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Last modified time [SOLVED]

  • May 21, 2015
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This would be extremely useful!


  • New Participant
  • February 10, 2017

Is there any news on this topic ?

I believe it would be more appropriate to have a “default value” available on date type fields.
Setting the default value to whatever static date we want OR set it to “created_time()” or “updated_time()” would be an awesome feature !!


  • Participating Frequently
  • February 18, 2017

+1 for this feature too please, folks. Thank you!


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  • New Participant
  • February 19, 2017

Would love for this to be easier. Perhaps be able to select timezone as a field attribute using Customize? :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:


  • New Participant
  • March 27, 2017

+1 for Date Modified which should automatically update a date and time when a row changes.


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  • Known Participant
  • April 13, 2017

Yes! Most other apps I’ve used offer auto-generated fields like date created, last modified date, created by, modified by, etc. Would definitely love to get these kind of options in AirTable.


Created and modified date fields are coming soon! In the meantime, you can actually use a formula column to get the created time:


Hello,

same question, is it possible now?

Thanks


  • New Participant
  • April 16, 2017

I’d like to second the points made above, this would be a killer feature for use in my company also. Absolutely loving so many of the great features airtable has so far, but the absence of a modified (or ‘completed’) timestamp feature presents an obstacle for us.

I haven’t been able to find a MODIFIED_TIME() feature within the table’s formula option yet - is this data available in some way via the API?


+1 for modified timestamp - could this also log which field was updated?


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+10 We need to be able to make a column hat tells us when the prior column was updated, per record.


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  • New Participant
  • May 8, 2017

It would be great to add a field like “auto number” that dropped in the date (or date and time) that a record was created. This would be very useful when combined with the forms/survey feature.


@Tim_Dietrich

One more vote for “last modified date/time.” It’s a basic database field - please add it as soon as you can. Thank you.


  • New Participant
  • May 15, 2017

Created and modified date fields are coming soon! In the meantime, you can actually use a formula column to get the created time:


Well it’s been 16 months. Any update on a modified date field?

In addition, are there any technical reasons that this is taking so long to implement? I’m not a programmer so my curiosity is sincere. It seems like your system internal has to know when records are changed; hence the record history. So I’m puzzled as to why this is so difficult to add to the API?

Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.


any date when this will be added?


  • New Participant
  • May 19, 2017

Ive just signed up and love what I see so far, but have just hit my first snag - the last modified date. Please add it!
Thanks in advance.


  • New Participant
  • May 24, 2017

+1 Really need this to make updates to a data base


  • Participating Frequently
  • June 2, 2017

Yes, please! I’m searching for this feature too. It seems there’s excellent, detailed modification information in the ‘history’ section of the expanded record view. So the info is definitely in there, but no way to access the data or work with it in formulas.

It would really be fantastic to be able to filter or group a view by “updated today” “updated this week”, etc. Maybe this is already a feature, but I haven’t found it.

Hope this is coming soon to a screen near me! :slightly_smiling_face:


  • New Participant
  • June 8, 2017

MODIFIED_TIME() would be the only way to follow what happened when doing tasks pipeline tracking.


  • Participating Frequently
  • June 9, 2017

MODIFIED_TIME() would be the only way to follow what happened when doing tasks pipeline tracking.


Are you using that formula in airtable?
I tried to enter it in, but it throws an “unknown formula” error message.


  • New Participant
  • June 9, 2017

Are you using that formula in airtable?
I tried to enter it in, but it throws an “unknown formula” error message.


Sorry, I was only expressing a feature wish but it seems It suggested that the feature existed. Unfortunately it is not.


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  • Inspiring
  • June 14, 2017

Update from Airtable team: Created Time is now available as its own field type, in addition to a formula function.

We’re working on some system upgrades to support a modified time field as well, and plan on making that available soon.


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  • Inspiring
  • June 14, 2017

Update from Airtable team: Created Time is now available as its own field type in the type picker, in addition to the existing formula function.

We’re working on some system upgrades to support a last modified time field as well, and plan on making that available soon.


  • Known Participant
  • June 15, 2017

Update from Airtable team: Created Time is now available as its own field type in the type picker, in addition to the existing formula function.

We’re working on some system upgrades to support a last modified time field as well, and plan on making that available soon.


Hi,
Great news to ear the last modified coming.
A side question is, will that update will make an “on update” trigger
available in zapier intégration ?
Cheers


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  • Inspiring
  • June 15, 2017

Separately from the Last Modified field, we are looking into adding support for webhooks and on-update triggers in the longer term.

The Last Modified field won’t include those changes, but it will enable a workaround for them, which is querying the Airtable API only for records modified after a specific date and time.


  • New Participant
  • June 22, 2017

Update from Airtable team: Created Time is now available as its own field type in the type picker, in addition to the existing formula function.

We’re working on some system upgrades to support a last modified time field as well, and plan on making that available soon.


Any clarification on “soon”? within the next few months?