"Created by" field type (or username called by formula)

+1 for this feature too!

:thumbs_up: Cosign this feature.

If you expand your record (click into a record and hit the space bar), the complete historical activity log for each record is right there — including the creation date, creation time, creation name, and the complete editing history of every field: every modification date, every modification time, and every modification field — including what the field was changed from and changed to. It’s pretty powerful. I’ve never seen such an in-depth log of changes before.

Granted, the creator name is visible in the activity log but it isn’t available as a searchable field in your database, but now that we have the Javascript scripting block, I wonder if there is some Javascript access to the creator name. If so, you could run a Javascript script to pull the creator name from the activity log into your database.

But yes, in general, “created by” would be a great new field for Airtable to add.

Hi guys. We are deciding on subscribing for Airtable, but this feature is really important to us. Is there any plan to implement this?

Thank you for your reply.

best regards

In the meantime, this would be a MANUAL PROCESS on your end, but you could always add a collaborator field to your system, and have your users select their own name from the list of collaborators whenever they create a new record. Obviously not what you’re ultimately looking for, but could be a good stopgap measure.

Can we please get support for this feature? This seems like a no-brainer.

+1 for this feature :slightly_smiling_face: !

+1 for this feature. Been several years with lots of people asking. Is it even on the roadmap?

+1 for this feature. Any estimate on this?

+1 for this feature. we really need this feature. Our staff will not enter their names

+1 Need this feature

+1 for this feature. For a bug database we need to know who reported the bug.

You can use the “Created By” field already, but I’m looking for a way to copy its value elsewhere (through formula).

The CreatedBy field type does not cover this need with forms: even when people are logged in, even with domain whitelisting/password protected, the user is “Anonymous” when filling in the form.

This feature would be a real game changer: my company, using our own SSO (with Google) is seriously condering the Pro or Enterprise version of Airtable, but we’ll never go for it if the feature’s not there.

Could you do something here, please?

I agree with all the other contributors, this is a vital feature and would like the question to be addressed by Airtable.

The “Created By” field type has existed since June 2020.

In a grid etc, but it doesn’t apply to forms so when a form is submitted, the created by column will be blank.