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Currently, when creating a table, users are prompted with the "What should each record be called?" dropdown menu. There are many options available but not one for every use case out there. It would be nice if when the user selected "other" they got a chance to type in exactly what they want the records in the base to be called or if Airtable got rid of the drop down altogether and made it a freetext field by default.
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New Ideas
Submitted on
‎May 20, 2024
01:04 AM
Submitted by
sallierie
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‎May 20, 2024
01:04 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Please make it possible to sync the google drive in an automation or from an API call as an extra option beside just the 5 minute interval or manual click in the airtable><Google Drive table that is currently available. How does is solve the user problems? When you are designing workflows in an airtable interface and the flow is touching on a document that is created and then stored in a google drive, your workflow is automatically interupted now until the sync is completed between airtable and Google drive before you can work with the data from the newly created document. The only way to bypass this lagg currently is by manually going into the table and press the "sync now" button. However, in many use cases (including mine), you dont want the customer to go into the data part of airtable. How was this validated? I have been looking online and the only somewhat relevant info is on how to keep the table "alive" by setting up an automation on an interval. But that doesnt solve the problem as it still requires you to wait a few minutes for the sync to automatically occur. Who is the target audience? Workflow designers who have customers who only get access to interfaces or external access (like softr, make etc.)
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Submitted on
‎Apr 17, 2024
10:51 AM
Submitted by
Mike_Shaw1
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‎Apr 17, 2024
10:51 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? My suggestion is that you make all desktop data views and interfaces phone fields function just like the mobile app so that if you click on it you have the option to choose Call or Text (tel/sms). Workaround is to at least make this work with the Button field, right now the tel: or sms: links do not work with the button in the data views or interfaces, they are just kind greyed out and don't work. How does is solve the user problems? Most business run on computers not mobile phones. The option to just click a phone # and then choose call or text is an invaluable time saving option. Why do you have a phone number field that does not act like a phone number on a desktop from a data view or interface when it works like this in the airtable mobile app?! Is not one of the most common uses of airtable include CRM /customer data? How can I have a customer contact crm type database/interface that does not have native clickable phone numbers on a desktop PC when the mobile app has it built in? All webpages do this now, all CRMs do this now. How was this validated? There isn't even a good work around for this! adding a button with a URL tel: type link does not even work. Who is the target audience? Everyone who uses artable to manage cutomers...
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New Ideas
Submitted on
‎Apr 10, 2024
02:19 AM
Submitted by
Nico_De_Ceulaer
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‎Apr 10, 2024
02:19 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Give the user a way to switch the font used to render numeric data. This would allow me to switch to a font that has fixed width numerics so numbers have identical sizes. How does is solve the user problems? In pivot tables, make 100.000 and 111.111 look equally big. Currently the first will look like a huge number. The second will look tiny in comparison. How was this validated? Look at any table with numbers. See that 1 is not treated the same as 8 (width-wise) Who is the target audience? People who like to have a quick-look at a large quantity of numbers and not have to translate the things they see internally. ps. there is no label for User Interface.
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Submitted on
‎Mar 15, 2024
05:16 AM
Submitted by
tomo
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‎Mar 15, 2024
05:16 AM

Option to Limit the Access to Interfaces. I want to build an App for my co-workers that are not that techie. So i want to keep them from seeing the Base and only allow them to see certain areas of an Interface. Would be helpful for customers too. Sadly there is no way, as far as i can see
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Already in product
Submitted on
‎Mar 11, 2024
03:08 PM
Submitted by
Rick-Holzer
on
‎Mar 11, 2024
03:08 PM

What is the proposed idea/solution? A keyboard shortcut (on Mac) to move from table to table. (Never touch the mouse. Never leave the keyboard.) ... How does is solve the user problems? Moving one's hands away from the keyboard to touch the imprecise mouse is time-consuming. ... How was this validated? Experience. ... Who is the target audience? Anyone that see the value of using keyboard short cuts to say time by not having to move off the keyboard. ...
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New Ideas
Submitted on
‎Feb 01, 2024
11:02 AM
Submitted by
jaxankey
on
‎Feb 01, 2024
11:02 AM

It would be awesome if I could see how many times each tag appears when editing, perhaps with the option to sort by number of occurrences, so it's easy to prune / organize them. Perhaps this number could appear in the red area below?
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Submitted on
‎Feb 01, 2024
10:31 AM
Submitted by
jaxankey
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‎Feb 01, 2024
10:31 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? When filtering by tags, I often want to remove one of the tags from a filter. I would like the "x" to appear when I hover over any of them, so it's easy to do this, without having to scroll down through a (huge!) list of tags to find the one that is enabled. Or let me put my cursor in there to delete it with the backspace key. Or, even better, in the pull-down list, have the currently / recently selected tags listed first, so that I don't have to scroll through the huge list to disable / enable them: How does is solve the user problems? This would increase efficiency in bases having a lot of tags. Who is the target audience? Web users.
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New Ideas
Submitted on
‎Jan 14, 2024
10:22 AM
Submitted by
Cyruswve
on
‎Jan 14, 2024
10:22 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Allow users to only use unique records when doing a look up How does is solve the user problems? They wont have duplicates in the new look up field Who is the target audience? Everyone
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What is the proposed idea/solution? To add number input arrows—an up/down arrow to increase/decrease number value manually (bonus: if it's also possible for the editor to set an increment by 1 or 2 or 10 or 100 or 1000, etc.). Something like this. How does this solve the user problems? Easily edit a number field in an interface. Who is the target audience? Interface users that uses the number field.
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