Cross-Doc - Add a new row with Text formatting value

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Dear all,

I want to add a new raw using Cross-Doc pack using formula -
AddRow(shared account, doc url, “Text”, Value)

the Value in the formula is displayed in the first screenshot.
The second screenshot shows what value was added as a result to another document.
The problem is that the formatting is lost.

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Hey Nikita! This sounds like a feature request the Coda team has been tracking. That said, we have moved this post into the Suggestion Box for other members of the Community to chime in on this. We’ve gone ahead and tracked your vote for this feature formally.

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Hello everyone, are there any updates regarding this feature? @Gen

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Hello everyone, are there any updates regarding this feature? @Gen

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Our team is uncomfortable in the absence of this feature for six months.
We really hope that somehow this feature can be integrated easelly.

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Up, we still waiting for this feature.

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There is a way to do this.

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First, don’t use Cross-doc Actions but better use a webhook. There is a free pack in the Gallery for sending webhooks or you can create one yourself, the code is like 20 lines.

Second, for rich text you have to send JSON representation of the rich text object, and on the receiving side convert it back into text.

Button action:

CallWebhook(
  <URL>,
  <TOKEN>,
  Object("text", If(
    thisRow.[Is rich],
    thisRow.Text._Merge(),  // include the object for the rich text
    thisRow.Text            // not a rich object - send value as is
  ))
)

Formula to test whether the text is rich:

thisRow.Text._Merge().ParseJSON("$.type") != ""

Automation on the receiving side

Table.AddRow(
  Table.Text, thisRow.[Step 1 Result].ParseJSON()._Deref_object("text")
)
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Super, thanks a lot for the solution,
Yes, we switched to Web Hooks a long time ago

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@Paul_Danyliuk

We tried this solution and the problem is on the receiving side - the object is not converted to Rich Text using the method

thisRow.[Step 1 Result].ParseJSON()._Deref_object("text")

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My solution still works, so it’s something is with the webhook pack you use.

You don’t send an object there — you’re sending key/value varargs. My guess is that the pack treats the arguments as text and instead of sending the object to the webhook as is, it basically turns that Text._Merge() to string (escapes it).

I probably should just publish my webhook pack to the gallery. Initially I didn’t want to do this because I thought publishing my pack while there was already one wouldn’t be very ethical. However I see there are already multiple webhook packs in the gallery so there’s no more reason not to publish mine too.

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You can use this pack bellow. It’s based on (almost copied from) @Paul_Danyliuk webhook. I tried the other pack in the gallery that is free but I had some issues trying to send values other than text (lists for example)
I kept open source so you can create any modifications you want.

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