ECI 3.0 Available
Feb 3rd, 2011 // In: Easy CSV Importer // By: Ryan Bayne
- A new panel named View and Test Files has been added to the Start page. You can select a csv file, any separator and the contents of the file will be printed to screen within a table. This is handy for testing and eventually I will add some buttons to test data in various ways and some for making mass changes to the data. Please contact me if you feel you need anything like that.
- A widget has been added to the dashboard, the same RSS one which shows on the plugins home page.
- Move tokens and shortcode boxes on the design page, they are now page wide to accommodate long column names
- I created a new shortcode specifically for labels, should the expected value be blank in your data, you can display a default value i.e. Unknown or TBC. You may also choose for the label not to be shown at all should the data value be null. This is a type of condition but not done through the conditions page. I have held of proceeding with the conditions page until I know what cannot be done with shortcodes which are generally easier and more flexible to upgrade.
- Log file is reset when it reaches 300kb, this value can be changed and the reset is actually the file being deleted then created. Today someone reported an issue with the log file not opening, notified through an interface message. If you are experiencing such an issue please let me know as right now I cannot see why it would happen other than some sort of path or permissions issue.
- Open and closing curved brackets are now stripped from csv file names, they were causing a list of errors when such a file name was submitted on start page.
- When using the Pre-Set Date option on the Data Functions page, the plugin will now tell us if the data holds dates suitable for using in WordPress. Some date values cannot be converted and previously we would create posts then discover date issues. If you have experienced issues with your post date and use this feature, please feedback to me soon with the results.
- When we save Custom Fields the message tells us how many we created. However the total was also including the rows with Key values that had not been paired with csv file columns. That has been corrected so if you have 10 values in 10 different box on the Custom Field form but only pair one of them to an actual column using the menus provided; the message will confirm 1 Custom Field has been saved.