Force calculate without user change?

  • Resolved petecuff

    (@petecuff)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hi, so glad to have found this plugin… Think it’s going to be fantastic!

    Here’s my use case: using ACF repeater field to hold a table of bulk licence purchase histories, e.g.
    Year | Purchased | Used | Expired
    2018 | 10 | 5 | Yes
    2019 | 10 | 7 | Yes
    2020 | 10 | 1 | No

    Using your plugin, I can now add a calculated value to show how many licences remain in a single row (Purchased – Used) and then to only display if Expired equals No: so far so good.

    I notice however that the calculation only occurs when a user record is saved. Is there any way to ‘force’ the system to calculate for all existing records rather than editing each and every user record? (It will of course be fine going forwards as if more licences are bought/used, it will update the table, but I want to be able to show all uses their remaining available licences without them having to do something first ideally!)

    Many thanks

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  • Plugin Author wundermatics

    (@wundermatics)

    Hi @petecuff

    Thanks! Glad you like our plugin!

    This is an area where we’d need to do some additional research. If I read your question correctly, you’d like a way to process a lot of existing posts to update the calculated field(s) in each existing post. Correct?

    We think this would be best solved by adding a feature similar to how some resize images plugin works. Basically, a UI to trigger a bulk process for a lot (all) posts in one go. Ideally with some UI feature to keep track of progress etc.

    Please let us know if you think this would be a solution to your problem.

    Thread Starter petecuff

    (@petecuff)

    Yes spot on…

    Plugin Author wundermatics

    (@wundermatics)

    OK, thanks for the input.

    Yeah, so this is something we’re looking to include in a future version of this plugin. We’re actively working to push out a few other features, but I think this will be very high on the list when we’re planning the next release after that.

    So please look out for the next couple of plugin updates!

    I’m going to close this support issue since this is really a feature request. But thanks a lot for telling us about your needs, it’s invaluable input.

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