Interface Designer

I created links using the text element to make navigating from one interface page to another. However, they open in a new tab or instance of the App window. Is there an HTML syntax I can use so it opens in the same tab or instance of the APP so I don’t get dozens of windows open while navigating? I googled the answer but it doesn’t seem to be working.

Hello! When I add a text element to an interface, and format it as a checklist, I am unable to check/uncheck the boxes when the interface is published. I am only able to do so in edit mode. Is there something I am missing? Thanks!

In the Interface Designer, in a Line Chart, is it possible to set a custom range for the X and Y axes? For example, in the image below, I would like the Y axis to go all the way up to 100%, although there is no data in the table that goes that high. And I would like the X axis to extend to the end of 2023, although again there is no data in the table with a date that far in the future.

Would love to add images to the Interface, isn’t there a way to do that other than adding it as a field?

Hello, Is it possible to make this nested condition an AND instead of an OR? I cannot figure this out!

Greetings dear Airtable colleague users I need to have my Airtable content accessible via the web by the public and also by the registered users that I already have on Airtable. I have seen a number of tools exist today and now that Airtable is going to offer also a UX designer option. I have seen these sites listed can you share some experiences on the use of any of them? stackerhq.com → TESTING Table2Site Table2Site Build websites without coding. Use your Airtable base as a CMS. Include everything from cards to contact forms. pory.io/ → SEEn EXAMPLES airvues webflow

Hello, I have shared an interface (hence a base) with read only external collaborators. Everything is working fine, but I would like to deny permission to these collaborators to enter the base itself, but i cannot find out how to invalidate the “Go to base option”. Can anyone help me on that matter. Thanks Pascal

The more I use interfaces with Linked Records, the more I wish we had better, more direct options for creating, viewing and editing Linked Field records. When I compare editing mock-up Text fields whilst pretending that they’re Linked Record fields, I can’t help but insist that this method of editing Linked Fields becomes a reality sooner than later… (pleeeease… :smiling_face_with_halo: ) Below is a mock-up interface that I’ve created and edited (in MS Paint) to hopefully relay the idea. I always feel that working with Linked Records/Fields within an Interface is somewhat back-to-front… Users should be able to work on their primary record, and the associated Linked Fields, without being interrupted with pop-up windows, or forms, or taken to different interfaces etc… instead, why not just let them edit the data directly, let the interface expand/grow the linked primary field as if it were a text field (and note that the other linked record fields are also still visible, which is supe

Hi community, Sorry to bother, I’ve been trying to work this out by myself for hours now… I’m surprised I’m the first to bring that up, or maybe it’s just a simple function I did not find yet? I’m in a record review layout. When creating a new record, I’d love it immediately displayed in the record review. Current (annoying) use: the “create new record” button of the record list opens a new record form. Once validated, this newly created record is somewhere (lost) in the record list; I have to find it to have it displayed on record review, and start populating the fields the way I want to. I’ve been thinking of adding a button to run an automation with something like create new record find record ID open interface record ID url https://airtable.com/baseId/interfacePageId?recordPickerId=recordId …but I’m not familiar with scripting at all.

I want to build a “Send iMessage” button into my interface, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to work. I have a {Phone} field, so generating a link to send an iMessage is easy enough with this formula: IF( {Phone}, SUBSTITUTE( CONCATENATE("iMessage://", {Phone}), " ", "") ) This works great as a button in the regular Airtable interface. Can it be made to work in an interface? If not, consider this a feature request. :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi there. I’m trying to create an interface designer graph element that has year on the x-axis. The data I would like to pull from for the x-axis is a formula field formatted as a date, grouped by year. Every time I’ve tried to create an interface designer graph element using a formula field that’s formatted as a date it has collapsed (see below screenshot - refreshing the page does nothing) and also caused all the other graph elements to never populate (perpetual wheel, also see below). I created a new column in my data that copy and pasted the output data in the formula column, but now in a date field type. I used this date field to as the x-axis data instead and everything worked perfectly (see below). This makes me think something’s wrong with the interface designer graph elements using data from formula fields that are formatted as dates? Help please!

I can’t thank the community enough for answering my questions! My next question is how to add a record from interface designer. I have 2 tables; Names and Attendance. Names has all metadata associated with an individual person. Attendance table is going to be used for tracking if a record/person in Names table has logged in. Every person in Names table has a unique_ID. When I create a new interface, I can add 2 elements; Name and Date. Date works just fine but when I Add Record to Name it shows the unique_ID, not the person’s Name which is metadata in the Names table. In other words, I want to select a name from the Names table and add it to the Attendance table with the data from the interface. Any idea what I’m doing wrong? TYIA

I can’t find this request yet, which surprises me. I LOVE interfaces for sharing complicated data with not-so-tech-savvy clients. They love the interface as well. However, they often end up on the “backend” and break stuff anyway. I’d love to find a way to give people access to the interface, but not (or read-only) to the actual base.

My base contains a field for INTERFACE URL. Is there a way to autogenerate the interface URL for new records?

Hola, I’m very fresh to the airtable community, but not to airtable itself. I’ve been working with the new interfaces feature extensively, and have a great affection for it, but I’m running into a ‘group by’ error that I think has been asked before, but not in relation to interfaces, so I thought I’d double-check if this was a planned feature, or if there’s another method that might work better. In any case, I would like to group records by ‘due today’, ‘upcoming’, and ‘overdue’. The way I do that is by using a formula. This generally works pretty well, however, when I try to create a new record (the ‘+’ symbol next to the record viewer), I get an ‘internal error’ and I have to refresh the page. The record is still created, but in every instance, the shoots out the error and I have to refresh the page. Is there a different way to get the same solution? I suppose I could use the filters to do it manually (ie. due date is today, due date is before today, etc.), but I’ve discovered my emp

I don’t need anything at Pro level yet (Plus does what I need for now), but I utterly despise having every page showing “Upgrade to Pro” on it, looks really naff. If I do “upgrade”, will it completely remove all nags, or will it nag me for the next level instead?

I have an interface where the vast majority of elements are “wide”, but I want to add 6 little donut charts that appear way too large (with a lot of whitespace) when I choose the wide option. But when I select “narrow” on the layer/grouping that contains the 6 donut charts, it centre aligns them on the page making it look wrong against all the other wide elements that start on the left-hand side of the page. How can I force a narrow layer (i.e. a grouping with a dotted-line outline) to be aligned left like the wide elements? Unless I’m missing something it seems impractical to use both narrow and wide on the same interface without having a very clumsy looking design. Thanks for any thoughts!

Hey all, Within forms in the interface designer, is there anyway to display any additional data on a Linked Field? share.cleanshot.com CleanShot 2022-09-27 at 08.37.11 GIF uploaded to CleanShot Cloud For example, here I’d like to show the customers name (which is a field in the linked field table), not just customer code. Thanks!

I have an issue regarding Airtable Interface. When i am in a record view interface" and i add a form to create an new record in a linked table, the new record is NOT LINKED BY DEFAULT to the current record. It means you can create an record with the form and not see it in your interface because it’s not connected to the current record. Please tell me that the prefilled feature is on the roadmap, otherwise it makes the interface form really annoying to use. “annoying” is a gentle word compared to what my clients said.

I have a question: If I duplicate an Interface (Design 1 & Design 1 copy), will the Design 1 copy change when I make changes to Design 1?

What does the lock icon practically mean? I’d like to share the published interface with colleagues for them to search a record list and then click a link. Does the lock icon mean this is not possible?

Hello, I’m designing an interface for my organization where I want people to be able to edit the field values in a grid. However, it appears that people accessing the interface will also have the ability to edit the field descriptions. Is there a way to lock the field descriptions but still allow edit access to the field values? If this is not currently possible, could this be a feature in the future?

I have a table with a linked field. I want to update that table and change the value of that linked field. Specifically, the Family table has a field linked to the Worker table (single selection only). In a grid view, I can readily delete the worker and add a new one (airtable gives me a list to choose from). However, in my interface that I use to edit the family, that worker field does not show me all of the values available from the Worker table. It only shows the one already chosen. I’ve tried having another element on the interface that is connected to the worker field and then having a button to run an automation to update the Family table. I haven’t been able to get that to work and I feel that I must be missing something. Any suggestions? thx!

I have dates on two tables and I want to get the sum of a different number on each table. I have a task table with a date on it and a field that has the duration of the time expected to complete the task in interger format. I have another table that pulls in my google calendar. It has dates on it and a field with a duration on it in interger format. I want create a grid that gives me the next two weeks day by date and the sum of those two duration fields. Is this possible? What is the easiest way to do it?