I do understand that wpdatatables is one of the best tool to organise, edit, sort, filter whatever data tables. Ok good.
But what about editing simple titles, texts and paragraphs at the same time? My reports provide more than data tables. They also provide explanations, texts, pictures and illustrations.
How can I insert these paragraphs among your tables?
I sell security reports to my customers who buy them through a woocommerce site. But at the moment, these reports are just dowloadable PDF files.
That would be nice if I could deliver full and interactive reports containing filtered tables AND paragraphs too.
According to you, what would be the best option to do that?
then you will be able to choose the column type in the initial table generation preview.
If you choose a "one-line string" column, this column will be created in the database table, with a character limit of 255 ( VARCHAR type);
or if you choose "multi-line string", this column will have a much larger character limit of 65,535 ( TEXT type).
Applicable filter types for String Column are: text, selectbox, multi selectbox, checkbox.
Issues to note: if you use HTML inside of string columns, sorting and filtering by this column can in some cases yield strange results, since it will also apply the sorting rules to the HTML itself.
And i just wanted to point out that you can try wpDataTables before purchasing
on our sandbox Demo sites ( you can find links for the main plugin Demo,
as well as add-on Demos, in my signature),
and there is a 15-day money-back guarantee period,
so if you purchase the plugin, you can safely fully test it out, and if it doesn't fit your needs you can request and receive a refund in that period. ( same goes for all plugins and add-ons)
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If you want to check out some guides from our Documentation to get started,
Hi,
I do understand that wpdatatables is one of the best tool to organise, edit, sort, filter whatever data tables. Ok good.
But what about editing simple titles, texts and paragraphs at the same time? My reports provide more than data tables. They also provide explanations, texts, pictures and illustrations.
How can I insert these paragraphs among your tables?
I sell security reports to my customers who buy them through a woocommerce site. But at the moment, these reports are just dowloadable PDF files.
That would be nice if I could deliver full and interactive reports containing filtered tables AND paragraphs too.
According to you, what would be the best option to do that?
Thanks for your detailed reply.
Regards.
Hi, Hervé
Thanks for reaching out to us.
If you need to input text, paragraphs and perhaps to add images together as part of the same cell( and multiple cells and columns, of course),
you can use our String Columns.
Our String columns are able to render custom HTML, so if you format the data appropriately,
the String cells should be able to render any kind of custom HTML for you, along with text, paragraphs and images combined.
You will just have to wrap images in HTML image tags, the paragraphs in HTML paragraph tags, and so on.
And depending on how many characters you need,
for example, if you create a Manual Table in our plugin,
or if you import data from CSV, Excel or Google Spreadsheets in order to make a new Manual Table
( you can also update existing Manual Tables via source files, too);
then you will be able to choose the column type in the initial table generation preview.
If you choose a "one-line string" column, this column will be created in the database table, with a character limit of 255 ( VARCHAR type);
or if you choose "multi-line string", this column will have a much larger character limit of 65,535 ( TEXT type).
Issues to note: if you use HTML inside of string columns, sorting and filtering by this column can in some cases yield strange results, since it will also apply the sorting rules to the HTML itself.
( You can see more about our available Filters here)
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And i just wanted to point out that you can try wpDataTables before purchasing
on our sandbox Demo sites ( you can find links for the main plugin Demo,
as well as add-on Demos, in my signature),
and there is a 15-day money-back guarantee period,
so if you purchase the plugin, you can safely fully test it out, and if it doesn't fit your needs you can request and receive a refund in that period. ( same goes for all plugins and add-ons)
-
If you want to check out some guides from our Documentation to get started,
i recommend to start from this page , wpDataTables Features Overview,
on the left side navigation you will find some table and charts examples, too;
we also have this YouTube channel with useful tutorials;
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Let me know if you have any additional questions. Thank you
Kind Regards,
Miloš Jovanović
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Thanks Milos for your fast and detailed reply.
I'll give it a try to the 'string columns' feature for sure and I'll submit back to you if I have further questions.
Again, thanks ;)
Hi, Hervé
You're welcome, i am happy to help.
No problem at all, we will be here if you have any additional questions about the subject we cover on this ticket;
or if you have any new/unrelated questions, please don't hesitate to open new/multiple tickets.
Our policy is to keep one subject per ticket, when possible.
Thanks
Kind Regards,
Miloš Jovanović
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