Is there a way to configure a Phone field to allow clicking it and calling the number on MacBook. This would be super helpful not to have to type it into my iPhone.
Click on phone number on Mac
+35If you use Safari instead of Chrome, you can highlight a phone number (you can also triple-click to quickly highlight the entire phone number). Then, macOS will give you a pop-up menu to dial the number. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work in Chrome. Maybe there’s some Chrome extension to make that work.
I think the issue is that Airtable chose not to support the tel: protocol (i.e., tel://999-999-9999) natively in its URL field. There are many different URL protocols and tel: is the one that makes it possible for click-to-dial. This same behaviour should be possible on the mobile devices (not sure - never tested).
Unlike Chrome, Safari chose to support it as well as native entity extraction to make it possible to dial phone numbers even when the tel:// protocol was not applied.
But… there’s an out on Mac that requires no additional effort.
Simply enter your phone number data into a URL field like this:
… and it will work.
+35I think the issue is that Airtable chose not to support the tel: protocol (i.e., tel://999-999-9999) natively in its URL field. There are many different URL protocols and tel: is the one that makes it possible for click-to-dial. This same behaviour should be possible on the mobile devices (not sure - never tested).
Unlike Chrome, Safari chose to support it as well as native entity extraction to make it possible to dial phone numbers even when the tel:// protocol was not applied.
But… there’s an out on Mac that requires no additional effort.
Simply enter your phone number data into a URL field like this:
… and it will work.
Nice tip, @Bill.French! That’s a great one! :cowboy_hat_face: :raised_hands:
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