Hello, I'm stuck and need your help.
I created a 6-page contract using the Airtable Page Designer extension.
The problem is twofold: I succeeded in the first step but not the second.
Basically, the Page Designer extension only allows you to edit a single page. I found a way to extend the page height by multiplying it by 6. Except that Airtable doesn't allow you to insert page breaks, and I'm exporting a very long PDF file that I can't split. And no matter how hard I search, I haven't found an acceptable solution for printing this contract correctly.
Do you have any solutions or advice?
Thanks!
Question
Print a multiple page document created by Page Designer
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+35Unfortunately, Airtable's Page Designer is very limited, so I don’t think that you will be able to accomplish what you’re looking for with Page Designer.
Perhaps somebody else will have some better Page Designer advice for you, but I feel like your solution is probably going to involve you turning to 3rd-party apps.
Here are a few popular 3rd-party apps for generating documents from Airtable that can do what you’re looking to do:
- DocuMint — the original document creation app for Airtable. Creates PDF files.
- DocsAutomator — creates Google Docs documents or PDF files.
- 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.
- Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable — This may not be what you need right now, but for future reference, Fillout lets you 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
+28Hey
As mentioned above, you will not be able to achieve that using PageDesigner.
This as always been a need for me, and for many other users -you’ll find several posts on this matter on the Community.
The leanest approach you can probably go with is using make (o n8n) and a simple google docs integration where you’ll be mapping your fields to {placeholders} in between curly brackets on your doc. You can find a simple comparison on Zapier, Make, and n8n (automation tools) here.
I would highly recommend you fill out this Product Idea/Feature Request form, so that Airtable can take a look at it.
Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation
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