Interface Designer

Is it really the case that Airtable Interface forms can't automatically populate a linked-record field based on the record context from which the form was opened?For example, I have a list of Projects. A user clicks into a specific Project record in an Interface, views its details, and sees a list of related Deliverables. I have a button associated with that list that opens a form to create a new Deliverable. I would expect the Project linked-record field to be automatically populated with the Project record the user is currently viewing, but that doesn't seem to happen nor is there an option to fill that dynamically.Am I overlooking a setting or feature that enables this? It feels like a fairly common workflow, and requiring users to either create records inline or use a separate prefilled form URL seems like a less intuitive experience.

I have a lovely interface page where my engineers can view their project statuses and review and request PTO and work from home days.  We work limited hours on fridays in the summer, but one person stays until 5pm for department coverage.  We rotate who stays late every week, and I want to display who’s turn it is on their interface (using a formula field, week# of {scheduled date} = week# of this week) .  Is there an element to achieve this?  The number element can already display a field value based on filtering conditions.  I’d love for it to display a text value as well.  I don’t want to eat up screen real estate with a grid element just to display 1 person’s name.  Surely there’s a way to do this...

I’m working on building a custom interface page that allows me to choose certain records to send out emails for. I started with a blank interface page and have built what I need to see data wise on the page, but I’m running into the issue of setting up a button to run my automation. I choose “Trigger an automation” when placing the button… but then it tells me that the source is unconfigured. I’m not able to choose my automation until the source is resolved. When I go to choose a source, I’m given no options.So I thought I might need to turn on my automation first. I went in to try to turn it on, but since my trigger is a button being pressed and it’s not connected to a button yet, it won’t let me turn it on. So I’m running into a roadblock on both ends.Does anyone know how I can configure this properly? 

Greetings Airtable Community!When selecting colors in Single-Select Menus, Charts, etc., is it possible to import a custom color palette that would then be accessible to select at anytime when designing within a base.I noticed the color palette extension add-on, but this appears to create color palettes to copy and paste for use elsewhere but does not create a custom color palete for use within airtable: https://support.airtable.com/docs/color-palette-extension#setting-up-a-color-palette-extensionThanks for your time!

I was using an AirTable interface form on my mobile phone (Android) today. Typed up a bunch of notes and then hit “Save.”   - - - Well, I thought I hit save but it appears AirTable interpreted my finger swipe as a “Back” command. So the form just went back, though, to me it appeared to have saved properly. (obviously these notes were important to me)Needed to add more information to my important notes and behold…. data loss. It’s gone! Is there any work by AirTable to prevent data loss while using AirTable Interfaces? I know AI is a hot-new-database-add-on but you know what AI can’t do? MAGIC BACK THE DATA LOSS!There was no confirmation, no save while working, no method of getting back to the data, it was just gone!That is a profound violation of user trust, this ain’t Windows Notepad in 1995… oh, wait, even Windows Notepad in 1995 threw a prompt saying, “Would you like to save this?” before erasing everything you had typed up.Interfaces are a great addition to AirTable but ya gotta ge

Hey community! Long-time lurker, first-time builder posting here.Like many of you, I've been frustrated with Page Designer living in base extensions while all my users are interface-only. Every time someone in the community asked "can I use Page Designer in interfaces?" the answer was always not yet. So I decided to just build it myself.What I builtA full drag-and-drop page layout designer that lives directly inside an Interface page as a custom element. It looks and feels like Page Designer, but it's a first-class interface citizen.Here's what it supports so far:📄 Page size presets — A4, Letter, Business Card, custom dimensions 🖱️ Drag-and-drop canvas — absolute positioning, resize handles, rotation, layer ordering (front/back) 🔤 Static text elements with {Field Name} interpolation 🖼️ Static image elements (via URL) 📊 Any field from your table — text, numbers, dates, select fields, attachments 🔗 Linked record fields in Table mode — displays related records as a mini-grid, with c

It would be so helpful to be able to duplicate a group of page elements in an interface page. You can already duplicate interface page elements (i.e. numbers, charts, etc.), but you can’t duplicate an entire group of elements at once. As of now, you have to individually duplicate each element in the group then click ••• → “Move to...” then select the group you want to move it to.

Hello all,I was looking in the forum, I didn’t find anything really matching this query, so here I am.Idea: have a single dropdown menu to choose an option and once it is selected the user clicks on a button to display a form (form associated to the option selected on the drop down menu).Notes: initially, no intention to use anything outside portals interface, I know there are tools out there, really good ones, with a lot of interesting features, but right now I want to know if I am hitting a portals UI limit or if there is a solution or kind of solution available within the AT platform.I am just asking if someone got hit by the same idea/issue and found a solution. It is also valid if I hear feedback like… “I tried everything, omni, script… nothing worked, ended up with fillouts”. That’s also a valuable info and I really appreciate it.Alternatively, I was thinking on play around with forms/add record pages and play with conditional visibility to adjust the form fields based on initial

In my Airtable project, I'm using an interface "record review" page. In my data, I have some fields which are tracking phases status completion. For example, I have three phases so for every phase, I have a percentage fields to calculate how much each phase is completed. Now in the interface page, I want to have a timeline kind of custom component, where I can see green circles if a phase is completed, yellow circles if phase is started but not completed and white if phase is not started. Can this is possible?

Hi all — working with a client on getting Portals set up, and when I added it to their plan it's showing the change won't take effect until the end of the month, meaning they can't build with it right away. They're on an annual Team plan and I'm adding a 15-user monthly Portal add-on to test fit before committing to annual. Is this the expected behavior? And is there a way to pay the new invoice today and get immediate access? It seems like the feature should be available to build with as soon as it's added. I've submitted a ticket to expedite but wanted to see if anyone else has run into this. Thanks for your help. 

I have an Interface with multiple pages.  The data comes from Tables that sync with Jira JQLS per page.I want to be able to invite someone to ONE Page in the Interface but restrict access to the rest of the pages.  How do I do that when the data is not user specific?

Hello Airtable experts,I've noticed the following issue and would, of course, like to resolve it. Maybe you have a solution for me. I have some interfaces set to grid view because I import data from Excel using copy and paste. However, I've noticed that the page is very sluggish in grid view. When I switch the page to list view, it runs smoothly.Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Hi everyone!I'm currently building a custom interface extension using React and I've run into a bit of a roadblock that I'm hoping someone here might have solved. Our goal is to embed the native Airtable comment section directly inline within our custom detail view. We really want to give our users the exact same seamless experience they get in the native Interface Designer, complete with inline display, @mention autocomplete, and full comment threads, all without popping out a separate window.So far, we've tried using expandRecord, but unfortunately, that forces a separate modal to open rather than letting us keep the comments inline with the rest of our UI. We also looked into building a fully custom solution using the /comments REST API. However, recreating the native @mention autocomplete and manually mapping user IDs to render styled badges is turning out to be quite a heavy lift that requires a massive amount of custom code.Has anyone found a clever workaround or an undocumented

Hi everyone,I’m using a Kanban element in Airtable Interface Designer, stacked by a Single Select field.The issue is that an extra stack called “Uncategorized” keeps appearing, even though: “Uncategorized” is not an option in my Single Select field One of the Single Select options is already set as the default I checked the records and found no records where this Single Select field is emptyI also found an old community thread from around 9 years ago discussing a similar issue: [HERE]From what I understand, the suggested workaround was to collapse the stack, but I couldn’t find a clear solution to fully hide or remove it. Please correct me if I missed somethingHas anyone found a current workaround for this in Interface Designer Kanban?Thank you!

Hello,I’m looking for advice and best practices on how to build personalized employee dashboards/pages in Airtable.Currently, I use Airtable to track tasks for my employees. Each task is stored as a record in a table, with fields such as: Assigned employee Task status Hours spent Cost Performance-related information Other operational details What I would like to achieve is the following: Each employee should have access only to their own tasks and related information Employees should be able to view their task details and performance metrics through a simple personalized page/interface The solution needs to scale for 500+ employees My initial idea was: Create an Interface page for each employee Filter the page by employee name Share each interface publicly via a unique web link However, Airtable warns that publicly shared interfaces are not fully secure, since technically skilled users may be able to modify/reset filters and potentially access additional records or se

Hello,The question is fairly simple.I have an Interface page with a button that updates a field called “X” (basically an on/off checkbox). However, I would also like to record which user triggered the button and when it was triggered.Updating the checkbox itself is immediate using a button with the “Update record” action.My questions are: Is there any way to also capture the portal user’s email, ID, or any other unique identifier into another field (let’s call it “Action X triggered by user”) using the same “Update record” button action, or would I need to trigger an automation and run a script? Same question for storing the timestamp when the button is clicked. Notes: I tried using a single line text field for the user, but the value is not dynamic and must be predefined in the Interface button settings. I also tried using a “User” field in the table, but I ran into the same limitation: the value has to be statically configured in the button action settings. Last modified by and

Hello, community. I’ve already submitted my request via the Airtable form, but I wanted to ask if any of you would find this useful as well? Maybe some feedback on this would help draw attention to it. I think it would be great if we could save and select presets of an interface’s settings. For example, I want to see a specific type of task here that I need from time to time. Having a saved setting for this would be great. What do you think?

Hey everyone, it’s 2026. We’ve all asked this many times before.But I thought with a new year half way over, people may have seen new tools.Is there a solid mobile-first front-end platform that plays nicely with Airtable? Interfaces is desktop-focused. Softr went backwards. Many others are out of date or just replicate interfaces.Has anyone seen anything new?

Hi,I want to create an interface for users with a list of records. There should be one button for all records where an automation runs if it is clicked. The automation behind the button is to mark all filtered fields so that they can copied to another table with another automation.How can I create this button?ThanksCordu

Hi Guys, Here’s a good question for you… https://airtable.com/app6l4Fik0Jjk9V6c/shrAYvfZtA01SMOeo/tblRizkshJb46W2Sd If you click this link, you will see a shareable view to the Hire Days delivered for this campaign. Each day is (or might be) delivered by a different Driver/Staff member.  I would like to send this sharable view to a client. They will click the ‘Button’ of the Hire Day they wish to give feedback on. This Button should link to a form, where the Customer gives a rating out of 5 for this Driver/Staff members performance for this day.  This rating should then be recorded against this Staff Member (under a different table called “Staff Members”). And, ultimately, it will create an Average rating out of 5 stars for this Driver / Staff member. Think Uber Driver rating… Pretty common concept. When you click the button on this view, you’ll see Ive been able to create a form - but that’s where Im stuck… Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! James.

Hi all,I built a custom extension 3d model viewer that runs great on localhost. However, when I block release, I get this error message: Bundling... doneUploading... Incomplete    Error: ❌ Could not upload bundle. The bundle's size is too big.    Code: s3ApiBundleTooLargeI can’t find anything in the documentation about package size. Is there a way to work around this? My goal is to use this in an interface as a first check for model geometry, etc. We still download and open in a slicer or CAM application prior to manufacturing. 

We’re using Airtable to review pdf documents, and the thumbnail on the interface page is just 5-10% too small for our users to do their job. They need to be able to look at the document and enter information on the same page, and clicking on the attachment field to get a better look takes the user away from the fields the need to access.Setting the appearance to “hero” in the settings and fitting the image to size makes it slightly too small to be useable. Unchecking “fit image size” degrades the quality to slightly too fuzzy to be comfortable to read.Noloco’s interface solves this particular problem easily, because they place the preview window directly in the interface, but we want to go back to Airtable’s native interface for a lot of other reasons.Does anyone have an idea of how to solve this, or can we request a slightly larger zoom on a pdf fit to size, or better quality preview resolution?

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.

In the interface I have a list with two linked levels. Level 2 (parent) only has a handful of records. One of the records in Level 2 has over 4000 Level1 (child) records. When I open that parent record to vie the child records it is extremely slow and the slowness makes the application largely non responsive - until I move to a different parent record or some other table in the interface.  If I simply open another list in the interface with only the one child table, all 4500 records open pretty much instantly. What's the best way to handle this? 

Hi,As our team has grown from 1 person to over 5, we’re seeing an increasing amount of user errors, leading to costly data fixing maintenance. To some part a new user will become more proficient over time and will be able to avoid errors, but as long as it’s possible to err, humans will. The aim is to further expand, so at this point I’m taking some time to consider alternatives.What alternatives/add-ons are there one could consider to improve the UX and data integrity? I want to stick to Airtable as the system centre, but I am willing to fork over some parts of the most used interfaces to another system, if that would bring order to the current issues. Mobile use is not critical for use, lean laptop use is.I remember hearing about Noloco in some discussion. Would that help? What other systems comes to your mind?At the heart of our problems are these Airtable’s inabilities:inability to update a record only when separate (e.g.) “OK/Save” is clicked inability to force interface fields to