Feature suggestion

  • Resolved dlongm01

    (@dlongm01)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    While working on two or three quite large tables recently I have had a couple of mishaps that involved accidental (if a bit careless) deletion of rows. In the worst case I managed to delete two columns without thinking.

    In both cases I also clicked save before I realised my error!

    This required me to reload the data from source … which of course is more or less fine if the source is still there and not too many changes have been made to the live table before the deletions occurred.

    I know I should be more careful but at the same I wonder if the plugin could help a bit.

    Two possibilities:

    (i) Could a table be (optionally) locked so that it cannot be saved without unlocking (would provide a moment’s thinking time).

    (ii) Could the notifications warning that rows or columns are about to be deleted say say ‘3 rows’ or ‘2 columns’ instead of just ‘rows’ or ‘columns’. (I think this caught me out – I thought I was deleting only one column but did not realise or forgot that I had already selected another column for a different edit).

    I might suggest some sort of undo or the capability to revert to a previous version of a table but I suspect that is way to complicated to do in WordPress!

    (i) and (ii) would at least provide some extra degree of safety (and they probably wouldn’t involve a lot of extras coding?).

    As I say, just a suggestion.

    Regards

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  • Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    I see what you mean and in the long run, my plan here is to allow undoing on the “Edit” screen, as well as restoring old revisions of tables.
    I’m already working on the first idea, but it will still take some time.

    Meanwhile, the idea of making the warning message more precise sounds good. That should not be too difficult, and I’ll gladly take a look at that.
    I’m not really convinced by that “Locking” mechanism though. I somehow doubt that this would be beneficial to the majority of plugin users. It will probably lead to confusion instead, I think.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter dlongm01

    (@dlongm01)

    OK you are ahead of me!

    Yes the notifications should be straightforward enough. As to the locking idea well that’s your call. I think I agree with you, especially if there are other safeguards in place (such as your ‘edit undo’ idea)

    Just suggestions. As I, and others, keep saying you have built a superb plugin in and it’s really useful.

    Thanks for the response.

    Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for the kind words! I really appreciate your feedback, as that really helps to get opinions from plugin users. And only with that can the plugin get better!

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

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