Four feature requests for advanced Airtable builders

May want to submit these as feature requests here: https://community.airtable.com/p/product-ideas

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For the full screen record detail thing check out Tampermonkey / Greasemonkey if you get bored!  They’ll give you the ability to add custom code to your browser that’ll let you customize the record details the way you want it to look.  Definitely not as good as an actual feature and would only work in your browser but works in a pinch!

As Adam mentioned, best way to get things in front of devs is that form, they don’t consistently check the community forum.

I really like the Rollup Addition ideas, those seem like easy lifts and would add a lot of functionality. That said I can’t remember when we last got updated formula or rollup internal functions.

The cross-base linked records I have to imagine would be a horrific pain to implement and while it’s not always ideal, one would say that synced tables can solve most workflows at the cost of more records. 

As for the record detail UI, sad to say I think most development on this front is going to be filtered through AI generation. You can probably with enough prompting get Omni to generate a custom interface to meet your needs 🤷‍♂️

I like the range rollup. I’d add a count to the Most Common rollup (see below).

More record detail screen options would be great. What would be better would be if Airtable would expose the record detail screen to Omni/SDK development. 
 

As well as submitting them to the form that was mentioned, please keep posting your ideas here. There’s no upvoting anymore so this is the next best thing as we can also submit the idea if it’s valuable enough to us.

IT
IT
Retail
IT
Finance
Retail

MostCommon()

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IT(3)

Hi,

1) Links used to connect dat in tables in the same base, sync - to connect data between bases. 
These features workind in a differen way, but they have something in common. 
I like to describe Linked field as a portal between two tables, visible from both sides.
Synced table can act in the same way between 2 bases, when 2-way sync enabled.

2) Example of complex Rollup:

Note that full screen record detail pages are already a feature in interfaces. You can choose between “full screen” or “sidesheet panel”, and you can also resize the sidesheet panel to whatever width you’d like.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

 3) Regarding record detail - of course it’s just my personal opinion - it is not the best thing to edit multiple records. Sometimes, when i had to process a group of records manually, and for some reason Grid View is not convenient, I created a very simple interface with record picker, with only those fields I need , and place them on screen in order that is better for me.


 4) About Most Common - when you have a static list of possible values, and the list is not very big, you can craft a workaround formula. 
For example, temporary formula to build formula ))

 

REGEX_REPLACE('IT Retail Finance Education Healthcare ','(\\w+) ',
'"$1: "& (LEN({Field})-LEN(SUBSTITUTE({Field},"$1","")))/LEN("$1")&"\\n"&')
&'""'

After “Formula X” field is created, “Build formula X” can be deleted.
Well, now I realized - this way might be hard 😀  To be honest, I used this approach in very rare cases, nowadays I probably choose “lazy way” - to ask AI for it.

Also there are more steps needed to get Most Common from it. 
but anyway, it’s not working for dynamically changed list.

Thank you everyone for the great feedback and suggestions 😊

I really appreciate the different perspectives, especially regarding synced tables, Interfaces and Omni.

I still believe native support for features like Range() and MostCommon() would simplify many reporting use cases, but it's great to see that other experienced builders find these ideas useful as well.

I'll definitely submit them through the Product Ideas form too.

Thanks again for taking the time to discuss them! 🙌