Table within an App's Text field

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Tom Urbanowicz

• May 21, 2015 19:22

Can anyone share 'secret sauce' for making something that looks like a table within a multi-line Text field or Calculated fields? (NOTE: I'm not looking for markup in the Comments/Status). I'm comfortable using PHP/Javascript, etc. if that'll make it work.

I'm trying to get something as basic as:
<TABLE BORDER=1>
<TR>
<TD>Hello </TD>
<TD>World </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

I've tried a combination of markup and HTML, and while I can use tags like <hr>, I can't use  

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  Stefan Ukena

  • May 22, 2015 08:11

  Hi Tom,

  I find the nicest way to achieve this is to use a calculation field. If you have your calculation field return a string with markdown, Podio will nicely format that (though this does not work on the mobile apps). Here is an app package that uses this (have a look at the second screenshot):

  https://podio.com/market/packs/85518-project-based-time-tracking-for-teams

  The markdown table syntax ist described here:
  https://podio.com/market/packs/85518-project-based-time-tracking-for-teams

  And if you are to lazy to type, here is nice visual table generator:
  http://www.tablesgenerator.com/markdown_tables

  Best,
  Stefan

  http://www.diekollaborateure.com/go/podio/help

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  Tom Urbanowicz

  • May 22, 2015 16:01

  Thanks Stefan! That's just what I needed. I didn't catch that I needed to use that approach to the Javascript to build out the table. Much appreciated.

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