A client portal where they can action tasks

[_DP]

Hey all,

Long time coda.io user switching over to airtable as my business grows.

A key feature I love is the ease of building UI’s over the top of the databases.

I’ve done some research but haven’t been able to come up with an answer.

Using softr.io, stacker or any other alternative… can you have an ‘embeded’ table where the data can be changed.

Basically, I want the full functionality of the airtable ‘table’ / ‘view’ to be in a client portal, a long with other items such as invoices etc./

Thanks in advance,

[Andrew_Davies19]

Hi

More knowledgable people than me will chip in I am sure but I’m afraid this is an often asked for feature of Airtable. I believe it was accidentally released by Airtable as a feature not long ago - then hastily redacted.

[ScottWorld]

@_DP Yes, MiniExtensions.com, softr.io, and Stacker are 3 popular portal tools that allow your clients to edit their own records. A newer one is Glide, which I believe offers the same thing.

[kuovonne]

Welcome to the Airtable community!

_DP:

can you have an ‘embeded’ table where the data can be changed.

Yes and no. Various portals will let your users edit the data. However, thus far none of them allow inline editing in a table format. You need to open a special screen for editing one record at a time.

[ScottWorld]

MiniExtensions.com allows inline editing for all field types in a table/grid format — including attachment fields and linked record fields!

Here’s an editable demo.

[kuovonne]

Scott, thanks for that demo from MiniExtensions. It is very close to what I would consider inline editing in a grid but not completely. There is still a pop-up editing window, but at least it only shows that one single cell.

[_DP · Accepted solution]

Hey all, just an update - Glide is perfect! Thanks @ScottWorld thanks @kuovonne

[ScottWorld]

That’s great to hear! I’ll have to check out Glide sometime soon — I’ve heard some good things about it.

[ScottWorld]

Also, to update this old thread with a new portal option that my clients are loving:

Noloco is an even more advanced portal than Glide! It has more advanced options, and much better integrated support for Airtable!

[CKARC]

I will be trying Noloco next. I must admit, the pricing model absolutely kills me as I have nearly ten thousand public users, and we are a small charity, so Noloco looks like it will get expensive fast.

Mini Extensions out of the box has been perfect for what we needed.

Softr is OK at first until you try to nest a linked record or have a form for that record. Then it's awful. (I still cant get over how they think that a conditional field form is like a groundbreaking innovation, and have people releasing YouTube affiliate video's about it as if they just discovered Atlantis . . it's a form, with conditional fields . . not Elvis)

Sorry, I digress.

if you want a Portal up and running in an hour, use Mini Extensions is my current thinking