one of the things I love the most about airtable is the agile way in which i can create a table, add a field, create rows, then convert that column to a single-select to constrain future row input, then later convert the same column table links and have airtable convert all my single-select values into rows in a new table. its the un-schema workflow; what a wonderful way to work up a data model. a nice related feature would be the ability to collapse multiple records in a table, merging the linkages of each record into a single record. it would help on the clean-up side of the agile modeling process i outlined above. ... View more

Fieldbook is shutting down soon, and with it goes one of my favourite features I haven’t been able to find anywhere else: an exhaustive detail view. Currently, in order to see any detail on linked records, you need to click through and open a new window. However, the way Fieldbook does it, all of that information is displayed immediately below the main entry data – and is editable! Does anyone know of a way to implement something like this without resorting to a ton of lookup fields? ... View more

We can use cmd shift F to pull up the filter menu, but we can’t tab through the fields. ... View more

Now that we pay and there are many more colors available within the bases which is great. For example under “Single Select” and colored options there are 40 total colors to choose from. It would be SO GREAT if all of these color options were available to code the actual full base, so like the color at the top of the base, and the base Icon. Currently there are only 10 color options for that and we color code our job ticket holders to match with these base colors, and there are not enough base colors to match the job tickets. Please and thank you! ... View more

When I turn off linking to multiple records in both table fields in a linked record, I can still select multiple records in both records. In my two tables, Projects and Estimates, I have a Project field and an Estimate field, respectively. When I open up project 1 (the first record) and link to an estimate, I can only link to one or create one. Likewise, when I open up Estimate 1 (the first record in the estimate table), I can’t select any records, because project 1 is already linked. But, when I create project 2 and try to link an estimate, I can select the estimate already linked to project 1. This seems to break the rule that neither side can have multiple links. Am I missing something here? This seems like a pretty significant bug if I’m not. ... View more

It would be amazing to be able to see which fields and views rely on a given field (via linkages, formulas, and filters). Currently when we want to change a field’s type, format, values, or delete the field altogether, we are blind to which other fields or views will be impacted by that change. To help address this for our bases, we have built a separate metadata base to visually map all the metadata of our other bases. We have a nightly process that crawls the schema of our bases and builds out a map of all Bases, Tables, Fields and Views, including which fields directly rely on other fields. Now, whenever we make a change to a field, we always check the metadata base to understand what other fields and parts of the system will be impacted, so we can ensure there are no hidden breakages and the base continues to work as expected. ... View more

I am looking to add a column, “Comments”, where my users can add their comments to any row without worrying about overwriting existing comments. For example, Alice can attach a comment to a row and Bob can reply that comment on the same row without deleting Alice’s comment. How can I replicate such functionalities in Airtable? ... View more

Hey there Airtable! This isn’t so much a feature request as it is a thought on how you might put some users’ minds at ease. I’ve noticed, after scrolling through countless threads on countless topics of relevance to my use of Airtable, that many other people have the same issues that I do. Could you put together (or display, because I’m sure you have something like this) a base showing priority levels for updates, along with timelines and a way for users to put their hat in on certain features? As a user, I feel kind of blind to the progress being made and many of the threads of relevance to me have either gone without response from Airtable or have been responded to for several years without the feature actually being implemented. I love the tool – I got my whole company to use it and we’re now paying for the pro plan, but I feel like both Airtable and its users would benefit from some transparency here. I’d hate to find myself frustrated at the pace of upgrades and seek out an alternative. Best, Chris P.S. If you have something like this already, my bad! Can you please point me to it? ... View more

A very useful feature to have would be the ability to “drill-down” another level when working with Look-Up fields. We use AirTable to manage our company E-mail accounts and Distribution Lists (Distribution Lists are email addresses that contain members and distribute messages to all who are assigned to it, i.e. info@company.com can go to John, Mary, and Paul). Here is the basic set-up between 3 tables: Table PEOPLE contains a list of all employees, and links to EMAIL which contains all email addresses (including distribution lists) Table EMAIL links to DIST LISTS DIST LISTS contains a lookup field to list the names of people on each distribution list. I am running into this problem: because a distribution list’s members can contain OTHER distribution lists, I cannot get a comprehensive list of all members wherever this happens (which is often). For example (using arbitrary email addresses)… say "info@company.com" has 2 members: john.doe@company.com and hr@company.com "hr@company.com" has 2 members: jane.doe@company.com and jim.doe@company.com. The lookup field will only give me “John Doe” as a name as it doesn’t drill-down another layer to lookup the names under hr@company.com. I managed to set-up a second level of “Sub-Members” with some linking (a bit too complicated to explain here), but it would be so helpful to have the ability to look-up a second layer. I know this sounds complicated - I did my best to try and explain in the most simple way I could! ... View more