Horizontal Slider Stops Working

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

Can you please post a link to the page with the table where this problem happens, so that I can take a direct look? Thanks!

Regards,
Tobias

Hi @sunsetbld,

in your case, it sounds as if the Horizontal Scrolling feature was not activated previously, right? And now you are looking for a way to enable it for all tables? For that, please add this to the “functions.php” file of your theme:

add_filter( 'tablepress_table_render_options', 'sunsetbld_tablepress_responsive_scroll', 10, 2 );
function sunsetbld_tablepress_responsive_scroll( $render_options, $table ) {
  $render_options['datatables_scrollx'] = true;
  return $render_options;
}

I think, 825mjolen’s problem is that the feature was activated but did not work, but then work again after turning it off and on again (which would also be strange).

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

this particular code would need to remain there permanently. It essentially overwrites the value of the checkbox from the “Edit” screen.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

can you give me a link where it’s not working?

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

thanks! It appears that this table does not have the “Enable visitor features” checkbox checked on its “Edit” screen, correct?

That would be required for the horizontal scrolling to work. Now, this can also be done in the same way with that piece of code, but when doing that, it will likely directly enable sorting, filtering, and pagination for this table. These can then likewise be turned off again, but this would again affect all tables on the site. So, if you want all tables on the site to only have horizontal scrolling, but not the other features, this should do it:

add_filter( 'tablepress_table_render_options', 'sunsetbld_tablepress_responsive_scroll', 10, 2 );
function sunsetbld_tablepress_responsive_scroll( $render_options, $table ) {
  $render_options['use_datatables'] = true;
  $render_options['datatables_sort'] = false;
  $render_options['datatables_filter'] = false;
  $render_options['datatables_paginate'] = false;
  $render_options['datatables_info'] = false;
  $render_options['datatables_scrollx'] = true;
  return $render_options;
}

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

what exact horizontal scroller do you mean here? Can you maybe take a screenshot of that (you can create one by pressing “Print” on the keyboard on Windows, or Cmd+Shift+3 on a Mac, and then upload it to a service like https://imgur.com/) and post the link here?

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

thanks for the screenshots! So this is for the TablePress horizontal scrolling. My guess is that there are maybe JavaScript errors on the page, e.g. as the result of (maybe incomplete) caching. To confirm that, I would need to see the affected page.

If that really is not public, but password-protected, can you maybe contact me via the email from the bottom of https://tablepress.org/pricing/ ?

Regards,
Tobias