Improvements to expand and edit records

[Jordan_Scott1]

Hi all!

We are excited to share that as of today, we’ve made it easier for you - and your team - to expand and edit records in Airtable.

• We’re making it easier to edit records while in the expanded view. We’ve increased the area around fields (including moving the field label to the left to save vertical space) in the expanded view for each record and made improvements to the activity pane.
• We’ve also made it clear when a field is editable in expanded view so your collaborators can easily make edits.
• We’ve added a persistent action bar so that common actions like changing between records, turning on comments, and the record title all stay in the same place, even as you scroll through the details.

You can expect these updates to be reflected in your bases in the next two days. We’d love to hear feedback from you about this change, so please leave your feedback below!

[ScottWorld]

Wow, you’re lucky! They reverted you back? I’m still on the new monstrosity. I want to know how I can get on the cool list!

[Rebecca_Elam]

WHAAAA?! Mac app on right, microsoft edge on left

[kuovonne]

Phased rollout/rollback. Thanks for the photo of the side-by-side comparison.

[ScottWorld]

Side by side, it’s so incredibly obvious which one is usable and which one is unusable.

[Quality_Assuran]

Hi Jordan, whilst the label being on the left is not a problem, the space between the label and the field is. It may have saved vertical space but makes it much less user friendly trying to see which field you’re entering data into whilst record is expanded.

[Margaret_Picker]

I got all excited then - but no - both MS Edge and Chrome giving me new horrible version

[Margaret_Picker]

I have also requested Support to reverse the changes. I got this reply :slightly_smiling_face:
Hi Margaret,

Juliana here from Support ️

Thanks for reaching out about this. While it is not possible to revert to a past version at this time, can you let me know if there are any specific fields that are confusing to you or less efficient to your workflow? I will gladly pass this feedback directly to my team.

We make these changes based on comments from users, like you, in research sessions. Taking these comments into account, we slowly roll out these changes while closely monitoring any feedback. We understand that these changes may not improve every workflow, which is why we appreciate your opinion so much.

Best,
Juliana

I will detail all the things I dislike the most - I suggest others contact support too.

Margaret

[Cara_Van_Meter]

Wait, so it IS being rolled back? Or do you just mean that maybe the rollout hasn’t hit the Mac app yet?

@Jordan_Scott1, any updates?

Like most have expressed on this thread, I’m really hoping that either this change will be reversed or that we will be given the option to choose between this new view and the old “classic” view. Even if we can’t go back, there are obviously adjustments (detailed in this thread) that need to be made in order to improve the functionality of this new view.

If there’s even a rough timeline for when we might see any of those things happen, it would be really helpful to be able to share that with our users who are struggling so much right now so they don’t lose hope. :confused:

Communication is key! Airtable, please don’t continue making the classic mistake of saying nothing just because you can’t say everything. Staying silent just because you haven’t quite figured out the solution yet is NOT helpful. Even acknowledging that a problem exists and that you’re working on it goes a long way in building good will with your customers. If you hear us, let us know!

[Justin_Barrett]

Cara_Van_Meter:

Wait, so it IS being rolled back? Or do you just mean that maybe the rollout hasn’t hit the Mac app yet?

I’ve had the new version in my Mac app for a few days. My gut says that the Mac app in the screenshot might not have been refreshed in a while, so it’s still showing the old version. Can you confirm @Rebecca_Elam ?

[Bill_French]

Justin_Barrett:

My gut says that the Mac app in the screenshot might not have been refreshed in a while, so it’s still showing the old version.

I think your gut is very perceptive. Almost certainly the case with a cached app view. If there had been any attempt to roll-back, (a) @Jordan_Scott1 probably would have updated this thread and (b) more than @Rebecca_Elam would have seen something change.