So happy that someone finally filled the void left by Dabble DB.
One of the features I found most useful there, but can’t seem to do in Airtable, is linking to entries in another Base. Often, one will have multiple bases which handle distinct aspects of a business or project, but in which one piece of data overlaps.
Example: A political campaign may want Bases for contacting voters, managing events, and recording donations. Those are distinct domains which need their own Bases, but which could benefit from linking parts of them together. For example, it would be great to link donations to the event they occurred at, or voters to donations, or record who attended each event.
In Airtable at present one has to either cram all of those bases into one, or foregoe the linkage which makes this software so great. It may seem like a small thing, but once you can link bases, the sky is really the limit.
Absolutely +1 for that feature. @Airtable_Team moving forward on that stream would make many things cleaner.
any chance the @Airtable_Team will look at this??? I NEED This!!!
Please!
This would be great, and would make bases more powerful than they already are. I’d love to see this sometime.
@Howie_Liu @Howie , this is by far the most popular thread in the forum. We are relying on the wonderful product that you guys have created. Any info about your plans would be very appreciated.
+10000000 for this feature
This is an absolute NECESSITY for us, and the ONLY thing stopping me from rolling airtable out to our 30+ staff and 18 clients.
Use Case:
We are an agency, who use agile project management. We have a base for each client. Each contains 6 tabs including a backlog of tasks and a separate kanban for what work has been prioritised for the current sprint.
I need to be able to pull everything that is scheduled into one place, so I can have an overview of where the work is up to - basically a scrum board - so I can manage resource, scheduling etc appropriately.
Currently I have to go into each of the 18 bases individually, make a note of progress, and then go onto the next, then at the end bring it all together manually.
We’re going to have to go back to a GSheet / Trello mix without this :frowning:
IMHO, this is the most needed feature in airtable. I want ONE CRM that I can use to handle contacts. It’s insane constantly adding the same contacts to different bases that I use for different projects/purposes.
I wish that airbtable would study quickbases and see how they “create relationships between bases” to do this. I think if Airtable provided this feature, you would without question be the number one database program out there. It would be the feature that would give me incentive to move from a free account to a paid one. Especially if you kept it affordable for small business owners like myself. :slightly_smiling_face:
Is this at least being beta-tested? Anyone?
Is this at least being beta-tested? Anyone?
Not publicly - I’m participating in their beta program and there is nothing available regarding base linking right now.
+1 It’s about time! This feature would be a game changer for our company and pretty much everyone including all the other folks who have commented here. This is a definitely a strong differentiator, and a great way to convince stakeholders to be onboard with Airtable. Please add this feature!
Yes please! I really love airtable and want to use it for project management at my company, but I would need a way to control which tables are visible to which users and still keep all of those tables linked. This seems like the most logical way to handle that.
I think the biggest reason AT is not launching something like this - is due to the sheer VOLUME of data that will hit their system. As Jeremy_Oglesby said, it’s not even in beta testing…
They only did Series B. which allowed them to launch “BLOCKS”.
Logic dictates to me that if they haven’t done it by now it’s probably going to be a Series C thing :slightly_smiling_face:
Yes, this would be great. I recently had to aggreegate two different bases into one. It was a lot of work, but the Pro plan block “CSV Import”, which is outstanding, helped a lot.
Yes, this would be great. I recently had to aggreegate two different bases into one. It was a lot of work, but the Pro plan block “CSV Import”, which is outstanding, helped a lot.
Definitely plus 1.
The ability to manage access in a MUCH more granular way (enable editing of records by outsiders, while managing information access), plus better reporting , wld be a game changer…
+10000
Easy linking between data is Airtable Core. I use Google Spreadsheets and have a LOT of “bases”. I was considering using airtable, but without this, is unnusable for our company. All areas of a company are linked in real life. Great tool, tought.
I too support this… just adding my 2 cents
The possibility to link to other bases would definitely be a big fat plus ! :thumbs_up:
More than two years since the last answer from @Katherine_Duh or any @Airtable_Team member, are you at least still paying attention to your community ?
+1 for this functionality.
Any solution where you require a layered approach to what the user can see (interface) or interact with (data) would really benefit from this (or from having more layered permissions within a single base).
Let’s say I’ve got different business units using the one system. Sales Agents should be able to add in and link certain pieces of information (say leads, phonecalls, sales, etc). But I don’t want them able edit the “Commissions” table (although they need to be able to see it on a dashboard view for example).
Having an “Accounts” Base which was able to interact with the “Sales” Base would be fantastic.
Personal views don’t address this functionality (at least not that I’m aware).
And if we could have multiple bases interacting, it would allow for a better stock interface (not crowding the user with table tabs that are not relevant to them, and confuse their brain).
Cheers!
Adding to the chorus here. Concerned that the first request is 3 years (!!!) ago. This is a fairly basic feature request.
+1. It would be far easier to organize things with this feature.
This feature is definitely on our roadmap. Unfortunately it’s a pretty big undertaking for technical reasons, and we haven’t had the chance to tackle it yet. We hear and appreciate your feedback on this though, apologies for not acknowledging it earlier.
I offer a few suggestions:
Both options have functional advantages and disadvantages for the users. Nevertheless they are both sufficient to meet the needs of avid Airtable users and open up incredible opportunities down the road.
Thanks @Airtable
Another Plus 1 for this feature.
Literally the only thing holding us back - needs to be on the roadmap
It’s embarrassing telling my clients that Airtable doesn’t support this.
This is the only thing keeping me from using Airtable.
+1 for this feature too. Only way to work with our virtual assistant.
+1 - this is really the only way to get a more complete picture of what is happening in any business, as far as I’m concerned the whole point of a database is to be able to automate relationships between, for instance, inventory and order flow. Make it optional, maybe turned off by default if you’re concerned about overwhelming casual users - but please don’t ignore your most requested feature. This is a must for serious integration into our company. Separate departments are useless if they can’t communicate.
