I want to be able to show off the photos of my records. There’s too many interface elements. I just want to browse through the photos and click on a record to view the image nice and large. Prototype Design suggestions: gallery should not have any labels, just the first attachment should be simple to arrow left/right between records record information should be hidden away (maybe behind some click that shows more info) Nice to have: a slider near search to control the number of columns (and thus the gallery image size) masonry layout dark theme Current design notes: Things are too cluttered & distracting due to lots of labels and lines. Also what’s up the claustrophobic inset style? Make the scroll area full width to let the images be the show. I don’t really care about the record information at this point. I want to preview my image fullscreen! Finally at the image! Nice. How do I get to the next one? Click out of two modals, click another image from the gallery, click the record’s attachment… so many clicks when I just want to press the right arrow key to go to the next record’s attachment. ... View more

It would be awesome to be able to drag and drop line items to other table tabs. For instance, my main table tab is for current projects and my second table tab is for finished items. It would be nice to be able to just drag the line item into the other table. Right now, the only way to do this is to highlight the row in my first table, copy it, go to my second table, paste it then go back to my first table and delete the row. ... View more

Far as I can tell, you can only link to specific files in Google Drive with the Attachment field type. While I could choose all the files individually, I would much rather just link to the directory because often times we share that directory with a client who will over time continue to add files to it during the lifetime of the project. So only attaching files would become outdated pretty quickly. Right now I’m just using the URL field type but it’s one more step for me to open drive in another tab and go find the directory and get the share URL. Just slows **bleep** down and isn’t very dynamic. I’ve seen this functionality in Samepage.io so I imagine it’s in the Google Drive API somewhere. Not to mention from within Gmail, you can attach a directory right there also to an email. Thanks ... View more

I’ve got a pretty large Airtable base, with multiple tables. The base is synchronized to an external PostgresQL DB. Originally, I used the built-in RECORD_ID() function to keep track of record identity across all tables… but then, I realized that if you ever CLONE the base or RESTORE a base from a previous version, all of those RECORD_ID() values do not stay the same – they become different for each of those records. Overall, that’s bad when you’re trying to synchronize these records to an external database. That’s why I use a separate, manually managed, field called “UUID” for all tables. Automation runs such that whenever a new record is created, it will automatically fill in the UUID value (side note: it would be really, really nice if Airtable provided this functionality built-in, but whatever). In any event, sometimes there are bugs in the Automation, and it might accidentally write a new UUID value into a record that already has a UUID value set. That’s bad. Therefore, I propose a new Field Type called “Write Once”. It will only allow a value within the field to be set once, and any subsequent overwrites would be denied (either throw an error or silently ignore any future writes to this field). This would solve many, many problems. What about scenarios where you legitimately want to clone a record that has a UUID value set? Well, in that scenario, all field values would get duplicated (including the “Write Once” field). If that’s not what you want, you could easily write Automation that detects the new, duplicate record (based on CREATED_AT()) and then the automation would 1) create a third copy (with a unique UUID value) and 2) delete the second copy (with the duplicate UUID) – thus, solving this problem. I’m sure there are many other use-cases for this field type, but to be clear, this “property” should apply to any type of field (e.g., strings, booleans, single-select, multi-select) – enforcing write-once simplifies many, many workflows that honestly require a ton of automation to address this feature gap. ... View more

It would be really good if you could view Timelines as a Calendar - showing individual days as well as weekends, and if possible add local public holidays as an option. Similar to yearful.io, see image below - I find this so much more intuitive to read (but doesn’t have the functionality of Airtable!) ... View more

We have multiple editors who help build bases for clients, and it would be extremely useful to have the option to receive notifications (via email, Slack, etc.) whenever someone makes a structural change to a base, e.g. adds/renames/deletes a tab, adds/renames/deletes a field, modifies a single-select field value list, creates or changes a shared view, etc. It would also be very useful in the common scenario where we build a base for a client and they have one user who is an editor; very often, they end up making changes (sometimes intentionally and sometimes not) that impact the structure of the base that we don’t know about. Not being able to keep track of editor-level changes makes keeping the bases stable and well-documented extremely difficult! ... View more

I use an ical subscription link to bring in a table’s calendar into my outlook, but to do that for all my tables in all my bases in my workspace isn’t practical as each ical link creates a separate calendar in Outlook. ... View more

At the moment our process for job applications is the following: Create a job application on Jotform Connect Jotform submissions through Zapier to appear on Airtable Review the applications on Airtable Why not directly create the forms on Airtable? Because: Airtable doesn’t allow to section the form into different steps Airtable doesn’t allow to add images to the questions eg. we sometimes want to ask applicants to review software codes and we can’t attach a picture of the code for people to look at to answer the corresponding question Looking forward to perhaps see those features in the next update! It would save a lot of time and be very useful :pray: ... View more

I love the page designer.Although pretty barebones, I am aware that it’'s still a beta and knowing how you work, I fully expect that it will improve over time. One feature that I think is critical but missing is the ability to have the header to any column show a header. If you have multiple fields, having to manualy enter a text header and then match up the actual data is both a pain, and can lead to pretty serious errors. Currently, I can link to another table , but this A: is limited in it’s appearance, and B: I don’t necessarily want to create a link to another table solely to make the page designer work. ... View more