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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
Feb 25, 2020
03:11 PM
Submitted by
Pat_Howard
on
Feb 25, 2020
03:11 PM

Option to email directly to AirTable
Items sits in queue until assigned to team member
Allow text in email to be stored in the comments
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Submitted on
Nov 06, 2019
01:31 PM
Submitted by
Evelyn_Chavez
on
Nov 06, 2019
01:31 PM

Our tasks have end dates that help our team know when tasks are due. Is there a way to integrate the Chime block to notify a team member when a due date is approaching?
Also, is there a way to modify the notifications such as 7 days, 2 weeks, or 1 month?
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Submitted on
Oct 27, 2019
10:56 AM
Submitted by
Jean-Philippe_E
on
Oct 27, 2019
10:56 AM

I’d love a one button recorder widget
Start audio recording
Perform speech2text
Upload both audio and text to an AirTable fields
PS: Yes an audio field working with transcript would be a great feature, already posted)
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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
Apr 23, 2019
06:51 AM
Submitted by
Jordan_Violet
on
Apr 23, 2019
06:51 AM

Currently, I solved this by writing a Python Lambda function in AWS that runs every minute. It checks all records for our “ongoing projects” table. For each record, it checks what the current status is and who the current assignee is. If the assignee is different from the one that should be there, it changes the assignee to the right one. This allows us to automatically have assignees change based on which phase the project is in. It would be incredible to have ‘if this, then that’ built into some of the column value types. Is there any possibility of this happening? EDIT: I can share the code if anyone comes across this and is wanting to do the same thing.
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Submitted on
Nov 29, 2018
05:20 AM
Submitted by
Laura_van_der_S
on
Nov 29, 2018
05:20 AM

Hello, I would appreciate it for a feature to be added where the person who fills in the form gets a confirmation e-mail, with the details of their submission to the form. At the moment it seems you can only send an e-mail if a form has been filled in, to the creator of the form. If there’d be a way to automatically send an overview of the form in an e-mail as a confirmation (such as possible in Google Forms), that would be great!
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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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