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Submitted on
Jan 07, 2023
05:27 AM
Submitted by
matt_stewart1
on
Jan 07, 2023
05:27 AM

I really need for Kanban to work with a multiselect field the way Timeline works. The ability to group/lane by each option in the multiselect field. Then if there is more than one selection then the card appears in each lane of the selections. I would think that in the split scenario, if a card is selected with options A and B ... then if you grab a card to move it from option A to Option C, it would result in Option B and option C now. If you needed to add a 3rd selection, then you would go into expanded view to edit the selections. We are using this as a todo/workload board. Anything under a team/persons name indicates it's in progress, and we can see what they are working on and when each are due. In some cases we have a task that needs more than one person working on it, but do not want to create new projects for these scenarios.
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Submitted on
Jul 22, 2021
10:48 PM
Submitted by
Alexey_Gusev
on
Jul 22, 2021
10:48 PM

Base schema is a great application, especially for large complex bases with a lot of tables and links. But at some point it’s not convenient to use because you can’t scale it to fit page and be able to read table/name fields at the same time. Example: I did a little custom improvement to create schema of linked fields, for clear vision - which tables are linked and how, by excluding other fields. The same example base output looks like: (all table/field names here were changed to prevent disclosure) For those, who interested in details, in custom app, with ‘Base schema’ example frontend/parseSchema, added string: in “function parseSchema(base), under table.fields.forEach(field => {” if (field.type!=FieldType.MULTIPLE_RECORD_LINKS) return; The point is - in my case with large bases, such type of view is more useful than ‘natural’ with all the fields included.
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Submitted on
Mar 08, 2021
02:58 PM
Submitted by
Orian_Bortz1
on
Mar 08, 2021
02:58 PM

I have used the gallery view to create create “cards” of my records with select information and I want to add conditional coloring that applies to the field rather than the whole record. So a given card will have multiple colors and the color will only be applied to field per record.
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Submitted on
Mar 04, 2021
12:12 PM
Submitted by
Jessica_Pena
on
Mar 04, 2021
12:12 PM

I have a project management base that our team is building out at the moment and while it is going to be amazing, there are certain aspects of it that are starting to be overwhelming, such as the very long list of views in each table. I think it would be amazing (and I imagine, relatively easy) to have folders to clean up and organize views.
This would be ideal for when team members have created their own views of the data or to organize project type.
Thanks for your consideration!
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Submitted on
Oct 04, 2020
05:14 PM
Submitted by
Travis_Gray
on
Oct 04, 2020
05:14 PM

High Value, Low Cost Feature.
I find myself categorizing each Base in a WorkSpace by Bustiness Process - Finance, HR, Sales, … This is not a one-to-one relationship, so Naming Conventions has its limits. The benefits of a customizable “tag” system or category could help with one of the most challenging parts of Base Organization, Template Identification, and Navigation- all of which are key components of the UI - in how I use Airtable.
Would appreciate any other ideas to build upon this simple concept!
In my mind - The next “phase” could be automated integrations into discoverable services of Types with predefined interface requirements. Predefined QoL, etc.
Eventually as the services abstract to less granular functions, - in the case of finance or HR - these departments could serve broad business needs through a standard “contract” required by the standardized, discoverable, automated interface. The best HR Bases for a common set of requirements wins that market segment of the industry. Doesn’t matter who, what matters to the business model of Airtable is the Number of Customers. Collaboration Encouraged.
Let that ecosystem incubate…
Airtable becomes the leading cloud ERP for SMB.
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Submitted on
Oct 02, 2020
08:19 AM
Submitted by
Tyler_The_NoCod
on
Oct 02, 2020
08:19 AM

I would LOVE to be able to create a grouped view and then filter the groups based on the summary values that Airtable generates.
In this example, I’m searching for appointment scheduling conflicts. I group my appointment records by date and by scheduling slot (morning/afternoon). Then, I scroll through a long list of records looking for any groups with 2 or more records. Would be super handy to just add a filter to only show me groups where count is >1.
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Submitted on
Oct 01, 2020
08:28 AM
Submitted by
Pexabo_Info
on
Oct 01, 2020
08:28 AM

I would like to add noted to my linkedin table linked items. I was unable to add that.
Is there a workaround or an app for that ?
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Submitted on
Jul 07, 2020
02:53 PM
Submitted by
ScottWorld
on
Jul 07, 2020
02:53 PM

When we add a linked record field to our base, we have the new option to “limit record selection to a view” in the other table.
This is fantastic.
HOWEVER — the gigantic problem with this is that whatever option we make for “limiting record selections” applies to our ENTIRE CURRENT TABLE.
We can’t change this option on a view-by-view basis. This option applies to every single view in our current table.
In other words, we have no ability in our current table to create 2 different views:
View A uses a linked record field, but we only want to show a certain set of linked records to choose from.
View B uses that exact same linked record field, but we want to show a DIFFERENT set of linked records to choose from.
This dramatically limits the usefulness of this feature for us, because we have no ability to limit our linked record field to DIFFERENT RECORDS based on DIFFERENT VIEWS in our current table.
In other words, this option is attached to the “field definition” itself, instead of allowing us to change this option on a view-by-view basis.
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Submitted on
Jun 29, 2020
09:52 PM
Submitted by
Alexander-Jerry
on
Jun 29, 2020
09:52 PM

Just a quick suggestion: I use webhooks in my buttons to start and top timers in my timesheet tracking service: however, I would really like to be able to click on a webhook without having to immediately close the tab.
I could set-up a macro to close a tab automatically after a time interval, but I thought I would pop in here and suggest that we have that added layer of control in terms of what pops up as we click a button.
In another use case, sometimes I want to run a script to perform background tasks, and I don’t need to see the console. I would love the script to be able to run in the background without necessarily loading the dashboard - and I realize there is probably a limitation here, regarding only being able to use a block if it’s fully loaded on the screen.
In any event, these are my two cents! I am really enjoying the Button field, it really helps Airtable perform more like an application than a spreadsheet - there have been so many great updates recently, I’m excited to see how Airtable will evolve over the years.
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Submitted on
Jun 23, 2020
12:40 PM
Submitted by
ScottWorld
on
Jun 23, 2020
12:40 PM

It would be a real game-changer — and totally awesome — if the column headers at the top of Airtable’s grid view would wrap lengthy field names onto multiple lines. Other spreadsheet programs allow for variable heights of the column headers — we should have the same capability in Airtable. Currently, Airtable cuts off the text of lengthy field names, but it’s our only choice if we want to keep our columns tight & narrow. If we want to see long field names, we are required to keep our columns extra-wide, which wastes a lot of screen space. Check out the screenshot below for an example of this problem. Notice how much wasted space there is, simply because we want to see the field names above. Our users often request descriptive field names so that they can understand exactly what they are looking at in the rows below. But descriptive field names end up making the column extremely wide. Yes, we could come up with some sort of abbreviation for the field names, but it’s nicer for our users to see the entire field name. Yes, our users could also hover our mouse over the field names to see the entire name in a tooltip, but that is inconvenient & it takes time for the tooltip to appear. In other words, what I’m requesting is either: The column headers should automatically increase their size vertically to accommodate longer field names. We should be able to manually change the height of the column headers. Thanks! 🙂 — ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant
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