Interface Navigation - Global Element with buttons to navigate between Interfaces of different Bases

Craig_Toohey · ‎Jul 15, 2024

Hello Airtable & Airtable Community, I'd like to see if there's support for a kind of Global Element top navigation bar for Interfaces that I can use across multiple bases of my workspace. For example, I have different bases for: Quoting Planning Ordering Production HR and I'd like a user to be able to navigate between them without going to the Home screen. I know some users have implemented buttons at the top of the page, but it would seem to me that you'd have to do that on every Interface page (manually create each set of 5 buttons, manually input the URLs). Certainly possible, but a bit painful to implement. I have 2-3 Interfaces each with 5-10 Interface Pages, per base. It would be great to be able to define which "buttons" show for which users based on their permissions. Thanks for any tips or info on whether this is in the pipeline.

Cameron_Rout · ‎Jul 14, 2024

For my admin interfaces, I never need a field in an interface to be _not_ editable. Only a few people use these admin interfaces and everyone needs to access everything (it's a CRM). Having to set every single field on every single table and view and every place you ever see a field value. It's really awful. A preference setting or something that makes the whole interface editable wherever possible would be great.

ScottWorld · ‎Jun 23, 2020

It would be a real game-changer — and totally awesome — if the column headers at the top of Airtable’s grid view would wrap lengthy field names onto multiple lines. Other spreadsheet programs allow for variable heights of the column headers — we should have the same capability in Airtable. Currently, Airtable cuts off the text of lengthy field names, but it’s our only choice if we want to keep our columns tight & narrow. If we want to see long field names, we are required to keep our columns extra-wide, which wastes a lot of screen space. Check out the screenshot below for an example of this problem. Notice how much wasted space there is, simply because we want to see the field names above. Our users often request descriptive field names so that they can understand exactly what they are looking at in the rows below. But descriptive field names end up making the column extremely wide. Yes, we could come up with some sort of abbreviation for the field names, but it’s nicer for our users to see the entire field name. Yes, our users could also hover our mouse over the field names to see the entire name in a tooltip, but that is inconvenient & it takes time for the tooltip to appear. In other words, what I’m requesting is either: The column headers should automatically increase their size vertically to accommodate longer field names. We should be able to manually change the height of the column headers. Thanks! 🙂 — ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

Oliver_Holtz · ‎Mar 09, 2020

I’m using forms for user research and I would like to segment answers from different customer groups, similar to how survey monkey allows you to create different links to the same survey and segment answers accordingly. In this case I want to create I want to create different forms with the same questions, but which have a hidden pre-filled field called “Origin”, prefilled with values like “Facebook”, “Internal” or “Newsletter”, so I can backtrack what kinds of answers come from which channel. Being able to prefill fields that are hidden from the form would allow me do do this inside of Airtable rather than go to a more complicated tool like Survey Monkey. Best, Oli

Jacob_Clayton · ‎Nov 16, 2015

Could you add a new data type for locations? Types of locations that would be useful are: -Address (123 First St, City, State) -Lat / Long (31.12345, -110.12345) -Military Grid Reference System (11S NV 12345 12345) This would be incredibly useful if the location is a hyperlink to a map (similar to how an address in the Long Text data field will open up in Apple Maps). Additionally, if a list of locations on a table could be viewed in a single map view allowing the map to display all of the locations from the table.

SUPRVLLAN · ‎Nov 21, 2017

I’ve been using Airtable for a couple of weeks now and absolutely love the app. However, using it at night is blinding with all the white, so it would be great to have a Dark/Night mode similar to the dark Twitter theme or similar. Any plans for this on the road map?

danmgntcllr · ‎Mar 14, 2024

Hello everyone, love your app! Here's a quick suggestion, which might be fast to implement. Sometimes the column name has three or four words, and it's content is just a checkbox or a two-digit number. Could it be that we change the height of the column names, and maybe even word-wrap for it to be as compressed as possible? It could be a single select from one, two, or three rows for the headers, or have it with word-wrap by default. Something like this: -- Includes prime vid YES -- This would be really helpful to show clear information and maximize column space. Thanks!

Steven_Crocombe · ‎Jan 23, 2023

We have an interface for our project management Airtable base, which shows project data filtered by a record list. As our base grows, the page has grown with it and is quite long, split into useful sections. I would like a way to hyperlink to different sections within the interface, like using div IDs and # hyperlinks in html. This could tie in to a standard button, as currently used for navigation to external URLs.

Neil_Watson · ‎Nov 08, 2016

Is there any way to use link fields for kanban stacks. It appears that only single select fields can be used, but I would like to use a grouping field that is a lookup to another table. As a simple example, I have a location field, which is a lookup field to another table, defining locations. I would like to use that as the grouping field in a kanban view. It looks as though the only option I have currently is to duplicate the field with a single select field, and then find a way to keep both in sync? Many thanks for any help Neil

Mouser-IB-Admin · ‎Mar 11, 2024

What is the proposed idea/solution? Right now when you search for a linked record, only exact results are returned. This means if I have a record titled "Texas State Fair - 2024 - Food", I cannot quickly grab that record by searching "Texas 2024" or "2024 food" because it's not exactly titled that way. I would have to type it all out, including hyphens, and if I had a lot of "Texas State Fair - 2024 - ###" records I'm going to have to look through them all every single time. How does is solve the user problems? Allowing a more relaxed search, semi-fuzzy of sorts, allows faster searching using the details a user remembers. It's very common to have the primary field of a table be a CONCAT formula to gather multiple pieces of data from a record (especially since you can only search for a linked record using that primary field and nothing else). By allowing less precise searches you can make it easier to find results, and there's nothing stopping a user from still being as exact as possible to further narrow down the results if they want. By loosing the tight restrictions, both types of search can still take place, but in the current design you can only use exact. How was this validated? Heavy use of linked records across multiple bases, and no ability to quickly search through thousands of records effectively to find the one I want unless I know its exact name in the primary field. Who is the target audience? Any Airtable user who has a base with linked records, especially if the base is large.

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