This is a minor request because this is really not a big deal at all, but: It would be kinda cool if the URL Preview Block gave us previews of normal websites as well. It’s not a problem for us to open up URL’s in new browser tabs, but if the URL Preview Block supported normal websites, it could save us a little bit of web browser clutter — because we could quickly see previews right from within Airtable. 🙂 ... View more

One of the very best things about Lookup Fields is that if you have more information in the Lookup Field than what visually appears on your screen, Airtable give you a little ellipsis symbol (…) to let you know that there is more information that you’re not visually seeing. This is AWESOME! This is so incredibly helpful, and it is EXACTLY how a powerful database system should operate! Thank you for giving us this feature! 🙂 HOWEVER — for some reason — this same functionality DOES NOT exist in the “Link To Another Record” fields. In a “Link To Another Record” field, if you have more linked records than what can visually be seen within the field, Airtable gives you absolutely no indication whatsoever that there are more linked records to view. You are required to manually click into each & every linked record field to check if there are more linked records. Yes, we know that you can expand the row height to a maximum of 5 lines, but if you have more linked records than 5 lines, you’re back to the same problem again. Please see the attached screenshot below, and you can immediately see the difference in behavior between a “linked record” field and a “lookup” field. Each of those top 2 invoices have 4 line items on their invoices, but you would never know it by just looking at the “linked record” field. With the “linked record” field, you have no idea that there are more line items on this invoice. But with the “lookup” field, you immediately know — with just a quick glance — that there are more line items on some invoices, but not other invoices. It’s a night-and-day difference between “linked record” fields and “lookup” fields, because you can IMMEDIATELY know what you need to know just by glancing at the lookup field. And most of the time, we will just be adding “linked record” fields to our system instead of “lookup” fields. Yes, we know that we can add another field (a “count field”) which is the COUNT of the number of line items, but doesn’t that just clutter up the table even more? Wouldn’t it be better to just be able to see this information at a glance? Without any extra fields? For now, it seems like the only workarounds to this problem would be to: (1) create a COUNT FIELD to show the number of line items, or (2) create 2 fields side-by-side like the screenshot above shows — one field for the users to do their data entry in, and one field for the users to get a quick visual indicator of what’s going on. But neither of these workarounds are really elegant, because both of them clutter up the table with additional fields. So… can Airtable please add the ellipsis character (…) to “linked record” fields as well? Thank you! 🙂 ... View more

See my full posting on this here:   The confusion of linking tables Ask the community For newbies to Airtable, one of the biggest confusions when creating a “link to another record” from table #1 to table #2 is that Airtable automatically creates a “reverse link” in table #2 (linking back to table #1). This is actually fantastic & expected & a wonderful help to everyone — except for one thing: If you have previously hidden any fields inside table #2, Airtable oddly decides to HIDE the new linked record field instead of SHOWING the new field. This causes so much confusion, becau… ... View more

Will it be possible to hide certain fields from certain users? ... View more

This version of Airtable is no longer supported. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please upgrade to continue using Airtable. OK - I push the upgrade link and it takes me to an Apps page where the Airtable shows as installed with an OPEN box. I push OPEN and I get the above message. This is a continuous loop. How can I get this to work? I did download and install the latest version from the App store. Karl kpw413@me.com ... View more

Allow default values for field-types, AND allow the value in each record to be edited. Subsequent changes to the value of the default should either: A) Not be possible, to avoid data-overwriting decisions. Solution for a change: create a new field. B) Be possible, and overwrite the values that = the previous default value, BUT not overwrite the edited values ... View more

Hi everyone, I’m wondering if there is a way to submit info from an email directly into a record with a specific email address for that record? Another part of my company uses Monday.com and they have this feature which is very beneficial since most of our contacts are not using Airtable and they don’t need to have access to Airtable. ... View more

I posted this in a comments thread, but I wanted to re-post it as a product suggestion: For reporting purposes, it would be helpful to be able to break apart one-to-many (or many-to-many) data links . I understand that AirTable doesn’t want to duplicate records, but maybe AirTable could add a block feature or a reporting/export feature which would let you break apart the one-to-many (or many-to-many) relationship and then export that report as a CSV? (The Pivot table kind of accomplishes this, but there’s no way to export the data into a spreadsheet or view it item by item). Bosses and supervisors often want these kinds of reports. Right now, I generate the report by creating a script in integromat which parses out the data and then moves it into a google sheet. But that solution is a fragile and I have to hand adjust the script for each new table. I’d love to have a quick way to generate this report. (Yes-- I know I could achieve this by adding/linking additional tables for each and every one-to-many or many-to-many relationship, but that would require completely restructuring my data and adding dozens of superfluous tables-- tables which would ONLY exist for the purposes of generating the report. It makes much more sense for AirTable to provide a quick way to parse, view, & export the data). ... View more

Ever notice users want to duplicate their data to other tables rather than make a new view? That might not be great for DRY data, but it suggests the UI is prompting the wrong UX decisions. If a redesign is too much to ask, there’s some lower hanging fruit in another product suggestion for cluttered view management. ... View more