Editing a page designer extension

Once you're done with the page designer settings, you'll see your page. Depending on what's in your table, your page may be pre-populated with a couple of elements to give you an idea of what the page designer extension can do. This article covers the various ways you can edit your page design.

Start editing

To start editing your page, click the Edit layout button (the one with the little pencil).

This will take you into a fullscreen editor experience, in which you can make your own custom page for your table data.

Adding and deleting elements

In the blue sidebar, you'll see a list of all of the fields in your table, plus a few other types of static elements that you can add to your page (text and image). To add a new layout element to your page, click on any of these options.

When an element is selected, it appears with a green outline, and the sidebar changes from blue to green. To delete an element from your page, scroll all the way down to the bottom of the sidebar while the element you want to delete is selected, then click the Delete element option. Alternatively, you can press the Deletekey while an element is selected.

You can also add a new element to your page by duplicating an existing element. To duplicate an existing element, scroll all the way down to the bottom of the sidebar while the element you want to delete is selected, then click the Duplicate element option.

Moving page designer elements

When an element has been selected, you can change its position on the page using a couple of different methods.

• Click and drag the element to the desired location on the page.

• Use the arrow keys on your keyboard while the element is selected.

• Specify the desired X/Y coordinates in the element customization sidebar.

Customizing elements

There are several different ways that you can customize the elements on your page:

Text elements

In addition to all of the customization options described above, text-type elements have a couple of additional options.

To intersperse content from your records within static text, type {Field name} into the text area of a static text element.

You can also adjust the following font options for your text elements:

• Font

• Font size

• Weight

• Line height

• Horizontal alignment (Left, Center, or Right)

• Vertical alignment (Top, Center, or Bottom)

• Text color (specify a hex code or click the color swatch to bring up a color picker)

Clicking "Set as default font" will change the default to the selected font for all new text elements. Any existing text elements with the default also switch to the new font. If the results are not what you expected, you can undo by clicking the undo icon next to the extension's settings button or by using the  CtrlZ keyboard shortcut.

Attachment field elements

If you have added an attachment field as an element to your page, you have a couple of additional customization options. In the Display section of the element customization menu, you have two choices.

Static images

At the top of the add-element sidebar in page designer (at the left edge of the extension once you click "Edit Layout"), you'll see a button that lets you insert a static image, i.e. an image (like a company logo) that you will want to appear the same across every record.

We only support linking directly to a URL to add a static image—you can't upload an image to page designer as you would an attachment to an Airtable base. To add a static image, right-click on the image where it's hosted online and select "copy image address".

If the image you'd like to use is not hosted online(e.x. an image on your computer), you can upload that image to be hosted by Airtable using an attachment field. Start by uploading the image you'd like to use to an attachment field in any record in any Airtable base. Once the image is uploaded, you can click on it to open it in full screen preview. In full screen preview mode, right-click the image and select the option to Copy Image Address (this is the url where this image can be found).

With the Image Address copied, open Page Designer, and paste the copied Image Address into the Image URL field. Page Designer will then create a static image that will appear in the same location on every record included in this installation of page designer.

Similarly to static images, you can add "static text" to any record in the print queue, which will cause this same text to appear in the same location on every record included in this installation of page designer.

Linked record field elements

When you add a linked record element to your page, you can select one of three modes in which to display information from your linked records.

Note

Inserting a URL field will NOT allow you to create a hyperlink. However, if you use a long text field and create the hyperlink within it, and add that long text field to the page designer, then it will correctly create the hyperlink.

Undoing and redoing changes

You can undo any changes made through the extension by clicking the undo icon next to the extension's settings button or by using the Ctrl Z keyboard shortcut.

Similarly, you can redo any changes by clicking the redo button, by using the Ctrl Z keyboard shortcut, or by using the Ctrl Shift Z keyboard shortcut.

If you're using the keyboard shortcuts, make sure that the page designer extension is focused (i.e., that it's been clicked into and is selected to receive keyboard inputs)—otherwise, the keyboard shortcuts will apply to the changes last made outside the extension, in the currently visible table. You can focus the extension by clicking anywhere in its frame.

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