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Ric-MichNew Participant
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Interface Designer - Kanban - how to hide titles?

Hello!In the interface, I have a kanban section with some cards where 4 fields shows, aside from the name of the cards. Now my problem is that those fields also show their title.So at the moment it look like this:Garry’s PubTypeCADAddress157 Rue de VilléCityMontréalBut I want it to look like this:Garry’s PubCAD157 Rue de VilléMontréalAnd I cannot find the option to hide the field titles anywhere.Anybody with better luck than me here? 

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amanda12New Participant
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Interface display error

Since the latest update, when looking at our Interface the data is getting jumbled.  eg. we allocate workers to projects and they are correct on our Base, however when we look on the Interface on a mobile phone the columns seem to mix up and Workers are appearing against the incorrect projects. Has anyone else experienced this or have a fix for this?

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Bettina_Horvat1Participating Frequently
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New Launch button instead of Publish causes problems

I can’t believe I couldn’t find an entry about this in this forum yet. Hmm ok, here’s my problem:  Every time I open Interfaces it goes straight into the editor and I have to click launch to use it. For me (main administrator and builder) it is annoying but works. Now my user back from holiday wanted to access and couldn’t. It gives a message that says to click on launch or ask the owner. No launch button though. I opened the interface on my side, had to click launch again did so and she could get in. This obviously is quite an annoying and NOT acceptable behavior. I have no idea where and how to change this behavior?Please help  

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matt_stewart1
matt_stewart1Inspiring
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Interface Bar Chart missing empty months

Trying to find a solution to always show every month in a range. Pivot tables don’t provide any customization for this, so I am trying to reimagine data in a dashboard/interface bar chart. There is an option to show empty records, but as you can see its still skipping months. This is a single select field, with every month as an option. I want to see months that are missing any selections. I’ve also tried it with a date field updated to bucket by month, but still same issue. What am I missing?

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SoerenManaNew Participant
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Date picker with year / month option

Hi all Does anyone know if Airtable has considered other options for date pickers?Currently it doesn’t allow for choosing years (which you usually can on typical date picker forms). So unless you use your keyboard, it’s not practical to move to other years or even months ahead. Looking forward to your thoughts. Soeren

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James_MageeNew Participant
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Forms with Conditional Logic in Interface

I have been working on a few bases an just want a steer on best practice re conditional logic on forms for Interface users.So for example if I have two record pickers on the form, one is to select Client, then there is one to select a project, I only want to see Projects relating to the client that I have chosen aboveIt seems that I can’t really do this with a native Airtable form, but I have been able to do it with Fillout forms, which is great for forms being used by external users, such as customers.My question is how do people provide this functionality to internal interface users?  Do you have to link out to the Fillout form from the interface or can it be embedded within the interface in some way.  I am on a Team plan. Thanks  

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MHeskNew Participant
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Current User Permissions - Teams

Hello,We run a residential real estate sales business and have our office lead interface set up with the “current user” permission level. We’re encountering an issue where users in teams (e.g., lead agents, co-agents, and admins) can’t view and manage leads assigned to other team members, even though it's relevant to all parties involved.For example, we assign leads to the main sales agent, but if the agent is out of the office, we want to allow their co-agent or admin to view and accept the lead on their behalf. The team members currently get notified of new leads via and automation where they are cc’d into an email, but they currently can’t access, accept or manage the lead in the agent's interface as its only visible to the lead agent.Is there a way to set up team-based user permissions, or link team members one another so they can access each other’s data without creating separate interfaces for each agent or team? For reference, we are on the Enterprise Scale plan, so we should ha

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Nico LarretaNew Participant
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How to create a grouped bar chart (3 values per category) in Interfaces?

Hi everyone,I’m trying to build a chart in Airtable Interfaces to compare three values for the same category: Budgeted amount Consumed amount Imputed amount Right now, in Interfaces I can only create basic charts (bar, line, pie, donut, scatter), but I haven’t found a way to display these three values together as grouped series in a single chart.Ideally, I’d like to have something like a grouped bar chart or a pivot-style view, where for each budget item I can quickly see the three numbers side by side.Is there any way to do this directly in Interfaces? Or maybe through a workaround (extensions, pivot table, or calculated fields) that can then be brought into the Interface view?Thanks a lot for any tips or examples!

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divadream
divadreamNew Participant
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Resource Hub for User-created Airtable Bases + Templates?

Hey everyone – I’ve been an Airtable user for the past year and overall my experience has been enjoyable!This could totally be my own naiveté from being new to database creation, but I’ve been quite confused over what seems to be a lack of accessible resources for Airtable user-created bases + templates for active users to share with each other.The Universe page, which appears to have been initially meant for that, seems to be almost entirely abandoned and in comparison, other popular platforms have these open-ended community sections with thousands of user-created bases and templates (the majority being free downloads). Any related questions, comments, or if you are able to clarify would be greatly appreciated… thank you! *Additional info: my project’s primary goal is a database collection of beauty brands + cosmetics products.  

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JustineC1New Participant
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Number of forms

Hi, I'm getting an error message when trying to create another forms. I already have 50 forms but need more.Can't find the info.Thank you,

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ek0583232948New Participant
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Checkbox is displayed in calendar view, as text (checked) and not with a V

I have a calendar viewI set it to show a checkbox field outsideBut it is seen as text, not as a V markAttached is an image  

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metricsmuleNew Participant
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If Airtable allowed public sharing of a full interface, it would activate game-changing solutions

I'm glad you can share an individual page in an interface. It's a decent improvement but still not the best solution. Now, if you could public share a full interface or at least the overview page, it would be such a much needed game-changer.Being able to share the Overview page of an interface with a nice cover image would be so helpful when sharing with a client or customer. It looks professional, well organized and nicely structured. Perfect if you want to share only the information without providing full access.Notion (overrated IMO) allows this (sharing of a workspace) where you can organize it and make it look professional. Currently in Airtable, when I end up haveing to share multiple URLs for different pages, clients get very overwhelmed. Being able to publicly share an interface would be incredible.

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ek0583232948New Participant
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Looking for a solution to display Airtable data in full RTL (Right-to-Left) layout

Looking for a solution to display Airtable data in full RTL (Right-to-Left) layoutHi everyone,  I'm looking for a website or tool that can display Airtable data in a full RTL format — not just aligning the text to the right, but also reversing the column order, so the layout is fully suitable for RTL languages like Hebrew or Arabic.  Does anyone know of a platform or workaround that supports this kind of RTL presentation?  Thanks in advance!

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frankreportingNew Participant
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Why can't additional fields be shown when dynamic filters are applied?

I can't wrap my head around this restriction on interface designs. If you have a linked record picker, but the field has a dynamic filter on it, then Airtable will not allow you to show the list of linked records as “cards.” You can only see them as “pills,” i.e. name only, without any additional context from the records’ fields.  I have a field directly above this one where the user can see cards with additional information when they're trying to select the appropriate record to link. I can't figure out any obvious reason why a dynamic filter should create a situation where you would not be able to access and display the fields for those linked records. If it's just a UX design decision on Airtable's part, I don't understand why they would see limiting a user or builder's access to their own data as a good thing. Has anyone else encountered this? I'll probably file a feature request just to see if I can get an answer, but I wondered if anyone else knew the logic behind this move.

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AndLNew Participant
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Missing info when downloading csv from Interface with 2 levels of hierarchy

I have an interface set up showing our contacts and associated interactions with them. There are two levels of hierarchy. At the top (Level 2) is "People" and under that is Level 1 "Interactions". These levels are linked by a common Interactions column. I've enabled the download .csv option.However, the resulting .csv file only reflects the shown information on the "Interactions" level (level 1) and shows none of the info from "People (Level 2). What am I doing wrong?To help illustrate, my Interface List could look like the one outlined below, but in the .csv file, only the info related to interactions will show up (with the correct corresponding column names).^ Person A Name              Person A Email          Interaction Name            Interaction Type            Interaction Date       Interaction Name        &nbsp

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Nico LarretaNew Participant
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Help with Copy-Pasting Multiple Linked Records

Hi everyone,I've noticed that in Airtable forms or when entering data into a Linked Record field, there’s currently no native way to copy and paste multiple records at once, or to select multiple records in a single action—other than selecting them one by one.I was wondering if anyone has found a workaround, automation, or clever trick to make this process easier. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!Thanks in advance for your help.

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Alexey_Gusev
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PdfNew Participant
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Airtable portals on mobile

I'm curious about this new Portals feature and where it is going. Is anyone using Portals? What is your experience?- vs. existing third party portal app (e.g. Softer, Glide, Noloco)- Mobile availability- Setting permissions and inviting users (e.g. partners, vendors)- Price/value- Sharing interfaces already used internally as portals vs. creating dedicated interfaces- Collaborating with portal users via comments

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Sarah Westney
Sarah WestneyNew Participant
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Create an interface record detail pages based on the grid/list

Hi,Is there a way that I can create an interface’s record detail page that auto populates the fields and their order, based on that corresponding grid/list? I’m familiar with the various layouts of the record detail pages that can be saved, duplicated, edited, etc. But it would be really helpful if a new record detail page could automatically be created based on that current grid and/or list view, without the builder having to create that new layout every time.Thanks for any tips! 

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Tt25_2New Participant
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Grouped Timeline Colours

Hi all, I’m trying to setup a project management database with a grouped timeline view in an interface. I’ve worked out how to colour my individual ‘phases’ but it appears there is no way to recolour the overview lines that show the overview timelines of each group. See screenshot below The default colour is very hard to see on white (Shown in the green box below) , and the overview line on the top-most group (shown in the red box) is essentially invisible… Is there any way to change these default colour schemes? currently this limitation is standing in the way of Airtable being a usable timeline management tool for us. 

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Edward White
Edward WhiteNew Participant
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INTERFACE DESIGNER "ADD ELEMENT" BUTTON IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND

THE HELP ARTICLE SAYS IT’S LOCATED IN THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER.  IT’S NOT INTERFACE DESIGNER "ADD ELEMENT" BUTTON IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. What an I doing wrong?   Do I have to install “Interface Designer”? I click “ Interfaces” on the top center of my base and have created several interfaces.  None of them have an “ADD ELEMENT” button. I’m simply trying to add some instructions on this interface and I don’t need it to be a long text field.  I just want to add a Text element to add helpful formatted text, links, lists, descriptions to my interfaces. SUPER FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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Nico LarretaNew Participant
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Manual reordering of records in Interfaces

Hi! I’m building an internal interface for my team to manage tasks. While I love the clean look of Interfaces, it’s frustrating that we can’t manually reorder records (drag-and-drop) within a list or table.In the base view, we can reorder records manually, but in Interfaces we’re stuck with sorting rules or creation order, and new records always go to the bottom.For teams using Interfaces to manage workflows (without exposing the full base), this feature would be incredibly helpful.Are there any plans to enable manual ordering or drag-and-drop within Interfaces in the near future?Thanks!

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Nico LarretaNew Participant
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Help with Prefill in Airtable when Using Record Selector Filter

Hi Airtable Community,I’m trying to use the prefill feature in Airtable for a form, but I’m running into an issue. I want to prefill a field that is a record selector, but the selector has a filter applied. When the filter is active, the prefill doesn’t seem to work as expected.Has anyone found a way to prefill a filtered record selector in a form, or any workarounds for this limitation? Any advice or examples would be really appreciated!Thanks in advance!Nico 

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osamaNew Participant
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Interface list removed accounts on user field

The user field options on our interface incorrectly display all previous accounts, even those that have been removed. This issue only affects the interface, not the data view. How can we resolve this.  

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pascalmParticipating Frequently
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Filter records in an interface

I have created an interface with a grid of all my contacts and deals, not sorted or filtered in any way so that I can just go in and see certain records that I need.I created a filter for each of these lists and want to have the ability to filter depending on what I'm looking for at the time. However the filters I'm creating aren't dynamic.If I want to filter by "created date", I need a specific filter for that. If I want to filter by "Total Revenue" I need another one, and so and and so forth.Can't I just create one filter and then when I'm using it select which field to filter by? Seems awfully redundant the way I currently have to use it.

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KowalNew Participant
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Suggestion to Improve Horizontal Scrolling Experience in Airtable

Dear Airtable Team,I have encountered some difficulty when working with tables that have many columns. Currently, to view the information on the far right, I can only use the mouse to drag the horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the webpage. This method is inefficient and somewhat inconvenient.I would like to suggest considering improvements to the horizontal scrolling functionality, such as: Enabling horizontal scrolling of the table using the mouse wheel; Alternatively, implementing a canvas-like mode similar to Photoshop, where holding the spacebar and dragging with the left mouse button allows users to pan across the table smoothly. Such features would greatly enhance the convenience and efficiency of navigating wide tables. I hope you will consider and implement this suggestion.Thank you for your attention and support.Best regards,Kowal Tylerop6199@gmail.com

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