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!

[Databaser]

Thanks for these updates, much appreciated.

[Traci_Franssen]

Rose_K:

The “Create View” section is now collapsible, so you can regain screen real estate whenever you aren’t actively creating views.

hooray!!! thank you!

[Dominik_Bosnjak]

Ok, let’s se-

… am I drunk? Is the evil stepbutton here to stay?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m way too old to be able to complain about imaginary things on the Internet with a straight face and “that was totally time well-spent” attitude.

But I did find this funny seeing how controversial recent changes were. I feel sorry for the people who regularly share bases with non-technical users, though, who’ll usually be clients by proxy/employment, and whatnot.

An inconsistent UI will eventually lead everyone into making a mistake. And based on these past few days,. it sounds like a lot of current consultants are one “where’s da buttooon” phone call away from realizing they’ve spent half a day volunteering as level 1 technical support because they simply did not anticipate things escalating so cartoonishly. Let me tell you, I’ve spoken with Airtable’s L1s a few times and they’re pretty amazing, no way you can compete if you’re in the consulting biz. :stuck_out_tongue:

So… yeah, fingers crossed for buttons to stay put, starting soon.

[ScottWorld]

Thanks, @Rose_K! You’re a superstar! :star2: :sparkles:

These are truly fantastic updates for the month of June! :cowboy_hat_face: :raised_hands:

Love the persistent “New Record” button at the bottom of the screen! :grinning:

p.s. One feature request that 2 of my clients really needed this week: Please allow us to make the column headers taller, so we can reduce the widths of our columns but still see the full field names. Maybe we can see this improvement in July? :winking_face: :pray: :pray: :pray:

[Tristan-ARG]

One feature request that 2 of my clients really needed this week: Please allow us to make the column headers taller, so we can reduce the widths of our columns but still see the full field names.

This would be amazing! I am waiting for it also +1

[kuovonne]

Rose_K:

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.

I think you have the wrong link here. The link opens a support page about a scripting action, and that page doesn’t mention anything about an automation url.

[Rose_K]

Fixed that link, thanks @kuovonne! :star2:

[Databaser]

Rose_K:

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.

I’m wondering in which context I could use this :thinking: Any use cases?

[ScottWorld]

Databaser:

I’m wondering in which context I could use this :thinking:

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.”

Meanwhile, we have REAL needs that are going extremely unmet by the Airtable team. See my post above for one tiny example out of hundreds.

[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. Then put together the biggest and most capable team I could find AND GET ON WITH IT!

But hey, I’m just a simple freelancer from Belgium :expressionless: