We always build tables on local, dev, and then on staging sites before making them live. The live site is constantly collecting data, so using a site duplicator plugin to pull the tables from staging to production is not an option. Often, it is not even an option to pull from local to dev or dev to staging because we don't wish to overwrite test data generated in each environment.
Presently, the process to manually recreate each table and its settings in each environment is quite tedious and error prone - it is easy to miss little settings here and there. If there was a simple UI to export and then import tables and table settings, this would be an enormous time-saver and would support modern / multi-environment development workflows.
thank you for reaching out to us and for the submission!
You're right, it would be easier to have this data easily available for moving across sites as well.
I'll forward this to the developers, but I'll kindly ask you to add it as a feature suggestion on this page - because over there other clients who would also need a quick export / import UI would be able to vote for the request and enable it to be considered for development quicker.
Features are pushed up on our "to-do" list when there are a lot of customers requesting those features, so having your vote as a customer can be beneficial to this feature being developed sooner.
Thanks for your response, Ivana. I clicked the link you provided, but it appears to be a feature request list for the Amelia booking plugin. Is there a feature request page for the WP Data Tables plugin? Sorry if I wasn't clear - this is a feature request for the WP Data Tables plugin. I didn't realize at first that this ticketing system supported multiple products.
Thanks, Ivana. I added the feature request. Is there a way for people to see and vote on those feature requests, though? If so, I just wanted to follow up by posting the link to it here as well.
I'm sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but I don't see a way to view existing feature requests for WP Data Tables. The feature request link below just goes to a form, but once that form is submitted, there seems no way to track it. Can you please point me in the right direction? Thanks!
Developer advised me that they are making the count of submissions they receive - in that case it's essential that we make sure to direct all clients to make submissions, as developers will keep count of the requests.
I am wondering if there are any updates on this feature request or if there is somewhere I can see a roadmap for the plugin and/or feature request priorities. The inability to export/import table and chart configurations is turning out to be a significant hurdle, such that we may need to evaluate other plugins that will support a modern development workflow with multiple environments. (Using something like WP Migrate Pro or Duplicator is not feasible because the data flow is in the wrong direction - we can't push all of the dev site data to the production site and we can't develop and test new tables and charts on production.) I'd obviously prefer not to need to find a different solution, so I'm hoping that this feature is somewhere on the roadmap.
Other than cloning the site, another option would be to copy all database tables (wp_wpdatatable_#) along with tables wp_wpdatatables, wp_wpdatacharts, wp_wpdatatables_rows and wp_wpdatatables_columns. Then, in wp_options table, you would also need to export the following option_names:
wdtPreventDeletingTables
wdtUseSeparateCon
wdtSeparateCon
wdtTimepickerRange
wdtTimeFormat
wdtTabletWidth
wdtTablesPerPage
wdtSumFunctionsLabel
wdtRenderFilter
wdtRenderCharts
wdtIncludeBootstrap
wdtIncludeBootstrapBackEnd
wdtPreventDeletingTables
wdtParseShortcodes
wdtNumbersAlign
wdtBorderRemoval
wdtBorderRemovalHeader
wdtNumberFormat
wdtMobileWidth
wdtMinifiedJs
wdtMinFunctionsLabel
wdtMaxFunctionsLabel
wdtLeftOffset
wdtTopOffset
wdtInterfaceLanguage
wdtGeneratedTablesCount
wdtFontColorSettings
wdtDecimalPlaces
wdtCSVDelimiter
wdtDateFormat
wdtCustomJs
wdtCustomCss
wdtBaseSkin
wdtAvgFunctionsLabel
wdtInstallDate
wdtRatingDiv
wdtMDNewsDiv
wdtTempFutureDate
It is rather cumbersome to do all this, but unfortunately at the moment, it's the only way. Also, for tables linked to an existing data source, you would need to change the file path, because at the moment the file path depends on the domain, so if you change the domain, the URL to the file will also have to be changed.
Our developers are working on creating an "Export" function, so this will be much simpler in the future.
At the moment, we don't have a public roadmap, but we plan to include this as well in the near future.
If it is this self-contained (no wp_posts or wp_postmeta connections) and this is all there is to it, this is very doable with just a few queries and is much less cumbersome than rebuilding all of the options.
I look forward to the public roadmap and the export functionality in the future, but this will work great in the meantime. Thanks again for the info!
Hello!
I'd like to submit a feature request, similar to the requests made here: https://tmsplugins.ticksy.com/ticket/2229294/
We always build tables on local, dev, and then on staging sites before making them live. The live site is constantly collecting data, so using a site duplicator plugin to pull the tables from staging to production is not an option. Often, it is not even an option to pull from local to dev or dev to staging because we don't wish to overwrite test data generated in each environment.
Presently, the process to manually recreate each table and its settings in each environment is quite tedious and error prone - it is easy to miss little settings here and there. If there was a simple UI to export and then import tables and table settings, this would be an enormous time-saver and would support modern / multi-environment development workflows.
Thank you for your consideration.
Hi there,
thank you for reaching out to us and for the submission!
You're right, it would be easier to have this data easily available for moving across sites as well.
I'll forward this to the developers, but I'll kindly ask you to add it as a feature suggestion on this page - because over there other clients who would also need a quick export / import UI would be able to vote for the request and enable it to be considered for development quicker.
Features are pushed up on our "to-do" list when there are a lot of customers requesting those features, so having your vote as a customer can be beneficial to this feature being developed sooner.
+1 it would be really helpful.
Thanks for your response, Ivana. I clicked the link you provided, but it appears to be a feature request list for the Amelia booking plugin. Is there a feature request page for the WP Data Tables plugin? Sorry if I wasn't clear - this is a feature request for the WP Data Tables plugin. I didn't realize at first that this ticketing system supported multiple products.
Hi there,
My bad! I apologize for the incorrect link, please refer to the one below:
https://wpdatatables.com/documentation/feature-suggestion/
Thanks, Ivana. I added the feature request. Is there a way for people to see and vote on those feature requests, though? If so, I just wanted to follow up by posting the link to it here as well.
Hi there,
absolutely - the submission that you have made is fully public.
That means that anyone can visit that page, see your request and vote.
We also make sure that everyone contacting us here also knows about the page, so that more votes can be gained.
You can bookmark it too keep track if you wish.
I'm sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but I don't see a way to view existing feature requests for WP Data Tables. The feature request link below just goes to a form, but once that form is submitted, there seems no way to track it. Can you please point me in the right direction? Thanks!
Hi there,
you are not, I need to apologize!
Developer advised me that they are making the count of submissions they receive - in that case it's essential that we make sure to direct all clients to make submissions, as developers will keep count of the requests.
Hello!
I am wondering if there are any updates on this feature request or if there is somewhere I can see a roadmap for the plugin and/or feature request priorities. The inability to export/import table and chart configurations is turning out to be a significant hurdle, such that we may need to evaluate other plugins that will support a modern development workflow with multiple environments. (Using something like WP Migrate Pro or Duplicator is not feasible because the data flow is in the wrong direction - we can't push all of the dev site data to the production site and we can't develop and test new tables and charts on production.) I'd obviously prefer not to need to find a different solution, so I'm hoping that this feature is somewhere on the roadmap.
Thanks for your help!
Hello mkonji
Thank you for reaching out to us.
Other than cloning the site, another option would be to copy all database tables (wp_wpdatatable_#) along with tables wp_wpdatatables, wp_wpdatacharts, wp_wpdatatables_rows and wp_wpdatatables_columns. Then, in wp_options table, you would also need to export the following option_names:
It is rather cumbersome to do all this, but unfortunately at the moment, it's the only way. Also, for tables linked to an existing data source, you would need to change the file path, because at the moment the file path depends on the domain, so if you change the domain, the URL to the file will also have to be changed.
Our developers are working on creating an "Export" function, so this will be much simpler in the future.
At the moment, we don't have a public roadmap, but we plan to include this as well in the near future.
Kind Regards,
Aleksandar Vuković
[email protected]
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Thanks much, Aleksandar. This is very helpful!
If it is this self-contained (no wp_posts or wp_postmeta connections) and this is all there is to it, this is very doable with just a few queries and is much less cumbersome than rebuilding all of the options.
I look forward to the public roadmap and the export functionality in the future, but this will work great in the meantime. Thanks again for the info!
You're welcome, mkonji
That's all there is to it - we don't populate wp_posts, wp_postmeta, or any other WP tables, only these.
I too am looking forward to the export functionality - that will save a lot of people a lot of time.
Kind Regards,
Aleksandar Vuković
[email protected]
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