I love the ability to import images via a URL. One thing I’ve recently encountered is the inability to import images in the WebP format. Use of this image format is quickly becoming (annoyingly) widespread. This would likely require converting the images to JPG on import for storage, but that would be simple enough to code. (See: developers . google . com/speed/webp/docs/using) Currently, I’m having to use a third-party website to convert WebP images to JPG, and that adds another 5-8 steps in the process to import an image via URL. I would rather not have to leave Airtable to import WebP images as this is a function I use a LOT. ... View more

Please develop a native Airtable bot for Slack. My team would kill to be able to address Airtable via @airtable and /airtable! There are many use cases, I have no doubt. And thus, bots may need to be configured per channel. But presentation of Airtable views/UIs within Slack, would be MAJOR. Our specific needs include: The ability to request an in-line Airtable form (iframe), complete with database-driven drop-downs. The ability to search a given base/view/field for a text string, returning the full record. Ability to request state-change reports for a given period, eliminating the need for Airtable’s currently rather shotgun/spammy use of a single channel (nearly always muted). Scheduled updates per channel/view. Just like Google Calendar can update our team of the week’s events at a given time, we’d like Airtable to update us of the records in a given view on a specific schedule. The presentation UI for such status reports would need development; I picture a “big card” or user-defined layout block. Native notification of form-receipt. Right now we can ingest the form-received emails, and can build workflows via Zapier, but native bot functionality would be better. Slack notification of credits, feature updates, nearing plan threshold, broken integrations, etc. Basically, anything that Airtable emails us now, should be optionally slacked/DM’d instead. I could go on… VERY interested in the rest of yall’s thoughts; please chime in below! ... View more

I’d like to receive in app or even desktop alerts at the time of my choosing. i.e. at the time of event, 1 day before, 2 hours before, etc. Missing dates will happen unless you remember to go into each calendar view on a daily basis. ... View more

My primary key differentiator of Airtable versus Google Sheet is the ability to upload attachments on the row. While images work well. Video attachment doesn’t play and requires downloading. It would be great to have this feature to at least have everything in Airtable available in term media viewing. ... View more

This would be a very useful feature to prevent people from accidentally entering dates that have already passed, or to restrict to a certain period of time (e.g. no more than two weeks ahead). Additionally if you have a form with several date fields, you could have conditional restrictions on what date could be entered based on a previous date entered (e.g. a finish date would always have to be after a start date). ... View more

I often upload multiple photos to the attachment field, but the process on Airtable iOS is painful. Three taps for each photo, and then have to wait for each file upload to complete before proceeding with the next file. I like Evernote’s photo attachment method where you can tap multiple files and they are numbered in the order you would prefer to view them. Waiting longer one time is better than shorter waits multiple times. This really needs to be fixed and I’m surprised I couldn’t find any other comments for this issue. ... View more

Airtable is letting me do about 95% of what I need for creating an app for recruiters to review job seeker profiles. I made the resume the cover image, but even in the record detail view you can’t read the text in the image. If I could write some custom CSS it would give me so much flexibility to fix this and a whole range of other issues! It’s such a bummer when a platform is SO close to doing what you need but then you have to go write the whole thing from scratch because there’s one critical thing missing that could be fixed with a CSS override. Custom scripts would also be A+! Squarespace allows this and it makes so much possible. They specify that they can’t support pages with custom code, which is fine with me. I’m going to use Espresso to make the changes. If that works as well as I hope, then I’ll investigate making a browser extension which will allow those overrides to be shared with our team. Thanks for the excellent product. I’ve not been this excited about a new platform in I don’t know when! I just started telling friends about it yesterday and already four have signed up. ... View more

Would love to see an additional option within the Shared View to allow for the share link to include the ability to read comments. (Commenter permission won’t work for our use case, and several other peoples, it seems.) I’ve seen quite a few similar requests over the past couple of years, and I’m curious to see if there’s more interest in it now. For us, it would allow us to strike the right balance of interacting with a guest/customer, while limiting them to a specific view. We don’t want them to be able to see everything in the base, and we’d rather them not have to create an account in order to view the relevant data. For us the data relevant to the customer IS the comments themselves. The only workaround for this at the moment is to duplicate the base, delete the views we don’t want the customer to have, and create a commenter account for them. Even then, they still could access the base with a personal view. The shared view is what we want/need/love… but it won’t work for us without comments :frowning: I’ve seen some random threads about this from several people, so if you’re one of those people, let’s band together to make our request known to the glorious powers that be. ... View more

It would be great if Airtable had a STDEV roll up field. I would think it would be easy, since the calculation is available (you can set the field summary at the bottom to stdev). To create a manual formula is difficult with variable data otherwise. Please add these feature (as well as other statistics that are already available and calculated in the summary at the bottom of the field). ... View more