Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
‎Feb 16, 2024
10:48 AM
Submitted by
Danarone
on
‎Feb 16, 2024
10:48 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? This idea proposes more dynamic options for scaling, rotating or providing 'hovering information' for text in Field Headings so they are readable when columns are narrow in Grid View and List Views. Currently text very easily becomes truncated and unreadable. Row height helps with field contents but not Field Headings. Hovering only works if there is a Description in the Field. Note: this idea is essentially requesting behavior that you see in most spreadsheet programs. Here is a typical Grid view... When you shrink the columns it looks like this which is too easily truncated and unreadable... Proposed Idea A: Enable hovering context information for all text whether there is a Description in the Field or not. If there is a Field Description it would be displayed underneath the Field Name in the floating context window. Proposed Idea B: Field Names can be rotated (similar to spreadsheets). Maybe 45 and 90 (as shown below) Field Names and all other text scales down to ~6 point before it begins truncating. Like the 'In Progress' text below Overall make the margins in all fields super tight. Field Row Height can be changed so the text wraps and stacks. (Not shown below but you get the idea) ... How does is solve the user problems? Keeps information readable when trying to conserve screen real-estate. ... How was this validated? Not validated yet. ... Who is the target audience? Creators who are trying to show as much information as possible on the screen while keeping information readable. ...
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Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
‎Jun 14, 2024
12:13 PM
Submitted by
Joseph_Roza
on
‎Jun 14, 2024
12:13 PM

What is the proposed idea/solution? This is a crosspost in the actual 'ideas' forum. I originally proposed this here When opening a record details page (sidesheet/full page), I'd like to be able to press a button to open the same record details but in a different, customized record detail page. I have so many customized record detail pages that I would love to make use of, but the only way to currently do that is in a different interface page, or use the 'open url in record' hack that has to reload the entire page to work, which is a bit clunky. How does is solve the user problems? Simple use case: open record details to view information that is not edit'able, click button to open the edit'able version of the record. How was this validated? I use hacks on every single one of my airtable apps to do this already. Who is the target audience? Honestly, I can imagine just about every interface-builder would use this. It would open so many options.
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Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
‎Nov 06, 2023
01:21 PM
Submitted by
oreocereus
on
‎Nov 06, 2023
01:21 PM

Views are useful, but sometimes a view needs to have lots of information in it regardless to be useful. Side scrollling with dozens of columns can be unwieldy and difficult to navigate (especially as the user adds new columns in different views, and they automatically place them at the end of other views). Colour coding and/or being able to group columns would seemingly be a simple to implement and very useful functionality. Grouping columns would be nice for tabbing between views and being able to move a bunch of columns at once (or unhide a column and have it snap to it's "group").
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Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
‎Feb 20, 2024
03:11 AM
Submitted by
daverad
on
‎Feb 20, 2024
03:11 AM

id like to remove the grey background and airtable branding from the emails sent via Airtable Automations id like to be able to send emails that look like more like a plain text email
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Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
‎Jul 06, 2023
03:08 AM
Submitted by
Alex_Godfrey
on
‎Jul 06, 2023
03:08 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Allow visual representations for extensions such as Base Schéma, Org Charts or Maps to be included in the Interface pages. How does is solve the user problems? ... How was this validated? ... Who is the target audience? ...
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Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
‎Oct 24, 2024
10:19 AM
Submitted by
ashley_24
on
‎Oct 24, 2024
10:19 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Please add the ability to request a copy of your responses to the Form builder version of forms. This functionality currently exists in the Form "view" but not for forms built in the Form builder. How does is solve the user problems? This allows users to keep a copy for their own records of forms they have submitted. Our team uses this functionality often from the Form "view" version of Forms, but since Airtable is driving users to use the newer Form builder, it would be nice to see this functionality there as well. How was this validated? Who is the target audience? Airtable builders, Airtable end users
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Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
‎Nov 20, 2024
06:34 AM
Submitted by
ChrisB
on
‎Nov 20, 2024
06:34 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? The org chart extension is a great tool to visualise a tree of records where there is a parent/child relationship implemented using a linked field to a record of the same type. However, the extension isn't easy to integrate into an interface and there is no good way for an end user to choose which group of records should be visualised. How does is solve the user problems? Adding the visualisation to interface designer integrates this data view into interfaces and could provide the end user some control over what records are displayed in the visualisation
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Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
‎Apr 10, 2024
07:22 AM
Submitted by
MichaelSargent
on
‎Apr 10, 2024
07:22 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? A global search bar for Interfaces. This would more than likely be in the form of an interface page but I could see it as a component for a blank interface page. This would pull up results pertaining to keywords with direct links to the records for the available interface pages. How does is solve the user problems? This would allow quick and easy access to various records in one action.
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Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
‎May 30, 2024
02:40 PM
Submitted by
bcrossley
on
‎May 30, 2024
02:40 PM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Include the ability to "store" or "save" scripts and processes for reuse in multiple automations. How does it solve the user problems? Instead of having to manage multiple automations using the same script/process, they can be modified/updated in a single place and update all automations that use them once changes are published. Pipedream does a nice job of this. It would save me a lot of time, and reduce the potential for errors. How was this validated? Personal experience managing complex automations Who is the target audience? Airtable power users and consultants
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Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
‎Dec 24, 2024
10:38 AM
Submitted by
oreocereus
on
‎Dec 24, 2024
10:38 AM

This seems obvious, and I guess there is a back-end reason it's not already the case. But there are several limitations in airtable that make automation troubleshooting more difficult than it needs to be. It would be infinitely more helpful if airtable's failed automation notifications were instant. There's always a delay of at least a few minutes, but often much longer. The delay, combined with the lack of suggestion 2, makes it quite hard to piece together why an automation has failed (usually we are entering data, going back to another job, and seeing an automation failed notification in the emails later) - so it's not that easy to trace the steps back to find out what action triggered the failure. Activity log for whole base. Rather than needing to check trash logs, individual record logs, etc, it would be really helpful to have all of this info collated in one space. Ideally this log would also included failed automation runs. When there are complicated automations that fire other automations, it's sometimes really hard to piece together what actions are creating failures. I often really struggle to recreate failures.
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