I use the calendar view to schedule installations and have noticed that if I want to move one job before another within the same day, I cannot do so unless I use the sort function. It would be ideal if we could take an entry and be able to move it above or below another to organize tasks for the day. ... View more

Hi folks, The product is fantastic from a UI perspective. The ability to enter and manipulate data is top-notch. Even the filtering, grouping, and other sorting mechanisms are great… but they have limitations. My issue is that as I’m trying to build out my “product” I’m continually running into walls on either how the outputs are visualized, or how the data can be organized and output. Simple things like the ability to get a unique list out of a linked column to more complex things like being able to do more with a grid. Because all of our needs are unique, and one company or product can’t possibly solve them all, I’d love to see the ability for users to expand the built-in capabilities. Maybe you allow someone to create a new field type (based on a SQL-like query), or maybe you give folks the ability to design new blocks (so I can extend how the grid block works). Either way, it feels like the next way for Airtable to grow is to allow the user base to build (and share) what it needs. As it stands, I’m out looking at other products right now. So close! Cheers, Al ... View more

In Excel, I very often use the filter dropdown menu to select which data points I want to show. If anyone here hasn’t used it, you can basically click the filter button at the top of any column and it will give you a dropdown menu pre-filled with every unique data point that currently exists in that column. There is then a checkbox next to each unique data point, and selecting / deselecting it will immediately show or hide records that have that data point in that column. This makes it very easy to quickly filter a column for multiple criteria. This also works for multiple columns at a time - e.g. I can show only records that have (Apple OR Orange in Column A) AND (Skyscraper OR House OR Bus Station in Column B), just by having only those data points ticked in each column’s filter dropdown. So far, this seems a lot more clunky in Airtable for a few reasons: I have to manually type in what I want my filter to be, which is inherently slower than simply clicking a checkbox, and means I have to remember or look up every one of the unique data points in that column (instead of having a pre-filled list) The filter menu does not even really support filtering for multiple columns well, as you effectively only get one AND / OR divergence before the system doesn’t let you make more. (This is because there currently isn’t a way to distinguish between [Orange in Column A AND Banana in Column B] OR Apple in Column C and Orange in Column A AND [Banana in Column B OR Apple in Column C], for instance.) Groups do seem to give more options on how many data points I filter down to and in what combination, but they won’t show only those data points, which still involves a bit of searching. There may well be a formula or two that I could write to help me out here, but the fact remains that manually writing a formula to do this is always going to be a lot more tedious and error prone than simply using a dropdown list. If I have missed some simple way of doing this already, please let me know! Otherwise this feature would be a huge time saver for me.| EDIT: I should mention the workaround I currently have in case anyone is having the same problem! Say I am trying to filter Column Fruit by multiple data points (and also want to have other filters in the table, so the current filter UI would be clunky to just have AND, AND, AND)… What I can do is link Fruit to a new table (Table 2), which will summarise all the different types of data currently in Fruit. I can then create a new column in Table 2 called Quality, and “class” each of those data points by how tasty they are. e.g. Bananas, Apples, and Cranberries might have an entry in Quality saying “very tasty”, while every other fruit might have “not so tasty”. Now when I go back to my original table, I can create a simple lookup column next to Fruit that will tell me whether that fruit is tasty or not, and I can then filter by that column. So all the actual filtering goes on in the second table, and in my original table, I just have a single column which essentially tells me if it would pass the multi-faceted filter or not. The problem is that this is sitll tedious to create in the first place and modify if I want to change the filter, so would still appreciate a different approach. ... View more

I would like the option to make long text fields scroll in the expanded record view rather than expand to accept additional text. Long text fields scroll when expanded from table view. However, when the individual record is expanded that same long text field expands rather than scrolls to accommodate additional text (pic below). This behavior makes the expanded record longer which in turn requires more scrolling to see the rest of the fields in the record. ... View more

I think it would be great if in single records, you could manually override a Lookup field’s data. It would still take the field type of the parent it’s looking up (dates would still be dates, etc) but you could make simple exceptions to blanket lookup categories. As an example: I work for an organization that teaches classes in jails. Jails segregate the people incarcerated by gender. I have a tab for classes with columns for (among other things) class location, graduation date, and gender, I also have tab for students with columns for (among a lot of other things) which class they’re in, and what their gender is. I’d like the gender column in the students tab to be a Lookup field that uses the gender for the class by default. But I would also like to be able to override that to account for times when the self-identified gender of the student doesn’t match what gender jail they’re incarcerated in (they don’t have jails for nonbinary folks). This only affects a small number of students, so it would be handy not to have to enter all students’ genders manually to account for this. Another use would be for graduation dates. We have rare instances where someone has to graduate early or late compared to the rest of the class. My class tab has a graduation date field, and the participants’ tab has a Lookup field for that date that references the graduation date in the class’s tab, which we then use to calculate other things (formulas using that and their birthday to find their age at graduation for example). It would be handy to be able to override that date in specific circumstances. ... View more

Each time I use my iPad in the Airtable environment, it swaps on the US keyboard (either using Airtable through Safari or through the app). It’s very difficult to type on a qwerty keyboard when used to azerty. Any clue or is it a bug ? Regards, Bernard ... View more

Hi, When I create a form with an input of type “Link”, Instead of showing ALL possible records of the target table, It would be EXTREMELY useful to only display records from a specific view of the target table. For example I want my user to be able to link new records ONLY to records that are not already linked. This is a show stopper for me at the moment, because the target table has like 10000 records, while the set of acceptable link targets is only around 10 elements. ... View more

Why isn’t it easy and intuitive to access elements from other tables. I could use a formula to show only elements of another table, that have certain attributes. For example, when I have a table Students, and I want to generate a new table young students, I could simply type: if(students.age<20, students, ””) How is something like this possible right now? Can it even be done since I really want to generate a table with elements that only fulfill certain criteria. I think it’s really annoying that you always need to use a lookup table where the relevant information of a connected table is pulled before you can use this information in a formula. It would be much better if Airtable would adapt the writing I used above, so all rows of a table can be accessed as members of the table name from outside. tablename.row By the way the formula field is really messy for a long, nested formula. ... View more

Hello, On desktop, when a view is locked, the chosen sort order can still by applied by tapping “Apply” (since Auto Sort is still not a thing). But on the iOS app at least (I haven’t tested Android), when a view is locked the “Apply” button is greyed out and cannot be chosen. Ideally, the sort order itself could not be changed, but the sort could still be applied. At the very least, it should work the same way on desktop and on mobile. Thank you! ... View more