Importing data & database questions.

  • Resolved mashedspuds

    (@tonyfrost)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Tobias. Several questions, if you don’t mind!

    1) I’ll be importing a whole load of data at approx 3k – 5k rows at 4 columns. Will TP handle this? This will apply to 12 different pages.

    2) Regarding sorting; if I display, say, 500 results per pagination, will TP only sort the 500 displayed, or show all (3k results)?

    3) When importing .csv file, how do I maintain the original table header?

    4) WP database; when importing new data, will TP overwrite the old data? I’m concerned that my database will become ‘bloated’ and slow everything down. Also, any tips on optimizing TP?

    Many thanks.

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  • Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

    1) That should be fine, and you should not have issues on the frontend, but the “Edit” screens for these tables will likely be very slow and possibly unusable, so that you might have to edit tables externally and then re-import them after modifying them.

    2) With pagination enabled, it will still sort all 3000 rows and then only show the top 500 of those.

    3) The CSV file needs to have the table header as the first row, then everything will be fine. Or do you mean something else?

    4) That depends. Each table has its own entry in the WP database (a table will be JSON encoded, so that it’s stored as one large string). Depending on whether your WordPress site uses revisions, it is possible that older/replaced versions of the table are kept in the database. This does not lead to performance issues though, as those are only loaded if necessary somewhere, which by default is not the case.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter mashedspuds

    (@tonyfrost)

    Many thanks.

    Just one more before I mark this resolved. The option to sort the table; can I disable some and leave the others?

    For example, disable sorting for both: Gig & Created in the header:

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    Thanks.

    Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    yes, that’s possible. Just add this to the “Custom Commands” textfield on the “Edit” screen of the table:

    "aoColumnDefs": [ { "bSortable": false, "aTargets": [ 0, 1 ] } ]

    That will turn off sorting for the first and second column (counting starts with 0 in the code).

    Regards,
    Tobias

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