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Submitted on
Feb 07, 2019
02:10 PM
Submitted by
Lisa_Altizer
on
Feb 07, 2019
02:10 PM
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Would be so nice to have some options in a form for dates. My dilemma tonight is I need a base that collects a record for each committee our employees serve on within our department, within our organization, and outside our organization. The first annoyance for the forms end user is they will have to complete a new form for each committee they serve on. My wish is they could select their name and fill out the first form and submit and when they select the option to complete another form it would auto-populate the name field. This would be a nice service for them. In this form I need to know the month and year they began serving on the committee and if then month year they terminated their service or if they are still presently serving on the committee. Here are some screen shots that I took from another form (not Airtable) that collects membership data Thank you for your consideration - very grateful for Airtable and their amazing team!
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Submitted on
Jan 30, 2019
07:08 PM
Submitted by
nnnnneil
on
Jan 30, 2019
07:08 PM
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I’d like to request an enhancement to Auto Number. At present if a user accidentally creates a row and then “undos” that - the autonumber is not returned. This means that “Ghost rows” end up using a number. The human error is hard to mitigate and it would be better to allow us to choose how ghost rows should be handled. A suggestion would be to add option to say “Ghost rows retain number” with an on/off switch. Like this:
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Submitted on
Jan 15, 2019
05:45 AM
Submitted by
Troy_Panehal
on
Jan 15, 2019
05:45 AM
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I use the calendar view to schedule installations and have noticed that if I want to move one job before another within the same day, I cannot do so unless I use the sort function. It would be ideal if we could take an entry and be able to move it above or below another to organize tasks for the day.
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Submitted on
Jan 13, 2019
03:34 PM
Submitted by
Jack_Nagy
on
Jan 13, 2019
03:34 PM
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In Excel, I very often use the filter dropdown menu to select which data points I want to show. If anyone here hasn’t used it, you can basically click the filter button at the top of any column and it will give you a dropdown menu pre-filled with every unique data point that currently exists in that column. There is then a checkbox next to each unique data point, and selecting / deselecting it will immediately show or hide records that have that data point in that column. This makes it very easy to quickly filter a column for multiple criteria. This also works for multiple columns at a time - e.g. I can show only records that have (Apple OR Orange in Column A) AND (Skyscraper OR House OR Bus Station in Column B), just by having only those data points ticked in each column’s filter dropdown. So far, this seems a lot more clunky in Airtable for a few reasons: I have to manually type in what I want my filter to be, which is inherently slower than simply clicking a checkbox, and means I have to remember or look up every one of the unique data points in that column (instead of having a pre-filled list) The filter menu does not even really support filtering for multiple columns well, as you effectively only get one AND / OR divergence before the system doesn’t let you make more. (This is because there currently isn’t a way to distinguish between [Orange in Column A AND Banana in Column B] OR Apple in Column C and Orange in Column A AND [Banana in Column B OR Apple in Column C], for instance.) Groups do seem to give more options on how many data points I filter down to and in what combination, but they won’t show only those data points, which still involves a bit of searching. There may well be a formula or two that I could write to help me out here, but the fact remains that manually writing a formula to do this is always going to be a lot more tedious and error prone than simply using a dropdown list. If I have missed some simple way of doing this already, please let me know! Otherwise this feature would be a huge time saver for me.| EDIT: I should mention the workaround I currently have in case anyone is having the same problem! Say I am trying to filter Column Fruit by multiple data points (and also want to have other filters in the table, so the current filter UI would be clunky to just have AND, AND, AND)… What I can do is link Fruit to a new table (Table 2), which will summarise all the different types of data currently in Fruit. I can then create a new column in Table 2 called Quality, and “class” each of those data points by how tasty they are. e.g. Bananas, Apples, and Cranberries might have an entry in Quality saying “very tasty”, while every other fruit might have “not so tasty”. Now when I go back to my original table, I can create a simple lookup column next to Fruit that will tell me whether that fruit is tasty or not, and I can then filter by that column. So all the actual filtering goes on in the second table, and in my original table, I just have a single column which essentially tells me if it would pass the multi-faceted filter or not. The problem is that this is sitll tedious to create in the first place and modify if I want to change the filter, so would still appreciate a different approach.
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Submitted on
Jan 13, 2019
06:50 AM
Submitted by
Martin_Medenica
on
Jan 13, 2019
06:50 AM
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I would like the option to make long text fields scroll in the expanded record view rather than expand to accept additional text. Long text fields scroll when expanded from table view. However, when the individual record is expanded that same long text field expands rather than scrolls to accommodate additional text (pic below). This behavior makes the expanded record longer which in turn requires more scrolling to see the rest of the fields in the record.
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Submitted on
Nov 05, 2018
08:57 AM
Submitted by
John-Paul_Kerno
on
Nov 05, 2018
08:57 AM
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I used this workflow. 1.scan an existing barcode on a third party list to create barcode number on an item using iPhone and adding number directly to a barcode field 2. Set up print list using blocks page designer 3. Added barcode field to list to be printed by clicking to add. No change in dimensions of field thereby added 4. Printed and tried to scan printed barcode with iPhone in the relevant table and view 5. Fails as barcode will not scan Further test show barcode MUST be printed at 100% ( which it was) AND (this is much worse) stretched to a larger size in order to scan. Result is a barcode printed output twice the size as the original barcode used to input into Airtable
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Submitted on
Sep 28, 2018
08:26 AM
Submitted by
Victoria_Cawtho
on
Sep 28, 2018
08:26 AM
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Hey! I use an excel sheet to track my projects and an awesome feature is that I can post a hyperlink to a project folder I have in File Explorer and go directly to the desired folder. Is there something like that on Airtable? I noticed you can link URL but I haven’t seen anything for file explorer specifically. Please help!
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Submitted on
Sep 23, 2018
10:09 PM
Submitted by
Pjotr_Gainullin
on
Sep 23, 2018
10:09 PM
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The specific use case I have is interactive content production where many different elements come together to create a single production. Every element like scripting, translation, voice-over etc has its own table and there seems to be no way to then bring all the elements together in one table to have a general view of where the project is (including filtering by person/status etc)
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Submitted on
Sep 19, 2018
11:59 AM
Submitted by
Brandon_Sturgil
on
Sep 19, 2018
11:59 AM
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Is it possible to upload more than one URL at a time in Airtable?..
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Submitted on
Sep 13, 2018
01:06 AM
Submitted by
German_Prieto
on
Sep 13, 2018
01:06 AM
![5 - Automation Enthusiast 5 - Automation Enthusiast](/html/@8E0586A35C6D0D07EA6A610CF7AEF6BF/rank_icons/Rank-AutomationEnthusiast.png)
It is extremely useful to navigate through cells with expanded view but sometimes one can get lost. It would be very helpful to include row (primary field) and columns of that cell at the header of the expanded view window. Someting even more convenient than the expanded view to edit/read long text cells: when you click in a cell this would increase size as much as needed (now it only increases size as much as 20% approx. Thanks
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