In a rich-text enabled long text I can use [] to create a check list.
Trying to create a checklist by default in an automation using the same function but it doesn’t seem to work.
Is there anything different I need to do if this is a capability?
If not i can look into adding it to a script that I have earlier in the automation.
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Can Automation Create Checklist in Rich-Text Enable Long Text?
+10Best answer by tomxys
Hey there, ran into the same issue before! The short answer is: [] only works when you type directly into the editor, because the live WYSIWYG conversion doesn’t trigger when automation injects raw text.
The fix is simple: use the native Markdown checklist syntax instead:
- [ ] Unchecked item
- [x] Checked item
Just paste that into the rich-text field in your automation rule, and it’ll render as interactive checkboxes.
If you need more advanced stuff (assigning items, dynamic lists), apps like Smart Checklist work great too, but the above works for basic use cases right out the gate.
+1Hey there, ran into the same issue before! The short answer is: [] only works when you type directly into the editor, because the live WYSIWYG conversion doesn’t trigger when automation injects raw text.
The fix is simple: use the native Markdown checklist syntax instead:
- [ ] Unchecked item
- [x] Checked item
Just paste that into the rich-text field in your automation rule, and it’ll render as interactive checkboxes.
If you need more advanced stuff (assigning items, dynamic lists), apps like Smart Checklist work great too, but the above works for basic use cases right out the gate.
+32+1 for the ‘[ ]’ like tomxys suggested
Here’s Airtable’s markdown docs: https://support.airtable.com/docs/using-markdown-in-airtable
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