Base Design

Here’s the problem in a short loom. Maybe I need to have the event table with the name of the event as the primary field: 

They are in the same base.

I am an Airtable First-Timer and am having a really hard time understanding how to build what I want. I think Airtable is the solution, but I’m just an idiot. I own a small business and need help creating a Food Ordering and Management System. I have a project scope, our current SOP to share if someone would help me build it or I would happily pay someone to build this for me! Can you please message me back if you’re interested? Thank you!

Hi all, this might sound trivial but we are having an issue with Airtable opening on an old base instead of our newest one.  The old base is called Jan 2025 and the newest one, which we are working from, is June 2025. Previously, whichever base we closed the app, logged out or closed the browser on, was the same base Airtable opened on next time.Since creating the June 2025 base, Airtable always opens on the old Jan 2025 base. It’s happening for each user who logs in so it’s a universal thing. We’ve deleted the cookies, logged out properly, logged in again but no joy.I’ve tried searching but can’t find an answer. Any ideas please anyone?

I have been looking everywhere for this answer and I swear I have watched 100 Youtube videos to no avail. Hoping someone on here can help me :)I currently have a “projects” table and a “tasks” table in my base. The projects table is configured so when I add a task to that project it adds it in the tasks table to be tracked. However, if I add that same task to multiple projects it tracks it in the tasks table as one record. Therefore, I can’t individually track the same tasks for several projects. Basically, I want to select the same tasks for several projects and then track those tasks separately. Example:Project A tasks:-solicit bids (complete)-draft contract (in process)-hire sub (on hold)Project B tasks: -solicit bids (in process)-draft contract (on hold)-hire sub (on hold) Thank you so much in advance!! I really appreciate any help that can be provided. This seems so simple but I just can’t figure it out.

I am perplexed by the labeling in Airtable Calendars.  In the attached screen grab, I have two projects in a single calendar, separated by color.  Great. However, it does not show the label of the fields I have associated with dates, even though it seems like there is ample room. So great, let me enable the labels I want.  Except it doesn’t show the labels, it shows the date, but instead of just including the date on the specific entry, it puts it on ALL entries.  Very perplexing.  Why would I want to show the date of one entry on a completely different entry that falls on a different date? This makes no sense and can not imagine a case where this would be useful.  Why won’t just show me the label that is already there on a specific date? Is there away to show the whole label on a given entry? In both the Interface and Calendar view I see this and can see know way to show the entire label.

Hello all,So I have been uploading attachments to a field through a google share link and have made sure to make the file and folder public but for some reason when i click on the attachment it just comes up as a blank screen and says loading but never loads. The share link is fine as when I put it in the url bar it works perfectly. Im unsure what is causing this??

Hi everyone, I’m setting up a project management base with dependencies between tasks. I have two questions: In some cases, task 2 can begin before task 1 ends, but the completion of task 2 does depend on the completion of task 1. There will simply be some overlap in when both start (e.g. parts of task 2 can be started before task 1 begin, however until task 1 is completed, task 2 cannot be fully done). I have set up the dependency as Task 1 → depends on → task 2. However, this then shows up as an error: Task 1 begins before Task 2 ends. Is there a way around this? What happens when you have some dependencies in the same table that are predecessors and some that are successors? Thanks a lot in advance!

Please excuse the long explanation..I have a spreadsheet showing some factories producing a number of products. For the sake of the example, let’s assume that the factories are the primary records and the products that they produce need to be split out in to a linked table.So the source spreadsheet looks like this:Factory City Country Product Acme Tools Denver USA Spanners Acme Tools Denver USA Screwdrivers Western Hardware Paris France Spanners China Supply Shanghai China Hammers China Supply Shanghai China Screwdrivers  I can create and import this spreadsheet in as a new table called Factory.But I don’t want duplicates in the Factory table. I want to have a Products table that would look like this.Product Factory (linked) Spanners Acme Tools Western Hardware Screwdrivers Acme Tools China Supply Spanners Western Hardware Hammers China Supply  This obviously works fine, and the Factory table would only have 1 row per f

I am looking for a way to change the way that my shared Airtable base can be shown as the preview when sharing the url, instead of the generic “Airtable, everyones app platform” being shown. I frequently share the base, and people aren’t opening the base, or are wary to because they dont know what Airtable is. Please tell me there is a way to have a different preview shown? Do I need to first embed it in my website? I am open to paying, or outsourcing but I am just not sure how to start! Uploading: Screen Shot 2022-06-08 at 9.32.46 AM.png… https://airtable.com/shrbYQAOhU8YNsK99

Trying to figure out how to have the Interface “Button” When clicked it will go to the form I built? Do I use external URL?

Hi, I’m fairly new to airtable and having a hard time setting up what I think should be a relatively simple base. I have a staff of about 40 individuals. They only have access to the share views of two of my bases, if that is relevant (so anything they do on airtable has to go through forms). The 40 staff are each assigned between 1 and 4 shifts a week. Each day is divided into 4 shifts of 6 hours, so we have 28 shifts per week. The number of staff members assigned to a given shift varies. Right now I just have a base with two tables: staff names and shifts (listed as mondayshift1, mondayshift 2, etc.). Staff members fill out a form and select their shifts so that the resulting tables fill in. What I would like is a way to track attendance and then later, set up automations (for emails) if someone misses a shift. I was thinking I would create a form for them to fill out when they clock out, with name, shift, and then one optional question (long text). Shifts do not change from week to

Hi  Dear Community I’m facing issues with the print layoutJust 2 days ago everything was smooth and today I hace noticed this issue with the printing layoutIt does’nt som th complete information here a copy  

Hi, I need an attendance tracker for nonprofit organization that organizes different extracurricular activities throughout the year. I'm working on a generic form that the coordinators of each activity would use to report the activity, time, description/impact, and attendance. The attendance is linked to a table that compiles the beneficiaries of the different activities that are run by the Non-profit. We already have some beneficiaries or previous participants in this table and so some of the attendees are already in our records, but when we have new attendees, I would like to be able to generate a new record from a form. I am able to add a new record in the grid view, but not in the Form. I have already tried to use the link to the form, not the form builder view and it was still not allowing me to add a new record. Is this even possible? or am I missing something? The objective is to be able to have a beneficiary registry or a complete list of beneficiaries to report to ou

Please change back your UX to the old one. The new one is so washed out its difficult to use!!!

I came back to my bases tonight to find the header colors all muted pastels. Some of us rely on the color to differentiate bases. Also, the contrast is much lower on the tables and the text on them… less accessible and more difficult to read. On interfaces, it’s still the same vibrant color… can we not retain that color in the Data view? Am I missing some setting that got changed? Also, the info in the far left (icon, help, notifications) is taking up more horizontal screen real estate. Maybe I’m the only one, but having huge changes for no benefit seems to be a bad idea for productivity. End of rant. For now. 😁

Hello! I am organizing a large amount of photographs. I often have the year but not the specific date. I would like to use Timeline view to see all these photos in their rough year-by-year order. Suggestions? The DATE field makes me list day-month-year. Thanks!Julie

Hi everyone,I wanted to share some feedback regarding the new Airtable design.The new interface feels less comfortable to use, mainly because of the extensive use of bright colors and white across most of the page, unlike before. It feels tiring on the eyes during long work sessions.Also, I noticed that the sidebar can no longer be resized, which reduces the flexibility we previously had.Is there any way to switch back to the old interface, or at least adjust the colors and sidebar size to make it more comfortable?Thank you.

Hello,I made a CRM with interfaces that my company uses (all mobile). There must have been an update because the UI looks different. The primary concern is that when someone tries to comment on a record within their interface, it says “an error occurred” , backs out of the record to the interface, and then when you go back in to the record to click comments there is no comment. I nor anyone else at the company have touched the CRM and it was working perfectly up until this “update” - Also there are a few other issues that have popped up. Is there an explanation or a possible fix to this?

Hi All, Struggling to get the following functionality into a base and hoping you can help a novice here. We are attempting to use Airtable to track & visualise AWS logs for interactions with our service. I the graph above I have outlined a rough schematic on what we are aiming to achieve however we are running into issues with tracking on a daily basis. I’m not sure how to structure our base so that we can gain the ability filter by day, see which products were trending, measure performance based on view count and feed that back to the client’s tag. Ideally we want to enable our clients to change a date field and see the product list re-order as such, with views, revenue etc following. We can populate the records via an API, we are just struggling with the base design.

Hello!We have been using Airtable to great success as part of our curatorial process (choosing puppet theater productions from around the world to appear in our annual festival.) Now we would like to use Airtable for other processes like - assessing financial feasibility of each show, documenting production needs for shows that will be appearing in the festival, and archiving information for shows that have appeared in the festival. We also have many venues, many artists, and many countries that the artists are from and we want to track all of that easily as well. We often use forms to get info from artists directly into the Base.  The way I am planning on doing it is with - 1 Base with 4 Tables (Shows, Venues, Artists, Countries), and the Shows table has over 100 fields that are used for various stages of the workflow. And I plan on making lots of views so that people at various stages of the process only have to see the data they need.  (I had originally had two different tables with

In my setup, each of my clients has their own base and interface. They can submit support tickets through their interface, and those tickets feed into a synced table in my team base. I just got my 21st client and it says I cannot add any more sync sources to my support ticket table.I have the support tickets going to a second support ticket table right now, but our support team doesn’t get them in their support ticket feed. I thought maybe I could create an automation that copies the support tickets from the second table into the original support ticket table, but that won’t work because I can’t create an automation to create a record in a table synced to another source. I thought about creating a new base just for support tickets and then syncing that back to my Team Base, but then my team can’t edit the records once they get to the team base.  Is there another way to create a table that syncs all of my clients’ support tickets into one table in my team base that my team can edit?

We are a marketing agency that manages social media calendars for many clients. We love the platform for building the calendars and sharing amongst our team BUT sharing the calendars to the clients for approval is an actual nightmare that I can't solve. 1. We have too many clients to add them as paid collaborators and not be super cost prohibitive2. They can comment but would love for them to just be able to use the direct toggle to click approved to streamline.How are you delivering your social media calendars to your clients? 

right now I have two calendars for my inbound and my outbound dates. I want them both to be on the same calendar

Good day.I have a “whole” staff table, with various “statuses” SOWs, Guests, and FTE.  However, a newer table was linked to the base, with “special” contractor statuses.  I need to have these “added” to the above Full Table, along with their statuses, etc.  The whole needs to be the final source as it’s used across bases.  How might I go about this?