Using large tables

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  • Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    I do have thoughts for this, but unfortunately, I don’t have any specifics here yet, nor an estimation for when this might be possible. It’s rather tricky to implement this due to how TablePress loads the data.
    Sorry for not having better news here.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter spiros

    (@spiros)

    It looks like two are the main things to be done for the Ajax-only version:

    1) convert table data to json and save it as a separate file (pretty easy, there are also online utilities doing that, or, give the user an option to provide a URL for such data without doing any conversion)
    2) Reference the specific json file

    Not sure what exactly is the tricky part ??

    https://datatables.net/blog/2019-02-15

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    Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    it’s a little bit more tricky, because of the other options that can be used (like hiding rows/columns, pre-filtering, pre-sorting, etc. from TablePress Extensions).

    Can you maybe contact me by email, I might have an idea. (The address is on https://tablepress.org/impressum/).

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter spiros

    (@spiros)

    Tobias,

    I do not think it has to be perfect and support everything. Just the basic functionality. For example, you could have a specific table type only for server-based that does not include the advanced functionality.

    I mean, it is already quite easy to simply include the datatables files and have it working without Tablepress (for both Ajax and dB flavours, although dB is admittedly more demanding as one would need to create the dB table and columns), but that would require some more technical expertise or a good “How to” guide, for people who are not that tech savvy.

    So, if you add it as a feature or plugin, it good be premium value for you given the 5000 or so limit of the client-based approach. And of course, I would recommend charging for it.

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    Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for your input on this!
    I’ll see what I can do in the future! ??

    Regards,
    Tobias

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