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Rob_Jameson
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

Hi everyone!

Im using automations to send updates of records (a list of 5 at a time) to a slack channel... I have the data I want to showing up correctly, but I'm wondering if there is any way to customize the style/spacing of the output of the "List of Records" in the message block?

For example, I want field names to be bolded, to have the field and data on the same line (instead of next line), and make a different separator than "-----------------------".

The "List of Records" content option in the Messages block has no options to customize that I can see (screenshot)... Maybe there is another solution though?  Wanted to ask!!

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ScottWorld
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

@Rob_Jameson 

That is not natively possible within Airtable's automations.

However, you might be able to make it happen by creating another automation that loops through the found records and keeps adding each record into a rich text field with markdown formatting applied.

Then, you could insert that rich text field into the body of an email.

I haven't tested this yet, but it seems like it could work.

You could probably do a similar thing by writing custom Javascript code, too.

If none of that works, you can do all of this natively with Make's automations by using their text aggregator. The text aggregator will let you apply your desired HTML formatting to each line of a list of Airtable records that are returned by a search.

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

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

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ScottWorld
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

@Rob_Jameson 

That is not natively possible within Airtable's automations.

However, you might be able to make it happen by creating another automation that loops through the found records and keeps adding each record into a rich text field with markdown formatting applied.

Then, you could insert that rich text field into the body of an email.

I haven't tested this yet, but it seems like it could work.

You could probably do a similar thing by writing custom Javascript code, too.

If none of that works, you can do all of this natively with Make's automations by using their text aggregator. The text aggregator will let you apply your desired HTML formatting to each line of a list of Airtable records that are returned by a search.

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

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

thank you Scott!

I keep hearing about Make, so think I will try this....  Ill start with watching some of your videos, and will save your contact info for future consulting...  Cheers!

You’re welcome! Glad I could help! 🙂 Check out the screenshot below for a very basic version of how your Make scenario might look. Your scenario might end up being more complex than this, but this is a good starting point:

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