change the structure of the source file (add, remove, rename or rearrange columns), the wpDataTable will break.
Then, if you add a number-range slider to a string-type column, or to a column which has only one row - the table will break.
There are a lot of other reasons why this can happen, so can you try and remember what you're doing right before the tables break? I can't claim that there aren't some bugs that we haven't run into yet, so please try and remember exactly what you were doing.
I keep running into problems where for some reason, WPDT runs into an error saving a table. But instead of simply not saving, it corrupts the table!
The only ways to get the table back are to either restore from backup (if I even have one) or to get into MySQL and try to figure out what was corrupted.
And if that doesn't work, I have to recreate the table and then change all charts that referenced it.
Would you please make this stop breaking data!
(I can't provide access to my site because it's only on my localhost.)
Hello Daniel
Sorry to hear you're having issues.
The plugin cannot corrupt the tables on its own. You must be doing something that's causing tables to break.
I can only guess, as there are a lot of things that can cause this. For example, if you create tables linked to an existing data source (Excel, Google Spreadsheet, CSV, XML, PHP or JSON), and you change the structure of the source file (add, remove, rename or rearrange columns), the wpDataTable will break.
Then, if you add a number-range slider to a string-type column, or to a column which has only one row - the table will break.
There are a lot of other reasons why this can happen, so can you try and remember what you're doing right before the tables break? I can't claim that there aren't some bugs that we haven't run into yet, so please try and remember exactly what you were doing.
Kind Regards,
Aleksandar Vuković
[email protected]
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