Interface Designer

Request:Please add support for freezing or pinning columns in Airtable Grid view so selected columns remain visible while scrolling horizontally.Why this would help:This would make wide tables much easier to work with by keeping important identifying fields in view during data entry, review, and reporting. Some columns would need to stay pinned while moving across the rest of the table.

Hi, I have two interfaces in my workspace. One is a form, where my team will enter information at the beginning of each job, and will eventually return to the submission to add/remove/edit the data for completion and processing. The second is a list, that displays the submitted forms. I am unable to add/edit the information in the existing submitted forms, both as admin and editor. Is there a setting or another interface that I can implement to allow for changes to be made to these submissions without going to the data tab within my workspace? I am trying to keep my team from having to navigate anywhere in the space aside from the interfaces as they are using the mobile app.

There are many many frustrations since we’ve upgraded our Airtable, there are seemingly low level tasks that Airtable and Omni is unable to do, yet it boasts being able to build an entire base. Extremely annoying. I just wanted to list a few here.Why can we restrict record selection on an interface for clients on a linked file but not on a single or multiple selection? Why can’t we put a prompt into Omni to hide or show columns? This is very helpful if we need to add a same view to other like bases but it’s not able to hide or show columns?  Why can’t we copy an interface and then change where the linked data is coming from? This is a HUGE problem that was misrepresented by Airtable. We thought we could make a linked base, and link the views so that all our clients could use this linked base. Only to find out I’d have to manually set up each interface one by one, over and over again because Omni does not work, and the option to change where the data is pulled form is greyed out PORTAL

Hi there,Long text fields can - as the name says - have a lot of text in them. In an interface, the field just extends to the full amount of text. This is very difficult to scroll then. Could there be a scroll bar added?The AI long text field does already have the scroll bar, great!Happy to see it on the “normal” long text field soon!Best, Chris

Column freezing is about as core to a table as sorting or filtering. Every spreadsheet tool has it. Grid View has it. List View... somehow... does not.I only found out the hard way: built out a List View exactly how I wanted it, only to discover afterward that I couldn't freeze a column.I unfortunately can’t "just switch to Grid View". I use List View specifically because it replaces the bulky, ugly default card for linked-record lookups with a clean Select field instead. So the assumption that column freezing/pinning is a Grid View specific need doesn't hold up. Anyone with a wide List View is going to want to keep key columns in view while scrolling, same as they would anywhere else.If you've hit this too, drop a 👍 and a reply with your own use case. The more visibility this gets, the better the odds it actually gets prioritized.

Hi, I currently have a semi-functional workflow but would like to optimize the view of work submissions through the forms on my interface. My team works with equipment rentals and starts by entering job information such as location, dates, renter company details, contact, etc. The next step in the interface would be to add the specific equipment that is being rented out for the job created in the first step. Each piece of equipment is associated with start and end dates for the rental period, and my main issues comes with being able to view the equipment and job details on one page in the interface. Since Airtable’s native form layout is built to submit fields to one table at a time, I have broken it into two form submissions within my interface but this does not allow for a clean view of both the job and its details, plus the equipment that goes along with that job. Is there any way to accomplish this with relative ease? I’m still new to interface building but as far as I can tell, th

I am using a Pivot table to summarize student attendance records by month. The pivot table pulls from an ‘attendance’ table in which each record is a class session, and the students present are listed in a linked field. The pivot table has rows of student names, and columns of class session dates. (screenshot attached). “1” indicates that student was present. Grey bar indicates absent. I’m using these settings not exactly as intended, but this way makes the formatting most legible for staffmembers who aren’t versed in AirTable.  Is it possible to display a total # students in each class session? When I select ‘show totals’ in the pivot table settings, it shows the total # records, which doesn’t always equal the total # students present (See screenshot) I’ve created a rollup field which calculates this number, but I can’t integrate that field into the pivot table.  Any solutionsmuch appreciated.  

I’m created a new Interface and when I add new groups, fields, data, etc., I see it replicated into ALL existing interfaces.I thought Interface creations were independent from one another. Why are my existing Interfaces being updated with new data/groupings when I’m working in a new one (that was not duplicated from any existing record)?It’s very confusing for the teams who don’t need access to all the details.For instance, I run a real estate brokerage and my photography interface is meant to give details about the property and the SEO I want used in the videos created for the property. I have specific groups set up to quickly select which group of data needs to be seen for the objective. Now when I’m creating a new interface for buyers to see all properties, the details I put into this new interface are duplicating over to my existing photography interface and sharing new details that I don’t need the photographer to see. Why? This wasn’t always this way. I have several independent i

I had claude create an interface for me and the boxes are huge, I cant seem to click the edge and drag them to make them smaller.  This is how claude said it was set up:I didn't use one of Airtable's built-in interface templates (the picker you'd see if you clicked "Create new interface" and chose from Kanban, Calendar app, Record review, etc. in the UI). I built it directly through the API using raw building blocks:The entry page ("Event Template- Duplicate for New") is a Dashboard page type — a set of sections, each pulling from a table (Projects or Project Categories) with a filter scoping it to just this event, and a grid element inside each section showing specific columns.  

Hi,I have Google Drive links to images in an attachment field. Is there a way to enable batch downloading of all the files in the field from an interface page, preferrably in a zip file? And further, a way to first select a number of the files, then download them all in one go?I tried prompting Omni to create that in a custom page, but despite it saying it had done it, there was no button for it :).Googling or Omin gave me this, but no further details. There used to be an extension but it was last updated 2022 and required an MiniExtensions subscription so no go: If you need to download all images in bulk, consider using Airtable’s built-in export or attachment download features, or explore third-party tools that support bulk downloading of attachments from Airtable. Cheers,Björn

Working on a project and was wondering if there was a way when the owner of a workspace opens up the Airtable app it opens up the interface whilst the table and automations are hidden. Thanks.

In Interface, When you open a record, you see the record details, in there you can see two small arrows on the left that help you go back and forth in records, but if that same record details page, you opened another linked record, the new record details page will not have the arrows.Any one knows why? is there a way to make them appear?The first record details page, it has the arrowsThe second record details page, it doesn’t have the arrows 

In the Interface page, when you click “Share Interface” and go to “Invite via link” under “Invite Collaborators”, the next window has a drop-down to pick to share which interface. It doesn’t make sense AT ALL whichever you pick. The link would share all interface anyway! Then what’s the point having that option here! You mislead people that other interface would not be shared, instead the other information has already leaked!

Hi Everyone,  I have a weird issue with Airtable Forms that I’ve been kicking around for quite some time and wanted to see if anyone else might have a similar experience. I have 2 different forms that I have for our Leadership team that allow them to submit the following content:Multiple photos or video, potentially bigger files (50MB - 1GB) Long Text field Questionnaire that require 4-6 paragraph responses 90% of the time, everything is received without issue, but more notably with the photo submissions, sometimes it doesn’t submit or create the record. I originally assumed it’s user error, where maybe they’re not waiting until they get the confirmation message, but I have Leads insisting that they submitted and saw the confirmation, yet nothing gets recorded. Quick note, I’ve had reports of this happening with both public-access users and Airtable users. This is not a new issue; I’ve been receiving these reports for ~2 years, but it never occurs often enough to be a big issue, and I

Hello Airtabler, We use Microsoft Teams for both internal and external calls. I’d like to have a button in the interface that lets me make a call via Microsoft Teams. Unfortunately, a button with “Callto:” or something similar doesn’t work. We use Chrome as our browser. I’m almost afraid that this might be due to one of the company’s default configurations. Or does anyone have any ideas? 

This might be a dumb question, but it’s not obvious to me: when giving users permission to sort, filter, group etc. in an interface page, will this affect the interface as a whole or only for that user? E.g. I set up a specific filter and sorting, give users the ability to filter for something themselves and someone adds another filter - will this then affect the filtering for everyone or just themselves???I would like to give them the option to filter, but for the different tabs I’ve got specific filters set up that I don’t want changed on the high level…Can someone enlighten me? Thanks!!

Hi,Looking at our photo studio order handling and logistics function, I’m wondering how to build an interface for selecting images to to be printed for each customer. Currently communicated by e-mail between the client handling personnel and the logistics personnel, I want to have it inside Airtable.One should be able to view one client’s project, select which print product to order, then select which images to be printed, perhaps select a separate album cover image etc. With this information in the database I’ll build an interface for the people placing the actual orders in the vendor’s system (eagerly awaiting the day when the vendor would be able to accept an electronic order of some sort..).The images are on Google Drive, and we have them linked to an attachment field via an automation (I think, can’t quite remember how this was built).I can show the images on a record picker interface, probably also in a gallery view, open to view them larger and allow comments, download them, but

I’m creating Airtable Interfaces where stakeholders can select a record themselves and view its data across multiple categories/charts. This works well for most fields, but I’m facing an issue specifically with linked record fields.After the stakeholder selects a linked record, the chart displays the correct data, but the filter shows it as “Unnamed {type} record” instead of displaying the actual linked record name.Is there a way to make the filter display the linked record’s actual name? Screenshots attached. Filter shows correct names of linked recordAfter selection filter shows unnamed {type}  

I am working with a small nonprofit foreign language school. I need to create a report that shows the # students in attendance each quarter. I have the following tables:StudentsClassesAttendance Each Attendance record has the following fields:Class session ID Date of session Class (each class is specific to a year, so FY26 Eng100) Class Hours (# hours per session) Year-Quarter (a formula field that calculates year & quarter based on date of session. ie 2026 Q2) Students present # Students presentEach Student record has the following fields:Student name current classes (each class is specific to a year, so FY26 Eng100) previous classes attendance (which links to Attendance, and lists all the class sessions that student has attended) quarters in attendance (rollup field: source is Attendance, rolls up ArrayUnique of Year-Quarter) Rollup fields of # hours attended each quarter: “2025 Q4 Attendance hours”, “2026 Q1 Attendance Hours” Etc Demographic data about student (region, age, gend

I have been working with a free music festival for several years. I’m wondering about using an airtable interface to display our musicians on our publicly facing website and would appreciate any thoughts about that. Wellfleetporchfest.orgThe festivals data is all on Airtable and our website is on Squarespace. We have 60 bands participating at 30 venues. All of this is sorted out and tracked in Airtable. We display bands, with all their publicly relevant data in blog posts on Squarespace. This looks nice, but its a lotta manual data entry every year for an all volunteer crew since there is no way to import data to the blog component.I’ve started to look the the interface option in Airtable and its pretty flexible, but I’m on a free plan and cant see how it actually works - we run this show on a shoe string. Is an interface really embedable? Would  this be a better option for us?Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

Did a search for this and found nothing but wondering if there is anyone else that would see some sort of hierarchy levels functionality like from the list view in timeline views.Not just grouping.Not quite sure of how it would work completely but I keep feeling like it would be useful.

Looking for the ability to hide or show a button, or field based on the logged in user, against a user field for the record. This is not different than how a filter shows/hides records based on the logged in user. Not having this capability means I need to duplicate the interface I am working on for each user persona, which is not good design. AFAIK there is not a native workaround – AT product team could you please give an update on this function?  Thanks, Enterprise User and MVP

Issue:When using an Airtable Interface with dropdown or filter elements, selecting specific options (e.g., filtering records) resets to default after opening a record and returning to the list view. The interface does not retain or restore user selections, even within the same session. Expected Behavior:The interface should remember or restore the user’s dropdown/filter selections after navigating back to the list view, either automatically or via a “Save View” button.

 Hello,I am creating public views of an interface page for our partner school districts that are involved in our study of service-learning. I am learning the 3-level list view by trial and error; it just doesn’t work the way I think it should (backwards!). I have somehow set the size of Level 2 (the Course) to large font. Instead, I would like level 3 (Educator) to have the large font, and Level 3 (the Educator teaching the course) to have normal sized font. I must have set this somewhere, but I can’t find it again. Any tips on where to look? Thanks,Pam  

 Hi there Is it possible to automatically list records like this on an interface please? Thanks,Kieran