New: Overview Layout in Interfaces

[Ayesha_Bose]

Hello! I’m Ayesha, a Product Manager here at Airtable. We’re so excited to share an improvement to interfaces that will let you create a new layout to help provide an overview for your app. With this new layout type, you can easily add text blocks, bookmarks, and links, and even customize it with a logo and cover image.

Interfaces are built for collaboration. We’ve seen so many customers create amazing apps with Interfaces that help their team members:

• Know exactly where to go and what to do in an app
• Focus on the information that matters to them
• Use pages that are designed specifically for their work

With our new Overview layout, you can build a new front page for your app – providing important context for your team, highlighting the most critical pages within your app, and giving new users a clear place to start. We can’t wait to see what you build with this!

What is the Overview layout? 

This is a new page type that will let you configure:

• Title
• Description
• Custom cover image and logo
• Bookmarks: you can add a bookmark to any page in your app
• Text blocks
• Sidebar: this will add a secondary space to add more information in addition to links to external resources.

How do you create a page with this layout?

• Within the edit mode in the Interfaces tab, you can click the + sign on the left side of the screen to add a new page.
• In the layout picker, you can choose the Overview option.
• We’ll get you started with some quick links and examples of how you can configure this page, but you can customize this page to make it your own.

Other common questions:

• When should I use this layout?
• For apps that have a lot of sections and pages. This can help point your team to the most important areas within your app
• For apps that will be shared with a large audience. This can be a great place to add more context in text blocks to make sure everyone understands your app

• Is this supported on mobile?
• Not yet, but this is coming soon!

• Who can see bookmarks?
• Bookmarks to Interface pages only show for users with access to those pages. If an entire group of bookmarks is not accessible to a user, it won’t be displayed.

• Other questions? Check out our support article.

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We’re looking forward to hearing what you think, please let us know if you have any questions.

This will be slowly rolling out to customers over the next couple of weeks. If you’re an enterprise customer, please reach out to your account manager with any questions.