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I have a question regarding the page designer extension.


How to make the data fields automatically adapt to the amount of data to display and for the extension to create as many pages as necessary?


I am setting up a contract. This contract contains a “travellers” paragraph. Under each traveler, page designer displays the information concerning him (package chosen, date of departure, date of return, details of flights, details of accommodation, etc.). The number of travelers naturally varies from one contract to another. There are contracts with 1 single traveler and others with 40 travellers.


On page designer the reserved field does not adapt to the amount of data. In addition, we only have the right to 1 single page!!


How to solve this problem?


Thanks

Welcome to the community, @Houssine_SAYARI!

Unfortunately, Airtable's Page Designer is very limited, so you won’t be able to get what you’re looking for with Page Designer.

Instead, here are 4 popular solutions for generating documents from Airtable that can do what you’re looking to do:

  1. DocuMint — the original document creation app for Airtable. Creates PDF files.
  1. DocsAutomator — creates Google Docs documents or PDF files. 
  1. Make’s integrations — which can be integrated with any document-creation app of your choosing, even something as simple as custom Microsoft Word documents.

    If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one way that you can instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable.
  1. Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable — which offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s forms don’t offer, such as the ability to automatically generate custom PDF files from a form submission.

    I show off this feature on this Airtable podcast episode:

    Using Fillout to create an eSignature approval process with PDF file creation.

Hope this helps!

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

Welcome to the community, @Houssine_SAYARI!


This is not yet possible in Page Designer, but hopefully in the future.


Many people have turned to DocuMint or On2Air: Actions to accomplish this.


There are also many other external document-creation tools that can do this as well, which you would be able to automate with Make.com.


@ScottWorld Thank you very much. Documint did the job 100%.

I have 2 another question pls :winking_face:


1/ How to hide tables from certain users?

2/ Is there an application that allows to create more complete interfaces (forms) than form views? Indeed, I have several salespeople working on the tool at the same time and neither the grid view nor the form view (impossible to add new record) are practical.


Thank you

Yes, that’s what Airtable’s interfaces are for.

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 


This is not yet possible in Airtable. You can do this with external portal tools like MiniExtensions.com.



That’s what Airtable’s Interfaces feature is for.


I tried several times to use “interface” but it seems to me that this functionality only allows to visualize the records. Unless I’m mistaken, it is impossible to “add new record” from “interface”.

I tried several times to use “interface” but it seems to me that this functionality only allows to visualize the records. Unless I’m mistaken, it is impossible to “add new record” from “interface”.


That feature is coming later this month.


But for now, you can (1) add new linked records, or (2) to add main records, you would need to create an automation to do that.

This is super easy with FlexiPage. I’ve tailor made this extension to support multi-page documents and add automation support.

You can create templates within the extension itself

Checkout FlexiPage extension here - https://airtable.com/marketplace/blkxiBhC4JLMwyIaZ/flexipage

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