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Anybody have a workaround to print out an Interface (physically or digitally as a pdf)? I have a Financial Dashboard that I would like to print and file at the end of each year. 

Some of the interface pages now come with a print option that you can enable.

After you enable the print option, it will appear in the upper right corner of those interface pages.

For the interface pages that don’t come with a print option, you may have some limited success by just printing from your web browser by pulling down from the File menu to Print.

Otherwise, you’d have to handcraft your own printing/PDF option by using 3rd-party apps.

For example, you may want to turn to a Chrome browser extension such as GoFullPage that can create full-page screenshots of your page and turn those full-page screenshots into PDF files that you can then print.

Otherwise, these 3rd-party apps can be automated, and these apps will create perfectly-formatted documents for you that you can then print:

  1. DocuMint — the original document creation app for Airtable. Creates PDF files. You can also get charts and graphs embedded into your document by using QuickChart.
  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 or Google Sheets spreadsheets. 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.

Hope this helps!

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Airtable only supports interface printing for the following layouts/elements I'm afraid:

  • List
  • Timeline
  • Calendar
  • Record Detail
      - Individual record detail pages
      - Up to 100 record detail pages in one PDF
  • Charts

Given that you're only doing this once a year, do you think you could get away with just screenshotting and printing that instead?

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