Sortable table

[jfaction]

Hi,  

I'm hoping to insert a sortable table inside one category - for example if people enter their time zones, one could click to sort the entries by time zone or by person.  

I've tried searching for sortable list and table and don't see anything like this.  If there is one that I've overlooked, can someone point me to it?

Thanks
Shannon

[jfaction]

Bumping this up to ask if this is the right place for this request. If there is somewhere else I need to look, could one of the mods let me know?

Many thanks
Shannon

[Former Member]

This is probably where you want it to be, though it'll require confirmation from an actual plugin creator

[jmmreviews]

Sounds interesting, and probably difficult to code but I would be interested in this too.

[Chris]

Sounds to me like another request to be able to reorder threads or is this for in-post tables?

[jfaction]

It is to be able to sort a table that is itself a post. For example, if the members were to enter their time zone in a table that had user name and time zone, you could click to sort like you do in Excel, so you could group the players by time zone and not by the order in which they entered their info.

[Wormopolis]

there are 2 ways to store this. a forum key, which you get 1 of and it holds 32K worth of data. or a thread key, which you get unlimited instances of, but only hold 4K each, and the thread has to have a link present on the page to have access to its key.

[jfaction]

Thanks - I'm browsing the plugin library and trying to find a tutorial or other introduction to how to do this. Sorry to ask but I have been browsing the help guides and don't yet find directions on thread and super keys. Can you point me in a direction? Do you mean each user would have to use a key to utilize it? Or that I would use up a super key to program it?

Thanks

[Wormopolis]

Well that was more a question as to how you would want to store the table.

[jfaction]

Oh - okay.

So I gather then that this does not exist already and that I should submit a request for it as a plugin?

[Wormopolis]

You already have. But before I start on it , I need the answer to the question.

[jfaction]

Ah, thanks - so do I:

"I have been browsing the help guides and don't yet find directions on thread and super keys. Can you point me in a direction? Do you mean each user would have to use a key to utilize it? Or that I would use up a super key to program it?"

Searching for "super key" in the support forum returns a lot of results that are lists of plugins that take super keys, and I did not find anything in user guides, so I apologize for not knowing more about them - I did a google search and also explored the plugin area of my admin area to see what I could figure out. I'm sure the information is there and that it's just hard to search with it being such a common term. I see that I'm already using a super key for the scrolling sidebar I put in, so I assume then that it's something that's just used up in general on the forum. If I only get one more super key and the table can be done using a thread key, that would be great. The table data would be viewable by any forum member and would be just the most basic table - user name and time zone - so I'd think it would not require too much data storage. I haven't been able to find out enough about the differences to have a preference, so whatever you / the developer thought was best would be fine with me.

Thanks
Shannon

[Wormopolis]

if you use the forum key, you would have acess to the data no matter where you were on the forum. if you use a thread key, you can only access the data when on that thread. if really depends on where you want this table to show, and if you would be ok with it only showing when they visit that thread. alternatively, you can still use the thread key and see the table on the main page IF that thread happens to be the last thread posted in for the board its living in. so for example if you had a board that only had 1 thread (like rules maybe) and the rules thread is the only thread that exists in that board, then on the main page that thread has a link, and therefore the key is accessible. the caveat being if someone were to make a new thread in that board and the last post now switches to a different thread, the data is no longer available.

[jfaction]

Okay, thanks for explaining. I plan to have this time zone table as the only thing in its category so it seems like a thread key would be fine.

Thanks
Shannon

[Wormopolis]

Give me some time on this, I have an instal in Santa Fe next week, so I might not have enough energy at night to work on coding. if anyone else wants to take this on, be my guest, it will get done faster possibly. otherwise I will do what I can next week.