Hi everyone,
I have quite a few personal courses that I have been building, and when I went to start one of my new ones I noticed I couldn’t add columns anymore under “advanced”, I checked all my courses and it’s the same. I can delete but not add!
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Snackaroons
The option still seems to be present if you go into the database editor.
No idea on whether its absence from the level editor is intentional or not though.
Thank you for letting me know it’s still there in the database editor! I was able to do what I wanted to do 
Yes, the button is still under ‘Database’, but… after clicking ‘Add’ in the ‘Add Column’ window - nothing happens.
I choose ‘Notes for me’ as name, ‘Text’, and ‘Attribute’. Choosing other values also didn’t seem to work. Tried in Chrome and IE on Win10. In IE the view ‘Add Column’ even didn’t open (block popup=off).
Does it work for any of you?
PS: steps: 1. Open a course. 2. Click ‘Edit Course’. 3. Click ‘Database’ and choose a database. 4. Click ‘+ Add Column’ button. 5. Fill in values. 6. Click ‘Add’ - nothing happens.
Are you the original course creator or “just” a course contributor?
I think course contributors can’t add columns. At least, I tried to today after clicking on “edit course” and wasn’t able to add any new columns or rename old unused ones.
I just tried it on a private test course, which has just a few words and only 1 level, and I was able to add a column without any problem. I clicked on “Edit Course”, then “Advanced”, then “Add Column,” and I was able to select the column type, etc., save the changes, and they were reflected in the course correctly.
Thanks for testing @xvg11 and @Duaal. At least I know now that it must be (also) something local.
I think it happened both to my own course and a course where I am contributor, but now you ask I start doubting myself. I’ll check. TBC.
Edit: This is what the site itself says: ‘except only the creator may delete the course’, meaning all else a contributor can do.
Is it a bug?
Yes, that’s confirmed here:
https://memrise.helpshift.com/a/memrise-learn-a-new-language/?p=web&s=course-creation&f=how-can-i-add-a-contributor-to-my-course&l=en
That’s a clear article; it indeed seems to work that way - it’s on helpshift.com. Is that page edited by Memrise?
It contradicts what is on the www.memrise.com itself - that seems to me more authoritative, which would imply that it is a bug. But since people said that the web is not developed at the moment…
There’s only one Memrise ‘Knowledge Base’ (as it used to be called) that I’m aware of. Its’ format was changed some time ago (when they started using helpshift) but the list of what a course contributor can and can’t do is, I think, as it’s always been.
The page I linked to in my earlier post is from the “Course Creation” section, accessed via the “FAQ & Help” link at the foot of most pages on the Memrise website. Can you say where the “contradiction” you mention is? The section on “How can I add/delete a column” is, of course, directed at course creators and not course contributors.
Yes, I can. There is a picture in post 8 of this thread - it’s a screenshot of the Memrise website saying that a contributor has “full access” (except deleting a course).
Thanks for pointing me to FAQ. Yes, I have looked at that page sometimes, but have never realized it was on the helpshift.
Thanks for your help! I suppose I have to accept this as is - we can’t have everything, though I’d really like to add a column to the course. Can Memrise do that for me? @Lien: can Memrise add a column to a course for a contributor, or are we asking too much?
Thanks. I should have read the topic all the way back. Yes, that dialogue box is from the ‘add a contributor’ bit of the course editing tool and is indeed misleading. It needs clarifying (@BeaTrisy?).
Personally, I think it’s right that there should be a limit on what a contributor can be allowed to do. It’s one thing to have someone help with minor edits to correct typos and minor errors in translation etc but quite something else to allow them free reign to alter the overall appearance of a course. There needs to be a way of distinguishing between courses which continue to be administered by their creator and ‘abandoned’ courses which later become ‘adopted’ by someone else with Memrise’s approval.
I raised this issue several years ago (ie that it was not correct) and I thought that is why it was amended in the knowledge base.
I didn’t realise that the statement you refer to still exist - I thought they had amended it.
@BeaTrisy @Joshua can you amend that statement in line with your policy, please (to avoid confusion)?
I agree entirely and have raised this issue too.
I have suggested in this case we become a “Curator” or a “Custodian” of the course
You can just add a new column if you hadn`t add any new level on course creator 
sry about my english, it isn’t my first languge D=
A course Creator can still add an extra column even if there are many levels.
But it doens’t show to me if there are levels 
edit: ohh it shows if i look into database =D’ ty
Please, amend ‘full access’, i.e. make the access ‘full’ (except deleting a course), many people like that much more! Especially contributors for abandoned courses.
@Alanh @DW7: Agree, need for ‘Custodian’ status, which has all rights, except deleting (since that would negate the idea of being a custodian).
