Maintaining Text Formatting

[Sarah_Heyborne1]

Help please:

I am encountering a problem that I have never solved in a systematic fashion. When I send emails via various packs (primarily Microsoft Outlook and Mailjet), I am unable to figure out how to tell Coda/the mail server to maintain the formatting of the text as I have it in a given column.

So if [Contents] is the column and it contains something like:

"Hello,

Message.

Message.

Signature"

I want those line breaks, etc to be mirrored in how the email is formatted when it is actually sent. Currently my formulas generally look like:

sendEmail( ..., ..., ..., content: [Contents], ...) 

What do I need to know about how this text is formatted and how I can signal to Coda/other tools that I want to maintain that formatting?

Thank you!
Sarah

[Tobias_Feistmantl]

Oh god, email formatting is one of the most horrible tasks. In your case, the packs have to support that. Do you use a Canvas field for the email content? You could try to convert the contents to HTML with a pack like this one: HTML Pack, extend Coda with HTML | Coda

[Ramesh_Nagarajan]

Hey there,

I’m a Product Manager at Coda and I wanted to let you know about the new Compose column type we just launched, which eliminates the need to use the Concatenate() and/or Format() formulas to compose dynamic text.

Compose gives you a freeform editor that lets you write and format text, including references to columns (using @) and formula results (using =). The resulting dynamic content can then be referenced by other columns. We hope this helps remove any friction caused by the Concatenate() and Format() formulas in your future use cases!

[Sarah_Heyborne1]

This looks like a very helpful feature, thank you @Ramesh_Nagarajan! Excited to try it out.

And thank you @Tobias_Feistmantl for the recommendation. I forgot to respond but very much appreciated it and am indeed using the HTML pack.