Embed a View in a Rich Text field with an Automation?

[Jonathan]

I’m trying to create an automation that embeds a view inside a rich text field of an entity when it executes.

I think I am to use the “Prepend (or Append) content to Field” Action.

If I use the conventional way to create a link like this: View Name I can generate a link to the View (though it’s oddly not clickable—it just displays the URL, and I have to right-click and ‘open in a new browser tab’), but that’s not really helpful. I’d really like to have the view embedded so I can interact with it right there in the rich text field.

There’s no info on how to embed a view via an automation action. Can I do this?

Maybe via a markdown template? The guide says to mention an entity, I’d use this construction: [[#^DB_ID/ENTITY_ID]]. Just to see what would happen, I extracted the UUID of my view, and I tried using that in the Action like this: [[#^UUID]] and it prepended something called “unknown” into my rich text field. So it obviously didn’t find my View (and I think a mention is not really the same as an embed anyway).

Any ideas?

[Jonathan]

Anyone have an idea?

[RonMakesSystems]

I’m pretty sure it’s not possible…

If you need the view for all the entities you can make a to-many relation view. Do you want to make the view only if it’s a certain condition?

What’s the use case?

You can’t make the embedded views in automations, but you can copy rich text from another entity using automation (with a embedded view)

So there might be a solution here depending on the use case. If it’s for templating.

Lmk!

[Chr1sG]

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