Random Features I'd like to see in the future

Question

Hi all! I thought I would share some things I wish I could do on Airtable right now, manifesting that they may be future features.

1. In a long text field, I wish I could use bullets and hyper links. This would help display cleaner for the field in interfaces

2. I wish I could save a record as a PDF from an interface - from the record selector and single record layouts. I know this can be done in Page designer extension but - to my knowledge - page designer does not dynamically space. And its not nearly as easy to customized as an interface.

kuovonne · Accepted Answer

You can do your first ask now. Use the "Enable rich text formatting" toggle in the settings for the long text field.

A common way of turning a record into a PDF is using a third party integration. You can use an automation that is triggered in the interface to call the third party integration and generate the PDF. It isn't as nice as a native solution would be, but it is better than Page Designer. There are several third party PDF generation services available and many have a free trial.

Thanks amazing thank you! I've never noticed that toggle before. I found a chrome extension as well for now to take full window screen shots to PDF. Called "GoFullPage" if anyone else finds this useful

ScottWorld · Answer

There is also a native “print” option on most of the interfaces now, so you can create PDFs from your print dialog box on Mac.

For 3rd-party PDF printing, DocuMint is a good option.

— ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

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