The most nerve wrecking plugin I have ever used
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A horrible plugin. I have no words to describe the awfulness of the whole experience of making one simple change. There is no useful Import/Export feature. You have to upload files, but then when it reads the numbers wrong, you are not able to re-upload your sheets. No no, you have reformat your numbers in the sheet, manually change the format of each the columns (from float to a damn string), then copy and paste stuff from your sheet manually.
It has taken me a whole day, of banging my head against the wall with this thing for one simple thing: Migrating my existing tables from my old website.
Don’t even get me started with the Integer format, DEAR GOD. You format a column as an Integer, and all of a sudden you see decimals in your number. Do these people even know what an INTEGER is?
For people who work with relatively large data ( ~1000 rows ) this plugin is an absolute nightmare. It’s so bad I was considering forefeiting my whole task.
Wouldn’t reccommend it to my biggest foe.
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Hello,
Firstly, thank you for taking the time to evaluate our plugin’s functionalities and provide feedback. We are truly sorry to hear about your negative experience with our plugin so far.
After checking with our Support Team on both the Lite and Premium platforms, we were unable to find any support ticket under your name. Could you please confirm if you reached out to our Support Team before posting your review?
If not, it’s unfortunate, as our Support Team could have likely resolved most, if not all, of the issues you described. We prefer not to speculate without knowing the full details of your use case, such as the type of table you are using, whether you have any symbols combined with numbers in the numeric cells of your source data, and your specific concerns about import/export functionalities.
Here are some potential solutions based on the issues you mentioned, just please note, these are only our assumptions based on initially reading the description from your end. For more detailed advice, our Support would still ask you additional questions.
1. You mentioned an import/export feature.
We have the Table Tools feaure which allows you to export table data as CSV, Excel, copy to clipboard, or print the data from the table, but we are not sure exactly what you meant by that point.
2. In regards to importing the data, we have this premium feature which you can use to create an editable/Manual table made by importing the data from your Sheet (CSV/Excel/Google Sheet);
and you can also update an existing Manual table via file upload.
We are just not allowed to discuss any details here about premium features, since this Forum is only made for the Lite/Free Plugin Support.
You can reach out to our Main Plugin Support Team here, though, with a pre-purchase ticket, if you have any question about any premium functionality.
3. In regards to what you described about the Plugin reading the numbers wrong :
– If you have floats in your Source data, and perhaps the Table does not show/match the correct Float Number Format, this can be solved by changing the default Number Format in your Main Plugin Settings.
You can also set your default desired decimal point number there, and later on you can change the number of decimals per individual column setting.
4. Additonally, if you have any symbol combined with numbers in the source numeric cells, this can’t be rendered as numbers in our Plugin, but there is a solution.
You would remove any symbols from the numeric cells in the source data/so just leave the pure numbers in your source cells – then in our Plugin, you can set a prefix/or suffix in the Column Display settings, such as a currency sign, for example or any other content.
Then the Plugin will read this as numeric Data and you won’t have to change it to String Column type.
5. Integers showing a decimal separator :
Do you perhaps mean the thousands separator?
If that is the case, please enable the “Skip thousands separator” option in the Data tab of your integer column settings to resolve this.
6. Tables with larger data :
The loading speed depends on multiple factors, but our Plugin has multiple features to handle larger tables.
For the Lite version, please try using the ?Cache and Auto-Update Cache?Feature for source files up to few thousand rows.
This can help with performance, but only up to around 5 to 6 thousand rows.
If your source file gets larger than that, and if you reach the limits of your Hosting Server and WordPress in general( such as extremely slow load or crash of the Page), then you would need to try the premium Plugin’s server-side processing, there is no other way to solve that specific issue.
That issue does not come from our Plugin itself, but you are rather simply reaching the limit of what WordPress and your Hosting Server performance can achieve.
With non-server-side tables, when the row count goes over a certain number, you can reach the limit of the Hosting Server, if you encounter extremely slow table load, or even crash the browser; because in that case, all the rows are loading at the same time via the HTML of the browser Page;
compared to server-side processing Tables, they use an Admin-Ajax call to only load one Table’s page at a time, which is useful for very large tables, but that would require you to move to SQL based Tables and import your Excel/CSV data in the Database, which is only available in our premium Plugin version.
For example, you can check the table on this Documentation Page, which has 2.560.000 rows and see how it loads.
Please note, that table is an SQL Query based type and uses the said server-side processing to achieve this performance.
We are not allowed to discuss any details about premium features here due to forum guidelines, but our Support Team is ready to assist you further if you open a ticket on our main support platform.
If you would give the Plugin another chance, please open a ticket on the main Support platform here and one of our Agents will respond to advise you on all issues/details as quickly as possible.If you don’t have a licence (or if it expired), please open a pre-purchase ticket which doesn’t require a purchase code.
Premium products are not supported in these forums, as per this comment by www.remarpro.com moderators.
Just to be clear, if you plan to have only up to around few thousand rows in your source Sheet for the linked Tables, as you wrote ~1000 rows, then we should be able to easily help you solve any slow load with the Lite Plugin version;
We are just unsure about all the details needed, and that is why we recommend it is best to reach out to our Main Support, so they will advise you if all of the details for your use-case can be achieved with the Lite Plugin or if some premium function is needed for one or more points.We hope you will give our Support Team a chance to help you resolve these issues and consider updating your review.
Kind regards.
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