At this point I don't care if I sound stupid...

I am not a programmer and this software was billed as being able to use the various functions without technical knowledge. I'm trying to build a simple page based on a CSV file that I have. I've tried finding documentation and cannot find it. All I want, is to be able to configure my CSV file with the fields I want, and that then gets displayed in a Joomla article.

Can anyone help with this?

Hello,

You can use find documentation how to use 'ARI CSV Table' plugin on plugin settings page or on our demo site. For example, if you want to display CSV file which is stored by the following path:

<joomla_dir>/data/sample.csv

type the following code in an article:



Regards,
ARI Soft

Ok, I've viewed the demo site a few times and I can't make sense of it, as I'm a very junior user. I tried putting in the code that you specified and changed the variables to equal my Joomla directory, I put the HTML in as so:

<p>testing CSV usage</p>
<p> </p>
<p> {aricsvtable file="/home/vionfepo/public_html/test.csv"} {/aricsvtable}</p>

So all it displays is the text and doesn't seem to pull the file. I'll attach the file so you know what I'm trying to test.

Could you provide temporary access to your Joomla! backend by email that we can investigate this issue and find the reason of problem?

Regards,
ARI Soft

Check your mail, please.

Regards,
ARI Soft

Thank you, I see what I was doing wrong there. It now displays a little different:

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