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My company is compliant with certain certifications and requires our team to use other platforms for certain document storage. It would be phenomenal to add pinned links / notes to tables if someone so choose, then a person can more quickly get the intention behind a table, or quickly redirect to a link of their choice
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We are currently consolidating our style guide in Airtable. It would be of great help if a new HEX field and a new COLOR field were introduced to use as a design color for fields, text, shapes or backgrounds in interfaces. The new COLOR field would then display the color of a selected HEX field, both in tables as in interfaces. Along that same line it would be great if Admins could define global HEX colors for the entire workspace, so these colors can be used to brand the user experience for everyone. These custom colors would then show up as a custom color list everywhere in Airtable, where colors can be used/selected.
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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.
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Enable a formula on a record level (like gsheet). 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. Since it's not always the same number of days for each record I can't use a formula in the current set up.
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What is the proposed idea/solution? You can "hide identical fields", but not computed fields (which can't be merged). Let users choose to also hide the computed fields. How does is solve the user problems? It will be easier to have an overview of the records when those fields are hidden. Less scrolling
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What is the proposed idea/solution? When a linked table field is opened in "Expand cell", the "Limit record selection to a view" order is applied. How does is solve the user problems? Improved usability of linked table fields --- When a linked table field is opened in "Expand cell", the field order is fixed to the first view of the linked table. In the linked table selection window, the selected view is applied, but not yet in the "Expand cell" opened on the view.
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Asking users to structure their base in a way that is conducive to Airtable's best practices falls short (requires workarounds like automations) when they would like a single form to contain EVERYTHING they need to capture during the intake process. Allowing users to ask the questions they need and manage their data properly without hacky solutions leads to a better user experience and understanding of how to get the most out of Airtable. What is the proposed idea/solution? Improve the form view to support creating new linked records and accessing linked record fields as questions on the form. Displaying these fields would depend on whether an existing or new linked record is desired by the submitter. How does is solve the user problems? It allows the base owner to ingest data in a way that is organized and structured relationally without relying on automations to duplicate data across tables or submitters submitting multiple forms in some required order. How was this validated? n/a Who is the target audience? base builders/everyone
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What is the proposed idea/solution? The referenced field order can be changed to the selected View by setting "Limit record selection to a view" How does is solve the user problems? The fields you want to see when selecting linked records should be different for each table or View. While "Limit record selection to a view" allows filtering of records, it would be helpful to be able to set the field order as well. Who is the target audience? Users frequently using the link record --- The field order of a table when referenced from a linked record depends on the first View of the referenced table. It would be very helpful if we could set the recently added (I forget when, but it wasn't there in the past) "Limit record selection to a view" on the link record to change the field order to the selected View. This may also be related to this post. Change Field Order on Linked Record
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When working on tickets you can not copy/paste photos into the comments or description. This makes closing tickets take much longer because you have to save every file locally and upload. This loses context of why the photo was uploaded, etc. Many other PM programs allow copy/paste (Asana to name one) and having this functionality would make air table much better.
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