Adding tabular contents to a Paragraph field

RE: Adding tabular contents to a Paragraph field

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:52:33 GMT

You could try the Rich Text Editor plug-in. I have no idea whether it would handle the pasted data any better, but it seems like there's a chance, and that's the only thing I can think of that might.

RE: Adding tabular contents to a Paragraph field

yogeshc0001 — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:37:53 GMT

Hi ,

We also have similar requirements, did you find anything that will help us achieve this ?

Thanks,

Yogesh

RE: Adding tabular contents to a Paragraph field

srinatha — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:26:52 GMT

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your response. However, let me be precise. We have a requirement where we are using one of the interface as an alternative to Outlook where user's can send email as they do in Outlook. Like below

We have all the minimal requirements satisfied like formatting, attachments, links. But, our users have these tables(not excel) with data they use for reporting that they usually send in the email like in above thread. When they copy those tabular data that is being converted to text. Yes Appian behaves like a text editor however I'm looking for any plugins that would retain the original structure.

RE: Adding tabular contents to a Paragraph field

Mike Schmitt — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:48:09 GMT

At the end of the day, anything you paste into an Appian text or paragraph field will work basically the same way that it would if you pasted it into a text editor -- Appian has no special way to make any sense out of table data in this sense. I think the closest you could come is to create an editable grid where a user fills in the data across the individual cells.