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It would be helpful to be able to wrap text within a Formula, Single Line Text or a Long Text field if the column width on view is too small. (Rather than truncate the text)
Welcome to the community, @Alejandro_Marco! :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: Unfortunately there arenโt controls for the kanban view to drive the height of selected fields.
Yeah, itโs surprising that this hasnโt been addressed over the years. Having a UI that allows people to read the contents of the page is a fundamental ux best practice and should be expected at the bare minimum.
Open and clicking details for record sometimes is okay, but when you tag longer answers itโs very painful to do it every single time. Especially if you have more than 10 records to tag!
I am in full support of variable row height as an option and I feel that an extremely useful and standard functionality like this should not be kept from Airtable Customers just to prevent user-error (on a manual choice, no less). Iโve set up up an infrastructure that adds lines for each item of an order, and itโs a smidgen of what it could be because A. Thereโs an incredible amount of wasted space here and B. If the amount of items exceeds 6 then my team will have to click and expand at least 5 cells, which is just unnecessary. A variable row height option would instantly make this setup buttery smooth and really nice on the eyes to look at and process.
The expanded record view does not help present this data at all, really. Itโs a lot of stuff going on, and the expanded record view requires scrolling and occurs in a smaller vertical space.
Through my searches on the forums, itโs clear to me that people really want the dynamic row height feature. Even if we have to go into a hidden menu and unlock this feature, so as to keep people from unintentionally bloating their databases with it, I think a whole lot of Airtable Customers will be very happy.
I am trying to embed content into a public website.
Each embed will contain many records records (anywhere from 1 to 20), so users will need to scroll down to find the one theyโre looking for. We do not ALSO want users to have to pop out a record or scroll through the information. The tallest cell option is not tall enough.
Additionally, formulas do not seem to be supported in the gallery view that supports multiline text, and the data is combined from many fields across many tables.
There does not seem to be an easy option to avoid truncation of the text, rendering the embed less than user friendly.
To be clear, formulas are supported in all views. If you need to add line breaks to a formulaโs output, insert the \n escape code into your string whenever you want a line break. For example:
To insert line breaks between the retrieved values from other fields, do something like this:
{Field 1} & "\n" & {Field 2} & "\n" & {Field 3}
That being said, thereโs still no way to control how the cards in a gallery view appear in terms of the available space for fields containing long text, whether theyโre formulas or normal long text fields. You might need to look into tools like Softr that allow you to display Airtable data in a more web-friendly fashion.
The lack of wrapping text is an intentional design decision: to allow wrapping text, we would need to support variable row heights. Our rows are a consistent height in order to avoid the bloated mega-rows that you often find in spreadsheets. Generally, we believe that that table/grid view should be a good overview of a number of different records, whereas the expanded record view gives you the details.
Interesting philosophy. Fails in practice. I think I want this to work like Filemaker Pro! Perhaps I just need to convince my company to switch to Filemaker Pro.