Product Discussions

I’ve noticed that sometimes Airtable is unavailable for a couple of hours, and when I look through the incident history, I find there has already been a couple outages this year. Some of the systems I build for clients in industries like accounting or payroll systems needs 24/7 access, or at least a backup plan that kicks on while airtable gets fixed. Is there any known or solid method to provide a backup system when airtable shuts down?It’s been very unnerving to have clients tell me they can’t get on their systems that they need to operate their business.

Hey hey!!A very simple, yet really really nice, feature got released without too much promotion/announcement (unless I missed something): Collapsible Groups for Interfaces!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉This was not published on Airtable’s What’s New page.  Just wanted to share this here :D.Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation YouTube Channel

Hi Airtable builders - I’m working on Pdfier, a small tool for Airtable PDF workflows, and I’d love feedback from people who generate documents from real bases.The use case I’m focused on is when the PDF needs more than one flat record:- invoices with linked line items- work orders with linked tasks or materials- reports with child rows- customer documents where the generated PDF should land back in an attachment fieldThe workflow I’m testing is:1. connect an Airtable base2. read the table schema and sample rows3. resolve linked records before rendering4. generate a reusable PDF layout from the actual fields5. save the finished PDF back to AirtableI wrote up the linked-record part here:https://pdfier.app/guides/airtable-linked-records-pdf?utm_source=airtable_community&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=pdfier_launch_june_2026I’m not looking to pitch a discount or do a launch promo here. I’m trying to understand what experienced Airtable users expect from this kind of workflow.If

Hi,I have around 50 users distributed in 20 roles and we are 2 creators.So far, my policy to manage rights is :- Open base for dashboards: creator rights for managers on read-only base containing only synced tables- Interfaces dedicated to every role: every operational role has dedicated interface with editor rights (with viewable/editable fields adapted to their function in the workflow)Drawback of this is:- users can’t share links to other teams from their interface since other roles don’t have access to them- managers feel they are hidden some information and regularly ask for access to other role interfaces- managers feel they could have improvements ideas for their interfaces by browsing through other team interfacesIn the long term, my perception is that granting rights when asked is a way to:- miss evolution of workflows/new needs for information- degrade user experience and efficiency since they will multiply click through other interface for a specific informationSo I mostly q

I am trying to integrate my Airtable project with Azure Devops and I find we can create or edit tickets using Airtable Azure Devops action in the automations. But I find this approach is in beta version. So when will Airtable wil make this as a stable version or is there any updates that is still going on. Like what's the meaning of the beta in this case? Any probable date when it can be stable and not in beta version?

I have been testing out the recent Display names for linked records feature and realized that there is a flaw in the design although Support confirmed that it was working as intended. What I’m seeing:The linked record picker correctly shows the configured display name.The linked table’s Primary Field is populated for all records.Visibility conditions evaluate correctly at runtime.However, when configuring Visibility Conditions on forms or record detail layouts, the selected linked record values appear as “Unnamed” in the configuration UI. You can search for the ‘Display Name’ that you configured in the field during configuration but after you select those values, you get ‘Unnamed’. From my experience Unnamed is when a record has no data in the primary field but in my scenario it does. It only displays the Unnamed when you enable the ‘Show display name instead of primary field’. Impact:It’s not possible to review, audit, or troubleshoot visibility logic, because the conditions are unrea

Airtable server is not working, cannot open Airtable and any base within

Hi, I use Airtable for keeping an inventory of artworks. I need to be able to pull a PDF of selected records and selected fields, and put our branding at the top. Is this possible? I am wondering if Airtable is not the right programme for us.  Thank you,Beth 

​🚨 It’s happening again — the second edition of the Airtable Community-Led Hackathon is officially going down. It all started last year with this low key community post, and we had +100 signups for our Nov 2025 event (fully remote). It was an absolute blast (check out submissions here), so we figured it was the perfect excuse to shake things up again in early 2026. Here’s how it works this time 👇 🟢 Signups are OPEN now (link here)🎯 Theme: "Let’s Play 🎲"🛠 Start building: March 1, 2026📤 Submissions: Open from March 1 to March 17, 2026 More about the theme:What happens when you mix Airtable, creativity, and a bit of mischief? A game!Board game, trivia, RPG, simulation, puzzle, management game... anything goes. If someone can play it, you’re on the right track.🏆 How will winners be chosen?Once again, there'll be three awards:Airtable's Official AI Award: Chosen by Alex McDonnell (Airtable's Director of Product Marketing) for the best use of Airtable's AI features. Basefluencer Awar

I have sent this as feedback to airtable, though I don’t expect a useful response. Partially I’m venting here, but I’m also curious about where the rest of the community sits on this (and if anyone “closer” to airtable has meaningful insight).For several years, the airtable user community has complained about the dysfunctionality of the mobile apps. A large reason we invested in building systems with airtable was the mobile apps. For 3 years, we've accepted that it has "quirks," but that Airtable was working on it.However, we've seen very little progress in this space. The apps are barely functional, which has complicated our workflow. We use airtable "in the field." However, it frequently fails to update records (i.e. you create a record, or add text/numbers to a field in the airtable app, only to find out several hours later those changes weren't saved). We constantly have to close and re-open the app to create/edit records that will give us "server errors," now allowing the record t

Feature Suggestion: Add a record count to the page interface. This would allow users to see at a glance if there are any results matching their filters, avoiding unnecessary navigation through empty pages.ex,Section XYZ-- New (3)-- Responsive (1)-- MQL (0)-- SQL (5) 

Right now you can @ a user in record-comments, but you can’t @ a record as far as I can see.   It’s very common to want to reference other records in comments.  Yes I know I can link to other records in a record - but that doesn’t provide the context that an @-mention in comment would.   E.g. in a record named “Collapse map icons when zoomed out” - we may want to @-mention another record like“We should make sure that we coordinate with [@Prevent map zoom from jumping when witching to map-mode] on this one as they have overlapping parts” Bonus points if this triggers a reverse comment on the mentioned record like:“This record was mentioned in [@Collapse map icons when zoomed out]> We should make sure that we coordinate with [@Prevent map zoom from jumping when witching to map-mode] on this one as they have overlapping parts” Desireata“@” in a comment triggers a search not just over users but also recordsIf a comment @-mentions another record, it creates a clickable link to that recor

We’ve been testing AI agents in production since around April 2025, and what’s already working well is the shift away from rigid trigger action workflows toward agent-led orchestration. Instead of chaining dozens of conditional steps, we’re using agents to interpret context, decide the next action, and only fall back to deterministic logic for guardrails (validation, approvals, cost limits, and failure handling). In practice, this has reduced workflow complexity and made automations far more resilient to edge cases and changing inputs. For those deploying agents today: how are you structuring the balance between agent autonomy and manual or rule-based oversight? What decisions do you still refuse to fully delegate?

Hey guys!!Just figured out this is new and super cool (see screenshot below). Thought it would be nice to share as I don’t seem to find it in Airable’s what’s new page. ​@ScottWorld ​@DisraeliGears01 where you guys aware of this? Was this released some days ago and I didn’t realize? Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation YouTube Channel

Since the new update we cant do anything anymore we are stuck! Cant paste cant delete entries cant search PLEASE HELP

Ok, so last year I posted this Airtable Crhistmas Whishlist: Guess what... It seems Airtable did hear me out (in part)!!!!❌ Parent/Child Forms: We still cannot create records in multiple tables, and have them linked together, through Airtable Native forms. ✅ Smarter Automations: Conditional logic AND loopis in a single automation has been silently released some days ago. ❌ Nested Loops (repeating groups) in automations: Not yet. We can only have one repeating group per automation (however, nested conditional logic was actually released!) ✅ Higher Automation Limits: Even if not self-served, Airtable was kind enough to increase the automation limit for a few of my Clients (enterprise accounts)What is THE feature that would really make your year in 2026?On my side, I’m still pushing for Parent/Child forms.Record count increase (+500k on enterprise accounts) will for sure be on my list as well.Happy holidays for everybody in this great Community 🎅🎅🎅🎅 :D​@ScottWorld ​@Erica_Pascual ​@Di

The Roadmap Interface is fantastic.  It’s powerful to be able to drag records around the grid.  It would be also helpful if records could be dragged to another tab (and corresponding fields would so changed).

It’s all in the title. Horrible design choice.

Can’t tell you how happy I am about this feature! I submitted a product idea around 6 months ago for record detail sections as some of our clients have so many fields that only seeing some of them on the layout would be extremely beneficial, while having access to the rest if required. This is a small thing but a game changer for UX. 🎉

Hey hey!Is the ability to copy and paste filters on interfaces (e.g. List page) new, or was I blind for a very long time? Completely different matter, but would love to have you join our Airtable Hackathon! Make sure to sign up!!Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation YouTube Channel

The current summary stats for linked record fields are only Empty/Filled/% Empty/% Filled. Would love to be able to calculate Unique (in particular when you cannot link multiple records). A fictionalized use case:I have two tables: a list of contacts and a list of companies. Each contact has a linked record to a single company. I would like to be able to see a count how many companies are represented by a filtered group of contacts -- either in the data view or in an interface. A workaround would be to go to the companies table, and filter to companies that are linked to a contact.However, sometimes I only want to calculate this for a subset of contacts. Currently the best solution (to my knowledge) would be to create a roll-up field in the company table that counts linked contacts who match the relevant criteria and count the number of contacts using this formula.

I would like a formula that take a blockchain address in string form and converts it to its case-sensitive checksum format.  For instance calling this function on ‘0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead9083c756cc2’  would return  ‘0xC02aaA39b223FE8D0A0e5C4F27eAD9083C756Cc2’ The process is fairly simpleConvert the original Ethereum address into lowercase. Compute the SHA-3 hash of the lowercases address. Take the first 40 characters of the hash (which is a 64-character hexadecimal string) and replace the corresponding characters in the original lowercase address. If a character in the hash is a letter (A-F), then the corresponding character in the address should be uppercase. If a character in the hash is a number (0-9), then the corresponding character in the address should be left as lowercase. The final result is the checksummed version of the address. https://www.alchemy.com/docs/how-to-handle-checksum-addresses#what-are-checksum-addresses

There are some functionalities that are only available in the app. If you embed a view on a site it will pop-up a message with the link to the app.The problem is that the message is at the bottom of the embed frame. If you frame is large the user can not see the pop-up as it needs to scroll down.I’d like the pop-up to appear at the top.

I don’t think it’s rolled out to every base yet, but something to look forward to!