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

Hello Airtable, Please, please please reverse this change! Double-clicking on the field name now only modifies the name of the field. It is a pain to have to right-click to access this menu. I don’t want to be overdramatic and claim this will totally ruin Airtable, but it’s much less efficient than the old method. I also noticed that when creating a new field, the field type is now the first dialog. Then we are prompted to put in a name. This is fine and I can get used to the new workflow. I understand that this reduces the number of times I use “Tab” to move between dialog boxes. I love Airtable and hope it continues to make progress! Just not the progress I don’t like :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: ... View more

Emails sent through AUTOMATIONS are double-spaced. It looks awful. Why is it done this way? I also think that the emails coming out of AUTOMATIONS should offer some conditional coding. For example, if the value of A is ‘x’ then display field B, otherwise display field C. I know I can handle that with an AirTable field that contains the value I want to display but I end up with sooooo many fields in AirTable. In fact, I already had to create several ‘automations-related’ fields strictly because of lookup fields. Another idea would be to allow more formatting options within the email message. Why not offer color or highlighting or underlining? ... View more

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

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

I understand that Airtable is an incredibly complex application and making all of it meet WCAG standards for accessibility is a long/difficult process. As an educational institution, we are mostly limited by the SHARE and FORM options within Airtable. If there was a way to share gallery/table views and forms that were accessible it would quadruple our possible business use cases for Airtable. If we could post Airtable forms or shared views on our public websites it would significantly increase its usefulness. Without that, we can only use Airtable as a backend organizational tool for a small number of users. I realize there are workarounds for this with other applications but each application purchase includes an extensive budget, IT, and accessibility review, and adding additional tools just to make our outputs from Airtable accessible is a huge pain. ... View more

This feature request is for an Airtable hosted Tableau WDC (web data connector) for easy connection to Tableau from Tableau Desktop/Tableau Server. Another app that makes this dead simple is Wrike Connect Tableau and Wrike – Wrike Help Center Sample code written by a Tableau employee: Glitch :･ﾟ✧ Being able to easily connect Airtable to Tableau Server so that reports can be accessed by leadership in our org on Tableau Server is a top priority for us. Thanks! ... View more

I have an interface that requires me to pull the same reporting stats monthly, and I have found Interface designer to be a perfect tool for this, with it’s simplified UX compared to the makeshift app dashboard I had previously been using. However, I am having to recreate each month’s stats from scratch each time, when I really just want to pick up exactly the same elements and connect them to a new filter. I wish I could copy/paste the elements (or group of elements) to make this task less arduous. Does this function already exist and I am just missing it? Thanks! ... View more

Hi there, is there in the future roadmap of airtable development the possibility to upload images, automatically resizing images through predefined settings (crop image, image max dimensions, image quality, auto rename, etc.). Thanks in advance ... View more