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Please create an option to permanently hide a field. Especially the fields that are apparently REQUIRED when linking to another table. It would be great if the table that was linked FROM didn’t get clogged with that annoying field.
For example, when linking to different tables, a field is created on the original table. Yes, this field can be hidden…in the grid view. However, in card view, when a record is clicked (expanded) to see more information, that field is shown.
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I’d like to communicate how fields should be filled out. Field descriptions are a natural vehicle for that message, but they don’t display for shared form views.
EDIT: this feature already exists via help text
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I would love to be able to star or pin records, causing them to take the #1 place in a table, regardless of whether or not sorting is active. Often times I will sort things alphabetically for ease-of-access in finding desired records, though there may be a handful of records I want easier access to without creating a separate view for them. So being able to star or pin records that stay at the top (in the order in which they were pinned) no matter what sorting occurs, would be awesome.
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This is my top feature wish for Airtable. An “anybody can edit” option when sharing a view. See mock-up image.
There a so many use cases for this. I do a lot of videos with our lectures at the university and often I need them to provide me with materiale, comments and feedback to a lot of content. I use Airtable to manage it but I always have to have them writing stuff in an email. I could just send them a view that they could edit they could easily change titles, upload files, give comments or check todos.
It would also be very useful in class for learning activities with students. Like a brainstorm.
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In the chart block, when I use a pie or donut style, I would like to be able to control how the pieces are sorted. It seems like they are sorted according to some fixed set of rules, but I would like to reorder the pie pieces according to the order of my records, even if it would make the chart less readable. Can you tell me if this is possible already? Thanks
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I have a project management base that our team is building out at the moment and while it is going to be amazing, there are certain aspects of it that are starting to be overwhelming, such as the very long list of views in each table. I think it would be amazing (and I imagine, relatively easy) to have folders to clean up and organize views.
This would be ideal for when team members have created their own views of the data or to organize project type.
Thanks for your consideration!
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I work with a lot of very big or very small numbers… representing numbers in scientific notation would really make life way easier.
As I understand it, the only way to represent numbers are with integers or decimals (with customizable precision)… or percentages or currency formatting as different field types. Numbers in scientific notation could be stored in text fields, but formulas don’t work with them.
I suppose I could use two fields with the decimal in one field and the exponent in another… but… come on…
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As a custom block developer who’s making an app that programatically generates tables and fields,
I want the methods Base#createTableAsync and Table#createFieldAsync to take in a param for Field#description ,
so that when I create fields they’re pre-populated with field descriptions that users can refer to.
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I find text fields on Airtable jarring - sometimes it’s markdown, sometimes html, sometimes both, sometimes neither. My suggestion is to allow markdown in the help text field on forms. Being able to add hyperlinks and format text would go a long way to helping me help those who are filling out the form.
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