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Submitted on
Oct 28, 2018
11:50 AM
Submitted by
SpatialAnomaly
on
Oct 28, 2018
11:50 AM

Like a standard number field in HTML. It’s kind of annoying when I’m logging time on a task that I have to mentally add up the hours I worked to the hours already present in the field from my last session with the task. It would be nice to just click an up arrow like 2 times to add 2 hours to the existing value. I realize that is not complex math to perform in my brain but it’s more about speed than anything. I don’t even really want to look I just want to add 2 hours to the task. We have used Liquid Planner in the past and although I have my gripes with that platform the way they handle a time log field is perfect, it just adds to the previous values whatever you type in there. That kind of functionality would be great but I’d seriously just settle for some up and down arrows, I can’t speak for everyone but I usually just round up or down anyway. Unless I’m missing another field time for this kind of functionality but I didn’t see anything that stuck out to me.
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Submitted on
Sep 20, 2018
09:14 AM
Submitted by
Amanda_DiRienzo
on
Sep 20, 2018
09:14 AM

Is there currently a way to show multiple color codes for each record on grid view? It seems somewhat pointless to just have the option to have a color code “alert” for one thing, even if there is a hierarchy for what color shows. I need to be quickly alerted of multiple things!
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Submitted on
Sep 17, 2018
03:10 AM
Submitted by
W_Vann_Hall
on
Sep 17, 2018
03:10 AM

I almost posted this under ‘Bugs,’ but it’s probably more accurate to describe this as an enhancement request. Increasingly, I’m finding processing bottlenecks and stalls caused by what appears to be over-zealous timeout conditions in whatever library handles input. This is especially obvious during entry of a field that undergoes heavy downstream processing: If I cut-and-paste a value into the field, processing delay is kept to a minimum, but if I enter it by hand, there is a noticeable lag. The problem comes from the downstream routines being called repeatedly against a partial entry. (I’m not sure of the default timeout value, but it’s too short for me to be able to enter a complete word before it fires.¹) As a result, the full suite of routines executes up to LEN(Word) times whenever the user enters ‘Word’. This in turn makes Airtable (and, more importantly, me 😉 ) look bad. Paradoxically, lengthening timeout values on data-forwarding conditions can actually result in not only a perceived but often times an actual performance improvement and a better UX.² I realize Airtable is using underscore.js, but for some reason debounce() doesn’t appear to be working as one would expect. Some cough years ago, I demonstrated this in the context of asynchronous data over an X.25 network. For my troubles I ended up lead on a popular but decidedly kluged-together product, in a demonstration of no good deed going unpunished…
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