New Launch button instead of Publish causes problems

I totally agree with you that this is 100% unacceptable behavior.

My clients and I have been complaining to Airtable about this for 3 months now, and unfortunately, they are very insistent on NOT fixing this behavior.

This is obviously a huge dealbreaker for my clients, and a few of them are considering leaving Airtable because of this.

The best you can do is complain about this to support@airtable.com and fill out this product request form: https://community.airtable.com/p/product-ideas

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

Hey ​@Bettina_Horvat1,

I don’t think I’m having that issue on my side. (Yes the edit mode when clicking on Interfaces is a pain)
On my side, I have the Launch button on the base itself. If I click it from the base (data layer) I am re-directed to the published version. Am I missing smth?

In any case, following Scott’s instructions above (email and form) is probably the best thing to do.

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
YouTube Channel 

Yeah, the issue only happens when going from the Data layer to the Interfaces layer, which is how my clients are getting to interfaces most of the time.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

Mhmmm yes. That is an issue. However, if I click “launch” rather than “Interfaces” I get redirected straight into published mode. Is that not your case?

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
YouTube Channel

I don’t have a launch button — where do you see this? Maybe this is a new feature that they’re rolling out slowly to users as a very bizarre way of “fixing” this problem.

Hey ​@ScottWorld!

Top right corner. I’m feeling lucky, I almost never get within the initial roll outs 😂
 

 
Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
YouTube Channel

​@Mike_AutomaticN 

Ha, looks like you are very lucky, because it looks like you are in the initial rollout!

Thanks for the screenshot! I definitely don’t have that launch button in any of my bases, and I have never seen that button in any of my clients’ bases either.

This has got to be the most ridiculous & nonsensical way for Airtable to supposedly “fix” this problem. They added an entirely separate button, instead of just making the word “Interfaces” work properly? 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Yep, this totally matches my entire experience of working with Airtable. 😂

Lol. In the same way the new UI was shocking at first, but I became a big supporter of it pretty fast, I think I’m enjoying the interfaces vs launch experience already.

If I want to build, I click on interfaces. If I want to launch, I click on launch!

Mike

We’ll see if I feel the same way — once I get the “launch” button! 😂

Interesting, sounds like this is a rollout issue for ​@Bettina_Horvat1 in that you got the launch button but your user didn’t (at least initially). I got this a couple weeks ago, interesting where slow rollouts happen vs all at once. The slow rollout must account for why it hasn’t been touched on much in the community forum.

I don’t hate the Launch button, though I find it a bit silly to have to add a new button (and at this point I’d advocate renaming “Interfaces” at the top to something that implies editing). I do still get very frustrated with the home screen compacting the Interfaces and Data Layers into one button because I end up accidently clicking into an interface when I wanted the Data layer quite often. 

Thank you all for your replies! 

Makes all a bit more sense now and at least there is now a workaround - launch from base, this works for me, thanks for the tip.

However this is totally stupid because my client has a bookmark to the interface and hardly ever (as in never) needs to go to the base. 

What a nuisance - lets hope by the time it gets to everyone these sort of things are worked out!

Hm, may I know what issues they faced with updating the bookmark to be the link to the Interface directly?  e.g. https://airtable.com/app6hRr7dhsBdhWpO/pagRGQFCXVrUuGWnQ?