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Submitted on
Aug 10, 2019
01:06 AM
Submitted by
Ersatz_Feign
on
Aug 10, 2019
01:06 AM

We have been watching Airtable for many many years now but have not bothered testing it any further as have been awaiting the implementation of a search box on every page that allows uses to find results from every record, in every table, in every base. Currently in the app, one can only search for a base by its name instead of the search box including all records from any base. Interestingly, I have a business associate who has also not bothered switching over to Airtable for the same frustration and mentioned they also have another business associate who is in the same boat. This is very understandable as it is such a mandatory feature for any such similar service. Surely it would take the Dev team a matter of moments to code this in and allow users to fully test the service before deciding if they would like to inevitably upgrade. Can any representative from Airtable explain the business decision for this not having been already implemented as it is truly confusing. Many thanks
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Submitted on
Jun 03, 2022
12:41 PM
Submitted by
TroyTessalone
on
Jun 03, 2022
12:41 PM

The ability to do a field search across Tables Search by Field Name Filter by Field Type Similar to the View search
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Submitted on
May 14, 2021
06:06 PM
Submitted by
itoldusoandso
on
May 14, 2021
06:06 PM

Small design request - please add Search for my installed Apps in Dashboard… I have quite a number of apps installed. It would be easier to search for them than to scroll down the list, it’s getting big. Yes I can have multiple dashboards, but getting to the list I need is 2 clicks. It’s easier to search for apps.
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Submitted on
Dec 03, 2019
05:46 AM
Submitted by
Omer_Nesher
on
Dec 03, 2019
05:46 AM

The search block allows searching only in Latin languages. Why not enable more languages?
While you’re at it. Allow determining if the base is LTR or RTL, in the settings.
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Submitted on
Sep 28, 2020
12:32 PM
Submitted by
Jay_P
on
Sep 28, 2020
12:32 PM

Recommendation : Terms Searched on the app should have a history. So that user can go back and forward with their searched term.
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Submitted on
Dec 12, 2021
09:52 AM
Submitted by
Brite_Admin
on
Dec 12, 2021
09:52 AM

This can be done in interfaces so why not in the Bases?
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Submitted on
Jun 15, 2020
01:58 PM
Submitted by
ScottWorld
on
Jun 15, 2020
01:58 PM

It would be great if the Search Block would let us search for entire phrases in our database, instead of breaking up the phrase into individual words. For example, if we wanted to search for this phrase: “cat on a hot tin roof” Airtable’s Search Block would return ALL the records that have ANY of those words: cat on a hot tin roof But we only want to return the records that have the ENTIRE phrase. This is typically done in other database languages by putting quotation marks around the phrase. But using quotation marks in the Search Block doesn’t change its behavior. Interestingly enough, using the “Find in View” feature on the grid view actually DOES respect entire phrases, but that just highlights all the matching phrases within your view, so you have to scroll up & down through all of your records to see your matching results. This would be very difficult to do with thousands of records. Thanks! 🙂
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Submitted on
Jun 29, 2022
09:38 AM
Submitted by
TroyTessalone
on
Jun 29, 2022
09:38 AM

Record Activity Log Search - By Field Name or Value Narrow results down for troubleshooting
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Submitted on
Aug 21, 2019
02:56 PM
Submitted by
Lauz_Dix
on
Aug 21, 2019
02:56 PM

Because this is so simple to include, we are not sure if this is a bug or just a very surprising oversight. When you click on the search button within a table, you can search for any data, in any field, in any record, instantly. When you click on the search button within the base/main view, it only appears to search the titles of the bases and doesn’t include the search results that you would see when searching in the table view. From our limited coding experience, this would likely take a couple of hours fix as all that would need to be done is, when a user uses the base view search, just also search each of the users tables (as is done in the table view search) and include those results alongside the standard base name results. This is a common feature in almost every other similar online service and so has become an expected, mandatory requirement from any user. We have found several alternatives that do the same thing or very similar to Airtable but their universal search also includes all records as expected. We would like to test out Airtable before considering promoting it to our sizeable audiences. This would result in substantial additional revenue for Airtable at any conversion rate. Not sure how long something so simple like this would take to fix but we would really appreciate any time scales as that will allow us to plan when determining whether to promote Airtable or one of the alternatives that already has the universal search that all users expect. Thank you.
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Submitted on
Feb 18, 2025
11:36 AM
Submitted by
Sean_Lake1
on
Feb 18, 2025
11:36 AM

It'd be nice when searching for fields within the HIDE, if even though it's filtering that it still showed where that field was in relation to the others instead of hiding those other fields that don't match, perhaps greying out those fields and bolding the "found" fields? When you have a bunch of fields, it'd assist in finding that field quicker to see its position relative to the others.
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