Grid editing

  • Resolved kentauron

    (@kentauron)


    6 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    about grid styling (and editing?), that I’d like to use for the admin users, I see your hint is about https://datatables.net/examples/styling/

    Are you part of that project too?

    I’m trying also WP-DB-Table-Editor and WPF-jqGrid that uses slackgrid and jqgrid, that are free (datatables editor and some jqgrid extensions are not free and at the moment I still don’t know if this project will ever go online, so I would prefer free solutions)

    My current issues testing them is how to keep relations between tables and set dropdown and/or autocomplete lists based on values of the related tables.

    Do you know some working examples about that?

    Thank you

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  • Plugin Author Passionate Programmer Peter

    (@peterschulznl)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Kentauron,

    I devide the features of the plugin in two areas (1) the WordPress dashboard and (2) the website.

    (1) My main focus so far was on the dashboard. Within the dashboard I like to support the WordPress user interface as I think this makes it easier for users to work with it. Some day I hope users will be able to create and run fully functional data driven WordPress apps using the WordPress user interface. There is still a lot to do here!

    (2) So far I’ve only added a shortcode to offer data publication on the website. I have used jQuery DataTables to make it as open as possible for users to add there own look and feel. I have not planned to add data administration on the website as I think that the WordPress dashboard has a great potential to offer safe data entry support which is much more risky and complicated on the website.

    I want the plugin to be free and open. Now and in the future. For that reason I like to stick to the WordPress user interface on the dashboard and jQuery DataTables on the website. Seen from that perspective I’ve not planned grid editing. Sorry!

    I am not part of the projects you mentioned. But I’m certainly looking at them to learn… 🙂

    Best regards,
    Peter

    Thread Starter kentauron

    (@kentauron)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    (1) I like that dashboard (maybe I found a little bug in designer, when you change name and type for a field, that field moves at the end of the table, and designer still show it at the right place, so you need to reconcile the table)

    (2) WP-DB-Table-Editor adds menu to tables on the dashboard, and so far I’m working with it; I’ve already modified it to do almost all what I need, included the relations between tables and the dropdown and autocomplete. Maybe I’ll do a fork from it to do my own plugin; with slickgrid you can do almost anything, now I working on pdf output

    Thank you again

    Plugin Author Passionate Programmer Peter

    (@peterschulznl)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Kentauron,

    (1) Thanks for pointing out! I added it to my bug list.

    (2) Your post brought me thinking… I had a short look at grid editing using jQuery DataTables. Maybe I’ll add it to the dashboard to offer (optional) inline grid editing. I’ll do some research to see what the consequences are.

    Let me know if you write your own plugin! 🙂

    THX

    Best regards,
    Peter

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