Hi there!
I’m trying to have a permanent note to be added on a card widget so that whenever a user decides to create a new entry, this note will stay on the card. I saw on one of the templates you should be able to do something like this in the column:
= {“Note Title”: “Here are the instructions for this portion of the card.”}
I was wondering what would be the best way to remove the brackets and the quotations or is there another way to approach this?
Thanks in advance!
Wait never mind! Figured it out by changing it to CLEAN(“Insert message here.”)
Great! I think just a quoted string (i.e. "Insert message here.") should work too, by the way.
Hi Diana! It’s awesome to see you on the forum. 
Haha thanks Anais! I really want utilize all the help I can get if other people might have the issue as well. And hopefully some of the things that I mention hope can help others!
Oh! Thanks for that tip, Dmitry! I feel like I tried that before, and I don’t think it worked. But that’s definitely a good to know. Any chance, would you happen to know what would be the best way to do a clean newline syntax in the message?
For example, if I wanted to do “Hi there!\nThis message should be on a newline.” Should show:
Hi there!
This message should be on a newline.
Hmm, it should be exactly that!
(You can see it at work in this doc: Grist)
I wonder if something unrelated is wrong that’s making it not work for you. One thing I needed to adjust was the quotes: when pasting your formula from the forum, I got curly quotes, but had to replace with regular straight double quotes in the formula (or single quotes would work too).
I think it wasn’t working originally because I used CLEAN(text) instead of just the strings. Is there a certain way to do that for clean text or is just easier to just leave it as strings?
Also! One other question (though maybe I should make this into another forum post).
How would you clean a formatted text?
For example: I have a column called Ident and this returns a formatted string with the variables I wanted. So the formula looks like, “{} Tutoring Subject(s): {}”.format($Full_Name, $Subject) and it returns: Sandil, Diana Subject(s): (u’Chemistry’,).
$Full_Name is combining the first and last name.
$Subject is a choice list because my colleagues have mentioned they could be tutored for multiple subjects under that one instructor.
I thought this might solve it; making a column called Subject Ident and this would be the formula: “{}”.format($Subject).strip(""“u’,()”"") but I see when 2 subjects are selected I still see this as a result: Chemistry’, u’Geometry
@Diana_Sandil one thing you could try is replacing $Subject with ', '.join($Subject). That will convert format the choices as a list with a comma and space between each choice.
