Column Headings – Table View

  • Resolved revcoincidence

    (@revcoincidence)


    2 months, 1 week ago

    I’ve probably messed this up through sheer ignorance,* but two of my column names seem to be reading from the database table instead of the pretty user-friendly version I would like (and which are in the system). I’ve read your solution to the “App Issues” post, but that doesn’t help me… the Form View:

    • already shows the right (pretty) heading “Burial Date 1” (instead of “burial_date_1”) and
    • I can’t change the column name in Form View anyway (clicking the column name just opens the dropdown menu showing Grid Positioning, Column Settings etc. (It looks like these are greyed out.)
    • I’ve also tried to change the column name in table view (where it shows the “ugly” heading) but they are greyed out, too.

    Help!

    * Ignorance – I really am a novice at this and I am not about to try using phpMyadmin like the other contributor did. What did I do? I had a table that worked, but I tried to change the names of previous column headings using the old Designer module. That just highlighted them in orange in the Designer module and unhelpfully shunted the changed columns to the end of the displayed table, so I dropped the table completely and recreated it from scratch, using the generated “CREATE TABLE SQL.” That made nearly everything orange on the Designer module, but when I uploaded the new data from the CSV, remapped everything and created a new app to read the new data it seemed to display properly (apart from the two headings).

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  • Plugin Contributor Kim L

    (@kimmyx)

    Hi @revcoincidence,

    Column headings can be edited in the App Builder but it’s on the premium version only.

    You can opt to change the names directly on the Designer, as you did. However, after changing, you have to reload the data source of the app in the Manage toolbar so that it reflects the changes you did in the Designer.

    See here: https://share.zight.com/BluP14ew

    That made nearly everything orange on the Designer module

    The orange highlighting appears when you’ve saved changes to the table but haven’t pressed the ALTER button yet. The orange color should disappear after pressing ALTER.

    However, we’ve received reports that it can be quite inconsistent (the color stays even after pressing ALTER), but it shouldn’t cause issues.

    Hope this helps! Let us know if you have other questions.

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