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Submitted on
Oct 15, 2018
11:29 AM
Submitted by
kc01
on
Oct 15, 2018
11:29 AM

Here’s the use case: The XLM of a blog post has multiple elements. When importing this XLM to Airtable, you can’t have a multiple-select column with all the hashtags in it. You have the first hashtag by asking for /hashtags[1] but you can’t assign /hashtags[1] and /hashtags[2] to one field in your Airtable sheet. Cheers
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Submitted on
Oct 14, 2018
12:42 AM
Submitted by
Erik_Kulu
on
Oct 14, 2018
12:42 AM

Printing to PDF leaves the possibility of copying or opening in Word/Excel or using scripts to get all the data. Please add an option to disable “Print view”.
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Submitted on
Oct 03, 2018
07:03 AM
Submitted by
Chris_Lu
on
Oct 03, 2018
07:03 AM

I’ve just been trying out the XML import block. It would be really useful for us, but you can’t currently import XML data into a field type which is “Link to another record”. You can do this with the CSV import block. It would be excellent if the XML import block supported this too.
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Submitted on
Feb 01, 2019
08:52 AM
Submitted by
Pearl_Pospiech
on
Feb 01, 2019
08:52 AM

I would love to be able to import a list with an extra field that I define during the CSV import or contact card import. For example, I’d like to import a contact group with the field “Group” being something I can label as “Pearl’s College Friends” on the fly, for the entire import file. Since VCF format doesn’t have this built in it should have an option to include a single line of text, or a checkbox, or whatever during import. For the CSV import I suppose I could manually edit the CSVs before import to say what I want, but it would be great to do this in realtime during import as well, as recreating a CSV is a multi step process. Pearl
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Submitted on
Oct 03, 2018
03:02 AM
Submitted by
Spyke_Majeska
on
Oct 03, 2018
03:02 AM

Right now I am converting my PDF forms into JPGs in order to upload them and utilize them on Page Builder. I am then creating table links to different portions of the form and basically creating an airtable fill-able pdf. My reasoning for utilizing this instead of just doing the online pdf is because I have portions of documents that need to be filled out by clients and it is much more convenient to send them a link to a form than try and mark up every part I need them to type. This also allows me to capture their response into my database so that I can utilize their information elsewhere. A one and done deal, I can export (automatically) the responses to a csv and directly import them into my title block on the software I use. I think adding pdfs to the static section of the page builder would be great, especially if it scaled the page by the pdf size.
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Submitted on
Feb 08, 2024
10:31 AM
Submitted by
Michael_Andrew
on
Feb 08, 2024
10:31 AM

'List' type objects need a way to export the data (should we choose to allow it). The workaround now is to create a shared view with the same data and filters, but to protect this data the only option is password. Since interfaces require log-ins and shared access, this protection is inherent. If we wish to allow users to export the data there should be a button for this available on the list views.
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Submitted on
Oct 31, 2023
05:44 PM
Submitted by
royalassistants
on
Oct 31, 2023
05:44 PM

What is the proposed idea/solution? This will help me to create a full duplicate of a table to another based with or without the data... How does is solve the user problems? Having to copy and pause the table details and have to relabel form questions ... ...
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Submitted on
Oct 19, 2023
05:24 PM
Submitted by
Kimberly_Gamez
on
Oct 19, 2023
05:24 PM

What is the proposed idea/solution? An option to integrate my data with Canva to be able to customize documents, add logos, create invoices, etc. How does is solve the user problems? A much easier way to customize and download PDF's from entering data ONCE into airtable vs. having to re-enter the data to make PDF's. (Page designer does not help me with this because you have to input the data one piece at a time & it separates data to its own page which is very annoying). How was this validated? ... Who is the target audience? Any business owners, designers, project managers, any and all Canva lovers.
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What is the proposed idea/solution? Allow snapshots to be downloaded locally in a compressed/encrypted format native to Airtable only. How does is solve the user problems? I think this would meet the never ending demand/requests to have better backup options off-server. How was this validated? I understand Airtable's caginess to restrict moving all of a user's data off the server, they want to keep customers, that's cool, I want to stay here too. The problem is data often needs redundancy by keeping it separate on completely different systems. Currently, providing a CSV/JSON/API export only allows the data to move, but not the rest of the airtable features like formulas, scripts, automations, interfaces etc. If I were to lose a base for some reason (malicious intent for example), even if I have the CSV exports I would not be able to rebuild my base. If this happened I would 100% not bother to attempt to return to airtable because I know it's pointless. Airtable already provides options to duplicate bases and create snapshots (also duplication) of older states. I don't think it should be unreasonable to be able to have a feature to be able to keep these snapshots in an encrypted format offline on a local machine. The intent would be the ability to reupload this back up to airtable after a critical failure event (loss of account control for example, malicious deletion via API perhaps, loss of snapshots?). Considering it would contain other airtable exclusive features like interfaces, I don't see this being useful to attempt to port it elsewhere. If it was encrypted and formatted in a way that could only be imported/exported through airtable then this would protect airtable's IP. Password protection on this downloaded file would also prevent it from being reimported maliciously if the files were stolen. Who is the target audience? Anyone who cares about their data and don't want their eggs all in one basket. Also people who don't like to have to take their eggs out of the basket by having to crack them open, hoping to put them back later but it's just leaking through the bottom. If you can't offer an option to both backup and RESTORE user data, then it's not a backup feature, it's just a customer exit feature.
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Submitted on
Jul 03, 2023
03:40 PM
Submitted by
Daniela_Hecht
on
Jul 03, 2023
03:40 PM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Create / Download / Send to Drive csv with an automation so that you can back up tables or views or the results of find records action How does is solve the user problems? Problem: Snapshots are not a real backup solution since there is no way to restore them without braking any third party integrations that would need to be re-made. The issue of the record ids in the snapshot being different than in the original also means copy/paste is out of the question for linked records. Solution: automated csvs as partial table backups that you can actually import or paste into tables needing restoration Would also help with certain kinds of integration How was this validated? ? Who is the target audience? Everybody
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