Welcome to the Airtable Community Product Ideas Board! Help us shape the future of the Airtable platform by sharing your ideas or kudoing suggested features from other Airtable enthusiasts like yourself.
What is the proposed idea/solution? Add hotkeys/shortcuts that allows quickly jumping between pages of a interface. For example: Keys 1-9 opens the page corresponding to the order of the pages in the top bar. How was this validated? N/A Who is the target audience? People that use advanced/large interfaces.
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What is the proposed idea/solution? Make Interfaces available on the iPad How does is solve the user problems? In construction, we use iPads for most of our inspection and statusing. To not have an interface useable on the iPad app is a major barrier to being able to use this in the field. How was this validated? ... Who is the target audience? Anyone who uses Airtable not sitting down
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What is the proposed idea/solution? Add a sorting option to the Group function associated the Record List interface (for example.) This option would be available when grouping by a Single Select List and would allow you to order the groups the same as they are ordered in the list. How does is solve the user problems? Currently you can sort Groups alphabetically or reverse alphabetically. This prevents Groups from being a useful way to organize sequential groupings of data, or results in the user including the sequence in the name of the group (e.g. "1. Shutting down warp core"; "2. Disconnecting primary coupler", etc), which is not ideal to manage and may be confusing if the field is used elsewhere in the interface. record_list.jpg shows the interface's record list with the groups collapsed so that you can see the order (alphabetical) single_select_list_order.jpg shows the order of the list and the order I would like the groups to appear group_sort_options.jpg is where one might expect to see another sort option. Tight fit! Thanks for your consideration.
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What is the proposed idea/solution? It would be great to be able to toggle between different views whilst in an expanded record. How does is solve the user problems? Being able to update various relevant fields whilst in the same record without having to make 100s of fields visible can be a huge time saver. How was this validated? ... Who is the target audience? ...
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I find the interface button action [run an automation] to create a linked record with more populated and linked fields than the add record in fields more helpful. I believe it would be very helpful to create an action to then go to that newly created record in the interface as an immediate next step. Either that or allow for additional button actions.
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What is the proposed idea/solution? It often makes sense to use a unique id field as the primary field in a database (for example "customer_id"), especially as linking records requires the primary field to be used. When this data is then displayed within an Interface, many of the interface elements will show the primary field in bold at the top of the record, when most end users would wish to see the customer name for example. How does is solve the user problems? Interfaces would be far more clear if records could be displayed with more control over if or how the primary field is displayed, allowing databases to reserve the primary field for unique data strings. How was this validated? ... Who is the target audience? Interface users.
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I know this has been posted many times before, but we need a real solution to allow for grouping by multi-select fields in a way that makes all records associated with at least that value shown in the value grouping. Yes, this might result in one record appearing multiple times in a grid view. Yes, that is desirable. Notion users know that this is much more intuitive and user-friendly than the way Airtable handles this behavior. --- Here's a real example for us: We do project planning in Airtable across quarters. Projects may span multiple quarters (multi-select field). There is no way to view all projects grouped by quarter where all Q1 projects are collected in a single group! As a designer, it boggles my mind that it behaves this way...
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I need a way to schedule interfaces to be sent periodically as an email. Our automations are being used up for sending weekly reports. This is removing the ability to replace manual business practices with efficient automations. Ideally, I'd like a feature to send email reports out from interfaces periodically to specific users and/or user groups.
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We have an interface for our project management Airtable base, which shows project data filtered by a record list. As our base grows, the page has grown with it and is quite long, split into useful sections. I would like a way to hyperlink to different sections within the interface, like using div IDs and # hyperlinks in html. This could tie in to a standard button, as currently used for navigation to external URLs.
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What is the proposed idea/solution? Providing Interface designers with the ability to allow/disallow the visibility of the field "i" tooltip inside Interfaces. How does is solve the user problems? Currently, we are using text blocks in the UI to explain certain field purposes or possible pitfalls of user selections. You can really clean up an interface and reduce user support questions by providing them with the ability to get further information before making a choice at the exact moment in their workflow that it is appropriate. Blocks of text mean to help a user perform functions really make the entire interface too cluttered to use for experienced users. Some users don't use the system very often so they usually completely forget and need this help but. Maintaining two interfaces with different levels of "Info Help" is not a viable option. From an administration standpoint, this allows for already existing documentation to now serve both database designers and end users at the same time. Future leaning thinking also implies that there could be two fields for "Description" - each with a different set of permissions so that admins can leave themselves complex backend notes for themselves and their teams yet provide more simple descriptions for interface front end users. How was this validated? N/A Who is the target audience? Anyone designing interfaces for themselves or others
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