Hi,

We send direct links to Airtable records to our clients via email. But when opened up on a phone (tested on Android thus far), they just get directed to the main Airtable website.

Is it not possible for them to login and view this on their mobile device, or even ‘Open in Airtable’?

Cheers

Keith

Hi Keith,

I have set up a couple of forms that drop data into Airtable from a link on Android - you need to press on the square with the arrow beside the 3 dots on the row where you set the view and enable the share link option (from your PC). It will give you a link that directs the user to the view that you would like to share with them.

Good luck. Its an awesome database - the best advance in the last few years.

Michael

Hey Mike,

Thanks for the reply! It’s nothing to do with the forms in this case, it’s just the actual record links.

E.g. opening the below link on Android - instead of taking to the login page to see this, or offering to “Open in Airtable” if it is installed - just takes the user to www.airtable.com/product

https://airtable.com/tblXXXXXXXX/viwVVVVVVVV/recYYYYYYYY

Our clients want to see the record from their mobile devices (the record URLs like above are sent to them by email).

Cheers

Keith

When you pass the URL of a base, view or record to someone (via email or IM for instance) they should be able to click on the URL to open the base directly. However on iPhone it just takes you to the browser asking you to download the app. Could this be fixed?

I have a zap that sends a text message with a link to a specific Airtable record within a specific view – it opens a page in my browser that says I need to open it in the app, with a link “open in app”. Can’t that just happen automatically if the app is installed?

(I think this is a similar use case)

Running into the same issue. We have our Address Fields as linked records, and our phone numbers as phone fields, and neither are clickable.

I agree with this suggestion. At this point, this is expected behavior and is something I’ve seen implemented with other competitions to Airtable. If a moderator sees this, can we understand if this is in development or the road map?

…Has this been addressed? It’s only been 3 years, and I can’t find any other posts on this. Who wants to open links in a browser when they have the app installed??? I sure hope I just overlooked something.

Yea this is still not done yet. Just tried today

Try link in this format:

airtable:///tableID/recordID

It works for me

Actually you’re right, it does work. I created the record url wrong. left out a character

This is great @tyzhik! How did you make it a clickable link? When I automate the creation of a URL column and automatically add this link format into an email it comes through as unclickable text. If I copy and paste it into my browser it triggers the “Open in Airtable” modal so it definitely works!

notice that the link in your email has the appID and viwID which ARE NOT part of the format shared.

just do exactly like @tyzhik suggested

Pay attention to

• the three forward slashes


• and only including the table and record ids

it works for me still in apr 2022

to make it clickable, since it looks like you’re using Airtable automations to send the email. Then you probably can make it clickable via markdown syntax

link text

Something like:

Open in Airtable