Chart Block - Download / Export charts

Hi Romain, and welcome to the community!!!

What is your definition of export/download?

Hi Bill - I’d like to export charts from Airtable to PDF and/or Google Doc to issue reports

Okay, understood, and I agree - this would be a good upgrade to the charts block. Like the page designer and many other blocks, they represent nice friendly cul-de-sacs; cool features that [presently] have no through streets for integration or process workflow.

The only pathway that I’ve been able to use is to first get the data into something like Google Sheets and then use the charting features to render reports and such. Integromat and Zapier can help with moving the Airtable data; the rest is a matter of shaping your reporting process to deliver on your vision.

I have also created seamless reporting services using the Airtable API, Google Apps Script, and documents/charts in the G-Suite environment and complete with automated emails - kinda like this:

Hey, this is easy to do with our new extension, Charts & Reports! You can download charts as PDF or schedule email reports.

Are there any updates on being able to download charts? Charts and Reports seems to be MIA. 

Interface pages now have a print option that you can enable, which enables you to hover over any chart, then click on the 3 dots in the upper right corner of the chart, and then you can choose to print that chart.

When you go to print the chart, your computer should give you the option to save it as a PDF file.

However, if you need to automate the downloading of charts & graphs — or you need your charts & graphs to be downloaded in other image formats (jpg, png, webp, svg, pdf, and base64), then you would need to use external apps like Make to do that.

The easiest, quickest, and most inexpensive way of doing this would be to use QuickChart.io, which you can fully automate & integrate by using Make’s QuickChart integrations alongside Make’s Airtable integrations.

If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one of the ways that you could instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable.

I also give live demonstrations of how to use Make in many of my Airtable podcast appearances. For example, in this video, I show how to work with Airtable arrays in Make.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld