Thanks to everyone who joined this week's session on building custom interfaces for campaign management and creative ops!
Shout out to Nathan from our team at Nifty for hosting and building a whole interface live from scratch in front of us 👏
3 Key Takeaways 👀
- Pulling dates from multiple tables into one timeline: this was the one that got the most reaction on the call. Nathan's campaign portfolio view pulls dates from campaigns, phases, activities, reviews, and PTO, all separate tables, into a single timeline. No more being limited to one table's dates. 🗓️
- Ship custom interfaces before a big AI rollout, and build a view for every stakeholder: they're a much quicker win, layering on top of a base you already trust rather than requiring a big process overhaul. And once it's set up, you can give VPs, vendors, and clients a view that looks the way they expect, not "the Airtable version" of a content calendar.
- You can build one with Omni + Claude (or your LLM of choice), no coding skills required: feed Claude an Airtable specific "skill" doc plus your base's schema, and it'll generate the interface code for you to paste right in. We covered a few gotchas on the call (hidden fields, PDF vs. text prompts, and more) that'll save you hours of troubleshooting, so it's worth watching the recording for that part alone!
Core resources & links
- 🔗 Extension skills GitHub repo: the reference doc Nathan used to teach Claude the ins and outs of building Airtable custom interfaces: check it out here.
- 📜 The script: the scripting extension Nathan used to pull base schema info into Claude: find it here.
Missed the event or want to review the demo? We got you covered, catch the recording below.
Have follow up questions or want to keep the conversation going? Connect with Nathan on LinkedIn, he's always happy to chat Airtable.
If there are other topics you'd love to see covered, let us know in the comments!