A problem we often come across is we can’t change the display name of the record in calendar view or linked field – it always takes the primary field. A workaround is to use ‘formula’ as the primary field to customize the display name. However this causes further issues: You might want a different display name for different purposes. Eg. When a project record links to several tasks fields, you want to show the task name only. But when displaying all task fields in a calendar view, you want to show the task name AND the related project name. Project: write a blog post about X; links to 3 tasks “find cover image”, “research” and “write” But when displaying the calendar in Tasks table, I’d like to see “Find cover image[assignee][status]” or some other form of display. These short tasks names fit nicely within the Project record view But these Task record names in Calendar view are not very useful Ideally we could choose a different field (eg last one) for displaying in calendar/linked records If you’re creating a new linked record from within a parent record, if the primary field is a formula, you won’t be able to edit the text unless you expand the record. E.g. Project: write about X; links to tasks: click on “+” to add a new task. ==> can’t edit the primary field because it’s a formula. Therefore if we could keep the primary field a text field, BUT specify a different display name field when creating a linked field, we could easily create a new child record as well as seeing desired record display name within the parent record. This applies to calendar view too. When adding a new record from calendar view, if the primary field is a formula it’s difficult to add the text you want, especially for non-technical users. When creating a new task from within calendar view, you can’t edit the primary field ... View more

Hi, I saw this was marked as resolved by changing the browser locale… however I’m using the Airtable app in MacOSX and I regularly switch between three different browsers. I don’t want to set all of my browsers to a different locale, as I’m in the US and want to continue all other US settings… I just believe Europe got it right when they start the week on Monday… as the week actually starts on Monday. Most applications allow users to pick and choose base level localization preferences. I believe Airtable is mature enough to add this level of features. Thanks! ... View more

Hi there, It would be great to have a toggle for show/hide field descriptions when creating a (view only) shared view through a link. I often add notes in the field description about what table the field links to, how I’m using the field, an explanation of the formula I wrote, and/or other base ‘administration’ details. When I am sharing a view with a colleague, I want them to be able to view the data in the base (the field name is usually explanatory enough for this purpose), but keep my field descriptions to myself. Adding this feature would be really great and would help make the shared views look more polished and professional. Anyone else running into this concern? Thanks. ... View more

Hi there, really loving Airtable but seems like the Chart Block is a little under powered… Minimally it seems like integrating basic statistical plots like histograms, box plots, and violin plots, could be really helpful for creating useful dashboards. Additionally some useful things like radar plots and maybe even contour plots would be great to see added. I know this isn’t a dataviz platform by design, but then again it kind of is so making charting/plotting a bit more of a first class citizen would be cool to see. ... View more

It would be great if AirTable allowed us to set the text formatting for a column to - let’s say UPPER CASE when we configure the column. So all entries made in that column would automatically be turned into UPPER CASE. That would be similar to the phone numer formatting, only I’d like to be able to have options in the configuration window - let’s say set it to UPPER CASE, TITLE CASE or FREE FORM. This would ensure formatting consistency among collaborators. I personally find Upper Case Entries easier to read - especially for the Name column. We can’t always count on other people to be consistent when it comes to these things. Please keep up the excellent work! AirTable is amazing! And it’s getting better and better. ... View more

Grid columns are coloured when they are subject to a sort (pink) or filter (green). However, I would like to colour columns myself - e.g. to show other users that data entry is required for that field - purely a cosmetic change to the view. Is this possible? ... View more

Hey there. We would like to build a survey for clients that would work the same as a SurveyMonkey survey, but built straight from our Clients table so we don’t have to import data between apps. Is there any way to create a Matrix/rating scale in Airtable? The question we can ask very easily in Survey Monkey asks students’ availability via a matrix of Days of the Week and Time. Any way to do this in airtable? :slightly_smiling_face: ... View more

I hesitate to make suggestions here, because of how even the most popular and basic requests have yet to be implemented, but I will anyway. I would like to be able to execute an HTTP request against values in other fields. This is possible in Excel and would be just as valuable here. The most basic implementation would use the GET method where I would define the URL and querystring separately. GET Endpoint: https://my.rest.endpoint.com/api/doTheThing Querystring: myVal1={{Field Name}}&myVal2={{Field Name2}} Yes, this would be an advanced feature that would generate support requests. Perhaps it could be hidden behind an Advanced Features toggle in a workspace’s or base’s settings. ... View more

This product would be very useful for both higher education and P-12 applications if it was FERPA compliant. FERPA came up a few times in the HIPPA section, but it is worth examining on its own as FERPA compliance is likely more of a contractual issue than a technical issue. Schools (P-12 and higher ed.) have a responsibility to keep student data private and only contact with software companies who agree contractually to abide by the same data responsibilities. Perhaps Airtable already has all the technical data controls needed to be FERPA compliant and the only issue is the necessary contractual guarantees to meet educational standards. The educational software market is a massive multi-billion dollar market and growing rapidly … in case you are worried about the returns from putting in a bit of work on this. Partly because of the FERPA issues, the current data solutions in education are poor. There are either massive, unwieldily databases like Student Information Systems or folks at the department/school/classroom level trying to build excel sheets to manage all the data. A solution between those 2 (your product) would be really useful for a large number of applications. ... View more