I plan to use Airtable to record order information from my website. These records will be used to build the product that the customer ordered. These products are custom. I would like to be able to have the page designer automatically to output a PDF to the attachment field. I would also email this PDF as part of the customer order process workflow for our company. Thanks, ... View more

It would be great if rich text formatting was available in the forms help text. I would be easier to emphasis important points about completing the form properly. ... View more

The new List View is great. But there's no option to share it, as there is with every other view. Can this functionality be added? Particularly hoping for the embed function to be enabled... ... View more

Similar to UPPER( ) and LOWER( ), PROPER( ) would take a text string as an argument, and convert it to “Proper Case”, where the first letter of every work is upper-case, and subsequent letters in the word are lower-case. EXAMPLE: PROPER ( “1232 DEER VALLLEY AVE” ) would return: 1232 Deer Valley Ave USE CASE: I use AirTable in my real-estate business, where I hire virtual-assistants to enter public property data scraped from county websites (which often stores data in upper-case). That address data is used to for mail-merge to marketing letters, but unless I take abother step to convert the data to Capital case, the merged data appears ALL UPPERCASE, which makes the letter seem auto-generated. To solve this, my workflow includes an export from AirTable out to a .csv file, then into Excel where I run a macro that converts to Proper Case, and then is imported back into AirTable, then out to our document merge partner (WebMerge). I’d love to eliminate that last, fussy part of the workflow where I export out just to convert the text. If I have a PROPER ( ) function as described, it would greatly simplify my AirTable/WebMerge workflow. Thanks! ... View more

I need to view reference data in order to complete my form. I saw another request for this back in 2016. Is this feature anywhere on the roadmap? Thank you, Ken ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? Allow the same "record detail page" to be used across multiple interfaces   How does is solve the user problems? Currently a designed "record detail page" is restricted to ONE interface. However, since we can incorporate multiple interfaces across one app (via the left nav bar navigation in interfaces), it is common to need to access the same record from a different interface. Currently you have to rebuild the the record detail page for every interface that it's data is used in. (We currently have 4 interfaces, so we have to duplicate 4 times). Not only that, every time we make a change we have to change it in 4 places. ALTERNATE SOLUTION The add the ability to group pages on the left nav panel without needing to stick them into different interfaces.    How was this validated? At my company we've probably wasted 200 hours trying to keep our record details pages in sync,   Who is the target audience? Interface app builders ... View more

Users have been calling for a simple TITLE CASE / PROPER function since 2016. And I know, there is @Bill.French’s wonderful script - Field Tweaker - that allows you to reformat a field as either UPPER, LOWER, or TITLE CASE. Field Tweaker - Script Block for In-place Transformations Show and tell After importing data, it’s not uncommon to want to clean up and normalize data values, especially text fields that may have all types of inconsistencies. Unfortunately, Airtable doesn’t support in-place transformations where formulas can be applied to modify the field contents of all cells. This is where the Field Tweaker script block can help. It supports in-place text transformations including upper case, lower case, and title case modifications across all records for select fields. The scrip… However, the script doesn’t work when the field is a computed field, as it is in my case. The fields I need text formatting control over are computed from different sources. I need versions of those fields that are UPPER CASE - which is easily achieved via the UPPER() function - but I also need TITLE CASE versions (for reasons I don’t want to bore anyone with). Again, if there was a standard PROPER() function in Airtable, this would be a piece of cake. I am sure I am not alone with this request. ... View more

This came up in a support forum post: Importing Data into an Existing Table Airtable would be able to address more of my clients’ CRM use cases if it had the ability to import data into existing tables. Lead management is an example. Over time a company gets batches of leads in a spreadsheet that they need to be able to import into a Leads app. Duplication detection and record updates are key features that ensure the lead qualification process ends up being as efficient as possible. Copy and paste is a workable solution but there are a bunch of other reasons why Airtable needs the ability to import from a spreadsheet into an existing table. This additional import functionality would need to be able to set up data keys, driving an update for any existing records with the same key and creating new records for ones that don’t already exist in the table. ... View more

This thread really highlighted the need for Airtable to automatically create “back links” (or “reverse links”) when you are creating a self-linking linked record field (i.e. a field relationship that links a table back to itself). All other linked record fields in Airtable automatically create these “back links” or “reverse links”, but they don’t get created when doing a self-relationship within a single table. This is especially crucial for using the Org chart block, which REQUIRES that you create a self-linking relationship within a table. The Org chart block doesn’t even support creating links between separate tables! You’ll notice in the Org chart demonstration video that there are 2 self-linked fields: “Direct Reports” and “Direct Supervisors”. All of that data had to be manually inputted & manually verified by the user, because there is no automatic way to have those 2 fields automatically communicate with each other. If you’re dealing with a very small number of records, it might be relatively easy & relatively trivial to manually input both sides of the links for every record. But once you start dealing with hundreds or thousands of records, it becomes a real chore to start manually managing all of these links. Same problem if you’re trying to BREAK a self-relationship between 2 people. If you delete the relationship on one side, the relationship on the other side should AUTOMATICALLY break. But the way it is now, you actually have to remember to manually break both sides of the relationship. Unfortunately, we only have 2 options for creating backlinks in Airtable: (1) Write a custom JavaScript to handle this for us. Two scripts that do this are available here and here. or (2) For a no-code way of doing this that doesn’t require writing any programming code at all, we can use Make’s advanced Airtable automations, which is a no-code automation tool for Airtable. But all of this should be natively built into Airtable.  I was a FileMaker developer for over 30 years before becoming an Airtable consultant, and FileMaker is an advanced database app that natively solves this problem because backlinks are automatically built into the product. FileMaker solves all the other Airtable limitations as well, because FileMaker is a full-blown programming language with no limits. If anybody needs a referral to a FileMaker developer, feel free to reach out to me through my website: https://www.scottworld.com/ Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld ... View more