Skip to main content

Hi all,


This may be a quick fix that I’m missing but figured I’d ask the community for guidance here:

I have a base with 8 tables.

On 1 master table, I have a primary field (auto-numbered) and 7 additional fields pulling in information from linked records across the other tables.


Each record on this master table is only linked to 2-3 other tables, so the majority of the Linked column fields are blank - making it a pain to see all of the linked information quickly when expanding the record (I have to scroll passed a bunch of empty fields).


I’m wondering if there is an easy way (using either a formula or rollup field) to create an additional column on this master table that searches the other 7 fields and if there is a linked record, pulls it in to this field.

In a perfect world, the information being pulled in wouldn’t just be the text of the linked record but rather the actual link itself - essentially just combining all linked items across the different fields on the record into this one field.


Is this possible?


Appreciate the help!


Noah

You can definitely use formulas to summarize linked record fields via text. But getting clickable linked records won’t be easily possible. Taking your title literally, I made a related product suggestion a while back.



In a perfect world, the information being pulled in wouldn’t just be the text of the linked record but rather the actual link itself



A list of hyperlinks to the records might be possible, but not ideal since links are ugly and hard to click correctly. If you want to go down that road, a record URL looks like this:


https://airtable.com/BASE_ID/TABLE_ID/RECORD_ID


And you can access a record’s ID by creating a field like this:


Record ID (formula)

formula: RECORD_ID()

sdfg98s7df9g8

dgkj347dfbhjk3


So you may be able to (1) use the Record ID in a second field to generate ‘record links’ and (2) use lookup fields to get the linked records’ ‘record link’ fields.

Thanks Zollie - appreciate the insight.

I figured this might be the case but was worth a go-around!


I’ve upvoted your idea and will follow it; hopefully we’ll see an update rolled out soon enough.

Reply


Terms & Conditions