I see there are some new elements appearing on a list block’s item fields’ configuration, such as prefix, suffix, max number of lines, auto formatting. These are great. Finally, we are moving toward being able to massage the content of a field within Softr, not in Airtable.
Previously, because of the lack of such features I had to tweak the display content in Airtable, resulting in one of my tables having over 250 columns because of that.
I was really hoping Softr would introduce basic text manipulation options for its item fields, like CONCATENATE, TRIM, SUBSTRING, REPLACE, etc… But the prefix and suffix, is better than nothing.
However, I notice that the prefix and suffix appear on new lines, not merged to the value pulled from the data source on the same line. That’s an issue. The prefix and suffix should appear on the same line, merged to the pulled value from the data source. If the user wants to do a newline between a prefix and the pulled in value, then the user should be able to do that with a newline directive, or <br>, if that’s what they want.
But then again, if Softr introduced basic string functions, that would solve the issue.
Thanks