Column in course doesn't show all the expected options

Hi all :slight_smile:

I have a column named “Παράδειγμα” ("Example),in a Spanish-Greek course, meant for illustrative examples. It behaves as expected.

An equivalent column in a different Dutch-Greek course behaves differently. It
either always appears, giving away the word, or when unchecked it doesn’t
appear at all.

When I click to inspect the columns’ attributes, the 1st course “example” column has
lots of different options available. The 2nd course “example” column, on the other hand, just shows
one checkable option.

Why do they behave differently? Can I fix it? I need the example column in the Dutch course
to behave exactly like the one in the Spanish course.

The two courses:
Spanish-Greek: Ισπανικό λεξιλόγιο 1 - by DimitrisAzul - Memrise

Dutch-Greek: http://www.memrise.com/course/1211584/ollandikes-lexeis-kai-phraseis/

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Hi! One is a text column and the other is an attribute column. They can’t behave the same. You have to delete the attribute column and add a text column instead. Then you have to fill all the blanks again. Sorry

but how did it turn? i’m sure originally it was a text column…

can it be that i clicked something and changed it into being an attribute?

thanks…

(in the meanwhile I added a text column and copied the values from the attribute one-by-one since they weren’t that many…)

If you’re adding a new column there’s a tiny box. If you check it will become attribute from the beginning. Maybe you just didn’t notice it. I’m glad there weren’t too many

Hello @Atikker, if I have an attribute column and I am trying to get it to show below the first (or tested material) column word, does this have to be in a certain column… i.e., 2nd, 3rd, 4th? My attributes column is #5

Col #1 - German
Col #2 - English
Col #3 - Audio
Col #4 - Plurals & Inflection
Col #5 - Attributes

I see the option to “Show at Tests” (when I click the column edit pencil) and I have checked it, but once I hit save … the edit popup just hangs there and nothing happens. In previewing the level & words, they are not showing on the first screen, but then they are there in the 2nd “answer” screen and also the 3rd “correction” screen.

Any thoughts on this appreciated… I am not the creator of the course, but I am editing one where the creator is no longer active.

Attributes are shown as labels. If you use web version I think all attribute labels are shown. In app only the first attribute column is shown.

If it’s not attribute but rather text column it is shown only after answering and when you get the phrase wrong. (If you’re a contributor you can’t change columns)

if you could share that course link with me I can show you how it looks to me

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@Atikker wow, thanks for the fast reply…

here is the course… https://www.memrise.com/course/425956/hueber-menschen-a1-vocab/

I am not seeing the attributes, which they are an attribute not text column. As a side note, now as I “preview” the course it is adding every one to my difficult words list! :roll_eyes:

If I could add you as a contributor would you be willing to take a look around inside?

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of course… go ahead

I just did, but your meme showed up as a woodpecker, not a green circle thing…

Tikker is some sort of woodpecker in south Estonian dialect and it also is a gooseberry in written Estonian

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Questions…

There are 4 databases, 2 have no content… those I think can be deleted. “German Grammar” & “Deutsch”

The other two databases… within the levels “databases”, how do I know which database the item comes from?

Currently there are 2 “German” databases. Can they be changed to German1 & German2… without impacting things downstream?

Sweet @Atikker… I see the edits! :slight_smile:

In German 2, please change “pronunciation” column to “Plural”

contributors can’t do that… neither add remove columns in databases already created

you can go to database view and copy paste entries to spreadsheets … it’s a lot of work but a little less than starting a new course from scratch

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