wpDataTables Integration with Bit Flows: Automate WordPress Table Data

wpDataTables is a WordPress table and chart plugin that helps you create tables, manage data, and display structured information on your website.

Bit Flows is a no-code automation plugin for WordPress that helps you connect plugins, apps, and online tools from one visual workflow builder. You can use it to capture data from WordPress plugins and use that data inside automated workflows.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to use wpDataTables as a trigger in Bit Flows.

Once the setup is complete, a wpDataTables event, such as a new row being created or a table being saved, can start a workflow in Bit Flows.

Requirements

Before starting, make sure you have:

• Bit Flows installed and activated.
• wpDataTables installed and activated.
• A wpDataTables table created for testing.
• Sample table data ready.

Install and prepare wpDataTables

Step 01: Install wpDataTables

Open your WordPress dashboard and go to Plugins > Add New. In the Search Plugins field, search for wpDataTables. Find wpDataTables – WordPress Data Table, Dynamic Tables & Table Charts Plugin, then click Install Now. After WordPress finishes installing the plugin, click Activate to enable wpDataTables on your website.

Step 02: Open wpDataTables and create a table

After activating the plugin, open wpDataTables from the WordPress dashboard menu. After clicking Go to Dashboard, you’ll be taken to the wpDataTables dashboard, where you can create tables, create charts, configure settings, and access support options. To create a table, click Create Table, then choose the type of table you want and select Next. For this guide, select Create a simple table.

Enter a Table name and add a Table description, if needed. Set the Number of columns and the Number of rows, then click Generate table.

Set up wpDataTables as a trigger

Step 01: Select wpDataTables as the trigger app

Open Bit Flows from your WordPress dashboard, then click Create Flow or open an existing flow. In the Flow Builder, go to the Trigger section and click Select an app. Search for wpDataTables, select it from the trigger app list, and choose the trigger event. For this example, select Row Created so the flow runs each time a new row is added to the table.

After selecting Row Created, the trigger setup popup will open.

Now, click Listen Response. Bit Flows will start listening for the selected wpDataTables event. The listener stops automatically after 3 minutes, so perform the test event while the listener is active.

Step 02: Perform the test event in wpDataTables

Open a new browser tab and go to wpDataTables, then open the table you prepared for this workflow. Perform the action that matches your selected trigger event: for Row Created, add a new row; for an update event, edit an existing row instead. Click Save Changes to commit the row, then return to your Bit Flows tab to confirm the trigger captured the sample data.

Step 04: Review the captured response

Return to the Bit Flows tab and check the trigger popup. When the event is captured, you should see Response captured, which confirms that wpDataTables sent the sample data to Bit Flows. Review the Captured Response section to see the captured response data, which is the sample data from the row you just created or updated. Confirm that the table data is available so you can map these fields in the next step, then click Close.

Configure the trigger settings

The current wpDataTables trigger setup does not require extra configuration fields before listening for the response.

Setting	What it means	Example
Trigger app	The WordPress plugin that starts the workflow	wpDataTables
Trigger event	The wpDataTables activity that starts the workflow	Row Created
Listen Response	Captures sample data from the selected wpDataTables event	Create or save a table row while listening
Captured Response	The sample data Bit Flows receives from wpDataTables	table_id, row_data

Captured response data

For the Row Created trigger, the captured response can include:

Field	What it means
table_id	The ID of the wpDataTables table
row_data	The row data received from the table event

The available response fields may depend on the selected trigger event and the table data used during testing.

Troubleshooting

Issue	What to check
wpDataTables does not appear in WordPress plugin search	Install wpDataTables using the ZIP upload method.
wpDataTables does not appear in the Bit Flows app list	Make sure wpDataTables is installed and activated on the same WordPress site.
Response is not captured	Click Listen Response again and perform the wpDataTables test event while the listener is active.
Listener stops before data is captured	Perform the test event within 3 minutes after clicking Listen Response.
Row data is missing	Make sure the row was created or saved correctly in wpDataTables.
Wrong table data is captured	Use a clear test table, then capture the response again. You can filter by table ID later if needed.

Conclusion

You’ve now connected wpDataTables with Bit Flows as a trigger. When the selected wpDataTables event happens, Bit Flows can capture the response data from wpDataTables and make it available inside the flow.

For this example, the Row Created event was used to capture table response data, including the table ID and row data.