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Submitted on
‎Jun 14, 2024
05:54 AM
Submitted by
Sean_Murphy1
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‎Jun 14, 2024
05:54 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? The Duration field now supports days in addition to hours and minutes. However, the formatting options for the Formula field, when the output is formatted as a date, do not accommodate this change. As a result, I cannot use DATETIME_DIFF() to calculate a duration of many days without resorting to the same steps required before the Duration field supported days. How does it solve the user problems? By allowing the Duration field to support days, users can more easily track and calculate longer periods of time directly within the field. This streamlines the process and reduces the need for complex workarounds previously necessary to handle durations extending beyond hours and minutes. How was this validated? The issue was identified and validated during the development and testing of an interface. Testing scenarios where users attempted to calculate durations of many days highlighted the lack of appropriate formatting in the Formula field as a significant pain point. Who is the target audience? The target audience includes users who need to track and calculate extended periods, such as project managers, event planners, and anyone involved in long-term scheduling or time tracking. These users will benefit from more straightforward duration calculations and improved usability of the Duration field.
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Submitted on
‎Jun 08, 2024
04:26 PM
Submitted by
Daws0n
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‎Jun 08, 2024
04:26 PM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Provide access to API endpoints that users can call to fetch data about their automations in a base. Just adding some GET endpoints for read-only access would be a massive help. How does is solve the user problems? Currently users need to go into each base, then into the automations & navigate everything manually. Access to this data through an API would allow organizations an overview of which automations they have active/inactive across their organization. It would be even more helpful if the payload provided detailed information such as the settings of each step in the automation, error logs, and data about the created by/timestamp, as well as last updated by / timestamp. How was this validated? By dealing with the headache of not having it. We manually update all of our script steps / automations in our repository, very tedious. Automations have broken many times but silly things like a field name that is used in a script step getting removed or renamed. Debugging through Airtables error log is very slow and a terrible UX. Who is the target audience? Admins & developers, any company using multiple base in Airtable
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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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Submitted on
‎May 16, 2024
06:50 AM
Submitted by
DougL
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‎May 16, 2024
06:50 AM

When you add a Checkbox field to a table, you can choose a style graphic used when the box is checked. You can choose from many graphics like a Check, an X, a Star, a Heart, etc. When you add a Function field to a table that returns numbers, you have the option to format the numbers. However, If the function returns a Boolean, the field will display a 1 or 0. (I know you can add code to the function to display graphics, but that shouldn’t be necessary.) It would be nice to see a checkbox-style format for Boolean values returned from Function fields. Having the option would make the UI consistent when displaying Boolean values and performing calculations on these fields.
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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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Submitted on
‎Apr 11, 2024
12:52 PM
Submitted by
MichaelSargent
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‎Apr 11, 2024
12:52 PM

Personally, I like the default color options (despite the limited number) that are provided for the base/interface appearance color. That said, members on my team really wish we could match the exact color of our base with the primary company brand color. I feel like it wouldn't be too hard to have an 'advance' section under appearance that allowed us to input a HEX number.
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Submitted on
‎Mar 14, 2024
07:10 AM
Submitted by
Daniela_Hecht
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‎Mar 14, 2024
07:10 AM

The ability to set defaults at levels higher than field: base, workspace, team, user or account level for time zones and date, number and currency formats. For accounts or workspaces where all users consistently work in the same locale that is not the US, it would save base builders a lot of work in setup, double-checking and troubleshooting, and avoid many mistakes caused by inconsistencies and discrepancies for the whole organization.
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Submitted on
‎Jan 11, 2024
04:06 AM
Submitted by
g4knr99
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‎Jan 11, 2024
04:06 AM

We need a way to choose a dynamic latest end date by each record, ideally an optional date field that goes into the timeline settings and does not allow records to be scheduled past that. I've explored using colors but there are two issues: We can't use dynamic values in the color conditions Even if we could, I'd like to combine the conditional coloring with auto-coloring from selects
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Submitted on
‎Jan 09, 2024
03:33 PM
Submitted by
Raaj_V
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‎Jan 09, 2024
03:33 PM

Hi, We're using Airtable to progress job cards via a Kanban system with assignee (staff member) as the single select field and task as the record. Unfortunately it only shows the assignee stacks that contain records. i.e. the staff that have tasks. If a staff member has no task, their empty stack is not visible. This makes reallocating tasks to someone without an existing task in kanban view impossible. It would be great to have an option to select which assignee (staff member) stacks were visible including those with no records in their stack.
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Submitted on
‎Dec 20, 2023
09:39 AM
Submitted by
afassero
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‎Dec 20, 2023
09:39 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? ...when changing the name of a Field in a Synced Table, the updated name should also be Synced. This would likely require a feature, whereby a Synced Field and a local Field can have the same name without a conflict. This should not be a problem, because it's easy to determine what is synced field vs local due to the lightning bolt icon. How does is solve the user problems? ...without this feature, any changes to a Field Name are not propagated to other Synced Tables. This causes confusion. How was this validated? ...Try changing the field name of a Synced Table and find out! It's frustrating. Who is the target audience? ...all users who use Synced Tables.
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