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It would seem that adding a total (Sum) to a numeric column does not show in a export to PDF or Excel. The latter is unimportant as it can easily be added in Excel, but not getting a complete representation of the table in the PDF is a pity. I am recommending this plugin to my clients and will be purchasing another copy soon, and they have asked about this feature. I have a licensed version on another customer's site and confirmed this limitation. Is there a plan to deal with this, or a work-around?
Thanks
Colin
Hi, Colin.
Sorry to disappoint you on this, but
unfortunately, any calculations of Average, MIN, MAX, and Total will not be exported at all.
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.
If you wish to try better PDF export, our 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.
At this time, we do not have any workaround to achieve exporting the calculation functions, sadly.
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You can make a development suggestion, and our devs will do their best to add a solution as soon as possible.
We can't promise an ETA, though.
Please feel free to search on our suggestions page,
to see if someone may be already suggested this feature. If you can't see it, feel free to add your suggestion there, and as more people vote, the feature will move higher on the priority list.
You can certainly follow our changeLog page if you'd like ( it is also available in the plugin dashboard), where we state any changes/new features/bug fixes during updates;
and our newsletter, so you're informed about new features, bug fixes, freebies, etc.
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Miloš Jovanović
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Thanks,
That's disappointing though. The PDF part of the plugin is a weak point, which is otherwise excellent. As you say, the user has no control over the PDF output in terms of column width, font, etc., and if the table won't fit on the page it just throws the excess away. Doesn't even put it on a second page.
I looked at the WP Advanced PDF plugin, but it's not been updated in a year, has only had 1000+ installs and does a session_start, which is a no-no in WP. So is not a viable solution.
There are many other packages available for developing PDFs in code, and improving this area of your plugin would bring it up to the same standard as the rest of its features. I have used mPDF for example, for PDF creation on the fly.
Colin
Hi, Colin.
Apology for the waiting time on the reply.
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Yes, I can completely understand what you mean.
Just wanted to comment one detail, you mentioned when a table is too wide and does not fit on the page,
for this we have two options,
when you enable PDF as available Table Tool in the table's back end settings,
you will see two new options appear,
I hope that might help at least with that issue.
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Sorry to see that about the WP Advanced PDF Plugin, I see what you mean.
That was used/recommended by our senior colleagues some time ago, I guess it is no longer viable at this current state of WordPress.
Thank you for this feedback and the suggestion ideas, I am passing everything to our developers.
I hope they might improve this as soon as possible in one of the future updates.
Of course, please don't hesitate to open new tickets if anything else comes up that we might help with.
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Miloš Jovanović
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