Awesome and for me, a very timely update! Thank you for letting us know about the new features.

If I could throw in a few nice to haves:

Multirow records

Expanded cells to show all records in a day

Better printing to PDF

If a field is blank, show nothing instead of (empty…)

Does this resolve the “Empty” glitch that popped up couple of days ago? I’m guessing so…

This is great - thank you! I wish there was a checkbox to hide empty fields, rather than always listing “(empty)”

Correct! You can hide those fields (or hide all fields) via the menu included in the screenshot above, which will resolve the empty status

Wow! These are gigantic and much-needed improvements to Calendar View!! :cowboy_hat_face:

Yay!! Thank you!!!

It would be cool if the very first view that opens up when clicking on a calendar event would either:

1. Take us directly to the expanded view, or


2. Show us a summary that mirrors the fields that we have selected in the new “Customize Labels” button.

You can hide any empty fields using the toggle (or you can hide all). I hope that helps!

Right, but I meant in the case where I want a calendar view to show a field on an item, if that field is not empty. If the field is empty, then I’d love for the field to show nothing, instead of “(empty)”.

Got it! I’ll pass this along to the team. Thank you for sharing

Good morning @Jordan_Scott1 and team!

Thanks for these updates and collecting feedback, this is the best!

I have a Calendar view in my gardening base where I’ve configured rolling planting/flowering seasons for plants. In testing these cover image/label options, my main feedback is I have no way to remove an annoying https:/dl.airtable link that appears when I enable photos.

And when I click on any calendar entry with a photo (via my base view, not an interface), I don’t see the image in the card;

Would it be possible to have the Calendar team review and hopefully add granular controls to hide image link and show the image in the card?

Would be keen on hearing if they’ve had any further thoughts to adding rolling date functionality to Airtable too. I have god-only-knows what formula, work-around columns, duplicating entry workarounds happening just so that I can see repeating dates (such as flowering season).

I agree that this expanded card interface needs to be completely rethought.

Hi there,

You’re likely seeing the URL alongside your image because the attachment field is still toggled on under “Customize labels”. If you toggle the field label off, it will stop showing as text and the image will remain.

As for what shows in the expanded view, we’ll definitely think more about this but in the meantime you can click “Expand record” to get to the full view with all fields.

Unfortunately the useful Sidebar images are lost as well as the text when the images are toggled off.

I’m hoping for the ability to see all pictures everywhere in Calendar view (Cards, Dates and Sidebar) - but have the image URL text invisible.

Further details below;

I agree with @Karlstens’ valuable feedback above.

Overall, these calendar changes are a wonderful & significant improvement, although there is still some room for improvement:

1. 
   

   I would really love to see text wrapping of event titles onto multiple lines, so that we can see the full title of an event at-a-glance.

   
   


2. 
   

   When viewing the list of records with dates in the right margin of the calendar view, it would be really nice if we could click on a record’s date and be taken to that particular date on the calendar. Currently, we have to manually scroll through the calendar to go to a specific date.

   
   


3. 
   

   On that note, it would be nice to be able to jump to any date that we want on the calendar without scrolling.

   
   


4. 
   

   Most countries’ calendar weeks start on Monday instead of Sunday. It would be nice to have this option. In fact, 80% of the countries around the world start their weeks on Monday or Tuesday instead of Sunday. The USA is one of the few countries that starts their weeks on Sundays.

   
   


5. 
   

   It would be great if this bug was fixed:

   
   

6. 
   

   As mentioned above by others, it is not necessary to display the word (empty) if a field is left blank.

   
   


7. 
   

   URLs should not display for attachments if those URLs won’t work in November. Although maybe these URLs will continue to work for collaborators, in which case this is fine.

   
   


8. 
   

   As mentioned above in other posts, improvements can be made to the first “expanded view” that you get taken to when clicking on an event.

   
   

But overall, these are relatively minor issues, and the new changes to the calendar view are absolutely fantastic!

We’re almost at a 100% perfect calendar view now, and I am super grateful for that! :cowboy_hat_face:

Great update!

Yes. I was expecting the “label orientation” function like the Timeline view has.

YES! So many data entry mistakes happen because of this.

The dropdown calendar for date & time fields also ignores other countries as well. The dropdown calendar always displays a USA calendar. :man_shrugging:t2:

After testing this end I realise now hiding fields in the card also hides the labels on the calendar view, which is definitely not ideal for us. The two need to work independently please, or you end up with nothing on the card view but hidden fields.

Oh wow, I didn’t realize this. If it acts like this, this is a big dealbreaker.

Dan from Openside also had a great suggestion that is semi-unrelated to this huge dealbreaker:

Since the event titles don’t wrap text to show the full name of an event, we should at least get a tooltip that appears when we hover over the event that shows us the full titles.

Agreed on this. With a full calendar this could be incredibly helpful.

If the span.labelWithSeparator elements remove the white-space: nowrap; property, and make some adjustments to the when/where .truncate-block-#-lines classes get applied, then the Calendar views can achieve wrapping labels while keeping the event duration in view

Hate to be a party pooper but Joe has described exactly the problem that a client of mine has identified. And it’s a big problem. They rely on sharing calendars to external users who can pop up a calendar and see only the field my client wants them to see. But they also rely on having a succinct label for that same item.

Like Joe says, control for these 2 features needs to be independent.

Hmmm, unfortunately doesn’t work too well.

Items with only an end date only show a single line. No other information is shown. Hover over the calendar and it shows the extra info. Makes it basically useless though.

Then of course if you add more than one label they somehow override each other and its useless again.

As in kanban view hey!

This “improvement” has broken the functionality of the calendar for me and, I am sure, for many others. I made a separate post of this but was directed to this discussion, so I wanted to explain the problem here as well.

I have a webpage shared view of a calendar that has a button link to a URL. Previously I could have the button seen when a record was expanded on the web view of the calendar.

Now if the button is enabled under “customize labels” it adds the text of the URL to the calendar entry. How can I continue to have that button to link a URL on a web shared calendar without it showing in the title of the calendar event?

Images to explain what is happening. The button is named “Change Request.” The first image shows the button hidden and therefore not available, but the calendar looks like I want it to. The second with the button enabled, adding the URL information in the event title. The third image is how it has always looked when the calendar event is clicked on to expand the record. This is where the URL could be clicked on. This all worked until just recently.

In an effort to improve the calendar, Airtable ended up completely breaking it.

@Jordan_Scott1 - any details for when the next Calendar updates/fixes will be ready for review? I’m really hoping to see some long standing Calendar requests addressed with this current development push.