Announcements

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 connect two tasks in a timeline view but then edit the dates elsewhere, the dates will reschedule accordingly regardless. This is particularly powerful if you are working with the same data in multiple views fo

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.  Here are the user groups that we’re revamping this year:  Marketing Product Operations AI Accelerators Higher Education (New!) TB

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 in their activity. In October, our Top Contributors provided 48 solutions, 309 replies, and received 144 kudos. Congrats to all, and thank you for being a part of the Community!    Top Solution Authors 🧠 @TheTimeSavingCo - 21 Solutions Authored  @Pascal_Gallais- - 11 Solutions Authored @Mike_AutomaticN - 7 Solutions Authored @ScottWo

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 groups! @BenGreen will be at the helm of the Marketing User Group, and @Jen_Rudd will be charting the course for the AI User Group. Check out the full list of

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 information according to theme, sentiment, audience, product feature, use case, and more. Route work-in-progress – Uncover smarter operations. Identify collaborators, link related projects, and match your work to initiatives across

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 solutions, 407 replies, and received 174 kudos. Congrats to all, and thank you for being a part of the Community!    Top Solution Authors 🧠 @TheTimeSavingCo - 34 Solutions Authored  @Pascal_Gallais- - 13 Solutions Authored @kuovonne - 9 Solutions Authored @Mike_AutomaticN - 7 Solutions Authored @ScottWorld - 5 Solutions Authored   Top Replies 📨 @TheTimeSaving

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 business impact.  Airtable offers a different way. The people closest to the process – all of yo

👋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-the-box apps built for critical use cases. Available for Enterprise.Verified data: Easily protect and manage your org’s most important data from one place, while making it accessible to those who need it most. Available for Enterprise.Two-way sync: Automatically sync data and edits back and forth between workflows so your teams can easily collaborate on the most up-to-date informatio

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: Open an Airtable base and navigate to the Data tab Create a new Formula field (or click on the column header of an existing formula field you want to change, then click ‘Edit field’) Write

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 solutions, replies, and kudos), but moving forward, we’re going to highlight  5 members! This is an exciting chance to celebrate more Airtable enthusiasts. The more the merrier!  In August, our Top Contributors provided 69 solutions, 496 replies, and received 183 kudos. Congrats to all, and thank you for being a part of the community!    Top Solution Authors 🧠 @TheTimeSavingCo

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 work each person is assigned to. 3. Assign tasks to multiple people 👨‍👨‍👦 It’s pretty common that work is split between multiple people. The resource field now accepts linking to multiple records, which means you can assi

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: Administrative Mastery, including understanding the role of the admin, mastering how to navigate the admin panel and foundations of user management. Organizational Management, including understanding organizations, claiming workspaces and access control. Account Security and Efficiency, including verifying domains, setting up SSO, unde

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 toggled on, form submitters will be asked to sign into Airtable or make an account so their name and email address can be collected with their form submission. Then, form creators will be able to see who submitted the form in the ‘Created

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.     Comment watching. Comment watching allows you to monitor specific comment threads and get notifications when new comments are made. Our three new commenting features are available for all users. Sign into Airtable to give it a try and let us know what you’d like to see next!   

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. In June and July, our Top Contributors really outdid themselves, providing 102 solutions, 730 replies, and getting 270 kudos. Plus, we had a three-way tie for second place in July for most replies authored – it’s a summer sync up! 🔮   Top Solution Authors 🧠 June @TheTimeSavingCo - 33 Solutions Authored  @kuovonne - 6 Solutions Authored @Pascal-Gallais - 4 Solutions Authored Ju

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, upgrading to a Teams account will unlock complete access. Curious to see it in action but don’t have an Airtable account? No worries! Visit www.airtable.com/cobuilder for a sneak peek of what it’s all about. Understanding Cobuilder's Current Capabilities Cobuilder today is des

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, Gallery, and Calendar views. We’ve optimized multiple view types of display on mobile – making each easier to navigate and edit. &n

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: Inline Creation/Deletion and Inline EditingThe second improvement gives you more granular control over your layouts. We've separated the settings that enable inline creation/deletion of

Hi everyone! I'm Helen, a Product Manager here at Airtable and I'm very excited to announce that we're launching the new Record Templates feature to all Pro and Enterprise users.This feature enables you to create templates for your frequently repeated projects and automatically create relevant tasks as linked records every time that template is used. With Record Templates, you will now be able to:Create pre-defined templates for the types of records you find yourself creating over and over againLink related templates together to bulk-create records across tablesSet default field values (including date dependencies) on those templatesSurface templates to end-users in interfaces as record creation options that they can further customize   Some example use cases:A creative team tracking asset delivery. The marketing team specifies the type of asset(s) needed, and the relevant tasks for that asset type are automatically added and linked to the request.A product tea

Hello! I’m Ayesha, a Product Manager here at Airtable. We’re so excited to share a small improvement to let you display your percentages as progress bars.What are progress bars?For your fields that are formatted as a Percent, you can choose to display the field as a progress bar. You’ll see the progress bar in all the surfaces where you see that field today, across your bases and interfaces. In forms, you’ll still see just a numeric input.How do you enable progress bars?Progress bar formatting is a supported option for the following field types:Editable fieldsPercentComputed fields with a numeric result (format must be “Percent”)FormulaRollupLookup (only lookups with 1 number value are shown as a progress bar.)Enable it with “Display as progress bar” under Formatting.You can also enable the ability to see the percent values next to the progress bar.How can you customize the colors?By default, progress bars are shown in a medium green color. If you’re on a Pro plan or higher, you can cu

🩺📈 Exciting news for healthcare providers and organizations! Airtable is now HIPAA compliant and ready to support your critical work. 🎉 We understand the importance of protecting sensitive patient data and maintaining compliance with industry regulations while still making sure your company can function efficiently and effectively. That's why we've implemented the necessary safeguards and are proud to announce that Airtable is HIPAA compliant for our Enterprise Scale customers.  With Airtable's powerful and flexible platform, you can streamline your workflows and collaborate with your team, all while managing your data securely. From patient records to clinical trials, Airtable provides a centralized solution that adapts to your company’s unique needs. 🔒👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ To learn more about enabling HIPAA compliance for your organization, please reach out to your account representative or contact our sales team

:wave: Hello! I’m Ayesha, a Product Manager here at Airtable. We’re so excited to share a new feature with you that allows you to change the term “record” in the product to a term that’s more specific to your table. What is this? When you name a table, you can now optionally select a name for your records from a list of 50+ options. You’ll see that name used in the product where you see your table or view, so you can more easily understand what actions you’re taking. For example, instead of seeing the generic “Add record” action: You can now override this “record” terminology by specifying the work that you want to track. If you choose to call your record a “task”, you and your team can now see “Add task”: How can I set this for a table? You can select this from the dropdown next to a table name, under “Rename table”: What options can you choose from? You can choose from a list of 50+ options, based on common workflows (Project, Task, Event, Request, Campaign, etc.). We do not suppor