Mar 28, 2018 03:02 AM
Hi team, I’m loving Airtable but have a couple of questions:
Print View - is it possible to remove all the outside boarders and URLs, and just have the content in the PDF?
Second question - the page designer block, is it possible to have more than one record per page? I want to use it to create a price sheet for our products, but having only 1 record per page means I need to have a page per product.
Oct 01, 2018 02:35 PM
In short, I think the problem is that you don’t have a Quotes table, you have a ‘Quote’ table that for me is a “Line Items” table. If you add a Quotes table and relate every Line Item with its Quote record, you will be able to create a Quote from Page Designer. Now you can’t choose a specific record for a Quote (but for a Line Item), and that’s why you can’t create quotes in PD block.
Tomorrow I’ll look deeper.
Nov 06, 2018 02:08 PM
I think I found a solution here after banging my head on how to print multiple records on a page. Elias gave me a hint with his grid layout but there’s one step that is the important one and a bit confusing, that is Define a Record Size.
Click the gear icon when looking at the page block designer. Define a “Record Size”. This is the size for one record!! So pick something like 300x200 for a few fields to display for a single record view.
Edit Layout and then print “In a grid” or “In a list” on a full sheet of paper.
Seems obvious now but my record view was 8x11" paper so if I chose “In a list” i got “One per page”.
Hopes this helps.
Nov 27, 2018 05:19 PM
I can not get this to work the way you’ve done and would love some help please.
example data looks like this…
Events | Students List
event 1 | student a, Student b, student c
event 2 | another list of students
etc | etc
How can I get Page Designer to add the next record?
I have tried all the settings and can only get one record per page. so frustrating!!
Thanks for any help
Nov 27, 2018 05:36 PM
Well somehow this is now working… (EDIT: and now it isn’t…) :tired_face:
I don’t know what I did differently, but I toggled the “show cutting lines” to on, and it worked - multiple records per page. I turned it back of and it still worked…
As noted above the records size needs to be set as smaller than one page so it can fit more than one record on there.
Edit: so now I can’t get it to work again…
I copied the working block = tested it and still working
I left all settings the same and I linked to a different table
I then had to link it to the new view; so all data cleared
I added the new record
NOT WORKING - now it prints 1 record per page!!
such a time waste - AirTable you need to look at this block
Jan 02, 2019 12:48 PM
This Access report is the sort of thing I’m looking to be able to do in Airtable.
Link here.
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Mar 19, 2019 08:16 AM
This was the key step I was missing - thank you! It allows a sort of pseudo-table view. The challenge I’ve found with this approach is that all records have to be the same height, which doesn’t allow for eg variations in length of content in text fields.
Apr 17, 2019 10:41 AM
That did help, thank you! I feel like this isn’t how we should have to do this, but at least its giving me an output I can use, thank you very much Bryan!
Apr 24, 2019 04:29 PM
You solved it! Thanks.
Aug 06, 2019 10:12 AM
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Mar 11, 2020 03:42 AM
Is there any way to make page designer print more than one page in one go when content exceed a one page layout?
Mar 11, 2020 07:30 AM
Yes, you can make the element larger than a page (see image). Unfortunately, there is no auto expand or easy way to make the pagination work easily without clipping a line of text.
Mar 11, 2020 07:32 AM
This is what I use for 2 pages. Let me know if you figure out something better.
Settings:
Record size: Custom
Width: 1300
Height: 3200
Mar 11, 2020 09:25 AM
I tried the most obvious that also seems to work to make the page double the length.
Luckily I don’t have lists that require multiple pages.
Oct 02, 2020 11:30 PM
HOW TO EXPAND DOCUMENT COVERING MULTIPLE PAGES. I AM TRYING TO MAKE AGREEMNT FORM WHICH HAS 6 PAGES
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Oct 03, 2020 08:47 AM
Welcome to the community, @Infinity_Designer! :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: Unfortunately the Page Designer app isn’t really designed for multi-page documents. As some others in this thread have indicated, you can technically create a “page” that spans multiple physical pages by increasing the document height in the settings, but there are also drawbacks mentioned.
You’ll probably need to explore alternate methods for making a longer document. One that I use (for single page documents, but it would work for longer ones as well) is to use formula fields to generate an HTML version of the document, use an integration service like Zapier or Integromat to tie in with another third-party service to convert the HTML to PDF, and then save the resulting PDF back to Airtable. CloudConvert is one service that has HTML-to-PDF conversion capabilities.