"New Record" ("Add record") button and shortcut

I’ve seen a new ‘add record’ button appear at the bottom of some of my views recently, but it doesn’t seem to appear on all of my views. Wondering how to enable it on all views!

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That sounds like a really interesting new feature. Would you mind sharing a screen capture?

It’s on the Gallery & Kanban views, in the lower right corner. It’s been there for a while.

Figured it out, it only shows when you have grouped views that are grouping by a calculated field.

Wow, didn’t know that one! Very cool! It would be nice if that plus sign was ALWAYS on the grid view.

Yeh I agree. I was hoping it was!

Thank you for the screen capture! I haven’t seen that before and often have records grouped by a calculated field. I’ll have to look for it.

Airtable is known for quietly testing/rolling out new features, and this looks like a nice one. It vaguely reminds me of the new record button in the iOS app.

This comment provides a clue:

When records are grouped by calculated fields, new records cannot be directly added in that view. It’s a limitation of how groups behave, and I don’t think that’s going to change. You’ll have to switch to a view where there’s either no grouping, or just no grouping by a calculated field.

I am having the same problem–sometimes there is a button to add a new record, sometimes its not there! Did you ever figure out an answer?

The plus sign to add new records is now always visible in the lower left of the screen.

Good to hear. Unfortunately, not for me. Sometimes it is there, sometimes it is not–which is very frustrating as I cannot find any way to make it visible–no buttons, no keyboard shortcut.

Any ideas? There doesn’t seem to be any way to communicate directly with Airtable

Well, that is not behavior that you can control, so there’s nothing you can do to make it appear if it’s not appearing. Where is it not appearing for you? (I can’t make it disappear, which is the exact behavior that I would expect and is exactly the behavior that I prefer.)

When it IS there, a plus symbol has appeared below the last entry, bottom left of the screen. Without it I cannot add any new records to this base. FYI, its not the large overlaid burnt orange circle with a + that I noted in earlier correspondence. Its just a simple + .

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Could the table permissions be set to not allow you to create new records?

If your records are grouped by a calculated field, you cannot add records right below the last row. But the “plus sign” in the lower left (not attached to any record/group) should still be there if you have permission to add new records.

Can you share a screen shot?

Where are the table permissions? Here’s a screen shot. Colleagues and I have successfully added 142 records. I added some a week or so ago. But, and I have noticed this before, sometimes the + symbol is not available bottom left.

This is no longer the case. All groupings allow creating new records through the plus sign, even groupings by formula fields. At least on my end this is how it now works. Many of us are using different versions of Airtable, and I often get the newest features first.

@George_King You either have a permissions issue, or you’re looking at a destination sync table (which can’t have records added to it).

This has not been my experience. While I can always create a new record using the plus sign at the bottom of the screen that is not associated with any group, the plus sign on the left side of the bar immediately below the last record in the group is missing when the view is grouped by a calculated field. Indeed, I don’t think that it would even be possible for Airtable to determine how to set values for a record created in a group determined by a formula field.

Right, I’m talking about the plus sign at the bottom of the screen. It obviously can’t be at the bottom of a group that is grouped by formulas. This entire time I have been talking about the plus sign at the bottom of the screen, which was not previously available under all circumstances. I’m sorry if I was not clear, but I was referring to Airtable’s behavior in 2021 vs. Airtable’s behavior in 2022. The plus sign used to show up in the lower right of the screen, but only under certain limited circumstances. Airtable has now thankfully cleaned this up, so the plus sign is always there at the bottom of the screen at all times. This is a fantastic & welcome change that they have made to the product! :slightly_smiling_face:

Thank you for the screen shot. You appear to be viewing a shared view, and not the actual editable grid view. Note the absence of the tabs for the tables above the data, and the “Use this data” screen.

Try accessing the original base. If you cannot create records in the original base, this support page has more info on table permissions:

I think that both of us have been talking about the same thing.

I was reacting to the “below the last entry” part of the comment, thinking it might have been record group …

But the screen shot makes it clear that there is no record grouping going on, and it is a different issue.

OK, thanks. I didn’t realize I was in a subset of some kind. Order has been restored, thanks for your help @ScottWorld and @kuovonne!

Neither did we until you posted the screen shot! Screen shots are so helpful.

Haha, sorry if I was confusing matters! I wasn’t trying to! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: