Interface Designer

Hi All – I have a large base which essentially functions as a CRM.  The first field in the base is “partner name” and the subsequent fields are information about the partner - location, bio, Linkedin profile, etc.  We use the base to track engagement and other touchpoints with the partners.  I want to build an end-user interface while allows my executive director to input the name of an individual from the base and then have it return a few specified fields.  For example, the ED has an end-user interface and is instructed to input a partner name.  After inputting the name, the interface returns Linkedin profile, bio, and last-emailed (all fields that we collect and keep up-to-date).  I know it’s possible to just make my ED an editor and give access to the entire base but we have 50+ fields and I want an more user-friendly experience.  Privacy is not the concern here, rather my ED doesn’t need to see all the fields and details in the base.  Is this kind of build possible with

I notice that while i have a confirmation enabled on the computer for the delete button on an expanded record in the interface, I do not have to confirm to delete from mobile which has been risky for my team as we use our mobile devices frequently in the field and its easy to accidentally hit that big red button. There is also no way to undo on mobile if you miss the brief "undo" float message. Am I missing something? It would also be nice to have a delete confirmation feature when add/delete records in line is enabled for calendar, list, kanban views, etc. on an interface. I want my team to be able to click the calendar to easily add tasks to a certain date without filling out a form for each but I don't want them to accidentally delete records either.

Hi!I’m writing a script that will create a QR code that you can scan to open a record. It works to open in the data view without issue. But I need to have it go to an Interface.If I open an interface on the desktop browser then right click on a record, then click on "copy device URL", that URL will work on the iPhone. I can paste that URL into a note and when I click it, it opens the Airtable app and goes directly to the record in the Interface. Exactly what I want.The catch is, that URL has a bunch of extra base64 encoded stuff. I can’t figure out how to get the elementId , queryContainerId , and savedFilterSetId. Using this partly redacted URL for example:

In Interface, I create a grouping of my data based on warehouses. That works.The warehouse names appear as their own defined sections, great! Why in the world do I have to see the field name above every single group in my page??1-It’s the same (useless) information over and over2-It’s ugly Is there a way to just remove the grouping title? We can remove grouping record sums! Why not the title?  In this example I would remove the POSO WAREHOUSE text.(My fallback is to edit this for something like an Emoji or whatever, but I’d rather have nothing appear). Thanks so much folks!  

Hi, A few our users are starting to see an error on the interface for a graph. The graph is replaced by the error 'Cannot access this data' Nothing has changed and this can be seen with anyone with database access as far as I can tell. Anyone have a solutions?     

Hi everyone,I recently subscribed to the $120/month plan on Airtable to use the "Invite Interface Users" feature, with the goal of building a secure client portal.🔍 What I’m trying to achieve:I’d like each of my clients to access only their own project status and files (like contracts, invoices, etc.) through a personal and secure interface, without being able to see any data related to other clients.🚨 The problem I’m facing:After subscribing and setting up the interface, I noticed that: When sharing via a public link or inviting users as guests, they can still navigate across all records within the interface. There doesn’t seem to be a way to dynamically filter content per user, which means clients can potentially see information that’s not meant for them.

Hi everyone!I have created an interface to keep me organized, and one thing I would like to add is a table that would function like the data side, just within the Interface. For my specific example, I have various groups I invite to events, and it would be helpful to have a table with the group name, group contact, and then a checkbox for when I’ve contacted them. My interface is a “Record Review” interface.Does anyone know how I can achieve this? Any help is appreciated!

Hellowe are a marketing agency and use records as ‘tasks’ which have time against them so that our team can resource themselves each week and we use the timeline view to check their % capacity and utilisation each day/week/month. some people have a handful of tasks (1 per customer) assigned to them each month, with a number of hours to spend on the customer, but how they actually end up spending their time is a little bit each week. the challenge we have is if you pick a start date and end date as start and end of the month for this task is spreads it too thin and doesn’t allow the guys to setup their days in a more granular fashion.I guess we could break down and have tasks each week but then that’s extra admin, more chances of things breaking, not distributing the tasks evenly on some months with 4 weeks vs 5 and so on. just wondering if I’m missing a trick before deciding how best to proceed in an efficient way 

Hi all, we had developed a nice data base application, but sometime users have limited access to internet, I’m trying to work around this challenge, so one of the Ideas are: Question:Can the final users in the field download the Airtable application on their Tablets and work on the database offline since there is poor or no connectivity at the sites. Then, when they are back in the office can they sync it to the main cloud-based database Ideas: Download the portion of the DB into CSV to the local PC, then updates offline and then upload it back to the DB, however and afraid the users enter wrong information or get confused by the layout.  Install or add an extension to the DB but I don’t know which could be to let the users work offline. I will appreciate your ideas and thoughts …

Hi all,I see that publicly shared interface show record detail pages as sidesheets but not at full width or full screen (even when set to show as full width). Upon closer inspection it looks like airtable have it hardcoded in this class as a style, which is within the overall element, and not at the main embed level so the width for the record details when expanded is always 680px no matter what. Has anyone encountered a similar issue and found a workaround?  I also see record link button in the embeds on our website although it is not shown in the interface or in the preview, is there any way through which we can hide

Hi all,Longtime lurker, infrequent poster. This might be a very simple issue, but it’s causing me grief & I can’t find any other posts about it.I have a table with my org’s class schedule (& all associated data) for multiple campuses. This is shared with the org in an interface. I’ve made a few different specific views, but mostly I have our users filter/sort/group the data in a way that suits their various workflows & bookmark the newly generated URL for future use. The customization option works great, and saves me from having to create a million views for all our teams. However, I can’t figure out how to allow users to show/hide fields, like they can in shared views of tables. Examples:

Hey everyoneMaybe I dreamed this, but I thought I could copy\transfer the layout of one existing Record Detail to another Record Detail.I know I can duplicate an existing Record Detail layout to a new Record Detail layout. That creates a new layout which I want to avoid since I would have to reference the new layout to replace a depreciated layout. And I have a lot of those that I need to clean up. Updating an existing Record Layout by using a different record layout is pretty useful.Is that possible? Was it ever possible? Thanks everyone!

 Not sure what to title this.In a record detail interface page, there is the option to add a button and perform an action. (Yes, love it!) But it doesn’t seem like the option exists here to add a new record in a different base via a form—the dropdown on the right doesn’t seem to allow it. And unfortunately, “Interface Forms” for some reason still don’t count as “Interface Pages”, so I can’t click on “Go to interface page” and click on my form.The best current option seems to be “Go to external URL”, and put in the URL of the form. But that seems to only open my desired form inconsistently:open external URL in same tab = overwriting my current page, and there’s no way to complete that form, then hit a “back” button to get back to my record detail open external form URL in new tab = often it just does

I am new to Airtable and created my first form a few days ago using the new Form Builder interface. After the fact, I realized there was a field I hadn't included that I'd like to prefill. I read through all the various instructions on prefilling by altering the URL - all makes sense to me - but I can't figure or WHERE to do the URL edit in the Form Builder interface? I can copy the form URL to the clipboard, but WHERE to I put it where the alteration to the URL will be pulished and saved?Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

The amount of bugs and lack of feature parity between Android and iOS is astounding. Is this something that Airtable is working on actively? For example linked records on a mobile interface. There are totally different views for Android and iOS, and the functionality between the two is completely different. iPhones can only add linked records from the "pill" view (which is a bug with the card view for iPhones only), but the pill view has an android bug that doesn't let them add new records through a form from pill view! It feels like I can't win.Android also currently crashes when opening any attached files, or attempting to add any attachments (easily replicable, try for yourself). Android also has no ability to click interface detail view buttons.This is some very critical functionality that has been promised to clients and is not working how intended.These issues are more or less brushed off when I reach out to support. I am posting here so

Hello, I have a table with only 2 columns (Name and Creation Date) now I need to send a form from that table but that contains 5 Name fields so that the client can register 5 people at a time and each of them will be a different record.

I have it set so that users can change the sort order in a grid view interface, but how can I set the default sort order that is displayed when the view is accessed?  The interface is embedded into a website for public viewing, and I can’t figure out how to set the default order to be a logical one for most viewers.  Suggestions?

Hi there - I am building some interfaces for my team that collects data in one table that is linked back to another table and I’d like the team to be able to update both in 1 page. Here’s a hypothetical scenario: I have a table of Owners who are all in my dog training class. The Owner table lists all of the things about the owner. I also have a table that has a list of every Dog in my class with information about them. Many Owners have multiple Dogs and I want to associate the Dogs to the Owner. My real-world example is a lot more complicated with hundreds of records. I want to keep my team from bouncing around multiple tables and manually linking records so am hoping to be able to design an interface page that allows them to add new data to another, linked table. I have a script running right now that essentially asks “enter # of dogs” then “create that many blank records in the Dog table” and then “Link those blank records to the Owner Tab

Does anyone know if you can add Airtable extensions/apps to interface designer?

I want to make it simple for my users to copy a URL or long text field in an interface. I can add a button and it can copy the link to the record, or open the url in the record, but not “copy to clipboard”. What am I missing? This seems like a simple function that could be done?

Hey guys, I have been seeing this “field color” option on list and grid elements in interfaces. Was wondering if anyone knows how it works? The pop out asks for field configurations, but I have yet to have a field that matches whatever configuration it’s looking for. Is this something up coming or am I just using it wrong? Let me know.  Thanks!

How do I choose a specific color for a specific field on a bar chart?  For example, Medical should be Blue and Industrial should be Green:   

Hi -  I’m building a project and resource management AirTable for an agency. As a part of this I’d like to be able to show scoped hours against actual worked hours per person per project. As an agency that frequently has a variety of different people working on a variety of projects there has to be some flexibility built into this.  Setting up a scoped hour table per project is simple. Having actual hours that the team enter in rollup  filter by project is easy. Having actual hours filter by person is easy. The issue is filtering by both teammate and project.  Thank you for any help!  

The new feature shown here is not working for my interfaces. Is it not yet released to all?  

Hi there!I've been playing with the Utilization summary grouped by Assignee in the Project Management template and am trying to figure out if there is a task that is assigned to multiple users show up in each users field and have the time spilt evenly.I see that you can have the time split evenly in the properties settings but when a task has multiple users it shows as a task in whatever the combination of users is because I've grouped by User. I'd rather see the task in both users individual grouping with time split equal.Any one run into this and have a solution?