What is the proposed idea/solution? Create an Overarching Timeline and Date settings functionality that lives at the BASE level versus the view. In these settings, I can configure a timeline that will appear at the top of every timelines / Gantt view that will display a single line of important date information.  I can also define dates to be "Unschedulable". How does is solve the user problems? There is currently no clean way to define a single line "important Dates" or milestones for your project, and you have to hackily set this up dependent of what you are showing in your timeline / Gantt view. Additionally, you must also define your date settings PER view, versus setting this up 1 time for your base.  If your company has 100 Holidays, time off, etc. per year, you have to input these 100 dates in EVERY view where you dont want them to be seen.  In any timeline or Gantt view "Use Global Timeline Settings" is set on by Default How was this validated? In timeline and Gantt, a Top level Timeline row will exist and I can input dates to be displayed as either a Single Date, or a Span of time.  I can define the colors for each without needing to setup the conditions. Who is the target audience? Project Managers and Producers ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? I use the timeline view to plot upcoming translation projects and see what resources will need to be allocated to them over the coming months. I would love to be able to have the bar on the timeline change height depending on the size of the project, so I can see at a glance how much work each project represents. In my case, this would simply mean referring to a 'Number of Words' field for each project, then making a thicker bar for a higher number. How does it solve the user problems? I currently use colour coding to do something similar, but the colours are a little arbitrary, so it's not hugely intuitive. I could potentially also use the 'grouped by' feature to put bigger projects higher up and smaller lower down, but that's also not hugely visually immediate. I imagine this feature would also be useful to other users who wanted to get a similarly at-a-glance idea of the 'size' of a given record, or some other numerical quality. How was this validated? Not 100% sure what you mean here, but I've looked around and don't believe this is a feature or a currently suggested feature, but apologies if it actually is. Who is the target audience? Project managers, anyone else wishing to get an at-a-glance idea of the size of some aspect of a record when looking at it in timeline view. ... View more

Hi, I'm super excited about the new date dependency features. I've manually implemented that before with automations. However, limiting the precision to "days" seems arbitrary and limits the functionality to project management. Increasing the precision to minutes or seconds (or whatever the standard is for dates) would vastly improve utility for things like batch scheduling. Cheers, Scott ... View more

Idea: Enable copy or export of pivot-tables in interfaces. This functionality already exists in the pivot-table extention in the data tab. But not in the interface tab. User problem: I need to use the data from the pivot table in another tool. Copying or exporting is not possible. Printing to PDF has its own issues.  Validation: Scoured all over the internet for a fix and actually got nothing that would work. How does it solve it: It solves the user problem because its the easiest solution. Just allow me to copy my outcomes. Target audience: anyone that uses airtable but needs added functionality outside airtable.  Enable copy or export pivot-tables in interfaces Extra information: Hi Guys,  am working on a project were I use Airtable as database. I have an payd account. For cummunicating the outcomes of the project I use Flourish. The reason for this is because I need quite complex functionality for the graphs. Which airtable doesnt have and doesnt need to have. However, I cannot copy the Pivot table outcomes in the interface while keeping the table structure intact. Also, if i want to print the table to PDF and use OCR or Excel to extract the data to a structured table. I cannot always print the entire table, because the print-tool from airtable interface does not seem to understand that a pivot table can be bigger than 1 A4. The consequence is that it prints only partly, there is no option to scale.  This functionality does exist in the pivot table extention in the data-section. However, the pivot table in the data tab misses some basic functionalities like aggregating. ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? There are two actions: Create and Update. Add a third option: Delete. How does is solve the user problems? When my client enters a follow-up date and the event_id doesn't exist, an outlook calendar event is created. Changing the date, updates the calendar event.  Now the kicker, surely clearing the date field should delete the calendar event. It's natural to remove calendar entries. I know Make.com has the module but that means having to open an account, building the scenario, etc, etc. How was this validated? It's not there 🙂 Who is the target audience? Anyone using the Outlook Calendar actions. ... View more

Good day Airtable overlords, I love the ability to be able to include Text boxes with headings for sections on an interface page.  It's nice to be able to include paragraph text below, which I use for instructions for users, but I'd love if that smaller text could instead be more like a field description, ie a hoverable "i" associated with the text box.  Currently the text box just shows as "Untitled", with "No configurable properties".  There are three dots to change the name of the text field, but clicking on "Rename" actually does nothing.  It'd be great if we could just add help text to the text field, so that we can use the text field as a section header, and the help text doesn't have to take up valuable real estate.   Your loyal servant,   Craig ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? The idea is to have a field that contains a custom number of check boxes that can be individually labeled. For instance 4 boxes labeled Y1 (for Year 1), Y2, Y3 & Y4 to track the number of years a sponsor has paid a student's tuition. I can see other uses as well. If you sell punch cards - buy 10 get the 11th cup of coffee or yoga class etc free. You could check off the number of times the punch card has been used. How does is solve the user problems? This solves this user from having to have multiple check box columns - it's cleaner. Automations could be created when all boxes are checked. I'm sure others smarter than me can think of many more uses. Please enjoy the very sophisticated drawing attached. ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? I propose adding a reminder functionality into commenting that integrates with Airtable's Notifications function. Exact implementation could vary, but the ability to tag a user (or yourself) and select a length of time or an exact date when you'll receive an Airtable notification directing you back to the record.  How does is solve the user problems? While date/time fields, calculations, and email automations can be utilized to create reminders for users in a record's data, that then becomes an integral part of a records data. Often I see a temporary change need to be enacted and returned to a month or two later, and being able to simply comment a reminder to re-visit the record would be invaluable. Instead of setting multiple fields and automations, integrating with the comments section provides a side space to set a "Hey! Come back to this!" reminder which fits the use cases of comments. Who is the target audience? All users, but particularly those managing ongoing data sets rather than discrete projects. In my particular case, we re-check our data records every 6 months, but occasionally there are scheduled changes (a location we document is closed until X date) which need to be expressed and then re-evaluated off schedule.  ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? The org chart extension is a great tool to visualise a tree of records where there is a parent/child relationship implemented using a linked field to a record of the same type. However, the extension isn't easy to integrate into an interface and there is no good way for an end user to choose which group of records should be visualised.  How does is solve the user problems? Adding the visualisation to interface designer integrates this data view into interfaces and could provide the end user some control over what records are displayed in the visualisation ... View more