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Submitted on
‎Feb 04, 2025
12:21 PM
Submitted by
jpierce1
on
‎Feb 04, 2025
12:21 PM

After taking a 9-month hiatus from airtable (AT) and working solely in Adobe Suite and web design tools like Figma and Wix, coming back to this tool has made me wish for the ability to manipulate design elements. I appreciate and see the case for presenting templated designs for some users, but for the user who wants to create bespoke designs using (typography, colors, containers) for clients, it's essentially impossible to do in the current interface designer. I hear some power users use AT as a headless management system and then use other frontend systems on top, which is a possibility! My use case requires we only leverage Airtable and no additional systems. Curious if this is on the roadmap, and if other users have any creative tricks they use in interface designer.
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Submitted on
‎Jan 22, 2025
04:56 AM
Submitted by
oakley
on
‎Jan 22, 2025
04:56 AM

In the options for different interface types, the only way to get a table is through starting with a blank interface and adding a table element in. This often causes scrolling issues between the whole page and within the table, and overall is is a very clunky way to get a table interface. Can a new interface be made that is just a table, similar to the list interface, but with the functionality of a table. It would be the same as the table view under the data tab, but having it as an interface gives a lot more control over access to it and sharing between other people. If this could be added it would also solve Allow what users can see/access individual Views in the same table as @TheTimeSavingCo commented on this.
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Submitted on
‎Jan 22, 2025
03:47 AM
Submitted by
oakley
on
‎Jan 22, 2025
03:47 AM

Allow the Admin account to share specific views to users, and revoke access to others. This would be a page where I can add or remove users access to the specific view. This should also be similar in the Permissions options, where users can be an editor, viewer, commenter, but have it so they can have different permissions in different views. This means that a user may have access to 'View 1' and 'View 2', but not 'View 3', and this user is able to edit in 'View 1' but not in 'View 2' and cannot see or edit in 'View 3'
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Submitted on
‎Jan 09, 2025
09:44 AM
Submitted by
tracymf-tkk
on
‎Jan 09, 2025
09:44 AM

Currently, I have to make another table to track dates, holidays and weekends. This is a real pain. It would be nice if there were a setting somewhere either at the table or base level where I could select work weekends, yes or no, etc. Right now this is a really drawback.
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Submitted on
‎Jan 08, 2025
07:34 PM
Submitted by
tarzie
on
‎Jan 08, 2025
07:34 PM

I started out with the trial of Airtable and absolutely loved it. It is perfect for what I'm looking to do - but what I'm looking to do is a small, personal project, that being able to share Interfaces publicly is perfect for. Now that my trial is over and I'm on the Free version, Airtable still covers everything I need - EXCEPT that specific part, and I unfortunately cannot justify $24/mth to go to the first paid tier. However, I would happily pay $5-6 a month to keep all the other features of a Free account and just add this specific functionality on.
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Submitted on
‎Jan 02, 2025
08:13 AM
Submitted by
mattrpg
on
‎Jan 02, 2025
08:13 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? When seeing a change in a field of a record in the activities feed it would be very helpful to be able to click on that and jump to the field. How does is solve the user problems? Because the information is truncated, being able to jump to a field with full data will make it easier to collect and make that information actionable. How was this validated? ... Who is the target audience? Anyone who wants to be able to more easily navigate through a record without scrolling through dozens and dozens of fields.
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Submitted on
‎Nov 30, 2024
02:44 AM
Submitted by
palagrandintok
on
‎Nov 30, 2024
02:44 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? I use the timeline view to plot upcoming translation projects and see what resources will need to be allocated to them over the coming months. I would love to be able to have the bar on the timeline change height depending on the size of the project, so I can see at a glance how much work each project represents. In my case, this would simply mean referring to a 'Number of Words' field for each project, then making a thicker bar for a higher number. How does it solve the user problems? I currently use colour coding to do something similar, but the colours are a little arbitrary, so it's not hugely intuitive. I could potentially also use the 'grouped by' feature to put bigger projects higher up and smaller lower down, but that's also not hugely visually immediate. I imagine this feature would also be useful to other users who wanted to get a similarly at-a-glance idea of the 'size' of a given record, or some other numerical quality. How was this validated? Not 100% sure what you mean here, but I've looked around and don't believe this is a feature or a currently suggested feature, but apologies if it actually is. Who is the target audience? Project managers, anyone else wishing to get an at-a-glance idea of the size of some aspect of a record when looking at it in timeline view.
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Submitted on
‎Nov 28, 2024
03:57 AM
Submitted by
Mike_AutomaticN
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‎Nov 28, 2024
03:57 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Allowing forms to create NEW linked records, rather than only allowing to select from a list of already existing linked records. In other words, the ability for a form to have its Parent form submission, and one or multiple Child form submissions (for the linked records). See Fillout's solution as an example. Dummy scenario: If I want to submit information for a Family (Family table) and for the members of the Family (Members table) which can be one or multiple, I would not be able to do this from only one Airtable Form. I would need to submit one form for the Family information, and separate forms for each Member. How does is solve the user problems? Would avoid having to integrate different softwares, build dirty automations, or handling re-directs, just for the sake of creating linked records. How was this validated? This issue comes up with plenty of my clients, multiple questions have been asked on the Community on how to handle this, and it has been a topic of discussion with fellow builders and consultants. However, I'm not sure whether it has been actually submitted as a "New Idea"/Feature Request (if it was already, I'm super sorry -however it might be useful to bring it up again!). Basically, Airtable forms do not allow to create NEW linked records from the form itself (i.e. we can currently only select from a dropdown of already existing linked records). There are obviously several different workarounds such as: (i) using other form softwares (e.g. Fillout which I really love, but is still a pain to need additional integration just for this); (ii) handling the creation of new linked fields from interfaces rather than forms (i.e. would mean treating the interface itself as a pseudo form); (iii) having temporary fields on the main table which are only used to push data via an automation for the creation of the linked field (super dirty solution which I would almost never recommend); and (iv) others. However, all of those solutions are far from ideal. Who is the target audience? Airtable users who need to capture information via forms for a base with multiple linked tables (I'd say almost every Airtable user). Thanks!!
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Submitted on
‎Nov 21, 2024
11:52 AM
Submitted by
Ringthebells86
on
‎Nov 21, 2024
11:52 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Airtable desperately needs more options for date filtering. Most importantly the following: within next calendar week/month within past calendar week/month on or before the end of this calendar week on or before the end of next calendar week Airtable barely has filters for calendar weeks which is extremely frustrating because most program managers are looking at the tasks for the given week and it is super annoying to have to make it a custom between 2 date fields because saying on or before one week from now will show tasks from the following week within the first few days. How does is solve the user problems? This makes searches more automated so they will automatically show you what is happening in the given calendar week/month without having to do the current way which is: Date is on or after 11/1/2024 or date is on or before 11/30/2024 (which has to manually be changed every month). It just makes things unnecessarily difficult when it should just be simple to add these date filters.
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Submitted on
‎Oct 11, 2024
01:12 PM
Submitted by
attachment
on
‎Oct 11, 2024
01:12 PM

Yes, that's the idea. Allow my to buy more storage for my paid Team plan. I'm even willing to pay! But I only value the storage, not everything else that comes with moving from Team -> Business (that move just to get an 80GB storage for $300/yr seems rather...hmm...excessive; I'll try to ignore comparisons that Dropbox offers 3TB for free). I'm a simple user, and quickly hit the AT 1GB limit in just a couple weeks of learning to use the service, and have one Base. The 1GB is a low storage amount, but I somewhat understand it...Free is really a trial plan, no problem. I liked AT and wanted to continue, so had to move up to Team ("For teams building apps to collaborate on shared workflows"). I don't mind paying more just to get storage, but the 'Team' is just me and my cat. Team could be also described as "For individual users that need more storage" and 'Business' described as "For individual users that need a bit more storage." Point is, it really doesn't make much sense to not allow individuals (and actual Teams) to purchase additional storage (which I understand from another thread is provided by Box). One day maybe I'll reach where I require other functionality, but I suspect I'll go through the Team level of storage (20GB, which is easily reached in my work, which is based on the Museum template) before I need more functionality, and then will have to think about another solution. Quite the bummer to not create a Free-Good-Better-Best pricing structure where your limits aren't based so much on feature differences, but capacity. A pricing model like this gets implemented as AT wants to use this lever to get companies to move to the next tier, so it tells us that a lot of users care more limits such as storage versus features. If AT doesn't want to be in the storage-adding business that is OK, but it would seem that then the ability to point to attachments held elsewhere would be a requirement. And I realize from the Community that AT doesn't read these comments or respond, so this post is indeed for cathartic purposes only.
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