We really would love the ability to AUTOMATICALLY sort the related list of linked records. We know that we can MANUALLY sort the related list of linked records, but we would love the ability to AUTOMATICALLY sort. Oh, and equally important, we’re not just looking for the ability to automatically sort linked records alphabetically. We’re looking for the ability to automatically sort linked records by ANY value in their respective table. So, for example: I am creating a large travel itinerary for a tour company where my main table is “Countries” and my secondary table is “Cities”. I have linked each “country” record in the “Country” table to multiple different “cities” in the “Cities” table. But each “city” record has a start date & an end date, so there is a natural ordering to the cities. The cities can be ordered chronologically by date. In fact, that is the VERY BEST way for cities to be ordered: chronologically by date. Back in the “Country” table, each “country” record is linked to multiple “cities” from the “Cities” table. However, on each “Country” record, Airtable has listed all the “linked cities” in some random order. It seems like Airtable has placed them into a “reverse sort order” of when users added each city to its respective country. But this is of no value to us. We would like the “linked cities” to be listed chronologically by date for each “country”. Other database languages, such as FileMaker Pro, have this ability (to automatically sort linked records) natively baked into the program. It would be amazing if Airtable had this same feature! 🙂 Thanks! 🙂 ... View more

One of our biggest feature requests is that we would love to see gigantic improvements to formulas — in particular, way more flexibility with typing in formulas, and better improvements to error capture. More specifically, these are our top 3 requests for formulas: Please allow us to have a much larger typing area for formulas, more like a real programming language would allow. Currently, we can’t press the “return” key within our formulas — nor can we space out the formulas to be more readable. On that very same note, the formulas should be waaaaay more understanding & waaaaaay more forgiving when it comes to spaces & returns. All other programming languages simply ignore extra spaces or extra carriage returns, but any of this causes Airtable to give us an error message. For example, the first formula below works just fine. But the 2nd & 3rd formulas below don’t work at all. The ONLY difference is one extra space in the 2nd & 3rd formulas. All other programming languages would understand that these are the exact same formula, but not Airtable. Formula #1 — this one works: IF(AND(City=BLANK(), {Event Name}=BLANK()),Country,IF({Event Name}=BLANK(),City,{Event Name})) Formula #2 - this one doesn’t work: IF (AND(City=BLANK(), {Event Name}=BLANK()),Country,IF({Event Name}=BLANK(),City,{Event Name})) Formula #3 - this one doesn’t work: IF(AND (City=BLANK(), {Event Name}=BLANK()),Country,IF({Event Name}=BLANK(),City,{Event Name})) Because Airtable is so rigid & strict & unforgiving when it comes to formulas, we need better formula errors. Airtable should highlight EXACTLY where the error is, so we don’t spend 2 hours (like I did the other night) troubleshooting a formula, when the only problem was simply an extra space. Thanks, Scott ... View more

We currently create PDF production calendars for clients utilizing google docs. It would be great to use the calendar view to generate these, however, the print to PDF function is pretty useless as is because the calendar view cuts off the primary field if it doesn’t fit on one line. It’s fine when using online since you can click on each item to expand the record, but it would be nice to print these out directly from Airtable without having to export it to some other calendar software. ... View more

So I have a project with a lot of linked task records. When I expend the project record it would be nice to be able to auto sort linked task records by due date rather than having to manually drag records so they appear in order. ... View more

I’d like to have form responses be already linked to my “clients” table - with the client pre-selected in the form. I know this can be done, however, it cannot be done without my client being able to see all of my other clients which poses as a privacy issue. Please create a feature that would hide all except the selected data. ... View more

It would be great to see the addition of some new relative terms to the date filters. As a daily user of Airtable, these terms would be useful from a reporting perspective: Last Week - if it is week 23 now, then show my records from week 22. Last Month - if it is June now, then show my records from May. Last Quarter - if it is Q2 now, then show my records from Q1. Last Year - if it is 2019 now, then show my records from 2018. Thoughts? ... View more

I’m very new to AirTable but I have significant experience with all sorts of IT and coding. I have searched both the help and the community and I am surprised this has not come up. I have seen references to using Zapier, etc. but that seems to be a complicated route versus making it a built-in feature. I would like to be able to create a table that can be used to catch emails sent directly to a specific email address for that table. Obviously, this would require AT to have an email infrastructure that could handle the incoming email, or, as another method, allow the user to create an email box in their own email system (Exchange, O365, Gmail, etc.) which AT would be able to access in order to grab the messages and populate the contents to the table. I would imagine this might be best done using a predefined template that would map to the appropriate email fields (sender/from, subject, body, attachments, cc addresses). This would be very similar to the way Slack, Jira, MS Teams, etc. allow email to be used as an input source for discussions, etc. I think this would be an excellent feature to include in the paid versions and would extend the functionality. For example, I am in the middle of a website rollout and would like to gather testing feedback from our team. Ideally, I would have testers use a form, but an email would also be an excellent “low friction” way for many of our testers to provide that info. Obviously, this would require some thought, but I do think it would improve collaboration capabilities. If this is something the AT community/product team has considered, I would love to know your thoughts. Thanks and thank you for such a great product that is a joy to work with. ... View more

Since calculated fields cannot be merged, why have them appear in the dedupe block’s merge interface? If you have a lot of calculated fields it’s a lot of clutter with no purpose. ... View more

I would love it if Airtable had a formula to determine whether a string (or field reference containing a string) matched a given regular expression. Google Sheets, for example, has the REGEXMATCH() function. It takes a string/cell reference and a regex, and returns TRUE or FALSE based on whether a match is found. This would be immeasurably useful. A couple ideas: Validate email addresses, phone numbers, URLs, IP addresses, and other types of strictly formatted data. Enforce record naming conventions. (Field isn’t capitalized? Doesn’t start with a number? Contains spaces? Output a warning in another special formula field!) Build filters with very specific rules. E.g. match URLs where a subdomain contains the word “blue”. (include http://blue.example.com and http://bluegreen.example.com, but not http://www.blueexample.com or http://example.com/blue.trick/) Some of these are possible now with complicated sequences of FIND, LEFT, MID, RIGHT, and LEN. It’s hard to debug formulas built this way, however. Regex is compact, easy to test, and comparatively easier to read. ... View more