Table Creation Utility (0.0.3)

[Todge]

This plugin is to help you create tables for posts, but can also be used by forum administrators to create tables to be displayed in templates etc.

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Current Version 0.0.3

After installing the plugin, if you create a table to be posted you should get a new pop-up. Choose the tables' width, the amount of columns and rows it's to have, and the cell padding, then 'Create Table'.

You can then select individual cells, and edit it's styling and contents by clicking 'Cell Options', the contents can have HTML formatting. The options pop-up can be dragged to a more suitable position, where it should remain until you choose to change it.

When finished, 'Submit' it to add the code to your post.

If you are the main Administrator of the forum you also have an 'HTML' option, that will give you the HTML coding of the finished table which you can copy/paste to add to your templates or headers/footers.

[Raglan]

Hi
After a bit of effort, I have got the popup box, I have produced a "test" table by clicking create table, edited the column headers and the clicked submit.
Unfortunately the table does not appear.
Am I missing something, help would be much appreciated.

What I am trying to do is create a Database which forum members can populate with Models and serial numbers of Lathes they own.

Kind Regards Phil

[Todge]

Oct 6, 2018 8:15:35 GMT -8 Raglan said:

Hi
After a bit of effort, I have got the popup box, I have produced a "test" table by clicking create table, edited the column headers and the clicked submit.
Unfortunately the table does not appear.
Am I missing something, help would be much appreciated.

What I am trying to do is create a Database which forum members can populate with Models and serial numbers of Lathes they own.

Kind Regards Phil

When you click 'submit', does the pop-up disappear and the table coding appear in the posting area?

[Raglan]

Hi Thanks for the reply I have got there by trial and error, I needed to click the become tab before clicking "submit" Thanks.

I have produced and populated the table ok, but would like to add another column , I have been able to add an extra column but it is very narrow.

Are you able to tell me how to adjust the column widths equally divided or custom widths Please.


Regards Phil

[Raglan]

Should read bbcode

[Todge]

Oct 6, 2018 14:19:19 GMT -8 Raglan said:

Hi Thanks for the reply I have got there by trial and error, I needed to click the become tab before clicking "submit" Thanks.

I have produced and populated the table ok, but would like to add another column , I have been able to add an extra column but it is very narrow.

Are you able to tell me how to adjust the column widths equally divided or custom widths Please.


Regards Phil

Oct 6, 2018 15:06:23 GMT -8 Raglan said:

Should read bbcode

The 'become' tab? I'm not sure what you mean by the become tab.. But am glad you got it working.

Adding to the table after posting is not covered by the plugin (yet). I have been trying to add that but it's not the easiest thing in the world to do. You can either do it in the posting edit page.. In the 'Preview' tab, you can click on the table and add rows and columns, but as you say, the widths will be wrong. If all the column widths are the same, you can 'simply' delete all the width attributes by clicking back to the BBCode tab and editing the BBCode. Alternatively, you can recreate the table with the extra column/row using the plugin and simply delete the old one before adding the new.

[Raglan]

Hi Thanks for the update and ideas/options, predictive spelling changed bbcode to become, just one other question you might be able to help with?

Its really a Proboards thing rather than your plugin, I posted the table I generated as my Create Thread, ideally it would be good if other members could populate the table ie edit my thread, do you know if this is possible? or is there a better way?
At the moment members have to PM me and I fill in the data. A safe option regards security of the table and loosing the Data but that way might be too much hassle for some.


Kind regards Phil

[Todge]

Oct 7, 2018 8:43:56 GMT -8 Raglan said:

Hi Thanks for the update and ideas/options, predictive spelling changed bbcode to become, just one other question you might be able to help with?

Its really a Proboards thing rather than your plugin, I posted the table I generated as my Create Thread, ideally it would be good if other members could populate the table ie edit my thread, do you know if this is possible? or is there a better way?
At the moment members have to PM me and I fill in the data. A safe option regards security of the table and loosing the Data but that way might be too much hassle for some.


Kind regards Phil

I'm afraid that's not possible..

Short of giving everyone the power to edit posts in that particular board, there's no way to allow a post to be edited by everyone. The only viable way that I can think of is for your members to quote your post, they can then edit the table within their post and submit it as their reply.

[Raglan]

Hi Thanks for that I will let people PM me as I said and see how it goes.

Regards Phil

[flyingflamingo]

Hello.

I wanted to ask if this plugin can be used for making sortable tables?

[Todge]

Oct 12, 2018 22:36:16 GMT -8 flyingflamingo said:

Hello.

I wanted to ask if this plugin can be used for making sortable tables?

I'm afraid not, this plugin will only help you create a standard table, either for posting or to get the HTML.

To have a sortable table you will need some sort of JS function to sort it.

[adminabp]

I love this plugin!

Todge, one question, would it be possible for the plugin to be able to delete multiple rows or columns at a time?

[Todge]

Feb 25, 2019 12:43:27 GMT -8 adminabp said:

I love this plugin!

Todge, one question, would it be possible for the plugin to be able to delete multiple rows or columns at a time?

Are you wanting to edit the table during it's initial creation? Or are you wanting to edit a table that has already been submitted to the post?

[adminabp]

Feb 25, 2019 14:42:20 GMT -8 Todge said:

Feb 25, 2019 12:43:27 GMT -8 adminabp said:

I love this plugin!

Todge , one question, would it be possible for the plugin to be able to delete multiple rows or columns at a time?

Are you wanting to edit the table during it's initial creation? Or are you wanting to edit a table that has already been submitted to the post?

Edit a table already submitted. I'm using another plugin that allows copy/pasting of content while converting HTML to BBCode to past an existing table from another site into a post. It works great, but it's full of many rows of data I don't want for what I am specifically posting about; and it comes out once a month, so editing it down isn't a onetime thing.

[Todge]

Feb 25, 2019 16:09:48 GMT -8 adminabp said:

Feb 25, 2019 14:42:20 GMT -8 Todge said:

Are you wanting to edit the table during it's initial creation? Or are you wanting to edit a table that has already been submitted to the post?

Edit a table already submitted. I'm using another plugin that allows copy/pasting of content while converting HTML to BBCode to past an existing table from another site into a post. It works great, but it's full of many rows of data I don't want for what I am specifically posting about; and it comes out once a month, so editing it down isn't a onetime thing.

I'm afraid that would be a problem. I have already tried to extend the plugins features to allow editing of an already submitted table and have thus far failed to get a result that I'm happy with.

I will keep trying and maybe get a breakthrough, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you.