I couldn't find anywhere where this had been answered, so hopefully someone can help me. I have a few data tables on my site. If I login as the admin and go to the page where the view of the table is located, I can click Edit Item and change that one entry. However, I can't find how to add new or delete entries that are there.

When I'm looking at my data table screen I can see this:
TITLE NAME NUMBER OF ROWS
Example Title Example Name 41 View

However, when I click View, it basically just refreshes the page and doesn't let me view the table. This happens for all my tables. If I'm at the Data Table Management page, I can do everything that is listed there (edit the table itself, claim/disown, schema, etc), but there's no option on this page to edit the data in the table. It says I should be able to do that from the Data Table Content Page. I realize I can edit these entries directly from the database, but the hope is to give a non-administrative user the ability to add and delete entries in this database.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Dan

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dcamburn created an issue. See original summary.

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dcamburn commented
Issue summary: View changes
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ibraaheem commented

Try using views bulk operation module.

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joachim commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

> I can click Edit Item and change that one entry.

> but there's no option on this page to edit the data in the table.

These statements seem to contradict each other.

> However, I can't find how to add new or delete entries that are there.

That's not yet supported. IIRC there's an issue for those features already.

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dcamburn commented

Thanks Joachim, didn't see one that looked similar. I'll try out your suggestion Ibraaheem.

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roderik
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i am also not sure what this bug report references: did you see an edit link for a table row, yes or no?

There are several possibly-related issues:

  • Edit screens / an edit link is only available in the Data Entity module, if you make your table into an Entity Type. (Theoretically this could be fixed, as per #2744843-2: Remove Entity ID field requirement
  • If you've already edited your view before doing this, the "edit link" will not show up until you revert the view and/or cleared caches. That's unfortunately not very clear. #3144433: Entity-fying a table should add edit/add/delete links to the view
  • It's also possible(?) that you're talking about a link to add a table row rather than editing existing ones. The module can't do that yet without a patch: #2326857: Add/Create records form for entities
  • ...and then there's joins. If you've added a join and then removed it... your view totally breaks. (I haven't filed an issue yet because that'll be fixed together with other join-related stuff I still need to work out.)

For now, this is a summary of what isn't totally clear re. editing items. If this issue doesn't have any feedback when the above issues are fixed, I guess this can be closed.