Share "record detail pages" between interfaces

Tim_Berezny · ‎Jan 02, 2024

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

Markus_Wernig · ‎Mar 22, 2021

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.

Bill_Carovano · ‎Dec 02, 2016

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.

Ralf_Westphal · ‎Apr 12, 2017

After months since first requests for support of a decimal comma (3,14 instead of 3.14) have appeared here nothing has changed in Airtable. That’s a pity. Instead we’ve got a new field type and a new design. A new field type is nice - but it does not make Airtable more usable to many, many potential users in Europe. I won’t be able to entice anyone of my customers to use Airtable as long as their clerks and office workers cannot use their native number format. Even simple applications cannot be moved from Excel to Airtable without regional input and output formats. I cannot imagine how much revenue will not be generated due to this lack of basic international functionality. It’s so basic, even, that the iPad/iPhone versions of Airtable have it - but the online and desktop versions are lacking it (at least for the decimal comma). Please, Airtable team, provide all the basic formatting options relevant in most parts of the world outside the US. You’ve created a great tool - but all its cool features are facing a basic constraint: internationalization. It’s not just techies and nerds and geeks using your product. Or at least it shouldn’t :winking_face:

Hashim_Warren · ‎Mar 06, 2017

I would love for my attachments to get sued in my Dropbox. This would allow me to use Airtable as a digital asset manager

Katherine_Harkn · ‎Mar 17, 2016

This feature was already requested 3 months ago but it was never answered except by other people saying how important it is! So I’m doing it again. Please please let us use views on linked fields, not just tables. The capacity for corrupting the data is huge when we can’t control what can be selected. For example, I have a list of events at which something can be hired. I want to prevent the selection of an event in the past, the selection of an item that’s already hired out, the selection of a blacklisted user. When I process the return of a hire I select the hire from a list - I want to only display current hires, not have to trawl to the bottom of a list of past hires first. There’s so many ways this is essential! At the moment I solve this by using a sort order to push the most likely selections to the top of the list. But given that the sort order isn’t applied unless you actually click the button, this creates quite an overhead. For example, when I add a user it’s probably because I want to immediately add a hire for that user. So I want the user at the top of the list, which is where my sort order would put it, but first I have to go into the base and reapply the sort.

nnnnneil · ‎Apr 25, 2019

I know we now have shareable blocks which is great. What i’d like to do is be able to share/embed a dashboard containing many blocks. The idea is to use something like https://screen.cloud and embed the dashboard as “one page” of the digital signage to be displayed on a large TV in the office. It seems that Airtable creates a specific “shareable” link when a block is shared. Normal Airtable links will not embed in the same way. I’m hopeful we can add this feature and curious how others have found solutions to share the information in their Airtable dashboards on TV signage?

aaronmarks · ‎May 27, 2017

Microsoft PowerApps, Power BI, and Flow would be incredibly well paired with Airtable. Our team uses Airtable these days for just about everything. We also happen to like Microsoft’s plans for the Common Data Model that PowerApps is using and really appreciate the insights that Power BI is giving us into our data. We think that we could build some incredible apps and dashboards if Airtable submitted their own connector to Microsoft here: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/calling-all-saas-apps-now-you-can-build-your-own-connector-for-flow-and-logic-apps I also think it would just be great marketing to have Airtable featured in the list of supported connectors. Think about all the people that are currently using SharePoint Lists, Excel Spreadsheets, and Access databases that would be much better suited to using Airtable to host their data.

ScottWorld · ‎Apr 25, 2020

Two of the major limitations of Airtable when creating a link from one table (“Table A”) to another table (“Table B”) is that: We can ONLY link to the primary field in the other table (“Table B”). To truly unleash massive amounts of power & flexibility & customizability in any database system, we need the ability to MANUALLY CHOOSE which field in “Table A” should be linked to which field in “Table B”. Linking is always done MANUALLY instead of AUTOMATICALLY. Unlike other database systems, Airtable doesn’t automatically scan for matching values in linked fields — a human must manually intervene by manually linking records. Obviously, these changes would graduate Airtable from the realm of “beginner-level database program” into a more “advanced-level database program”, but it would enable us to create all sorts of advanced database solutions that we can’t create now. It would also remove lots of migration headaches when importing/migrating data into Airtable from other advanced database apps.

Caleb_Weeks · ‎Jun 05, 2016

Hi AirTable Team, Thank you so much for AirTable – it’s been so inspiring and helpful! Feature Request: “Would it ever be possible to duplicate an AirTable Table to a different AirTable Base?” Use Case: After creating a great Table with customized fields we realize, “This table would work great in another base we already have going. Let me just export it to CSV and Import.” While this gets us most of the way there, we lose the field type customizations in the process (i.e. Single Select, Multiple Select, Attachment, URL, Currency, etc.). For now, I am happy to go back through the 18 fields (in our case) and customize each field type. Simply changing it to an “Attachment” or “URL” is no problem, but where it takes a little bit more time is in recreating or cleaning up the Single Select and Multiple Select options. We have a number of those fields and have to edit again, add, etc. Idea for Implementation: Perhaps in the Table arrow dropdown we could enhance the “Duplicate Table” option that is already there so that, when clicked, it presents a new window that lets the user select which Base they want to duplicate this Table to. The dialogue/window might look similar to the one we see when we switch Bases by pressing Cmd+K: we can simply start typing the Base name with the ability to duplicate the Table to that Base. This might be one of many ways to introduce this functionality. If the feature request ever makes it to the AirTable “Let’s do this” list, of course that would be exciting for me, but I know there are other priorities as well! Thanks again for AirTable(!) and to the teams, friendships, and vision behind it – keep up the good work! :slightly_smiling_face:

Share "record detail pages" between interfaces

We still need a simple TITLE CASE (PROPER) function alongside UPPER and LOWER

Import spreadsheet into existing table

Decimal comma for numbers still missing

Choose Dropbox or Google Drive for attachment storage

Filter on linked fields

Embed a dashboard

Microsoft PowerApps Connector

Automatic linking of tables based on any field

Duplicate Table to Different Base

Hide a Table(s)

Format Formula as Checkbox

CSV Import in Interfaces

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