[SOLVED] How to properly format text imported via API/Make.com in the CMS

[Matthieub (Matthieu)]

Hi,

Does anyone know a way or workaround allowing to important formatted text into a CMS item via API and get it to properly render the formatting?

• Importing HTML via API in Rich Text Field in CMS doesn’t work
• Importing Markdown via API in Rich Text Field in CMS doesn’t work
• Importing HTML via API in Code Block doesn’t work

Only solution was to manually copy/paste Markdown into RTF, but I’d like to eliminate that manual step if possible. Actually, it doesn’t work anymore since yesterday, so it eliminated itself it seems.

Thanks

[Matthieub (Matthieu)]

Ok so I’ve finally found a way to import properly formatted text in CMS collection via API/Zapier/Make.com.

The solution uses @memetican’s Sygnal Attributes Library and more specifically Decode HTML attribute.

So if you want to populate CMS items via API/Make and have the content formatted automatically, this is how you can do it:

In Make:

• GET your text wherever it comes from.
• Convert it to Compressed HTML (In my case, I ask GPT to directly generate compressed HTML text).
• Send it to your Webflow CMS Item in a text field (Plain Text Field or Rich Text Field)
  
  

In Webflow:

• In your project settings, add Sygnal Attributes Library code to the HEAD custom code
  

  

• On your Collection Page, where you want your formatted text to appear, add an HTML Embed Element
  

  

• In the HTML Embed Element, refer the text field from your Collection Item
  

  

• In this HTML Embed Element Settings, in Attribute, add “wfu-decode” (Name = wfu-decode ; Value = )
  

  

=> Your content will render as compressed HTML in the Editor but will render properly on your website

Hope this helps!

Cheers.

Matt