Hello Gianluca,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

Can you please provide me with the ID of that table and I will assist you with this issue?

Looking forward to your reply.

Hi, Gianluca 

We will first point out the most important limitation for your use-case, of our Export Tools:

• When you export tables with the wpDataTables plugin, 

please note that you can export values, but not formulas. 

WpDataTables doesn’t support exporting formulas, so a Formula column will be exported only with values; and any calculations of Average, MIN, MAX, and Total will not be exported at all.

Now we will elaborate more about other current limitations.

The table tools functionalities are based on a 3rd party HTML5 library and they are not customizable. Unfortunately, the library allows very little “fine-tuning” of the generated files, so font, size, and other properties cannot be changed.

There are some limitations in this library we will emphasize for your awareness:

• For tables with server-side processing, only the visible rows will be exported to any format. If you want the entire table to be exported (or copied to a clipboard), you need to choose the “Show All” feature in the “show … entries” block, and then do the export:
• Generated PDF, XLS, CSV are not customizable. Unfortunately, the library allows very little “fine-tuning” of the generated files, so font, size, and other properties cannot be changed (but the title can – see below).
• Conditional formatting is not reflected in any of generated export files.
• Other front-end extensions cannot be combined with Table Tools. If you have row grouping enabled for the table, or there are some customizations you did yourself, they won’t be reflected in the generated Excel, CSV or PDF document, nor in the clipboard.

• Exporting images is not possible at the moment, but you are able to export them as HTML with the new “Include HTML” option.
• You can’t export columns that are hidden – they will not be visible in any exporting or printing tool.
• Export numbers with comma as decimal separators have issues in the Excel report. Please use the CSV export button or change column type to string for these columns.

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If you need better functionality for PDF export,

my advice would be to acquire the WP Advanced PDF plugin, which offers a lot more options when creating PDF files from our tables, along with other content on your website.

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Of course, our developers will work to add better functionalities in the future, this is the current state.

Let us know if you have any questions. Thank you