Announcements

The Airtable Community Change Maker Spotlights are a new ongoing series where we will be highlighting inspirational creators across the Airtable Community. We are thrilled to be able to highlight Chris Huey! LM: How would you describe yourself on the back of your autobiography? CH: Chris is a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) specialist with 10 years of development experience, specifically in youth development and human rights advocacy. He has a strong background in technology and information management systems and is particularly interested in the nexus between technology and MEL as a way to improve the efficiency and accuracy of data management for the purpose of making good data accessible to those who can learn from it. He has a master’s degree in international development from the University of Denver and is a proud returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Peru 2010-2012).  LM: How do you use Airtable? At work? At home? CH: I began using Airtable on iOS for personal asse

Hi Airtable Community, I’m excited to share that we have launched a brand new Help Center! Airtable’s Help Center is the go-to learning resource to find documentation about every Airtable feature - from automation guides to formulas, our goal is to ensure the Help Center has the answers you need. And, if you aren’t finding the help you need, you can always get in touch with our Support team directly through the Help Center. In the new experience, you’ll have access: Improved search to more easily discover content A dedicated page to see articles that have been recently updated Better navigation to visually browse through specific product areas Integrated article feedback to let us know how we can improve our content Please head over to support.airtable.com to check it out and share your feedback (you’ll see a feedback option at the bottom of every article)!

The Airtable Community Change Maker Spotlights are a new ongoing series where we will be highlighting inspirational creators across the Airtable Community. We are thrilled to be able to highlight Alli Alosa✨ LM: How long have you been using Airtable? AA: I created my first account in December of 2017, so it’s now been 5 full years! While it might sound a little over-the-top, my life has changed so much over those 5 years as a direct result of Airtable. I started my own business as an Airtable Consultant, began co-hosting an Airtable Podcast (BuiltOnAir) and have worked with and even met in-person so many amazing people from the Airtable Community. LM: How do you use Airtable? At work? At home? AA: As an Airtable Consultant, I’m using the platform virtually the entire work day. I help clients with setting up, maintaining, and updating their bases. I also use Airtable to track the hours I spend helping clients, generate invoices, collect and respond to new inquiries, and more

Welcome to the new Airtable Community Experience! We are so excited to welcome you back. Whether you've been a member of the Airtable Community since day one or you joined us a few clicks ago, thank you for being part of the community - you all bring Airtable to life in a way that inspires us every single day. A few things to explore: Join a group. If you're looking to connect with like-minded individuals who are using Airtable for marketing or product operations, we've got you covered. If you're looking to help us shape the future of the Airtable Platform, we now have a Research Opportunities group and our product team can't wait to connect with you. Introduce yourself to the rest of the community. We were all new once, let's celebrate one another. Events. We now have a dedicated events calendar so you can keep a pulse on all the opportunities to connect with like-minded creators and the Airtable team. Product Ideas. Take a look at our updated product ideas area. The team will be wor

The Airtable Community Change Maker Spotlights are a new ongoing series where we will be highlighting inspirational creators across the Airtable Community. We are thrilled to be able to highlight Jason Hill ✨ LM: How would you describe yourself on the back of your autobiography? JH: Jason is a lifelong educator who has dedicated his career to educating youth and adults.  He started his career as a High School teacher who focused on Career Development.  He taught computer networking, web design, graphic design, and video production subjects.  Throughout his teaching career and into administration, Jason has focused on computer systems and their integration into the daily lives of students and adults.  He built systems that created mutual workflows and communication at a comprehensive high school.  Moving into district administration, he implemented and managed a popular student information system used by all teachers, students, staff, and parent

The Airtable Community Change Maker Spotlights are a new ongoing series where we will be highlighting inspirational creators across the Airtable Community. We are thrilled to be able to highlight Shae Redding – Rogers✨   LM: How would you describe yourself on the back of your autobiography? SRR: Shae Redding – Rogers was born in Manhattan, New York by a single mother that never let her give up on her dreams and encouraged her to find her own voice. Growing up Shae always saw the hidden depths of the world that other people sometimes miss in their haste or preoccupation. Shae wanted to choose a path in life that was in line with her mind, body and soul and her studies led her to Architectural Photography. Shae enjoys being able to bring out the beauty of a space or a building that would otherwise go unnoticed or unheard.  Besides her passion for photography, she also enjoys various hobbies like gardening, cooking and woodworking.  LM: How l

The Airtable Community Change Maker Spotlights are a new ongoing series where we will be highlighting inspirational creators across the Airtable Community. We are thrilled to be able to highlight Nick Robeson✨ LM: How would you describe yourself on the back of your autobiography? NR: As a Digital Project/Product Owner, streamlining processes and automating workflows are two of my biggest passions. If there’s a way I can eliminate or automate a tedious manual task for someone, I’m all in.  My passion for technology and continuous improvement has been around since I can remember. Back in my college golf days, I was always looking to get better using the latest and greatest technology to improve my swing mechanics. Shortly after college, I took my passions to the fintech industry and haven’t looked back. When I’m not working, I’m either adding to my sneaker collection, playing golf or spending time with the family in the metro Detroit Area! LM: How do you use Airtable? At

The Airtable Community Change Maker Spotlights are a new ongoing series where we will be highlighting inspirational creators across the Airtable Community. We are thrilled to be able to highlight Mark Figueiredo✨ LM: How would you describe yourself on the back of your autobiography? MF: Mark Figueriedo is a UX designer that found his way into Design Operations after trying to label himself in the design field. Mark loves design leadership, organizing teams, and uncovering the coolest and newest tools and practices for his teams to use and explore. He’s a social guy who loves to network, meet new people, and share his passion for teams and people. LM: How do you use Airtable? At work? At home? MF: I started using Airtable at work a few years ago. At that time, I didn’t know what it could really do, but over time I became a huge fan. In my new role, I was able to really dive in and turn a standard base into a power-house of roadmapping and planning goodness. I started to use Airta

Happy February! We’re excited to announce that our new remoteFetchAsync function is now live within the Scripting App. One of the most common issues we see users run into when writing scripts is in trying to use the fetch API to communicate with an external service. Because Scripting App scripts run directly in the user’s browser, fetch requests will be blocked by the browser if the target server doesn’t support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). The new remoteFetchAsync method transmits the request from Airtable’s own servers rather from the user’s browser, thereby getting around CORS issues. remoteFetchAsync works very similarly to fetch and expects the same inputs, except for a handful of “gotchas” stemming from the fact that this is run from a backend. Resources to get started: Read documentation: Learn about the functionality of remoteFetchAsync here. Share your script template with Airtable customers: Already built a script that utilizes backend fetch? Submit here to get it l

Hi all - I hope you’re doing well and for those who celebrate, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. I’m excited to share that on December 1, 2022, the Airtable Community is moving to a new platform! Upgrading this experience is a huge step forward for the community, and I can’t wait for you to see it. Here’s what you need to know: In order to finalize the migration to our new platform, the Airtable Community Forums will be down from November 28 to November 30, 2022. Please note that all forums will be inaccessible during that time in a ‘read-only’ state. All of your content, leaderboard points, and login information will be automatically carried over, so no action is needed on your end. On December 1st (hopefully by 10 am PT at the latest), you’ll be able to use your existing login information to sign in at community.airtable.com. Since its creation, we’ve been so proud of the curiosity and creativity of this community. What you’ve all created is incredibly special and we can’t wait

The Airtable Community Change Maker Spotlights are a new ongoing series where we will be highlighting inspirational creators across the Airtable Community. For our first spotlight, we are thrilled to be able to highlight Hannah Wiginton ♥️ JS: How would you describe yourself on the back of your autobiography? HW: Hannah Wiginton is a professional marketer, copywriter, and grant writer helping thoughtful, passionate companies grow. She has her own solo consulting business, HW Consulting, where she supports companies with marketing and strategy. She's the Director of Marketing for On2Air, a software company that creates extensions and apps for Airtable. She's also the Communications Director for a nonprofit organization helping kids in foster care, where she manages communications, marketing, and grants. Focused and driven, she's created and managed marketing and ad campaigns, spearheaded fundraising events, and written grant proposals generating millions of dollars in reve

The Airtable Community Change Maker Spotlights are a new ongoing series where we will be highlighting inspirational creators across the Airtable Community. We are thrilled to be able to highlight Danielle Combs ✨    JS: How would you describe yourself on the back of your autobiography? DC: I am an avid outdoor enthusiast that loves hunting, fishing, hiking, and cycling with my amazing husband Chris, and our two dalmatians Decker & Dutchess. I have a passion for helping others and am a geek when it comes to data and numbers. JS: How long have you been using Airtable? DC: 2 years JS: How do you use Airtable? At work? At home? DC: At work, it is one of the most important tools I use. JS: What is your favorite Airtable feature? DC: Automations! They save me so much time and ensure consistency in processes. I would be lost without them and love how they work with so many integrations. JS: How did you learn how to use Airtable? DC: Our amazing CSM and the great learning resour

Hi everyone! We’re excited to offer an invitation to try one of our newest features - Outlook Calendar External Source Sync. With Outlook Calendar Sync, you can sync all of the events within a given date range from an Outlook Calendar into Airtable. From there, you can use all of Airtable’s core functionality to work with the data: views (I recommend Calendar view), filters, sorts, automations, and more. To sign up for the beta, fill out this quick form and click the link at the end. The feature should become available within a few minutes of clicking the link. If it doesn’t, try refreshing the page. Please note that this feature will only work if you’re on a Pro or Enterprise plan. And if you have any feedback about the feature, please submit it via this form.

Hi all, My name is Don and I’m a product marketing manager here at Airtable (for those of you I’ve had the opportunity to connect with already, hi again!). I wanted to share that we’ve published a blog post today outlining many improvements and iterations we’ve made over the past months to make it easier to create and collaborate in Airtable. For context, much of this work came from a desire to make our product simpler: A team of engineers, designers, product managers, writers, and well, marketers like me, have been spending time talking to our users about what frustrates or confuses them in Airtable. From there, we built a list of improvements we wanted to roll out to our customers. And today, you’ll see much of that work in Airtable—some of these updates you may have seen already, and some are new, but we wanted to share them all in one place. At this point, I’m guessing you’re ready to hear the updates: Easy add with a single click, you can now easily add automations, views, exten

Hi all - I hope everyone had a great week! For those of you located in Los Angeles, I wanted to extend an invitation to our upcoming Los Angeles Community Happy Hour we are hosting before the start of AdobeMax. This will be a casual networking event with food and drinks provided. Come network with other creators in the LA area and the local Airtable team. Registration details can be found here. If you’re attending AdobeMax you can also come visit us at booth #1111 Hope to see you there :star_struck:

Hello! I hope everyone is doing well. I am thrilled to be able to share the winners of the Interface Designer with you all. The judging committee was beyond impressed by every submission and I am so thankful to everyone who took the time to participate in this contest - the entire Airtable team is incredibly inspired, and I hope everyone exploring these submissions walks away inspired as well. Without further ado, please join me in congratulating our winners! Note: You will need to copy each bases to your own workspace before you’ll be able to interact with the Interfaces Best Design: 1st place: My Wardrobe, @Russell_Bishop1 2nd place: The Teaching Tool, Rebecca Reed 3rd place: Dream Home Finder, @Pyline_Tangsuvanich Best Use Case/Solution: 1st place: Office Hours Command Center, Karissa Woodward-Hobson 2nd place: Legal Non-Profit Database, @Cherry_Yang2 3rd place: Highspot Spring Launch 2022 Dashboard, @Kristine_Agnelli Wildcard: 1st place: Mountain Rescue Helpdesk, Reuben van de Berg

Hi all - I hope you’re doing well! I’m excited to announce the Interface Designer Contest. We have been so impressed by what the community has been able to accomplish with Interface Designer so far, and can’t wait to be inspired by your creativity. This contest will be open through August 12, 2022 at 5pm PT and winners will be announced in late August. More details can be found below. Happy building 🙂 The categories: Best design: The most intuitive, easy-to-use interface. Not just visually appealing, but also functional. Best use case/solution focus: The best example of using an Interface to solve a problem for a specific use case or function, for example, Marketing or Product Ops. Wildcard: Just have fun and build something cool. The prizes (for each category): First place: $5,000, Airtable swag bag, & an invitation to an Interface Designer feedback session with the Airtable product team Second place: $2,000, Airtable swag bag, & an invitation to an Interface Design

Hi everyone! I’m Rotimi Iziduh and I’m the product manager working on various Core Surfaces here at Airtable. I’m super excited to share a set of upcoming updates that make the in-base experience easier to navigate, and improve the discoverability of the automations and interfaces features. Specifically, we are introducing a new top navigational structure that contains the below three tabs: Data: This is the default starting point of the old experience. As before, it is where you will review and edit the various tables and views that contain your data Automations: This provides easier access to automations that trigger various actions based on your underlying data Interfaces: This gives quick access to a visual layer to turn your underlying data and automations into apps that are tailored to your unique workflows To illustrate this, here’s a quick before and after snapshot: Before: After: We’re excited to launch these improvements and please keep an eye out for more exciting updates

New formatting options for long text fields are now available to everyone! That means you’ll be able to use block quotes Headers ordered lists, unordered lists (bullet points), and checkboxes bold, italic, strikethrough, and code formattingand more! Please note that in order to use the new formatting options, you’ll need to do the following: Open up the field customization menu Select the “Customize field type” option Pick the long text field type (if the field isn’t already long text) Switch on the toggle that says “Enable rich text formatting” Save changes (notice that the field icon changes as well) There are a couple of interesting new use cases that these new features open up that you might not have expected (for example, did you know that you can now input formatted text in forms?), and you can read more about them in this blog post: For The Record – 26 Mar 20 4 workflows that take advantage of rich text formatting Here's four of our favorite use cases for the new form

Hello! I hope the week is off to a great start. Here to share some exciting news about updates that were made to bulk field operations. Back in November, we released the ability to manage field permissions on multiple fields in bulk. Here are some of the changes you’ll notice starting today: The ability to select multiple fields, and hide them in one click. The ability to select multiple fields (up to 50) to filter by within a single table with one click, enabling faster filtering and customization of information. The ability to group by up to 3 fields with one click, for more fine-grained ability to categorize information. The ability to select multiple fields, and move them in one click. We hope that these updates make it easier for you to manage fields effectively and at scale, freeing up time for optimizations that accelerate process improvements. Additional resources: How to bulk filter How to bulk group How to bulk hide How to bulk move fields Using field and table editing pe

:wave: Hello! I’m Scott – a product manager at Airtable who worked on the development of document automator – the newest way to get Airtable data into formatted documents. What is document automator? Available to those on Pro and Enterprise plans, Document automator is a new integration with Google Docs and associated automation action that enables you to export formatted Airtable data directly into Google docs, where you can format and collaborate on that data to your heart’s content. Furthermore, because document automator is built into automations, you can use other automations like Slack or Email to automatically share the created document with others, fully automating the process of creating and distributing published reports or status updates. How can I use document automator? Document automator is perfect for creating point-in-time reports or status updates that can be shared with people who don’t have access to Airtable, when you want to editorialize around the data, or when

Hey everyone! I’m Helen, the product manager that looks after our Automations product here at Airtable, and I’m really happy that you all are finally seeing the navigation changes that teams at Airtable have been hard at work on. Alongside these updates, I’m also excited to share a series of improvements that we’ve made to Automations in this new navigation that let you focus on creating and editing automations while being able to reference the data you need and make it easier to change up the steps in your automation. Specifically, you’ll now be able to: See your full list of automations on the left-hand pane, similar to views in the data tab Open a table or view that you need to reference without leaving the automations tab Drag and drop actions to reorder them or move them across conditional groups Duplicate an action to easily reuse the logic Huge thanks to the community for helping us improve upon this product. We’re always striving to make the product better, so as you start us

On top of other releases this week, we have another exciting new feature - incoming webhooks for automations! With the new incoming webhook trigger you can connect Airtable with many of the tools and products that you and your team use (whether a third-party service or an internal tool). Normally, you’d have to write custom code and spin up your own infrastructure in order to handle webhooks, but now, whenever an event fires in another product, you can tap into the full power of Airtable Automations to handle it accordingly. How it works The incoming webhook trigger will create a unique URL that you can use to trigger an Airtable automation. You can use this URL with another service’s webhook configuration UI, or use it directly from your own custom code (e.g. from an internal tool). When Airtable receives a request at this URL, we’ll then trigger the automation that you configured (just like our other triggers). This enables you to integrate with services that Airtable doesn’t curre

As organizations innovate and become more complex, so do their workflows. That’s why we’re introducing tools to Airtable’s Enterprise offering that help you improve your workflows, maintain security, and manage your work at scale. You will be able to continue to improve what you’ve already built—and make sure the workflows you’ve built for your team keep pace with your needs. Admins can more safely manage Airtable use across the organization, while creators can manage large-scale changes in their base without disrupting their teams’ work. Capture more data & expand your workflows with increased record limits Your workflows rely on your data to function—so we’ve increased record limits for Enterprise accounts to help you build even more complex systems in Airtable. You can now add twice the records per table (an increase from 50K to 100K records) and 2.5 times more records per base in total (an increase from 100K to 250K records). Continue to power your most complex work with confid

The button field is now available for all users! Use it to trigger custom actions for a record—like scheduling calendar events, sending emails, creating custom invoices, generating reports, running scripts, finding stock images, or even opening other Airtable links. For more information on the button field and how you can use it, check out our launch blog post: For The Record – 25 Jun 20 Now available: button field Schedule a calendar event, send an email, create a custom invoice, generate a report, find stock images, or open a prefilled Airtable form—with just the click of a custom button. We’re especially excited about the potential applications of the run script action for button field, which is why we’re holding a scripting contest in our community forums themed all around scripts that take advantage of the button field. The contest winner will win $1,000! All submissions are due by Friday, July 3, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. PDT . https://community.airtable.com/t/scripting-conte