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New Field Type: "Live" Fields ⚡️

  • June 10, 2018
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Beyond my proposal here: Automatic Follower-Count for Instagram, Twitter and Facebook Links

I think there’s HUGE potential for “Live” Fields, enabled via corporate partnerships.

Imagine a Tracking Number field that live-updates via native sync with FedEx, UPS, DHL, USPS, etc.

Or a Stock Price/BI field that’s synced to Bloomberg, NASDAQ, etc.

Or a partnership with Salesforce… Google Analytics… Etc.

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  • New Participant
  • June 14, 2018

Oh yes!

+1 Google analytics/adwords/data studio data integrated in a live field.


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Yes, I agree. Airtable has lots of potential for rapid creation of live dashboards.
+1


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  • Inspiring
  • July 31, 2020

One of our extensions lets you lookup stock prices in Airtable.


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+1 Really great Idea. I would definitifly need to use it for :

  • Currency exchange rate
  • Tracking Number of item purchased Item (From suppliers to my business)
  • Date & Time of a specific region in the world
  • Phone or internet embeded GPS module for GPS location
  • If I can fetch a data from a URL I would also use it for a costum cloud data (For exemple in IoT, the real time/almost real time status or data)