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Has anyone been able to successfully add a column to a table?
Has anyone figured out how to ADD A COLUMN to a table?
Now, I know what the directions say, but I can't get it to actually work.
I can add rows. I can delete rows.
I can delete columns.
I cannot ADD a column. This is EVERY table...EVERY time.
Mac or PC ... same problem.
So I've resorted to rebuilding my tables in their entirety and adding columns I don't really need, "just in case...". I can't tell you the number of tables I've had to rebuild from scratch just to get a new column!
Surely, there's a better solution!
Now, I know what the directions say, but I can't get it to actually work.
I can add rows. I can delete rows.
I can delete columns.
I cannot ADD a column. This is EVERY table...EVERY time.
Mac or PC ... same problem.
So I've resorted to rebuilding my tables in their entirety and adding columns I don't really need, "just in case...". I can't tell you the number of tables I've had to rebuild from scratch just to get a new column!
Surely, there's a better solution!
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Yuck, another reason to avoid using the point&click editor. If you switch to classic editing, you can build tables by simply putting pipes (the vertical bar found above the 'enter' key on most keyboards = | ) around cell contents. Easy! -
Inappropriate?What browsers are you using on these machines? I just tried if Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7 and in both cases, the "Insert Column" shows up as expected, and inserts a column after the column in which you right-clicked.
At what point does it not work as expected: after you've clicked "Insert Column" or before that (like the menu doesn't even show up)?
Thanks for your patience!
Vu -
Inappropriate?Hi Vu
Sure, "Insert Column" shows up when you are constructing a new table and it's easy to add another one. That's not the problem. I have tables that are filled with data and I want to add a new column, but I never can. I can add rows, but not columns. The table simply does not respond. Makes me crazy! -
Inappropriate?BTW ... I am using Firefox Browser. I tried it on numerous machines, both Mac & PC.
I'm not the only one experiencing the problem. At least three other colleagues at work have struggled with it. We have not found a solution. The only solution for me has been a most-tedious one -- to create a brand new table and cut-n-paste all the data into it.
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Inappropriate?Have you tried left-clicking first so that the cursor is somewhere in that column?
This is a weird problem, but it seems like a couple different people are having it...
I’m confused
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Inappropriate?Yes, I have left clicked. As I explained, it's not that I don't know what to do. The table simply does not respond. The only work-around I've been able to come up with is to create a brand new table with more columns than I really need -- and then cut and paste everything from the old table into it. As you might imagine, that's a pretty tedious solution!
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Inappropriate?I'm really sorry about this problem. As an aside (it doesn't solve your problem exactly), have you tried a PBwiki 2.0 wiki yet, and if you have, does it have the same problem?
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Inappropriate?What about editing the HTML and adding td tags to create the column manually? -
Inappropriate?We use loads of tables in our private wiki to keep track of items. We also see very inconsistent behavior from the p&c editor when handling tables.
We have been able to add & delete rows and columns, but different computers (all win xp pro & ff2.0) have different experiences on the same tables - sometimes a capability with circles with an x through it appears that allows easy insert and delete and other times it does not.
Our users are not html programmers and don't want to be. I thought that this was the point of the p&c editor. Is the p&c editor being revamped with the 2.0 release? I know that there are a lot of issues with bullet points (another feature we use a lot of).
thanks! -
Inappropriate?A lot of improvements can be seen in the 2.0 Point-And-Click editor. Have you had a chance to try it out?
I've worked with it a little in the past month and it hasn't flaked out on me yet *fingers crossed*. -
Inappropriate?Thanks for the update. I will create some sample pages with tables and invite some of our less technical users to test away.
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?Should I learn some HTML to have necessary control over page display in pbWiki?
I'm struggling with page display as a teacher with a v1 site for my class. I am beginning to experiment with tables to keep content organized and in view with different user screen resolution situations. It seems, for example to be a way to use pictures without in-line display limitations. For instance, I am trying to just get used to the way the Front page elements interact with the Sidebar screen area, because that real estate is the most-seen. It's what the newspaper folks call "above the fold".
I'm no HTML expert. I AM willing to learn some HTML if I can be sure it will "apply" to the v1 or v2 code. I see knowing some HTML as allowing me further adjustment the P&C interface is not allowing.
Will time spent learning HTML pay off with finer control or with there be lots of "gotchas"?
I don't know when I will switch to v2... probably not with this school year's class.
Jonathan -
Inappropriate?Honestly, 1.0 wikis work better for fast deployment of your information rather than micro-management of layout, which often requires better knowledge of CSS and HTML than most people have.
We realized it was a major problem in 1.0 wikis that the editor view was so different from the final product, and this issue has been vastly improved for 2.0 beta, so that things appear more where you expect them to be.
In my opinion, it never hurts to learn some HTML, and actually, my early days with PBwiki were great for messing around with that kind of stuff.
Good luck, and I suggest at least trying 2.0 on your own now even if you don't plan on switching right away for class.
Vu
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