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[Request] Bringing (Chart / Pivot) Extensions to the Interface

  • Oct 11, 2022 7:46 AM UTC
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Hi

you’ve got those great Extensions (made by Airtable) like Chart Extension and Pivot Extension but in the Interface Designer, making Bar Charts for example has substantially less options.
For example, there is no option to group by to get such a chart:

https://cdn.airtable.document360.io/d0ee2ee4-3f78-47c7-b388-85e40be9fb89/Images/Documentation/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-11%20at%205.52.29%20PM.png

Are there any thoughts on bringing the most popular/most used Extension applications also to the Interface soon? It is actually quite annoying to create a Dashboard in the Interface perfectly knowing, that a better, more insightful Dashboard remains hidden inside the actual Base.

Thanks!

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    • Gustavo_VD
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    • Oct 13, 2022 9:56 AM UTC

    +1

    I agree, I miss the pivot table option in the Interface designer.

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      This would be a killer feature for interfaces, and it would be great to know if it is on the roadmap :thinking:

        Karlstens
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        • Karlstens
        • Brainy
        • Dec 8, 2022 7:53 PM UTC

        I'm needing to see Script Extension embedded within Interface. I'd like the choice to either directly embed Extensions into Interfaces without the Dash (and whitespace/irrelevant Dash buttons), and also to embed a Dash into an Interface.

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          +1 to bringing pivot tables to Interfaces. It's one of those things that feels surprising it's not already there.

           

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            Pivot tables in interfaces would be a huge leap forward in being able to use interfaces for useful data visualisation for reporting etc...

            any idea on whether tis is on the product roadmap / and if so when this might happen... i can't count the number of times I have wanted to do this

              Alvaro_Hernande
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              • Alvaro_Hernande
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              • Apr 20, 2023 2:55 PM UTC

              +1  Adding extensions and scripts to Interfaces is a must need. Please AIRTABLE's people. Is this going to happen soon? 

                bcrossley
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                • bcrossley
                • Inspiring
                • Jun 23, 2023 7:50 PM UTC

                +1

                  Sabrina_Hoeke1
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                  • Sabrina_Hoeke1
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                  • Jul 19, 2023 3:58 PM UTC

                  Adding to the consensus, would really be useful to have the ability to add pivot tables to the interface. 

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                    • JungJennifer
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                    • Jul 20, 2023 3:59 PM UTC

                    +1! I saw I could create a pivot table in extensions but unable to create anything similar with Interfaces.

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                      • Christophe_RENA
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                      • Jul 21, 2023 11:16 PM UTC

                      Well, I just designed a page with Page Designer extension. Similarily I found very disappointing that it cannot be accessed from the interface (unless someone gives me the way to do that). So I design an interface for the users, and then I use available tools to make reporting. Just to find that the users cannot access this tool. This is ridiculous.

                      Airtable you need to develop a whole system, not just bits of a system.

                        Matthew_Carrano
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                        Still waiting for this. Interfaces are almost useless as dashboards at the moment!!

                        They also need to improve pivot tables so that there is row grouping...

                          sgrass
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                          • sgrass
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                          • Nov 24, 2023 8:58 AM UTC

                          Waiting for this as well!

                            JavierGO
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                            • JavierGO
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                            • Nov 30, 2023 10:13 AM UTC

                            Waiting for it too.

                            Dashboards without the possibility of adding pivot tables or basic aggregate calculations (eg. ratio between two fields) make interface rather useless in my case...

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                              • crv19
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                              • Jan 10, 2024 1:51 PM UTC

                              SO NEEDED. Had to create a "pivot table" manually, and can't even use it in charts. Interface could be SO amazing but is still needing many things (as basic as being able to upload static images to customize visually the interface)

                                Sabrina_Hoeke1
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                                • Sabrina_Hoeke1
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                                • Jan 11, 2024 3:32 PM UTC

                                SO NEEDED. Had to create a "pivot table" manually, and can't even use it in charts. Interface could be SO amazing but is still needing many things (as basic as being able to upload static images to customize visually the interface)


                                Static images would be huge. 

                                  +1 to pivot tables in interfaces!

                                  vcgptpurs
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                                  • vcgptpurs
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                                  • Mar 6, 2024 11:29 PM UTC

                                  This would be huge!

                                  Alvaro_Hernande
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                                  • Alvaro_Hernande
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                                  • Mar 18, 2024 7:14 AM UTC

                                  Amazing! Thank you Airtable. Finnaly we have the pivot tables inside the interfaces! Great news!

                                  Matthew_Carrano
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                                  Amazing! Thank you Airtable. Finnaly we have the pivot tables inside the interfaces! Great news!


                                  Unfortunately, you can't create sub groups with the pivot tables and the other charting capabilities are also quite limited still.

                                  Airtable loves half-baked solutions it seems.

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