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CAHerrmann
7 - App Architect
7 - App Architect

Hello,

I am using Airtable for project management. I am trying to shift some of our proposal generation to Airtable and see some promise with the Page Designer Feature.

Just wondering – is it possible to generate multiple pages from a single record? Basically, for each job, I have several components that take up most of a sheet of paper. I need to have a summary table of work to be completed below that, along with terms and conditions.

Our current proposals are 6 pages long using Microsoft Word

Any thoughts on how to accomplish this?

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Geoffrey_Badner
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

I do the same for creating rental contracts for my photo studio. The best solution I could come up with is to have all of the dynamic info that’s pulled from Airtable (client name, booking time/date, fees, etc.) displayed on a single page designed in page designer.

I then export that as a PDF and manually combine it with another 4 page PDF of boilerplate contract details that never changes from booking to booking. I end up with a 5 page document (Airtable page is #1) that I then email to clients.

Kind of a pain in the ass, but until there’s a way to create multipage documents in Airtable (or someone enlightens me to a better solution), I think that’s the best way to go.

Good luck

CAHerrmann
7 - App Architect
7 - App Architect

That’s basically the solution I’ve come up with for now as well.

Not ideal, but workable. I would definitely like to see this support developed in the future, however. As well as support for other editing capabilities (e.g., basic text formatting, box borders, lines, etc.)

Shane_Hubbell
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

This would be super helpful for us as well. +1 here.

Peter_Vellenzer
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

Yes, super, super helpful, if not mandatory and it would make Airtable even more to a killer app!

Sydney_Brown
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

I have this same issue. I would like to use page designer to create projects by college view for reporting purposes. Some colleges have more projects going than can be displayed on a single page. I was hoping this would be a quicker way to make a nice human-readable summary for administration.

Instead, I will have to do an export and use page merge capabilities of Word or perhaps code something up on a web page using the API. :frowning:

Julie_Barber
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

+1 here too. I’m using this for my expense tracking and it would be great to be able to print the expense form and then on a second page print the receipt, but since I can’t do that I’m printing the form, and then printing the receipt separate even though I’m also additionally adding the image or pdf of the receipt as an attachment.

I also hoped to use this for event planning - we have an annual event with booths, and we send out a booth assignment and confirmation. It’s always been a 2-pager and I’m really not sure how to do this with one, so I guess I’ll be experimenting when that event rolls around again next year.

W_Vann_Hall
13 - Mars
13 - Mars

To quote a recent message from another Airtable user:

i found a solution (sort of) for a problem i was having with blocks - in page designer, i couldn’t define one page designer block to have more than one page so that i could print a multipage record. it’s actually pretty straightforward and i feel very dumb. i just set the record size page to “custom” and double/triple/etc the height (1274 px x2 or x3 or more, according to how many pages i want). then i just have to define larger margins in my printer so that it won’t cut out text.

Hellene_Gronda
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

Thanks for the work around, but chiming to support the request for feature development to allow multiple page formatting in page designer block - the workaround is hard to format for printing anything official - how do calculate margins and create headers etc?

Rodolfo_Migliar
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Without this function, Page Designer is actually useless for inventory purposes. Please develop…

Stefanie_Van_St
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Hi,

I just started using Blocks, more specifically the Page Designer.

I created a document using info from my table which is only about 5 lines long. I would like to print multiple records underneath each other on one page instead of each record per page and then leaving more than half a page empty.

I figured I could to it in the print settings, where I selected In a List from the record layout. However, when I do that I still only get one record per page.

How can I print multiple records on one page?

Thank you very much :slight_smile: