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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 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
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
Apr 07, 2020
02:59 PM
Submitted by
Ash_Nazarizadeh
on
Apr 07, 2020
02:59 PM

One thing that is currently missing in Airtable is the concept of a Current Row. This would be the current row of each table that is currently in the base. Current Row of a table could be used in filters to filter in only the children of a parent record (e.g. Order Header and Order Items). This would make the creation of applications much easier. There are many other use cases.
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Submitted on
Mar 04, 2020
08:41 AM
Submitted by
RnJ
on
Mar 04, 2020
08:41 AM

Something I found that would be really helpful with tracking down conditional color triggers would be to have the ability to click the color to see which condition is triggering the color. I have a large table where we have a lot of conditions that if anything is incorrect it is Red and if everything is good it is Green. Sometimes it takes a while to track down what issue is causing the Red.
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Submitted on
Jan 30, 2020
10:02 AM
Submitted by
Product_Novus
on
Jan 30, 2020
10:02 AM

Would love to be able to order the pivot table by the summary column (in ascending or descending order). Would be especially helpful if you could sort on any column including summary by clicking the name of the column.
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Submitted on
Jan 29, 2020
06:39 PM
Submitted by
Sal_Ohcin
on
Jan 29, 2020
06:39 PM

I have a lot of options in my multi-select field. I would like a way to group them more efficiently than having to drag each one (and alphabetical doesn’t help in my case). For example, lets say my multi-select field is “Food”. and every type of food is an option. It would be nice to group the potential options into a pre-defined group, such as “Fruits” or “Vegetables” or “Meats”. Then I could color code the whole group at once. Or I can could re-order the whole group at once. And when I add more options, I can simply add it to a specific group and it will inherit the color and order in the group.
A related request is basically to have a more sophisticated screen by which you can create your options for single and multi-select fields. It would be great to be able to copy these fields from one base to another without having to color code them all again, etc.
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Submitted on
Jan 24, 2020
03:01 PM
Submitted by
Michael_Knelle1
on
Jan 24, 2020
03:01 PM

We use Links to show how deliverables (in one table) relate to open projects (in another table). As deliverables are completed, they can be hidden in the table view of Deliverables, but they remain visible in the Linked column in the Projects table.
I feel like expanding which records are shown through Links would be a massive boon for anyone who wants to form more of a relationship between different tables.
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Submitted on
Jul 06, 2018
02:54 PM
Submitted by
Lauren_Mondot
on
Jul 06, 2018
02:54 PM

I have a base that has multiple tables with different kinds of items (RFIs, Submittals, To Do list, Change Orders) and I want the main tab to have a list of only the open items from each category. How would one go about doing this?
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Submitted on
Jun 26, 2018
05:05 PM
Submitted by
Aaron_Owen
on
Jun 26, 2018
05:05 PM

I would like to link to a linked field on a table so that on the third table, the list presented is a subset of the records in the context of the second table. That probably makes no sense so I’ll try to sketch it out: Table A A Record1 A Record2 A Record3 A Record4 A Record5 A Record6 A Record7 Table B B Record1 linked to: A Record2 A Record5 A Record6 A Record7 B Record2 linked to: A Record3 A Record5 Table C C Record1 linked to: B Record1 What I would like to create on table C is a column that links to Table A in the context of Table B. So that if I want a link to Table A in the context of Table B, I’m only shown the corresponding records from Table A as selection choices, rather than ALL records from Table A. In the example above, linking C Record1 to B Record1, the link to linked field on table C would only list A Record2, A Record5, A Record6, A Record7 instead of the entire contents of Table A. Is this possible today or is this only available as a feature request?
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