Announcements

The Excel file importer is now live for all Airtable users! :raised_hands:t3: You can use this feature to create a brand new base, or, add all worksheets within an Excel file as new tables in an existing base. A couple highlights are: Every sheet in the Excel workbook will be imported as a table. Field types are automatically detected from the cell types. This works for dates, checkboxes, multi-selects, multi-line text, rich text, numbers, currencies, and percents! More information about the Excel file importer can be found in our support center article. Let us know if you have any questions about this new functionality. ✨

We’ve just launched a new beta feature that allows you to import entire Excel files into Airtable. You can use this feature to create a brand new base, or, add all worksheets within an Excel file as new tables in an existing base. A couple highlights are: Every sheet in the Excel workbook will be imported as a table. Field types are automatically detected from the cell types. This works for dates, checkboxes, multi-selects, multi-line text, rich text, numbers, currencies, and percents! If you’d like to sign up for the beta please fill out this short form. After you’ve signed up you can learn more about using the beta feature in this support article. Hope you enjoy the new functionality!

Hello Airtable Community! :wave: We have a lot of exciting news to share today as part of our launch of the Airtable Platform. I’ll share some high-level details here in this post and also direct you to our other announcement resources that include more specific information. Most importantly, I’d recommend reading the official announcement from our CEO, Howie Liu where he covers each of our major new platform features: Apps (renamed from blocks) and the Airtable Marketplace Automations Airtable Sync A new apps marketplace for creators like you Previously, you’ve used Blocks to customize Airtable with pre-built functionality like maps and Gantt charts. Now, with the launch of Airtable Apps, we’re renaming Blocks and expanding the platform’s capabilities by enabling creators to build their own apps fully integrated with Airtable. We’ve also just launched a new Airtable Marketplace where you can browse and install apps created by Airtable, our partners, and creators like you. Today, y

Hello again! Two new field types are now available to everyone today: Created by field The new created by field displays the name of the collaborator who created a record. A couple of notes: Since the person who created a given record will always be the same, there is no way to directly edit the contents of a created by field. Records created prior to the time when the created by field was enabled (June 2020) will have blank values in a created by field. Records created using a form will show “Anonymous” as the collaborator value in a created by field. A record created using an integration that uses your API key will show you as the creator for that record in a created by field. You can learn more about the created by field by checking out the support documentation. Last modified by field The new last modified by field type displays the collaborator who most recently edited the contents of a record. By default, the last modified by field will update when any changes are made by a col

We’ve been hard at work on a number of enhancements meant to make sharing, collaborating, and working in the core Airtable experience ever more delightful. Here’s a round-up of all the improvements we shipped! 1. iOS base invite linksUsers with Creator or above permissions on iOS can now create and send base invite links, as well as see existing base invite links, right from their phones. Learn more about the differences between our web and mobile apps here. 2. Invite multiple collaborators at a timeInvite multiple teammates at a time in the share dialog without needing to press “send invite” after each email. 3. Shared view URL filtersWrite filters in the URL of a shared view link to point recipients to the exact set of information you want them to reference. Learn more here. 4. View & block descriptionsAnnotate views and blocks in your bases to make onboarding into a new base even easier for teammates. 5. Increased CSV upload attachment size to 5MBLooking to start a new base

If you haven’t had a chance to test out the developer preview of the Custom Blocks SDK yet, now’s the time to give it a whirl. The platform team is offering big prizes for the best blocks in three categories: Blocks for Business Teams (5 winners) Blocks for Education or Non-Profit (2 winners) Wildcard (2 winners) With a handy UI kit at your fingertips to make polished interfaces a breeze, a CLI that lets you leverage your favorite developer tools, built-in hosting, and real-time that just works - all working in concert with the user-facing Airtable interface you already know so well - we think you’ll find working with Custom Blocks to build powerful apps fast, easy, and delightful. We’ve even included some use cases to help inspire your blocks! With more than 170,000 organizations powering mission-critical workflows on Airtable today, there’s a tremendous opportunity to expand the functionality of the Airtable platform and help teams around the world achieve more. The contest runs u

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If you’re looking to get started with Airtable, signup to join a live training session on getting started with Airtable! The webinar will cover creating your first base, customizing with fields, views, and linked records, and sharing with collaborators. No prior Airtable knowledge required! Signup here before the webinar starts today at 11:00am PT.. You can signup for other upcoming webinars at airtable.com/webinars.

Hey everyone! We just launched the ability to view, create, and edit groups in grid views for the iOS app. Some notes: Like in the web app, grouping by a field adds headers to the grid view Like in the web app, you can tap and drag records from one group to another to reassign their value (except in views grouped by a computed field) Happy grouping!

Hi folks! The Jira Cloud block is now available to all Pro and Enterprise users. You can use it to initiate a one-way import of tasks and epics from Jira Cloud into an Airtable base. Learn more about it in our support documentation.

We just introduced several formatting options for when you’re displaying attachments from a linked record field in page designer block: Display just the first image in the attachment field, or all Size attachments as square thumbnails, with fixed height/automatic width, or with automatic height/fixed width Set image size and padding

Hi Airtable Community! Airtable is up for a Webby People’s Voice Award, and we wanted to share this with you to ask for your support. The Webby Awards is the leading internation award that honors excellence on the internet. We’re honored to help our community create the systems they need to define—and achieve—productivity for themselves. If Airtable has helped create more productive workflows and systems for you, we’d appreciate your support! Voting ends tomorrow, so if you have a few moments please get your vote in here. Thanks from the Airtable Team!

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve opened up our blocks platform to five trusted partners to create deeply integrated experiences that combine the power of Airtable with their respective products. Learn more: https://blog.airtable.com/extend-your-work-system-with-5-new-partner-blocks/

Hi! We just shipped a small update to the URL preview block: You can now choose to use a specific field, rather than the selected field, in the URL preview block. This makes it easier to display the right preview if the URL is always coming from a single field.

We’re excited to announce a new input method for the scripting block: input.fileAsync! This enables script users to upload files, which the script can then use to do things like create or update records. If you’ve ever wanted to preprocess the data in your files before importing it to your base with the CSV or XML import block, you can now do so with input.fileAsync! Because you can access the file contents from inside the script, you could also do things like conditional record creation or custom fuzzy matching to update existing records. We’re excited to see how you can use this to empower your scripts! The returned value from the file input gives you access to the uploaded File itself, as well as the parsed contents of the file (if supported). Currently, parsing is automatically performed for .csv, .xls, .xlsx, .json, .xml, and .txt files, giving you immediate access to the underlying data. Check out the full documentation for input.fileAsync in the API reference inside the block, o

The page designer block now has a new Set as default font option, which will change the default to the selected font for all new text elements. Any existing text elements with the default also switch to the new font.

We are searching the Airtable community for power-users who’d love to join the Airtable team full-time as an Implementation Specialist! We’re hiring in New York, Austin and San Francisco HQ – check out our careers page to apply.

Hello! We just launched the new web clipper block—you can read more about it here. One of the features of the web clipper block that we’re especially excited about is the ability to export your web clipper recipes and import other people’s web clipper recipes. And so, we think it’s only appropriate that we have a place on the community forum for people to share their web clipper recipes with one another. You’ll now see a new “Web clipper” section in the “Ask the community” category. Here, you can ask others for help, show off your work, or talk about tricky CSS selectors. Also, to celebrate the launch, we’re running a contest until November 9, 12:01 a.m. PST for you to send us your best web clipper recipes. The winner gets a pair of Airpods! Learn more here.

Hi folks! In case you haven’t checked out What’s new in a while, there are a couple of new feature updates that have been released in the last couple of months: New formula function: the ENCODE_URL_COMPONENT() function replaces certain characters with encoded equivalents for use in constructing URLs or URIs. Page designer block update: you can now add borders to all image and text elements on your page. Gantt block updates: you can now export Gantt charts as PDFs , and view your Gantt chart on a 5 year date range.

Due to changes in Google’s APIs, and very low usage of these integrations, we’ve decided to temporarily remove the ability to attach files directly from Google services (Drive, Gmail, Photos) from our iOS & Android mobile apps. We understand that this decision may have implications for existing workflows and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience it creates. Looking further down the roadmap for Airtable on mobile, removing legacy functionality allows us to explore a wider range of possible product decisions. In the meantime, we recommend using either our web or desktop apps to attach files from Google services. We appreciate your understanding!

Airtable plans to end support for direct file uploads from Evernote and Flickr at the end of May 2019. After this date, users will no longer be able to select these services from the sidebar in the file picker dialog; instead, users will have to download files to their local device and reupload them to Airtable. Although our metrics indicate that these integrations are rarely used, we recognize that these changes can be disruptive to some users. We are making the difficult decision to disable this functionality because it is unfortunately required to implement internal reliability and security improvements that will benefit all our users.

Hi Community! Today we’re spring cleaning the Community Forum. While every topic in the forum sparks joy, they aren’t always organized in a way that is easy to find or to follow. We’re adding some new faces to the forum this month (including me!) and we’ll be reorganizing categories as a way to make solutions more visible. Who am I? I’m Danielle! I’ve been at Airtable for about a year and I focus on all things Community, from events to giveaways and everything in between. I’m excited to spend more time celebrating our forum community! What are we changing? Removing Bugs - if you are experiencing a bug, we’d like to know right away! Please submit bug reports directly to support@airtable.com from now on, instead of posting them on the forum. Cleaning Misc - because most Misc posts can fit in existing categories. Adding Formulas - so that all formula discussions can be easily found. Consolidating iOS , Android , and Feature Requests - these categories will become Product Suggestions!

Announcements about Airtable, usually pertaining to new features, improvements, or fixes. For real-time updates on our new features and fixes, check out our What’s New page.

It’s what it sounds like: you can now use chart blocks to create pie and donut charts!

If you have editor, creator, or owner permissions, you can now create new records directly from matrix block. Simply click the + button in the bottom right corner of the desired matrix cell. New records will automatically be filled with the appropriate values in the field used to define the rows of the matrix and the field used to define the columns of the matrix.