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Submitted on
Jul 05, 2020
10:07 AM
Submitted by
typo
on
Jul 05, 2020
10:07 AM

The scripting block is cool. But a lot of us use AirTable because we don’t know how to code. I’d love for someone to create an AirTable block (or feature) which would let me script automations through a Zapier-style interface. (no coding knowledge required). In my dream world, this would not only script automations within an AirTable base, but also between AirTable bases, and ALSO between AirTable and other software with API hooks.
Also: it makes me grumpy to have to pay extra for Zapier. This should be a feature within the AirTable pro plan.
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Submitted on
May 18, 2020
12:03 PM
Submitted by
Reuben
on
May 18, 2020
12:03 PM

It shouldn’t be difficult to create recurring records (tasks) for Airtable. I know using Zapier isn’t rocket science but there should be an easier way. Please create a block that allows management of recurring tasks.Since many people use Airtable for their project/task manager there would be a huge advantage for the community. There are probably dozens of things Airtable users could use this block for but at the top of the list Hope this gains traction.
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Submitted on
Apr 11, 2020
03:48 PM
Submitted by
typo
on
Apr 11, 2020
03:48 PM

I posted this in a comments thread, but I wanted to re-post it as a product suggestion:
For reporting purposes, it would be helpful to be able to break apart one-to-many (or many-to-many) data links . I understand that AirTable doesn’t want to duplicate records, but maybe AirTable could add a block feature or a reporting/export feature which would let you break apart the one-to-many (or many-to-many) relationship and then export that report as a CSV? (The Pivot table kind of accomplishes this, but there’s no way to export the data into a spreadsheet or view it item by item). Bosses and supervisors often want these kinds of reports. Right now, I generate the report by creating a script in integromat which parses out the data and then moves it into a google sheet. But that solution is a fragile and I have to hand adjust the script for each new table. I’d love to have a quick way to generate this report. (Yes-- I know I could achieve this by adding/linking additional tables for each and every one-to-many or many-to-many relationship, but that would require completely restructuring my data and adding dozens of superfluous tables-- tables which would ONLY exist for the purposes of generating the report. It makes much more sense for AirTable to provide a quick way to parse, view, & export the data).
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Submitted on
May 01, 2019
09:53 AM
Submitted by
Dustyn_Gobler
on
May 01, 2019
09:53 AM

Can someone from the Airtable team please explain to me why this feature has not been implemented? When you read through these forums, you will see that SO MANY users need this feature. And someone from Airtable once-upon-a-time said that it was coming. So why hasn’t it been implemented? Is it too expensive? Is it too complex for the Airtable team? Does the sales team this is going to drive users away from the Airtable front-end? What? Why? What benefit do they see of having their users use another service like [On2Air]https://openside.com/product/on2air-actions/ which is outside of their control? The illogic of it is maddening. In general my Airtable experience is more frustrating than not; and having someone from Airtable respond to this one post in clear way would probably eliminate half of that frustration.
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Submitted on
Nov 25, 2018
08:59 AM
Submitted by
Drikus_Eksteen
on
Nov 25, 2018
08:59 AM

I am using Airtable for our Cattle Trading Marketplace and also for the Animal Feed business I’m involved in. I want to use Page Designer to mail first the deal information and secondly the contracts for each deal. It will save me hours of time because from the records, the dealsheet and contract get populated with data, and if I can just email it as a PDF it will be super. In the mean time thanks for a great effort with Airtable. Never heard of it since a few months ago, but it is awesome and a real lifesaver. Kind regards,Drikus EKsteen
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Submitted on
Nov 25, 2018
08:16 AM
Submitted by
typo
on
Nov 25, 2018
08:16 AM

I work in film and video production. When I bring on a crew, I have them fill out a form which lists name, e-mail address, mobile phone, food allergies, scheduling conflicts, their production department, and their production title. The problem is, this information needs to be distributed into two different tables: One table holds name, e-mail, mobile phone, & food allergies-- that information tends to stay the same from production to production, so I keep that in a “master contact table” (which I also use as my general address book) Another table (the “Roster” table) holds the person’s scheduling conflicts, production department, and production title-- that information differs from production to production, so I don’t want to keep it in my master contact table because the same contact might work on different productions in different roles and I need to keep track of who did exactly what on each production. (Yes, I could just keep it all in the “Forms table” and try to manage everything with filtered views, but that would be unwieldy because each contact could be entered multiple times-- making it clunky as an address book) Because air table forms only allow information to go into a single table, I have to go through some crazy gymnastics in order to get the information from the crew form into the appropriate fields. Currently, I do this: I have a THIRD table, a “Forms” table which collects information for all of the fields. I have a Zap which 1) pulls the name/phone/e-mail/allergies info from the forms table into the master contact table (updating an existing record or creating a new record as needed) 2) copies the name/department/role/scheduling conflicts info into the rosters table 3) links the name record in the rosters table to the name record in the master contact table (and finally) 4) deletes the record in the forms table once all of the information has been moved into the correct place. This multi-step Zap costs $25/month. However, if I could create a form with field inputs from multiple tables (instead of being limited to my form only inputting information into a single table), I could save myself a lot of money and headaches.
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Submitted on
Nov 14, 2018
03:24 AM
Submitted by
Goce_Ristov
on
Nov 14, 2018
03:24 AM

What I find lacking over and over again is time when a field(not record) was last updated. Example: I have a field status. I need to know when the status was changed from In Progress to Completed. That way I can group all Completed tasks by month and calculate pay for this month. I think it is not too much to ask and it is a very basic and must-have feature for a project manager softwaer.
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Submitted on
Oct 31, 2018
12:25 PM
Submitted by
Josie_Duffy
on
Oct 31, 2018
12:25 PM

Hi - I am wondering if it’s possible to automatically get Airtable to pull documents into a database from a certain folder on my desktop. I have a Mac. Is Automator a possible way to do this? Any guidelines would be great. Thanks!
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