Rich editing controls without having to expand a cell

[Justin_Cone]

Hi there, I created a Loom that I think does a better job explaining this feature request than my clunky writing would:

https://www.loom.com/share/06aae34e72a740bdac5c4fd77f489fe4

TL;DR: It’d be rad to have a quicker/more obvious way to expand a Text cell so that rich formatting was available. Thanks in advance!

[Paul_Danyliuk]

Hey @Justin_Cone, welcome to the Community!

First, in the Notes field you still can press Ctrl/Cmd and pop up text formatting controls bubble. It’s not ideal, e.g. you still have to shift-enter and then fix formatting to bullet list, but I’m saying it’s still there just in case you missed it.

Second, soon there’s going to be Page columns, i.e. you’d be able to have full page editing capabilities on the Notes field. Maybe even open it up by itself instead of row details.

Third, you can make yourself a button to expand the Notes field in the big cell mode and put that button above the Notes field. That’s still a button to click, but at least not a small one in the bottom. You’d have to OpenWindow() with a URL that’s specific to that column’s modal and substitute row ID with the one of the current row.

Here’s on the approach:

Ever wanted to open a specific column in "BIG cell editing mode"?

Few months ago we announced a way to open a cell in Expanded mode - few customers reached out to us asking if its possible to open/expand a cell using a button. Here’s a tip/document that shows how you can build it on your own. Full disclaimer: We might change this in future and at that time this would break.