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Submitted on
Apr 29, 2020
09:20 PM
Submitted by
ScottWorld
on
Apr 29, 2020
09:20 PM

It can be really difficult to troubleshoot broken formulas in Airtable, because the error message only tells us that something went wrong — but it doesn’t tell us WHERE something went wrong. In most other programming languages, the error handling will either: Highlight the part of the formula that is broken. Or tell the user the exact line number & character number of where the formula is broken. Either one of these scenarios would be fine! 🙂 This product suggestion was inspired by this thread: Help with basic IF statement Formulas No, this is not true. For example: IF( 3 > 0, "yes", "no" ) will evaluate just fine. But IF ( 3 > 0, "yes", "no" ) will result in an error. I have never before worked with a single programming language that would get hung up on that extra space there! However, this is where things gets really strange. Because Airtable got hung up on that extra space up above, you would think that it would get hung up on an extra carriage return — but it doesn’t. For example, this function evaluates ju…
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Submitted on
Apr 27, 2020
06:13 PM
Submitted by
ScottWorld
on
Apr 27, 2020
06:13 PM

We really need a Zapier trigger for when an Airtable record is UPDATED. Currently, the only option that Airtable has given us in Zapier is a trigger called “New Record In View”. However, “New Record In View” IS NOT A SOLUTION. The problem with the “New Record In View” option is that it only triggers the very first time a record appears in a view . If the record falls off the view, and then comes back onto the view later, the trigger is never triggered again. Therefore, the “New Record in View” option is not really usable for the vast majority of use cases. What we really need is an “Updated Record” trigger in Zapier. This is one of our Top 10 Feature Requests for Airtable. Luckily, in the meantime, we’ve got OpenSide’s On2Air Actions to help us with this. It costs $50 per month (or $500 per year) to use On2Air Actions, but for businesses that can afford it & can truly benefit from it, the cost is well worth it. I’ve never used Integromat’s Airtable integrations, but it looks like they do a similar thing to On2Air Actions — where they will scan records for updates and then trigger some sort of an action based on an updated record. We absolutely love supporting these 3rd-party companies that have stepped up to the plate to deliver us wonderful solutions! However, it’s always easier & better for the platform when the 1st-party company (Airtable) natively integrates necessary functionality like this into their platform. Thanks!
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Submitted on
Jan 18, 2020
12:50 PM
Submitted by
ENGAGE_for_Busi
on
Jan 18, 2020
12:50 PM

Is there a way to send an email with the forms answers to a specific email address when a form submission is made, just like Google Forms does?
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Submitted on
Sep 13, 2019
02:09 PM
Submitted by
Kyle_Miller
on
Sep 13, 2019
02:09 PM

I’d like to suggest adding a feature where we can quickly acknowledge comments or activity of other users in the “Activity” sections of projects. Generally this is something like a thumbs up button where somebody can click on it as a way of simply letting the person who made a comment or any kind of post in the activity center know that they have seen their submission without needing to take the time to type out a comment informing them they have seen it. Thanks!
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Submitted on
Aug 05, 2019
10:23 PM
Submitted by
Dustin_Frazier
on
Aug 05, 2019
10:23 PM

We have multiple editors who help build bases for clients, and it would be extremely useful to have the option to receive notifications (via email, Slack, etc.) whenever someone makes a structural change to a base, e.g. adds/renames/deletes a tab, adds/renames/deletes a field, modifies a single-select field value list, creates or changes a shared view, etc. It would also be very useful in the common scenario where we build a base for a client and they have one user who is an editor; very often, they end up making changes (sometimes intentionally and sometimes not) that impact the structure of the base that we don’t know about. Not being able to keep track of editor-level changes makes keeping the bases stable and well-documented extremely difficult!
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Submitted on
Mar 14, 2019
09:46 AM
Submitted by
PTNTH
on
Mar 14, 2019
09:46 AM

When a user comments on a record they are automatically notified of updates to that record. Although this can be switched off by ticking “not watching”, it seems repetitive and annoying as it is the norm for me and my team not to watch records. I appreciate that for most users, commenting and being automatically added to watching the record is correct. It would be good (as the base admin) to be able to switch off the auto-watching for all base users.
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Submitted on
Dec 18, 2018
01:45 PM
Submitted by
Tamara_Bond-Wil
on
Dec 18, 2018
01:45 PM

I added a collaborator field to my table so I could assign records to collaborators. But I then backfilled the field, only to discover that each individual record sent out a notification. Is there a way to have the records summarized in a digest, instead of sent individually?
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Submitted on
Dec 12, 2018
08:56 AM
Submitted by
bdelanghe
on
Dec 12, 2018
08:56 AM

Giving dedicated real estate to notifications would send a clear signal that the platform is intended for collaboration. Each individual record has an ‘Activity’ sidebar which allows for viewing not only record history but also comments. Notifications are capturing the same thing, but are hidden in a drop-down. This makes them difficult to see do to the limited amount of items displayed and the badge count disappearing once the drop-down is clicked rather than when the notification is read. What I request is embedding a base-wide (or potentially table limited) activity view similar to that on each record summary. This would allow for glancing at table and base changes more easily and could also be a place for table/base related comments that don’t apply to specific records.
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Submitted on
Nov 09, 2018
01:57 AM
Submitted by
Megan_Bishop
on
Nov 09, 2018
01:57 AM

EDITED - What I really meant is the comments section on an individual record. I have found that the notes section works really well to keep tabs on what is going on with a task because it date stamps them, and I can quickly scroll back through if I get confused or need reminding on something, and sometimes I want to clue in other people about something, so I @ them, but then it automatically marks them as “watching” that record. And I don’t want them to get continuous notifications every time I make a note if it doesn’t relate to them. I could ask them to “unwatch” the record, but that just adds in another annoying step that I wish I could take care of my end as the main owner of the bases for my projects/team, and then I might want to direct another comment at them, in which case they would be marked as “watching” the record again. If they are getting continuous notifications that don’t relate to them, it will make it into a “boy who cried wolf” type of situation. They will be less likely to pass attention to them, and might miss a note that really is important for them to read and follow up on.
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Submitted on
Nov 07, 2018
01:06 PM
Submitted by
David_Krizan
on
Nov 07, 2018
01:06 PM

What I would personally like is the ability to add a comment to any given field for any given record (akin to the cell-level comments that appear as red triangles in the corner of cells in Excel). There are times when I want to add additional or qualifying comments/notes at a field-level in records without cluttering up the view. Excel examples: Add comment Comment indicator On-hover Edit comment I merely want what could be considered a comment mode/layer that could be applied to any given cell in any given field in any given table. Excel, Google Sheets, and many other spreadsheet-based applications provide this functionality. The purpose is to be able to collaborate or add additional notes or comments in context without affecting the data in the cells themselves. This essentially requesting the same functionality that is currently available for adding field descriptions to field headers, but also allowing this at an individual cell level. There are limitless use cases for this functionality: Carrying out a collaborative conversation Providing an editor’s note for a publicly shared table Adding a comment about an outlier result in a data table Adding notes about a set of images. Adding a disclaimer
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