Hi - yeah, thatās correct, export the table with the headers in exact order (vs not alphabetical like what bubbleās csv export currently does). In your example above, the csvās header would be:
Name, Age, Net worth, Movies
The export headers should be the same layout / header order as how the datatable is seen / constructed.
@gilles unfortunately, it looks like you will have to delete your existing tables, and reconstruct them. When I did that, the table behaves how we requested. @yusaney1 is correctāit just stinks to have to recreate the tables.
@yusaney1 Is the table supposed to expand in width to fill the group that it is in? Can you add a way to set the width and height so we can customize the size of the table? Also, it would be nice if the table expanded in height to accommodate the number of items shown instead of scrolling. Is this possible? Thanks for the great plugin!
@yusaney1 Alright, miracle man, I have another request.
Iām using a table to create an exportable template. I donāt want to show this table on the screen, but Iāve set it up with the fields in the order I want the export to be created. When I try to download the CSV from the tableācurrentlyāit will only work if the table is visible.
Can you edit to still export a table, even if the table is NOT visible on-screen?
If we can get this, I know it would solve quite a few issues for various forum members and reports/exports they would like to run.
Hello @blake1, thank you so much for your feedback.
The reason that the table has a fixed and not editable width & height is just to guarantee the good health of the app. Itās very hard to maintain a good responsiveness on a table that can have random sizes. Or just imagine an infinite table that has 5.000 rows.
@brad.a.farley will see if we can do something to export csv when the table is not visible.
IĀ“m not sure I get this.
If I have a list of users with colums Name, Team, Acitve Clients
When I do the search for clients (a thing) with the current user (of that row) as contact (a field of the thing āClientā) and then count the number of clients with that preference.
How do I make the searah "Search for Clients with Contact = User on current row?
In a RG I do it by āSearch for Clients with Contact = Current cells userā
I canĀ“t get my head around this with the dataTable
@Kackur As I can best understand, you want a table with the list of your users with columns for the Name, Team, and a count of active clients for that user.
Iām suspicious of your data structureāsounds like you only assign a user as an item of a client. However you end up implementing your table, it would be a lot easier (read: more DB efficient) to also have a reciprocal item Clients (list) under your thing User.
Without that, I donāt think you are going to have much success. Either way, hereās my blind suggestion for your current state:
1: Name = Search for Userās Name join with āā,""
2: Team = Search for Userās Team join with āā,""
3: # of Clients = Search for Clients:count join with āā,""
^^constraint: Contact is in Search for User (no constraint for this search)
That last constraint may or may not work. The plugin automatically does a good job at parsing out the particular items in each row (in your case, the Users of each row), but if you do not have Clients as an item of your User, you may not be able to get the count you want.
Yes, RGās are nicer in this respect, but itās a tradeoff for the exportability, filtering, sorting, etc that you get with this plugin. Hope this helps.
Thanks for your reply!
Actually I already had the list of clients on the user too. But I donĀ“t think you can do a ājoin withā after a ācountā!? Join with can only be applied to a list right?
I end up with only a value on this column in the first row (since I canĀ“t get it on differnt rows without ājoin withā, i guess?
Hello @Kackur, the mission of this plugin is to manage data directly from your database. When we do search to fill the table, we are not selecting a specific field, instead, we do a search for all the fields inside that search row.
Thatās why you canāt use :count after :join with, because count returns one value, while the expected format is a database structure.
Great plugin - purchased it and loving it (also your multi-file uploader). Low priority - can you add a feature that filters a date/range of dates? I tried adding in the option for a start/end date when setting up the āsearch my datatableā, but receiving errors. I imagine we can only search a date or date range within your datatable, like your search button.
@kyan.kabendji, thank you for answering to @gilles question. Much appreciated. Yes, this is the correct way to do that.
About your checkbox question, itās not something that we have in mind to add right now. Will add that feature request to the roadmap of incoming updates.
I am having a problem where I have 3 tables added to separate groups which are not visible by default.
When a menu option is clicked, the workflow āAdd Tableā is triggered for all 3 tables however the table is only initialised for one table which is in the first group that is visible. The tables in the hidden groups are not initialised/displayed.
As a workaround, we added a workflow to āAdd Tableā when a menu option is clicked (and the group is set to visible). This works fine however when a menu option is clicked for the second time an error message is displayed
āDataTables warning: table id=mytab64g56b11290c4 - Cannot reinitialise DataTable. For more information about this error, please see 3. Warning: Cannot reinitialise DataTableā
Here is the workflow that sets the menu states for the groups and adds the tables:
Does anyone know how to resize the datatable (width/height of table)? It seems to be fixed in width and height. I would like to make it wider to show more columns, how does one achieve this?
