Announcements

Hello Airtable Community! We wanted to gather all of April’s product updates in one place, to make sure we keep you in the loop. Here is a list of changes, big and small, that we introduced in April: We are excited to announce that Calendar View has come to Android! Airtable’s External Table Sync with Box now supports the “Created By” field. Users can now reconnect external accounts in order to renew their permissions. Whether you are new, or very familiar, with Airtable we all know how helpful documentation can be for figuring out things on the fly. Getting help has never been easier with the release of our new in-product Help Center. Clicking on “Help” within Airtable will now give you access to interactive guides, videos, and search access to our support documentation.

It’s a big day here at Airtable. Today, we’re sharing a bevy of new tools so teams of all sizes can accomplish more using Airtable. 🚀 We’ll share a few posts here in the community to cover all of the features that are officially launching today. To start, I have some exciting updates about new Sync functionality below. External source syncing External source syncing enables automatic—and continuous—synchronization from approved sources. Once that data is brought into Airtable, many new possibilities emerge. For example, marketing teams can sync in a list of top accounts from Salesforce for campaign planning. With this feature you can now sync data from Google Calendar, Jira Cloud, Salesforce, and Box. If your company relies on any of these services, this feature can contribute to some massive time savings by removing error-prone manual updates. Salesforce Automatically pull a business object (contacts, leads, accounts, etc.) report from Salesforce into a table on an ongoing ba

Hello Airtable Community! March was a big month here at Airtable with the launch of some highly anticipated features. To make sure no one missed anything, we have gathered updates big and small in one place. We’ll start by shining the spotlight on our latest product updates: We expanded the capabilities of our Synced tables. Created a Marketplace Collection of handpicked tools for those looking to build and expand their Marketing workflows. Introduced a way to organize your views into collapsible View Sections Expanded on our collection of Automation triggers and actions including some exciting new betas (Hootsuite and Salesforce)! Creating Automations has never been easier- with the introduction of new customizable automations templates which will walk through the process of setting up new automations on the fly. Launched the newest View type - the Gantt View allows users to easily visualize a schedule of related activities over time. We have recently updated this view to allow a c

Once you start building out an Airtable base, the number of views (like the new Gantt view) can quickly multiply. To help better organize all of your views we’ve created view sections to enable base creators to organize views into collapsible sections. This provides a new way to manage your views - especially for bases that take advantage of all the different view types, including collaborative, personal, and locked views. Utilizing view sections will allow you to easily find and take action on your views while keeping your view experience organized. Learn more about view sections in this support article →

Happy Friday everyone! We’ve been developing a host of content and wanted to share a collection of new guides created in the past few weeks. If this is helpful to see I’d be happy to share more regularly as well. AutomationsKeep clients in the loop with automatic email notificationsCreate custom notifications for your baseAutomatically send approval emails without leaving your baseAutomatically schedule google calendar eventsAutomate a form confirmation emailPrevent automations from triggering by mistakeDelay an automation from running BetasEmbed and share individual apps (previously a private doc)Excel importer beta (brand new beta) EnterpriseHow to add an enterprise adminHow to grant the upgrader user typeHow to deactivate and reactivate enterprise users Import / ExportTransitioning from spreadsheets to AirtableHow to export a spreadsheet from another source OtherAirtable Sync - Advanced optionsUsing the grid view on Android devicesUsing the DATETIME_PARSE() formulaThird-party subpro

When it comes to marketing workflows, there’s no one-size-fits-all model. Your team is unique and so are your marketing needs. With Airtable Apps, you can customize your base to match your exact workflows. Apps empower you to analyze, enrich, and take action on the data in your Airtable marketing base—all within Airtable, no context switching required. With over 50 pre-built apps available in the Airtable Marketplace, you can create charts, schedule tasks, enrich data, preview content, and much more, in just a couple clicks. Curious about which apps to start with? Here are our top suggestions for marketing teams, all available in the Marketplace collection: Chart: Get a colorful, big-picture overview of a table, such as when you want to visualize projects by status in a campaign tracker. Summarize your Airtable marketing base records and visualize them on an interactive bar, line, scatter, pie, or donut chart. Miro: Work with the speed and flexibility of a whiteboard to brainstorm

Hi everyone! This is Evan from the Airtable team. We wanted to offer another invitation to try one of our newest features - our new Hootsuite Automations action. With our Hootsuite action, you can automatically schedule posts based on content you’ve created in Airtable. Collaborate with others inside of your base and send it off to be posted across multiple social media platforms at once – and apply tags to track the results. To sign up for the beta, fill out this quick form and click the link at the end. There will be a feedback link as well. Thanks, and let us know if you encounter any issues!

Zach here from the Airtable team. Wanted to offer an invitation to try one of our newest features that’s in development - Salesforce Automations actions. With Salesforce Automations actions, you can create and update records in Salesforce directly from Airtable. Enrich your Salesforce instance with information from your base to add context to any interaction you have. You can use this to add new opportunities, adjust contact information, update sales pipeline statuses – and more! To sign up for the beta, fill out this quick form and click the link at the end. You’ll receive a link to provide feedback - we’re looking forward to your insights on this feature and excited to share it more broadly soon.

Hey Community! February is here and we’re starting off the month with a round of feature enhancements to the Gantt app. Milestones Gantt now supports milestones, which represent a single point in time and only require an end date.→ Learn More Hide weekends You now have the ability to hide weekends from your Gantt chart. When this setting is enabled, record date ranges will be represented in workdays rather than “absolute” days.→ Learn More Row height We’ve added a new option for a short row height, allowing for greater information density when you’re viewing your chart.→ Learn More Nested grouping You can now add multiple record groups (similar to our grid view) where groups of records can be expanded and collapsed in the left hand sidebar.→ Learn More In-app record creation Creating new records within the Gantt app is now much faster with the ability to quickly fill in a label and date fields.→ Learn More Share your feedback We’ve restructured our support content to help you better n

If you want to see your work organized by stage—from backlog to complete—you’re now able to do so on iOS with the launch of the kanban view (coming soon on Android). Move work through each phase with just a drag, and rest assured that everything is being tracked, whether you’re viewing it from your kitchen table, your couch, or in a museum. To learn more about using the kanban view, see our support article or our newest blog post. And as always, we’d love to hear your feedback about this new feature!

We just published an in-depth course to help you learn Airtable formulas! You can use this content as a guided path to learning how to leverage formulas, or pick and choose articles that you want to learn more about. The content here covers the majority of our available formula functions with examples of how to use them. I’d love your feedback on this course and any ideas for other content that’d be helpful for learning about formulas. → View the course

We’ve launched a new feature to all customers that help you understand how data is being synced between bases :zap: . You can use the sync activity log to see which bases can currently sync from another specific base, as well as the owners of the synced destinations. Learn more about using the sync activity log in this support article.

Hi there! We’re excited today to announce the support for script templates in the marketplace. We’ve been excited to see this community forum become a rich place for Airtable users to help each other out and collaborate. In particular, we’ve loved seeing the Airtable scripts that are shared on here - script authors sharing the generally-applicable scripts they’ve written with the broader Airtable community. We wanted to support this type of script sharing in a first-class way, to get the scripts you write in front of even more Airtable users that could benefit from them. Introducing: Script templates in the Marketplace Script templates are pre-built Scripts that are now available in the marketplace. We’ve launched with 12 powerful script template use cases with more to come. As an Airtable user, you’ll be able to “install” a script template from the Marketplace, which will create a new scripting app in your base that will be pre-populated with the code for the script. Using the newly

We just released a new feature that allows you to comment on individual attachments in a record. Attachment comments are similar to record comments except you can leave them on any attachment. This allows you to have separate conversations for each individual attachment in a record, and view attachment comments in the record activity feed. You can learn more about using this new features in this support article. Let us know if you have any questions or feedback!

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