I am putting this under the category of Product Suggestions because it is something I think Airtable could implement as a company to improve satisfaction amongst users and build trust in the product as a viable long-term solution for business problems. When I browse through nearly any product request of relevance to me (which happen to also be relevant to a significant portion of forum users, it seems), I see dozens of user responses to threads spanning years, often without any meaningful responses from the Airtable team. To highlight this, the feature request with the most views AND most responses is “Link to other base” That feature has: 36,000 views 395 replies Comments spanning from October 2015 to September 2019 A total of 6 replies from the Airtable team, dated: 1/16 3/16 5/16 6/16 7/16 3/19 I think it is worth noting that 5 of those responses occurred in 2016. There has been only one Airtable response in over three years – on the TOP REQUESTED FEATURE. This lack of response, not even just a ‘hey, we hear you,’ makes me feel as though the Airtable team is not actively engaged with its user base, and certainly not actively implementing some of the most often requested features (e.g., granular permissions/linked bases, lockable fields, edit-record forms, etc), even if they are working hard behind the scene to make these features a reality. I feel like this is a missed opportunity, especially after looking around at some of Airtable’s competition and noting a significantly higher rate of company engagement in the forums (I won’t name names, because this is an Airtable forum). ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? Having the ability to clear unpublished changes on the interfaces has been very helpful, and is  in line with many of other development environments I've used.  In case I'm not being clear, I'm referring to the little blue dot (see below) letting us know the page has not been published, where moving the mouse pointer to the right bring up options including the clear changes.     My concern is when you have enabled "Allow users to open Record Details" when they select a record in many different views.  This will open a Sidesheet (or full page view) of the record, which can be customized.  The problem is that there seems to be no way of clearing changes in this view, once you're made the change it's done, and if you go to the the main page and use the clear changes option it will not clear these changes. To further complicate things, the Record Details sheet is shared for every page that points to that table, so an inadvertent change will show up in multiple pages. Is anyone aware of a way to "Clear Changes" on a Record Detail sheet?  Thanks in advance for any feedback or advice. How does is solve the user problems? It would provide a safety net when making changes and eliminate the time required to recreate and test a Record Detail sheet if it gets overwritten and saved in error. How was this validated? Unfortunately a collaborator was experimenting on a page and new they could restore the main page but was unaware that the restoration would not apply to the detail page. Who is the target audience? Users of Interface designers, particularly those designing interactive pages and interfaces. ... View more

I may be a bit insane but in about 3 weeks I’ve put together around 40 tables to model my little organization. Each table really does hold different type of information so it’s not that I’m doing the old spreadsheet version of one table per company, etc. Since the primary focus of all of my tables is on persons and linkages to companies (currently around 1,000 and 100), I can’t separate the other tables into another base without copying the person/company tables which wouldn’t be real-time/integrated. Some RDBMS offer the way to group tables/views/etc.into “schemas” which make the visualization of relations a bit easier. With Airtable’s tabs across the top being pretty useless for this many tables, I need to use the dropdown, which is OK. What I’d like to see is some way to identify a group of tables that belong together, perhaps on the tab bar and a dropdown there to select one. Of course, it would be best if the active table is actually shown in the browser title bar or somewhere. Currently there are times you can’t see what table you’re working in. ... View more

It would be a big help if could update your Zapier Zap to support line items. It allows Zapier to do something with ALL found records, not just the first found record. For Each. Would that be possible? https://zapier.com/blog/formatter-line-item-automation/ https://zapier.com/help/formatter/#how-use-line-items-formatter ... View more

Currently, if you are using an AirTable form, and a linked field is included in that form, you can link records via the form. See the screenshot below. You can see “Base 3” is an option from the other table. However, it would be very convenient to be able to Add a new record from within that form (see below) ... View more

We’d like entire rows to be highlighted in a given color based on the color of a single-select choice in a field/column that has been designated the “row color” field. ... View more

Hi, hello, and good morning, I’d like to request a feature to LIMIT the file size of images uploaded. It would be even nicer if you could specify to have certain image DPI requirements. If the requirements were not met, they’d be greeted with an error and explanation. While I can perfectly well manage my file sizes, if you have a submittable form based on your grid, some people don’t heed upload guidelines, so it would be nice if this was a feature. This would be great for people who manage social media profiles and want web-ready images. I’m sure people who submit PDFs would think it great, too. No one needs 56mb PDF resumes. ... View more

The use of views is obviously a crucial and powerful aspect to airtable but it can very quickly get bloated, especially when a base is being shared amongst a team. My first thought is to have “private views” or “user view”, which I think reflects airtable’s goal of creating a tool that allows users to define their own tool. Within a certain table I may want to save multiple views that are really only relevant to what I want to see, and there’s no need to a) clutter up the views list for everybody and b) allow anyone else to see or edit these views. This would also solve some of the requests regarding granular permissions for views. For the public views, I still think it would be great to have a way to save the settings of a view so multiple people can use the view without changing it. For instance, if there is a view that just shows all the records, if somebody on the team starts filtering things, and doesn’t remove the filters, the next person who selects that view will see all the filters. On our team, we’ve been making different views for each user, both so our personal selections don’t effect others, and so we can look and edit the same data at the same time without affecting other users views. However, it would be great to be able to “revert” to a set saved state for a specific view. I find we don’t treat each view as a static state, but a starting off point. I know some of these issues have been discussed on the forum, but I think these types of solutions, “user views” and “revert” could solve a lot of the problems we’ve been having. Another level of organization for the views would be to have sub-folders for views. Just something else to think about! ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? Enable date formatting on formula columns How does is solve the user problems? My use case for this would be to insert templates or build template tables for project management on events we do over and over again. For example, if we plan a webinar, we know which tasks need to get done in what order and how many days apart. We have a formula for how many days before or after the live webinar date each task needs to be done. If I include a column for the live date and include the variance to live date, I should be able to auto calculate the due date for each task but there isn't a format that allows for this. ... View more