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Launched
Submitted on
Feb 09, 2023
10:25 AM
Submitted by
amandareilson
on
Feb 09, 2023
10:25 AM

It would be helpful if I am able to hide tables when they are not necessary for everyday work.
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Submitted on
Nov 20, 2018
04:57 AM
Submitted by
Aaron
on
Nov 20, 2018
04:57 AM

Hello Community, I’ve had a bit of an idea. At our company, we have tables that can have up to 30-40 columns in them, especially on the “summary” or “master” tables, where data is assembled from other tables. This can get very confusing. What If we could group similar columns together in a similar way we group rows? Color-coded, collapsible, and individually shareable. It could be quite powerful. Thoughts?
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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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Submitted on
May 14, 2019
10:49 PM
Submitted by
Yigal_Haronian
on
May 14, 2019
10:49 PM

Currently when writing in right to left languages (Hebrew, Arabic etc.) the text is shown pretty poorly when the text includes English or punctuation marks.
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Submitted on
Jul 08, 2018
03:53 PM
Submitted by
Ben_Orozco
on
Jul 08, 2018
03:53 PM

In Excel/GSheets you can automatically adjust the min width of columns by double-clicking the separator. It would be nice to do this in Airtable’s grids as well 😄
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Status:
Launched
Submitted on
Apr 05, 2023
02:16 PM
Submitted by
lukeatpg
on
Apr 05, 2023
02:16 PM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Allow users to react to a comment with an emoji like 👍 or ✔️ How does is solve the user problems? Eliminates the need for confirmatory messages or extra automations. It is a courtesy from one user to another their comment was seen, especially after @ mentions. Comment sections filled with too much "Thanks!" and "Got it!" How was this validated? ... Who is the target audience? All orgs using commenting regularly ...
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Submitted on
Oct 01, 2018
03:02 AM
Submitted by
Mathias_Elmose
on
Oct 01, 2018
03:02 AM

I would find it very useful if there was an embed block that would be kind of similar to the page designer except that instead of printing it would be for embedding it into a website. The use case would be showing records from Airtable in a more customized way that would feel and look more just like a part of the webpage. Say I wanted to show a table with all our employees. Right now it would be via an embed view (which is great) but if I could design it to look and feel just like our website it would be very useful
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Submitted on
Apr 16, 2019
04:30 PM
Submitted by
Zollie
on
Apr 16, 2019
04:30 PM

Linked Records are currently limited to a single table per column in another table. But I’d like to combine records from 2 or more tables into a single column in an additional table. In other words, polymorphic relationships. What I’d like to Do I have a table of Client A’s Products and a table of Client B’s Products. They need to be combined into a Products column on a third table, Employee Assignments. Both product tables store data very differently, so combining them into a single table would result in an excessively wide and long Products table. Instead, the two client tables are left as is, and the Employee Assignment’s “Products” column is made polymorphic to accommodate both clients’ data. Workaround Barring added features, I can create a junction table of Clients Products where each client gets their own column. The problem is that Clients Products will inevitably become pretty wide as lookups & formulas are added over time. Each client products table will require their own columns for the linked product and lookups. And there will need to be a number of formulas to combine those products & lookups before passing them neatly along to Employee Assignments.
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Submitted on
Nov 03, 2018
12:44 PM
Submitted by
Heidi_Anderson
on
Nov 03, 2018
12:44 PM

Displaying the field name is useless for so many Gallery views created (and some Kanban views). For example, I don’t need to know that xyz@abc is their “email” or 123.456.7890 is there “phone”. The field names take up far too much space when viewing.
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Submitted on
May 13, 2021
10:43 AM
Submitted by
Jack_P
on
May 13, 2021
10:43 AM

I would love the ability to reshuffle and group Automations. I often have 10-20+ automations in one Base and they are created at different times. It would be a great help if i could organize them in a chronological, or dependant, order as i add automations to the list. Currently if i create an automation that is the 2nd to trigger in the base but i created it months after the others that already exist, it sits at the bottom of the list and makes it very difficult to remember which Automation triggers in which sequence. (I currently have a stack of 6 automations that trigger one after another but are all jumbled in the Automation tab)
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