Hi, We’ve been waiting a long time for the “Created by” field and are glad it’s here. Before this we were manually recording this data in a “Record created by” collaborator field. We’d like to add this data into the empty fields that have been created by adding the new “Created by” field to existing tables. Stephen ... View more

I want to add social media icons with the links in Airtable to improve my airtable embed view. I wouldn’t like to present this as a naked URL, it looks monotonous. ... View more

Unless I’m missing something major, there doesn’t seem to be an out-of-the-box solution which allows you to filter so as only display records which have a checkbox field unchecked. Checked yes, but unchecked no. Is this an accidental oversight by Airtable? Some reason why this is not possible? Seems like it would be an easy and really great thing to implement. Unless of course this is actually possible and I’m missing something really obvious… (am new to Airtable!) ... View more

Is it possible to set color by field type? I would love to be able to see what data is being generated in that Table and what fields are being pulled from other Tables. ... View more

One of the very best things about Lookup Fields is that if you have more information in the Lookup Field than what visually appears on your screen, Airtable give you a little ellipsis symbol (…) to let you know that there is more information that you’re not visually seeing. This is AWESOME! This is so incredibly helpful, and it is EXACTLY how a powerful database system should operate! Thank you for giving us this feature! 🙂 HOWEVER — for some reason — this same functionality DOES NOT exist in the “Link To Another Record” fields. In a “Link To Another Record” field, if you have more linked records than what can visually be seen within the field, Airtable gives you absolutely no indication whatsoever that there are more linked records to view. You are required to manually click into each & every linked record field to check if there are more linked records. Yes, we know that you can expand the row height to a maximum of 5 lines, but if you have more linked records than 5 lines, you’re back to the same problem again. Please see the attached screenshot below, and you can immediately see the difference in behavior between a “linked record” field and a “lookup” field. Each of those top 2 invoices have 4 line items on their invoices, but you would never know it by just looking at the “linked record” field. With the “linked record” field, you have no idea that there are more line items on this invoice. But with the “lookup” field, you immediately know — with just a quick glance — that there are more line items on some invoices, but not other invoices. It’s a night-and-day difference between “linked record” fields and “lookup” fields, because you can IMMEDIATELY know what you need to know just by glancing at the lookup field. And most of the time, we will just be adding “linked record” fields to our system instead of “lookup” fields. Yes, we know that we can add another field (a “count field”) which is the COUNT of the number of line items, but doesn’t that just clutter up the table even more? Wouldn’t it be better to just be able to see this information at a glance? Without any extra fields? For now, it seems like the only workarounds to this problem would be to: (1) create a COUNT FIELD to show the number of line items, or (2) create 2 fields side-by-side like the screenshot above shows — one field for the users to do their data entry in, and one field for the users to get a quick visual indicator of what’s going on. But neither of these workarounds are really elegant, because both of them clutter up the table with additional fields. So… can Airtable please add the ellipsis character (…) to “linked record” fields as well? Thank you! 🙂 ... View more

See my full posting on this here:   The confusion of linking tables Ask the community For newbies to Airtable, one of the biggest confusions when creating a “link to another record” from table #1 to table #2 is that Airtable automatically creates a “reverse link” in table #2 (linking back to table #1). This is actually fantastic & expected & a wonderful help to everyone — except for one thing: If you have previously hidden any fields inside table #2, Airtable oddly decides to HIDE the new linked record field instead of SHOWING the new field. This causes so much confusion, becau… ... View more

Will it be possible to hide certain fields from certain users? ... View more

Allow default values for field-types, AND allow the value in each record to be edited. Subsequent changes to the value of the default should either: A) Not be possible, to avoid data-overwriting decisions. Solution for a change: create a new field. B) Be possible, and overwrite the values that = the previous default value, BUT not overwrite the edited values ... View more

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. ... View more