Is there a way to add buttons which do some automated jobs inside AirTable ? This feature will be a killer. For example; From the customers table with form view, I click a button to invoice the customer and the invoice form comes with pre-filled info from the customer I was in and sends a mail with my smtp server. This can be done with a field type “macro button” added and some script added to the button ... View more

I think being able to lookup within a lookup of a linked field would be quite useful. For example, I have three tables: “Projects”, “Shipments”, and “Clients”. There can be multiple projects per client, and there can multiple shipments per project. I want to display the Client contact information on the “Shipments” table, but as the client name auto-populates using a lookup field, which pulls the name from a linked field on the “Projects” table, I cannot look within this lookup of a linked field. I can only get the desired result if I re-enter the Client data on the “Shipments” table via a linked field directly to the “Client” table, which is not only tedious but leaves room for error. If anyone knows of a better way to do this, please let me know. If anyone from Airtable can add this functionality, it would also be great. ... View more

It’s fantastic that the Airtable team is so receptive to feature requests. Realistically though, many of the requests now being made are for niche things desired by a small percentage of your userbase. I see many parallels between Airtable and Wordpress, particularly in how easy it can be for a non-developer to get up and running with a system that does most of what they need. It’s awesome to have such a robust API that lets you pull information out of Airtable really easily, but I get the sense that what a lot of users are after is a way to do more within the Airtable environment rather outside of it. I think Airtable is reaching a point a lot of these feature requests could be reacted to faster in the hands of third-party developers. A plugin library really could have the effect that launching the App Store did for the iPhone. Time and time again I’ve seen users in these forums saying ‘the lack of x feature is the only thing stopping our whole organisation from using Airtable’ and that seems like a shame to me. My instinct is that the key to success in this regard would be, much like Apple, to created confined spaces to innovate within. This would let the development resource at Airtable concentrate on: Ensuring full feature parity across mobile and desktop Higher level feature requests such as the ability to link between bases I would initially give developers four types of plugin that I’d allow them to create: 1. New base view type Example: Gantt, which could work for any record with two dates to function as a beginning and end) 2. New field type Examples Location (lat-long, address etc) Time (In pure hh:mm, rather than the time of day) 3. New record view type This could knock out all requests for designing a page for printing / reporting Developers could provide off-the-shelf templates, or users could roll their own with HTML/CSS. To keep tighter control, maybe avoid CSS altogether and restrict to Bootstrap and inline styling. Spaces for where data should appear could work using a shortcode system like Wordpress, something similar to a mail merge, or even something like Zapier’s recipe-building system 4. Base output This would give developers the ability to export the full contents of any view in a certain format, such as XML, that could be accessed through a HTTP URL. As the API has a rate limit on records that can be retrieved at once, this would be great for people with multiple hundreds of records in a base that only need to do anything meaningful with the bulk of the data a couple of times a day. Examples A plugin that would turn a view of products on sale into a Facebook Dynamic Product Advertising-compatible CSV file A plugin that would turn a view of products on sale into a Google Products-compatible XML feed ... 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

Would love the ability to create subheadings under which to group multiple fields. For example, the ability to have a “Channel” field heading, which 4 different fields – Organic, Direct, Social, referral – would appear under. Then those groups/subheadings can be collapsed/expanded, which would simultaneously collapse/expand all the fields that fall under it. ... View more

I would like more than the default 7 colors. I frequently have need for more and it becomes confusing when colors start to repeat. ... View more

It would be great to have a field type specifically for JSON (not just Long Text fields). This would allow us to store more complex structures of data inside a single table, including custom properties that we may not know ahead of time. (For example, if we have Users who are sending us custom properties & values that they come up with). I recorded a quick video to walk through the feature: Descript Video for Airtable Feature – JSON Fields - Descript By Michael Walker, October 5, 2022 Thank you, Michael ... View more

We should have an option to lock the positioning of the fields in a table in ALL views that are created. If you have a ton of fields and views in a table (say like 50 fields and 14 views), and you want to add/subtract fields to modify the data in it, it because very cumbersome to make sure the fields in each and every view are organized in the correct/logical order. Some tables don’t require the fields to be in unique/custom orders. It’d be nice to have an option/button that we can turn on/off for a table to force all fields in be placed in the same order. If you adjust the position of “Field 2” in “View 4”, then it’ll automatically update the position of Field 2 in the other 13 views in that table so you don’t have to manually drill into each view and drag Field 2 into the desired position. As tables generate tons of fields/data, this feature would really come in handy and save alot of time. ... View more

I love the colouring options for Single and Multi Select fields - but by contrast this makes Linked fields look a little dull. Would it be possible to enable a feature whereby the Lookup field shows the value using the colour set for the record it’s looking up? ... View more