Announcements

As we close out another great year at Airtable, it's the perfect moment to celebrate the dynamic community you’ve helped to build and some of the exciting moments we’ve experienced together in 2024. From welcoming new members to celebrating impressive milestones and innovative product launches, let’s reflect on the standout highlights that made this year so special! 📊 Engagement Galore In 2024, we welcomed 13K+ new members, saw nearly 25K posts, and you all gave over 11K kudos. Members also earned 35K badges on their community journeys, celebrating solutions, kudos, visits, replies and posts. Great work, everyone! This community is truly a powerhouse of knowledge and collaboration, and it’s fantastic to see our members focused on fostering a positive and supportive environment for all. 🥂 2024 Highlights

Hello! I’m Ayesha, a Product Manager here at Airtable. We’re so excited to share an improvement to interfaces that will let you create a new layout to help provide an overview for your app. With this new layout type, you can easily add text blocks, bookmarks, and links, and even customize it with a logo and cover image. Interfaces are built for collaboration. We’ve seen so many customers create amazing apps with Interfaces that help their team members: Know exactly where to go and what to do in an app Focus on the information that matters to them Use pages that are designed specifically for their work With our new Overview layout, you can build a new front page for your app – providing important context for your team, highlighting the most critical pages w

Hello Airtable Community! My name is Akshar Patel (AP) and I am a Delivery Consultant here at Airtable. We are thrilled to announce a powerful new feature that will revolutionize the way you manage and import data into your Airtable bases: CSV Import in Interfaces.     What is CSV Import in Interfaces? With this new feature, end users can seamlessly upload CSV files directly through the interface, making it easier than ever to add data to your Airtable base. Say goodbye to manual data entry and hello to efficiency! We’ve heard from customers that supporting the ability to import CSVs in Interfaces can help unlock use cases like data entry for marketing teams, inventory management, and project planning. Interfaces can

It’s here! You can now configure form fields so that they display or hide based on the submitter’s responses in previous fields. Here’s how to use it in the form builder: Underneath the field title/description, turn ON the toggle switch labeled “Show field only when conditions are met.” Choose another field and the value or condition it should meet. Like with filters, you can add as many conditions as you’d like to a field. And here’s some useful tips: You can chain together multiple conditional form fields in a sequence—i.e., use one conditional form field as the condition for another form field You can make conditional form fields required! When a conditional form field is set as required, it is hidden by default until its condition is met. Once its condition is met, the form will still require it to be

Today we're excited to release three new features that will greatly improve Project Management workflows in Airtable. These include a new gantt layout option, date dependencies which work across views and a better way to preview utilization when assigning tasks. 1. Gantt in interfacesIf you ever wondered why we needed two separate views for timeline and gantt, so did we. Gantt is now a layout option within timeline view. This means you can now view and manage dependent tasks within interfaces or anywhere else you have a timeline view, by selecting gantt in the new layout toggle.   2. Date dependency configurationPowering the new gantt option in timeline is the ability to configure date dependencies which work across all of your views and interfaces. So if you conn

Hey Airtable Community, We're thrilled to announce that we’re revamping our User Groups Program! To better serve our diverse and vibrant community, these user groups will create more opportunities for you to connect and share Airtable knowledge with your fellow Airtable enthusiasts. What are Airtable User Groups? ⚡ User Groups are for the users, by the users, so members can feel uniquely empowered to drive the conversations and learnings that matter most to you. All groups are going to be centered around either an industry, vertical, skill, or special interest, and we’ll continue to evolve the groups that we offer. We want all of our community members to feel connected! As a user group member, you can expect virtual group meetings every other month, as well as dedicated forums where you can have discussions and network with your peers. 

Hey Airtable Community, welcome to our October Top Contributors update! Each month, we take the time to highlight the outstanding members whose contributions to the Airtable Community have truly made a difference. These are the folks who go above and beyond to elevate the Airtable experience for all. Our Top Contributors don't just impart knowledge; they also bring a spirit of positivity and encouragement to the community. When recognizing our Top Contributors, we look at the quantitative data (e.g. most kudoed, most solutions), as well as the quality to make sure everyone follows our Community Code of Conduct and Guidelines

Hey Airtable Community, we have some exciting news that will help take your Airtable experience to the next level! 🌟🚀   Airtable User Groups In case you missed it, we recently announced the relaunch of our Community User Groups. The buzz is real, and it's clear from the response we got that so many of you are eager for more opportunities to connect with peers in your industry, or with folks who are using Airtable for similar use cases.  These dynamic groups are all about uniting individuals with shared passions and success stories across various industries. I've already had so many chats with community members who can't wait to share their use cases, and help enable others in their field to leverage Airtable in an impactful way. We also have some incredible new leaders for these user gr

We're thrilled to announce the release of Airtable AI, a set of features with the potential to transform your workflows! These features allow you to embed generative AI capabilities directly within your Airtable apps to help your team make better decisions faster, increase your team’s efficiency, and allow you to differentiate your business. Airtable AI lets you leverage the power of generative AI models with your own data and workflows, all in a safe and controlled environment.  What you can do with Airtable AI: Summarize and discover new insights – Get to the point, faster. Airtable AI can parse large text fields and thousands of rows of data to surface the most relevant information. Categorize information – Action your data easily. Tag and organize i

Hey Airtable Community, and welcome to our September Top Contributors post! We're excited to shine a light on the exceptional members who have gone the extra mile to help others in the community. Not only are we recognizing top members from a quantitative lens (e.g. most kudoed, most solutions), but we also take a look at quality to make sure everyone follows our Community Code of Conduct and Guidelines in their activity. And remember, starting last month, we’ve upped our member recognition to the top 5 members in each category! In September, our Top Contributors provided 68 sol

Hello! My name is Sarah and I’m a software engineer at Airtable focused on helping new users get up and running with Airtable. I’m excited to jump into the community and share that today we’ve launched the ability to close form submissions! This will allow you to stop accepting form responses and show a friendly message to your users instead of the form. Previously, you would have had to unshare the form and users would see a generic page unavailable message. Here is a link to our updated support documentation related to this functionality.We hope you’re as excited about this as we are! 🎊

Hi Airtable Community, Today, we’re announcing new capabilities that unlock a new level of scale and sophistication for the workflows you build on Airtable. With today’s launch, Airtable is taking a massive step forward in becoming your digital operations platform for the AI era.  You’ve shown us that there is a gap in the market: On one hand, project management, collaboration, and SaaS point solutions are often quickly adopted by teams, but don’t scale up to solve cross-functional business processes. These tools have bolted on AI features that are limiting and inflexible.  On the other hand, there’s the heavyweight approach of building your own custom internal apps from scratch. While this route allows greater control, you’re bottlenecked by technical teams who have a laundry list of requests from the business. With AI, this path is just too slow and disconnected from real busine

👋Hi all! I’m Stephanie, product marketer at Airtable and I'm so excited to introduce some powerful new features to help teams build AI-powered apps on top of shared data—all within a single, scalable platform.Today, we’re bringing AI to Airtable, making Airtable the easiest and fastest way to deploy AI-powered applications across the enterprise. We're also releasing new features to empower teams to get up and running and build powerful apps quickly with a suite of pre-built applications for marketing and product teams.  Apps by Airtable: Get set up and running faster than ever with out-of-th

Hello everybody! :tada: I’m Sean, an engineer here at Airtable, and I’m excited to share a small (but hopefully mighty 🤞 ) change we made recently to grid view. Have you ever had a lot of fields in a view, and had difficulty finding the field? Well now searching (with CMD-F / CTRL-F) will highlight fields as well as cells: Zooming into the exciting part: You might also notice that we added summary information at the bottom. The number of cells found (in case you relied on how many “matches” were found previously), as well as how many matching records and fields there are!

Hello, I’m Rosalind and I’m a Product Marketing Manager at Airtable. I’m excited to share a small but often-requested new feature with you today: the ability to output the result of formula fields as a set of single-select options! Formula fields already allow you to output their results as plain strings, numbers, and dates, and now we’re adding the ability to output results as a set of predefined single-select options. Single-select options are more visually pleasing than plain strings and clearly illustrate that a field has one value within a defined set of possible values. We’ve heard from many Airtable builders who have used Automations to achieve the same result by copying formula results into single-select fields – hopefully, those Automations can now be retired!  To try out the new feature:

Hey Airtable Community, and welcome to our August Top Contributors update! We're here to cheer on the incredible individuals in the Airtable Community who go above and beyond to elevate everyone's Airtable experience.  Our Top Contributors are the true champions. They not only share their expertise but also bring positivity and encouragement to everyone in the community. When selecting our Top Contributors, we value both quality and quantity, ensuring they follow our Community Code of Conduct and Guidelines.  Historically, we’ve highlighted the top 3 members in each category (most

Hello Airtable Community, We're back with some little big timeline view improvements to make it easier to plan and manage capacity across projects. Here's a high-level summary of the improvements we've made: 1. Re-designed summary bar ☘️ We made the summary bar fully responsive, so values will be visible in most cases. When they're cut off you can now easily mouse over them to see the full value. We also improved the display of holidays and time off which now show as 'PTO' or whatever custom label you prefer. 2. Drill into tasks & projects 🔎 You can now group by person first and tasks / projects second, allowing you to get a high level picture of your team’s utilization and then drill down into the specific

Hey Airtable users, we have something incredible to share with you today! Drumroll, please... Introducing our brand-new nine-course Admin Essentials Learning Path and Admin Certification, now available in Airtable Academy! 🌟 Why should you be jumping with joy over this release? Well, imagine being able to get your new admins up to speed in no time or quickly validating the mastery of your more experienced admins. This learning path and certification are designed to do just that - making your admin journey smoother and more rewarding than ever before! 💼 Here's a sneak peek at what you can expect to learn in this comprehensive coursework:

TL;DR: We’ve added the ability to automatically collect form submitter info so form responses can be tied to a specific person. Hello everyone! My name is Stella, and I’m an engineer at Airtable focused on improving the in-base forms experience. We’ve received many requests from form creators who want the ability to see who submitted a form response without needing to add an additional name or email form field. We’re excited to announce that we’ve added a new feature to the form view that will allow form creators to collect submitter information automatically.  Form creators can opt into this functionality using the ‘Collect respondent email addresses automatically (sign-in required)’ toggle at the bottom of the form designer.    When

Hi there! I’m Rosalind – a product marketing manager at Airtable focused on helping teams build powerful, custom applications that make work more efficient. Today I’m happy to share more about some of our latest updates to comments in Airtable. Now, you can quickly react to comments & keep up with async conversations with your team through Airtable. What’s new? Reactions. With comment reactions, you can quickly share feedback and show support with an emoji reaction. Threading. With threaded record comments, you can add a comment in reply to another comment to help keep async discussions organized.  

Hello Community! This is quick announcement about a new base we built called the Formula Playground, created as a space to reference and test out formulas on the fly. As the name of the base indicates—we created the Formula Playground base experience with “play” in mind for a more hands-on approach to learning and testing out formulas. You can create a personal copy of the Formula Playground here, or check it out at any time in the Formula field reference article. As always we’d love your feedback on this base! You can add any comments or feedback here in this topic. 💫

Hey there, welcome to this special edition of our Top Contributors update, covering both June and July!  We love to shout out the amazing folks in the Airtable Community who have really gone the extra mile to help others step up their Airtable game. These Top Contributors are the real MVPs. They don’t just share knowledge, but they also bring so much encouragement around everything Airtable. When we pick our Top Contributors, we look at both the quality and quantity, making sure they not only know their stuff but also embody our Community Code of Conduct and Guidelines in their activity.

Since the launch of Cobuilder, we’ve been thrilled to see the enthusiasm and innovative uses our community has embraced. Today, we're here to address some of the most common questions and provide clarity on how everyone can leverage Cobuilder to its full potential. For those of you who missed the announcement or want to learn more scroll to the bottom for quick links. Pricing and Availability First off, we’re excited to announce that Cobuilder is accessible to all Airtable users! Whether you’re on a free or trial account, you can start exploring the capabilities of Cobuilder right away. Free and trial users will experience Cobuilder with a limited number of runs. For those looking for the full power of Cobuilder, upgradi

Hi all! I’m Rosalind – a product marketing manager at Airtable focused on helping teams build powerful, custom applications that make work more efficient. I’m happy to share that we have expanded the capabilities of our interface feature for our Airtable mobile application.  Starting today, users can access an expanded list of layout types on mobile, including Kanban views, Charts, and Numbers. New Interfaces functionality on mobile  Automatic setup. We’ve designed interfaces on mobile to work without any user setup required. All you need to do to access your interfaces is log in to your Airtable account through our mobile application on an iOS or Android device – your interfaces will show up automatically! Note that interfaces on mobile do not yet support the Blank, Timeline, Record Review, or Record Summary layout types.  Support for List, G

Hello, Airtable community! I'm Johari, a software engineer here at Airtable. I'm excited to share some enhancements to Interfaces that will give you more control and flexibility when collaborating with your team.New Linked Record Creation/Deletion in Various ElementsThe first enhancement allows collaborators to create and delete new linked records directly within List, Grid, Calendar, Kanban, and Timeline elements. This feature simplifies the process of adding and deleting related records. Gone are the days of the lock icon and complex workarounds to create/delete linked records in interfaces. Now, you can swiftly and seamlessly accomplish this within your current layout. To access this functionality, you will need to enable the Inline Creation/Deletion setting mentioned below. Settings Separation: Inl