Short version: Why can’t airtable enforce unique entries for record IDs? This is an important feature and not having it is screwing me up. Long version: Continuing to spend most of my time working around Airtable’s billing policy. I’ve got a table where users will create work chits indicating they’ve worked x volunteer hours doing whatever. I’ve got 20 chit approvers and I really can’t afford to pay for 20 more users who will only doing approvals a few times per year. So, I’ve got a field in the Chit table that concatenates a URL which is then used to generate a link that goes in an email to the approver. When the approver clicks the link, it opens a new form for a new Approved Chit table and prefills the inputs with the values from the corresponding Chit record. I was really hoping to use the autonumber from the chit table to populate the Record ID for the Chit Approval table. My plan was to turn on unique enforcement for the Chit Approval table. But just realized that this feature doesn’t exist. My thinking was that by requiring uniqueness on the Chit Approval table, I would ensure that each chit can only generate one chit approval record. I’m not sure how to work around this one. Any suggestions mightily appreciated. But tired of spending all my energies to work around billing policies and really wishing that there was some policy based on usage rather than number of users. ... View more

I used this workflow. 1.scan an existing barcode on a third party list to create barcode number on an item using iPhone and adding number directly to a barcode field 2. Set up print list using blocks page designer 3. Added barcode field to list to be printed by clicking to add. No change in dimensions of field thereby added 4. Printed and tried to scan printed barcode with iPhone in the relevant table and view 5. Fails as barcode will not scan Further test show barcode MUST be printed at 100% ( which it was) AND (this is much worse) stretched to a larger size in order to scan. Result is a barcode printed output twice the size as the original barcode used to input into Airtable ... View more

As an end user, I would like the ability to copy a selection of rows/columns from Airtable and paste it into Microsoft Word as a table. Currently, the selection is pasted as plain text. The plain text can be pasted into an existing table, but the paste selection must be exactly the same number of rows and columns, which is hard to determine. ... View more

Hi - I am wondering if it’s possible to automatically get Airtable to pull documents into a database from a certain folder on my desktop. I have a Mac. Is Automator a possible way to do this? Any guidelines would be great. Thanks! ... View more

Like a standard number field in HTML. It’s kind of annoying when I’m logging time on a task that I have to mentally add up the hours I worked to the hours already present in the field from my last session with the task. It would be nice to just click an up arrow like 2 times to add 2 hours to the existing value. I realize that is not complex math to perform in my brain but it’s more about speed than anything. I don’t even really want to look I just want to add 2 hours to the task. We have used Liquid Planner in the past and although I have my gripes with that platform the way they handle a time log field is perfect, it just adds to the previous values whatever you type in there. That kind of functionality would be great but I’d seriously just settle for some up and down arrows, I can’t speak for everyone but I usually just round up or down anyway. Unless I’m missing another field time for this kind of functionality but I didn’t see anything that stuck out to me. ... View more

CONFIG: Windows 10 Enterprise (1803 - 17134.345) Chrome browser (Version 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)) REPRO Click “Share” Text on “Share” dialog is blurry/pixelated (see screenshot). ... View more

I’m using the calendar view to program a conference and I love the drag-and-drop and drag-to-expand functionality. This is making a task I used to struggle through SO much easier. However these functions only support 15-minute increments – I can start at 9:00 or 9:15 but not 9:10 or 9:20. And I can make events last for 15 or 30 minutes, but not 20 or 40. I know I can set the time however I want once I click to open the event. I’m looking to be able to do this via drag-and-drop and drag-to-expand. thank you ... View more

Hey! I use an excel sheet to track my projects and an awesome feature is that I can post a hyperlink to a project folder I have in File Explorer and go directly to the desired folder. Is there something like that on Airtable? I noticed you can link URL but I haven’t seen anything for file explorer specifically. Please help! ... View more

I want to request all of the missing features in the mobile app. Guys, it’s time to realise it’s almost 2019. Some people use their tablets as their only computers. I just started using Airtable and was amazed at how great it is… on desktop. Then I used the iOS app and realised the people at Airtable HQ are living in 2005 and don’t want people to pay for their service. Numbers on iOS can do more than Airtable can. Trello has an offline mode. Reading the hundreds of messages from the last two years, with people here asking for basic stuff (not talking about offline mode) is embarrassing. Get onto it. Quickly. ... View more