Feature Request: Lazy Loading Table Data

Hi,

thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

You are right, loading the full table is not always ideal, but unfortunately, it’s the only possibility right now. Having said that, I’m already working on making other loading mechanism possible. The DataTables JS library (that TablePress uses for search, sorting, etc.) can also work with AJAX requests, so that’s something that I’ll be working on for a future version.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

cool! Good to hear that this will be helpful for you as well! 🙂

Best wishes,
Tobias

Hi,

thanks for your question.

Well, kind of… I’m working on finishing TablePress 1.5, which will need another week or two. Barring any unexpected issues, it will come with the update DataTables JS library version, which should then allow us to think about possible ways of getting the table data e.g. via AJAX.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

Yeah, I know what you mean, and I have experienced it myself. Unfortunately, I haven’t found a good solution yet, but I hope to be able to make this better when I rewrite the “Edit” screen in the future.

The problem usually is that the web browser has problems handling the large number of input fields. Some users have achieved a faster performance when using Internet Explorer here (yes, that’s surprising), which presumably has a better management of those input fields.

A workaround would be to edit the table externally, e.g. in Excel, and then re-importing it from a CSV file, choosing to replace the existing table.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

no, sorry, this turns out to be more difficult than expected 🙁

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

yeah, it’s really unfortunate 🙁

The only way that I see (it will require custom code) is to use a database and then some PHP code to generate the table, maybe using the server-side handling that the DataTables JS library from https://datatables.net/ offers.

Regards,
Tobias