What is the proposed idea/solution? Make Interface (Dashboard) information available in IOS Widgets. How does is solve the user problems? Users can have Data right at their fingertips, be confronted with the most important data at all times. How was this validated? We use Interfaces to bring together the most important business information. with widgets we could make this data even more accessible.  Who is the target audience? All Users ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? Display a character counter over the limit assigned to a question in a form. How does it solve the user problems? Whoever is filling the form can know there is a character limit before they start typing their answer and this helps them manage their content better. Also, they will be able to adjust their answer without leaving the page to use a character counter in some other tool. (like Google Docs) How was this validated? An external contact called us for help resolving the error message they were receiving about exceeding the character count in a form we created, so we asked them to type their answers in a Google Docs file and guided them on how to access the character count there. They couldn't complete the form without the use of an external character counter. Who is the target audience? Anyone, whether internal or external, who will need to fill out a form designed and shared by Airtable users.  ... View more

Hi, Not sure if my previous post worked, but one of the comments from the team at work is that the grid views are messy when it's a whole page of 'pill' shapes, particularly when they're all different widths (based on the text length of each option). Is there the ability to: 1. Shade/colour the entire cell instead of just a pill shape? 2. If not, can the width of the pills be based on the width of the column instead of the text length, so they're clear and a consistent width regardless of the dropdown option selected? 3. And, can white be included as a pill colour so we can have drop-down fields that look like plain text? These would significantly help with clarity when reading grid views. Cheers, Andrew   ... View more

Seems like a no-brainer to me: It would be incredibly helpful to have an auto-generated legend for interfaces that shows users what the colors represent in the view. As it is now, the coloring helps to visually provide some differences but doesn't contain any usable information unless you can easily recall what 6 or 7 different colors mean.  I think this would benefit most users!  Bonus points for adding a color palette that is friendly for users with color vision issues. ... View more

Button Fields could really use an update to allow for dynamic button labeling. A label could be set to not only Single Line Text, but also support other field types such as Single Select, Link Fields, but also Attachments where an Image could be displayed as a clickable button. Here, we see each button opening a unique URL, however the label is static - locked as the text "Open URL" which is an awful user experience. Why not allow for other fields to be referenced within the Label, exactly how the URL formula works?  Part of this issue stems from the URL field itself also being too simplistic, and not supporting text for the referenced URL itself (which then itself could be used by a button field, without the need for an independent Label field). ... View more

I would love to see basic text formatting options for the long text field. At a minimum: bold and italic formatting would be a huge help. I would like to use long text fields to store short bios for writers. But without the ability to have italic formatting, I can’t properly format the titles of their books. The markdown formatting tools available in this Airtable community message editor would be perfect. ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? Please provide the option to align the left and right Y-Axis on charts in interfaces. How does is solve the user problems? There are times that you use the left Y axis for sales data, and the right Y axis for target. The purpose is to visualize and compare sales verse target, but this is not effective if the left and right Y axis is on a different scale. How was this validated? By creating a chart with both a left and right Y axis. Who is the target audience? Anyone who is using the left and right y-axis to visually compare the values from the left Y axis with the right Y axis. ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? Allow individual rows to expand to fit long text (like "wrap text" in Google Sheets) or at least to fit MORE long text. How does is solve the user problems? Sometimes I want to skim my data (in my case customer emails), but I can't do so when I have to click into each individual record when long text fields get cut off (even when height is set to "Extra Tall"). Clicking into each record is a big time suck. Who is the target audience? Any Airtable user with long text fields, but specifically bases with customer emails. ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? Disabling an action would skip that action during the automation run. How does is solve the user problems? This would allow me to build out actions, as they are supposed to be, but turn them off so I am only using the actions when I am ready for them.  How was this validated? I am currently building out a brand new system where multiple people get notified at different stages of the process. I need to build out the notification actions but I don't want those actions to run, to avoid annoying active users with system testing. Who is the target audience? Anybody that uses automations in Airtable. ... View more