Is there a way to easily setup and use “constants” across an entire Base? For instance, the price of oil per barrel might be 40. I have a lot of formulas that depend on that price. In addition, I might have several numbers like this that need to be referred to from multiple formulas - for instance the /mile that the IRS accepts for the mileage deduction, the number of tons of gravel contained in a gravel truck, etc. The advantage of the “constants” is that, if the price of oil changes, I need to change just one number in one place; I don’t have to hunt through tons of formulas looking for a hard-coded “40” in the formula. However I can’t seem to figure out how to easily setup constants in AirTable. Right now I’m sticking them all in a “Constants” table, with each row having just “Name” and “Value”, where Name is something like price_of_oil_per_barrel and Value is 40. BUUUT … referring to these constants is A PAIN …any referring Table first needs to add a link to my “Constants” table, and then tediously create a new linked Field for each value that I want to refer to in any formula in that Table. So if there are 11 constants that I’m going to use in formulas in a single Table, I’ll need to link to11 fields (then possibly hide them…). Is there an easier way to do this? ... View more

I feel this should be an option (toggle) on Last Modified Time fields. Like “Modify time when lookup fields change”. Something like that. How does it work right now? Currently when a lookup field changes, last modified time fields don’t change on the linked record. This makes sense since you’re not actually changing the record. How would this be even better? Add a toggle to also update LMT fields when lookup fields change. There are use cases with automations and above all syncing and updating with zapier that you could want to trigger a modified field. There are workarounds on this. I usually do it with automations in airtable. For example bringing the Last modified time from the linked record as a lookup field, and then using a function with DATETIME_DIFF to check for differences. Whenever there’s a difference, you trigger a small change on any of the other cells. But that seems overkill (three new cells just to perform this check). I think a toggle would solve a lot and be a lot cleaner. Thanks for your work guys! ... View more

Would like the ability to past a screen shot into the attachments field. Use case: If I am tracking visual changes to design project I can easily paste in a visual reference for the change. ... View more

It would be nice if when creating new fields – especially when the fields have fixed-length content – for Airtable to default the field width to the size of the content contained in such. For example, if you create a single select field, default the field width to either the width of the longest selection option or the field label itself (whichever is longer). This would save the need to constantly resize each new field. For bonus points, allow users to doubleclick the area between column headers to expand the field to fit the contained text whenever users want as they can currently do in Excel and other spreadsheet applications. ... View more

Often times, I would like to add a note or comment to a somewhat static entry. To keep the tables clean, I like less information, but it would be great to drill down into a cell a little deeper and be able to make a comment. ... View more

At some point, you can get a lot of fields in one table. I would like a way to organize my field: like field collections or groups. I have made a simple mock-up of how it could in an expanded record. Field collection would help when the same records go through many different processes (like a video production) It would make it easier to hide/unhide a group of fields a once It could be used to create a horizontal grouping in a grid view where field a group together instead of records group by fields. It would make it easier to find the field you’re looking for when you have a big record. ... View more

It would be useful to be able to filter a card’s activity feed by field and date range! Many times when searching through the activity feed, we are searching for when a particular field was updated, or for or all of the activity that happened in a particular date range. When a record is linked in many places and constantly updated, the activity/history feed on that card can become so large that it becomes difficult to find when a specific field on that record was updated, or to get to a particular date range of activity, as we have to continue to click ‘load more’ for minutes until we reach the desired date range/beginning of history. ... View more

Please add better default display options to Kanban cards. The current options are very limited, and the default display makes terrible use of space. This is specially applicable to Task based cards with no image or attachment associated. For example, my default display can only displays 2-3 words in the card title (see image below). This makes it very hard to have a broad view of tasks without having to click on each one individually. By contrast, Target Process resolves this by wrapping titles and making better use of space (see image below). IMHO this is major limitation of the Kanban view that largely renders it useless. ... View more

I love the new Base Schema block. As a content strategist, it has some really great potential applications. The degree of control in the settings, however, is far too limited to be useful for complex bases—which is likely to be a major use case. Some controls I’d need to have to be able to put this to practical use (in order of priority): Select which tables within a base to map Choose to map all fields, or only non-hidden fields. Apply specific colors to connection types that persist, not just on rollover Apply specific line type (e.g. dashed, dotted, solid) to connection types that persist, not just on rollover Additionally, I’d love to see the following enhancements: Export to PDF or PNG (table stakes for any visualization, if you ask me) Bézier control over the line curves I so want to be able to make good use of this block, and will continue playing with it in more simple bases. From my limited interaction so far, it’s not super usable for the types of bases it would be truly useful for. I do love that I can rearrange the position of the tables, and the interactivity of the lines is nice (though feels like secondary importance to some of the stuff in my list above). Thanks!! ... View more