Can’t find Advanced Editor in TablePress

Hi,

thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

On the table’s “Edit” screen, there’s a button in the “Table Manipulation” section.
Alternatively, just hold down the “Shift” key when clicking into a cell. This will also bring up the “Advanced Editor”.

For those links: Yes, you should probably automate that. The best approach should be some custom PHP code that e.g. uses the tablepress_cell_content filter hook to parse the title, find the PDF URL, and then create the link HTML code.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi, Tobias,

Thank you for your response. I apologise to not having responded in return as swiftly.

Mysteriously the advanced editor now appears in TablePress, but the preview of my tables have now disappeared. Since we last corresponded I have deactivated, uninstalled and then reinstalled TablePress. Any further assistance would be of great help.

Yours sincerely,
Trevor.

Hi Trevor,

so, you now see the “Advanced Editor” button?

But you don’t see the “Preview” button next to the “Save Changes” button and also not when hovering a table on the “List of Tables”?

Regards,
Tobias

Hi, Tobias,

Not quite. I see the “Preview” button is both on the list of tables and when I have clicked on the edit table option. And when I click the preview button, a preview comes up but I can’t see how to edit it. I’ll put three printscreen images below to show you what happens.

Trevor

Hi,

ah, so the Preview is working.
You are now looking for the input fields to edit the table. That section is somehow hidden on your site. Please click the “Screen Options” tab in the upper right corner. Then, you should be able to enable the “Table Content” section, which has these input fields.

Regards,
Tobias

Hello, Tobias,

I am grateful that you help me sort out my foolishness and not finding the advanced editor among the screen options. I wonder if I might pick your brains once more about a script error which has occurred when trying to preview a table. The table is quite large, some 9669 lines, which I suspect might be the root of the problem, bed I don’t know what the limits are for TablePress. The the script error is shown in the attached screen grab.

Yours sincerely,
Trevor

Hi Trevor,

it seems that there’s some script of a Kaspersky anti-virus program running in your site or browser? Can you maybe deactivate the corresponding browser extension?

Regards,
Tobias

Thank you, Tobias. Life was much less complicated when we didn’t worry about security settings, anti-virus, malware, bots and phishing scams… But meanwhile, exploring other similar plug-ins, I’m advised that they are not suitable for data running to 9,6669 items each with 7 sub-items, so I’m going to opt for a different mySQL approach instead. But I will of course go on using TablePress for the other tables in my site.

Thank you for your plug-in, thank you for your support, and thank you for your patience.

Yours,
Trevor
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Hi Trevor,

yeah, handling large amounts of data is really difficult. Using a specialized mySQL solution would probably be better here, indeed.

Best wishes,
Tobias