June Product Updates

[Rose_K]

Hello Airtable Community!

We wanted to gather all of June’s product updates in one place, to make sure we keep you in the loop.

Here is a list of changes, big and small, that we introduced in June!

General Product Updates:

• The “Create View” section is now collapsible, so you can regain screen real estate whenever you aren’t actively creating views.
• Users can now add details to their invoices, allowing you to add important information like tax codes, addresses, and any additional notes to future invoices.
• The “add record” button’s design has changed, and is now a persistent button on the bottom left hand side of the screen.
• The Google Drive external source sync feature is now in beta. Pro and Enterprise plan users can sign up to join the beta here.
• The Salesforce external source sync is now open to all users on the Enterprise plan.

Automations updates:

• We are so excited to announce our newest automation trigger: “When a form is submitted”! The “When a form is submitted” trigger can be used to trigger an action when a response is submitted to the specified Airtable form
• When rendering records found from a view using “Find Records”, then rendering those records as an HTML list or grid in an email, the records will now be rendered in the same order as the view.
• The “At scheduled time” trigger has gotten a big update! Besides a refreshed UI, the trigger now supports:
  • selecting a start date/time for when the trigger should start firing
  • when the specified time interval is weekly, you can now specify the number of weeks between automation runs (from 1-11 weeks).
• You can now easily navigate to specific automations in your base by using the new “Copy automation URL” option to create a link that opens a specified automation directly.
• The “Send MS Teams message” now clearly shows an error message when meeting the 28KB size limit.
• The “Send Email” action no longer truncates ratings’ fields rendered in an HTML grid.
• The “Run a Script” action now clearly returns an error message when the custom script output exceeds the 6MB limit.
• Creating and updating automations is now easier than ever with the ability to change an automation’s step’s action type.

Mobile updates:

iOS

• Editing filters is now presented in a bottom sheet, so you can see more of your data while you edit those filters.

Android

• Android Pro plan users can now view their record’s colors in Grid, Gallery, and Kanban views.
• Having trouble scanning barcodes in the dark? We have now added a flashlight button to the barcode scanner so you can easily turn on your mobile device’s flashlight!

[Bill_French]

@Databaser,

Wow! Honored to be in that class and regarded with such high praise. Thank you.

Databaser:

… put you guys in a 5* hotel and let you braindump everything.

Oddly, this exact scenario has happened to me three times.

• Microsoft
• Boreland
• Ashton-Tate

Yes - I’m that old. I’m pretty sure I have a filling in my mouth that’s four times the age of the average developer at Airtable. It was placed there when Casey Kasem announced The Carpenters hit #1 on the Billboard chart with Close to You.

The Microsoft gig was the most expensive (7-course meal at this posh place with Gates himself presiding). Caviar at $125/serving was interesting, but I’ll never forget the $7200 bottle of wine Ron Dennis served me at an Ashton-Tate dLAB Advisory Board meeting. I would have been equally impressed with an $800 Bordeaux.

But… I digress from what is possibly the most understated digression ever.

Airtable was doing fine before I showed up, and they’ll do very well long after I’m gone. Of course, they won’t feel those moments of anguish they must have often felt when I burp out my next complaint. Indeed, I would love to engage and help them before I pull the ripcord from this storybook land of codeless bliss. :winking_face:

In other news, Elon says my product is “cool”. He says so much with so few words.

[ScottWorld]

Databaser:

What’s left to say @ScottWorld … We can only hit the same nail that many times :man_shrugging: If I were Airtable, I’d book a flight for you, @kuovonne, @Bill.French and @Kamille_Parks (to name a few), put you guys in a 5* hotel and let you braindump everything.

Hahaha, I love that idea!! :grinning: And I second that idea!! :stuck_out_tongue:

This would, of course, require the Airtable team to make a dramatic shift in focus by actually valuing: (1) their customers, (2) their community, and (3) their consultants. :man_shrugging:t2:

[kuovonne]

ScottWorld:

I can only think of one use case for this bizarre addition to the product line: A client asking their Airtable consultant, “Can you please check over this automation for me? Here’s the link.”

Well, yeah. I was wondering what the purpose was, which was why I clicked the link to find out more, which was how I discovered that the link was incorrect.

On the other hand, I imaging that this is an important use case for Airtable support. It could also potentially be useful for consultants working with clients for the same reason.

[kuovonne]

Databaser:

If I were Airtable, I’d book a flight for you, …

Thank you for the honor. There are several others that also deserve to be in that hotel.

Databaser:

Then put together the biggest and most capable team I could

I think that Airtable is already trying to do this. They just aren’t very public about what they are working on.

Bill.French:

Indeed, I would love to engage and help them before I pull the ripcord from this storybook land of codeless bliss.

For now, Airtable seems to be happy to get feedback from us for free on these forums.

I’ve trying to decipher the second half of your sentence and have come up several different interpretations. Whenever you pull that cord, you will be missed.

[Eric_Goldman1]

I trust that with your Cybertruck, Cyberlander, and a little Starlink bandwidth you’ll be keeping our community honest for years to come while out in the wild :raised_hands:

[Kamille_Parks]

Databaser:

If I were Airtable, I’d book a flight for you, @kuovonne, @Bill.French and @Kamille_Parks (to name a few), put you guys in a 5* hotel and let you braindump everything.

Airtable, holla at me.

[Bill_French]

Eric_Goldman:

you’ll be keeping our community honest for years to come while out in the wild :raised_hands:

Perhaps, but oddly, with all of the CyberLandr™ activity, I find myself deep inside a Nevada DOT project. We landed the contract to provide 22 gantry surveillance systems throughout Vegas and Reno. We were hoping we would not get this gig, but our AI stuff that counts HOV lane passengers with fully blackened windows won the deal.

[Tristan-ARG]

I want to go the trip also! haha, where to sign? :rofl: :joy:

[Databaser]

I’ll mail you the Excel :joy:

[ScottWorld]

Just received my plane ticket from Airtable this morning! :joy: :joy: :joy: