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Submitted on
Apr 19, 2023
10:32 AM
Submitted by
Molly_Mangan
on
Apr 19, 2023
10:32 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Price per user rather than per Workspace - Or allow better organization, folders, etc within a Workspace. We pay more per user on a Pro plan than we do for our CRM. Yet if we want to collaborate with external parties we need to move the base to a free workspace due to the sharing limitations. We are a small company and purchased pro for everyone - yet it is becoming a mess. We cannot even segment visibility of bases within the workspace from some users, since everyone needs to be a pro for that workspace. Enterprise is outlandishly expensive for small organizations. We are willing to pay for the service, but the limits even on a pro plan are limiting our use and commitment to the product. How does is solve the user problems? ... How was this validated? ... Who is the target audience? ...
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Submitted on
Jan 12, 2023
10:27 AM
Submitted by
Strawberrycolor
on
Jan 12, 2023
10:27 AM

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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What is the proposed idea/solution? Users need a way to select multiple records to slide around at once in a timeline interface. How does is solve the user problems? It's basic usability. It's required for any timeline that has records with overlapping dates Who is the target audience? All users who deal with timelines
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Submitted on
Aug 25, 2023
03:59 PM
Submitted by
Renatto_Andrade
on
Aug 25, 2023
03:59 PM

In my team's usage of Airtable, we have a lot of different fields going through a lot of changes over time. On multiple occasions I've had to dig through a record's revision history, clicking Show more multiple times to get far enough to find the history that I need. In order to find a single field's history, I have to expand each of the history segments, then use ctrl+F to search the name of the field, and then click through each result to see the history I'm looking for. I would love a filter mechanism in the Revision history where users could select a specific field from their table, and the Revision history would be limited to showing only the changes made to that field.
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Submitted on
Jan 24, 2023
11:32 AM
Submitted by
David_Thompson-
on
Jan 24, 2023
11:32 AM

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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What is the proposed idea/solution? Currently, there's no way for an element (i.e. a Kanban element) to be connected to multiple filter elements. This would be useful for example if a user needs to create an interface with multiple sections. The interface having a main general filter affecting all the elements in each section, and each section containing secondary particular filter elements. The connection here would be "AND" between the filter elements. How does is solve the user problems? This would allow making the interface much simpler, instead of repeating the same filter elements over and over again across all the filter elements of the page, a general filter would be set at the beginning of the interface and the following optional/secondary filters would be left for each section across the interface. Currently the interfaces with this approach are super repetitive and a user needs to apply a single filter multiple times. How was this validated? ... Who is the target audience? ...
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Submitted on
Oct 25, 2022
11:22 AM
Submitted by
Evan_Eglinton
on
Oct 25, 2022
11:22 AM

Dark Mode and themes. It seems standard nowadays to allow users to tweak the appearance of the app or interface they are using, except for Airtable. The ability to use your own colours to better suit how you organize your work and reducing eye strain with a dark mode seems like a no-brainer. Please Airtable, listen to the users, and give us dark mode.
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Submitted on
Mar 13, 2019
02:30 PM
Submitted by
Ron_F
on
Mar 13, 2019
02:30 PM

Hi, As far as I can tell, currently you can set row heights to Short/Medium/Tall/Extra Tall. This height setting is applied to every row in the base. It’d be nice if there could be a “dynamic height” option, where each individual row is set to a height depending on its longest content. So a row that has a cell which requires 5 lines to display will have a height of 5 lines, while a row whose longest cell is only 1 word will be still be the “Short” height. This would be really useful for bases where we have text content that varies greatly in length (for example, user responses to an open-ended survey question). Right now, I have to set the height to “Extra Tall” to fit in most answers, but this wastes a lot of space because there are also lots of short answers which end up taking up way more space than they need.
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Submitted on
Jun 25, 2024
09:34 AM
Submitted by
MichaelSargent
on
Jun 25, 2024
09:34 AM

The two biggest complaints I get from my users on Airtable, especially those coming from Salesforce, is the lack of a Global Search Bar in Interfaces (which I've posted about before here) and the inability for users to create their own reports on Interfaces. I know both these things are available inherently through the Base (Global Search Bar through extensions) but by users are non-technical and should not have access to the entirety of the data on the database so they're interface only. But they should have the ability to create, save and download their own views in Interfaces! I can see how this is an oversight from Airtable devs because that's kind of the whole point of the database but Interfaces has changed the way the bulk of Airtable users actually use Airtable. I've created great dashboards using the dashboard interface page type and that answers the bulk of reporting needs but certainly not everything and I need the ability to allow Interface users to create their own views (with the ability to set field visibility, filters, etc in the back end on the data the front end users see). The attached image is the result of a touch of creativity. I've linked shared views to buttons, titled with the table they're tied to. I've removed irrelevant data from that shared view. But this is what I mean- this can't be the best way to allow users to create their own views if the users only have interface access.
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New Ideas
Submitted on
Jan 20, 2023
09:42 AM
Submitted by
Jessica_Pena
on
Jan 20, 2023
09:42 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? When using the "Group by" feature, Treat the group heading as a frozen row so that it follows the user down the page until the next 'group' heading takes over, or at least make this an option for users who would find it convenient. If there are subgroups How does is solve the user problems? It doesn't make the user try to recall what the 'group' category is if they are having to scan several records that fall within a single group. I love Airtable, but this is a nightmare for a person with ADHD. I sometimes have to scan back up the page multiple times to see what 'group' records fall under. ... How was this validated? ... Who is the target audience? I think many folks would find this useful, but as a neurodivergent Airtable user who has loved being able to create systems with Airtable that *mostly* work for my brain, this one is a working memory nightmare.
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