+20I would love to see basic text formatting options for the long text field. At a minimum: bold and italic formatting would be a huge help.
I would like to use long text fields to store short bios for writers. But without the ability to have italic formatting, I can’t properly format the titles of their books.
The markdown formatting tools available in this Airtable community message editor would be perfect.
+16+1 for markdown support in long text data type fields. :thumbs_up:
:thumbsup: Formating for Long text will be very useful
+10Exactly! This is a must! We need to store articles into fields. One can easily create a form for writers to upload their articles so they can be stored in a table. It’s would be a great solution for this purpose, but a wider formatting needs to be supported in “Long Text” fields. A copy paste from word should not lose it’s formatting. I really hope this can be added soon!
+1 for Markdown.
Though I’d also love to see field-tokening and save-as-HTML. Being able to do the Zapier side of document formatting, within Airtable, referencing field values and ideally, formula-generating some portion of long text, would be the jam.
The Long Text field remains our only real portal to decent document formatting…
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+3Hey Airtable team,
Any availability on this? A must have for anyone who think about switching from Trello!
In addition to bold and italics, creating new paragraphs and lists (that persist in emailed records) would help with our flow. In the example given above, an author with a multi-paragraph bio gets squished into one paragraph on email.
+2+1 from me too. This is one of the big things stopping me from switching my solution over.
+24Formatting options for Long Text would be such a powerful thing to have!
What have other users been doing to get around this limitation?
+2Formatting options for Long Text would be such a powerful thing to have!
What have other users been doing to get around this limitation?
I use encoding - square brackets for bold and curly brackets for italics.
Can sub in HTML tags in a formula for outputting.
I use encoding - square brackets for bold and curly brackets for italics.
Can sub in HTML tags in a formula for outputting.
Specially for urls this would be great. Currently if you need to link to multiple urls you have to create an url table and add multiple links from the current record to records in the url table. Besides, this won’t be well integrated (wiki style) in the record notes/description.
Trello mixes the concept of attachment and urls. Since Airtable already support a multiple attachment field, a generalization that sees urls as a kind of external attachment would also support the particular use case I described above.
+7+1 This would allow us to save related documentation to a workflow management process we’re building. Documentation field would contain bullet lists, headings etc. Ideally we’d be able to expose this through api onto a webpage - as such basic html tags would be really helpful.
Is this even being considered? We are evaluating AirTable and this is a major need for us.
How about a new field type, a Markdown field that would cause you not to have to worry about screwing up existing long text content?
In addition to bold and italics, creating new paragraphs and lists (that persist in emailed records) would help with our flow. In the example given above, an author with a multi-paragraph bio gets squished into one paragraph on email.
Yes! and specifically with lists, todo lists with checkboxes please!
+14Please add Markdown support!
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