Submitted on
Nov 06, 2016
01:43 PM
Submitted by
Sean_O_Shea
on
Nov 06, 2016
01:43 PM

Would love the ability to pre-fill all form fields using URL parameters.
Currently some fields have parameter support (see this Support post for details), but not all.
The ability to pre-fill linked fields with parameters could be super useful as people use Airtable to build web applications.
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Submitted on
Jan 20, 2022
07:51 PM
Submitted by
Arno_B
on
Jan 20, 2022
07:51 PM

Hello, The automation fields don’t currently allow calculations in fields. For example, I want to create an automation that pulls the date from a selected record and adds or subtracts a number of days from that. It would be a very useful feature to automate some project tasks without having to manually enter the dates. I’m giving an example with dates but automation would be largely enhanced if we could use formulas in fields. Thank you.
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Submitted on
Aug 04, 2021
04:44 PM
Submitted by
TroyTessalone
on
Aug 04, 2021
04:44 PM

Airtable Automation Trigger Add an Airtable Automation trigger event for “when record has comment”. Settings Filter for only mentions. Filter for comments from certain collaborators. Filter for keywords Filter for records in Table Filter for records in View
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Submitted on
Jun 12, 2020
12:15 PM
Submitted by
Devon_Moore
on
Jun 12, 2020
12:15 PM

I find this feature invaluable in Excel, and I would love to see it implemented for Airtable. Currently the only conditional format coloring option just sticks a little colored box next to the main record name. For my team’s purposes, that’s not particularly useful. What would be awesome is if we could get individually colored cells - here’s a couple examples if a cell contains the word “hello”, that cell is colored green in the background if a cell contains a date that is within the next 2 days, that cell is colored red. I’d also love an option to shut off automatic coloring when something is grouped/sorted/filtered, as it’s distracting and not always necessary… but I guess that’s a product suggestion for a different post 🙂
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Submitted on
Mar 01, 2016
02:50 PM
Submitted by
Ryan_Schaper
on
Mar 01, 2016
02:50 PM

I would love to have a place where I can manage all the files that are attached to my base. Similarly, I could then attach the same document/image to multiple records without having to re-upload every time.
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Submitted on
Dec 20, 2018
01:44 PM
Submitted by
Kamille_Parks
on
Dec 20, 2018
01:44 PM

Right now, to format values pulled from a Currency field in a Formula field, users have to use something akin to the following formula to get “$65,756” to display as such. Otherwise, AirTable displays it as “65756”, no commas, no currency symbol: IF(
LEN(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}))<4,
{Trip Budget},
IF(
AND(LEN(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}))>3,LEN(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}))<7),
LEFT(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}),LEN(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}))-3)&","&RIGHT(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}),3),
IF(
AND(LEN(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}))>6,LEN(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}))<10),
LEFT(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}),LEN(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}))-6)&","&LEFT(RIGHT(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}),6),3)&","&RIGHT(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}),3),
IF(
AND(LEN(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}))>9,LEN(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}))<13),
LEFT(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}),LEN(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}))-9)&","&LEFT(RIGHT(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}),9),3)&","&LEFT(RIGHT(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}),6),3)&","&RIGHT(CONCATENATE({Trip Budget}),3),
)
)
)
) This is obviously inconvenient, and it doesn’t even take into account decimals or amounts greater than $999,999,999. I propose a new formula function that operates something like this: CURRENCY([number or field reference], [currency symbol]) => CURRENCY(12345.6,"$") = $12,345.60
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Submitted on
Oct 04, 2016
01:59 PM
Submitted by
Manna_Team
on
Oct 04, 2016
01:59 PM

Trying to build a solution for our staff and a field that is the result of a formula calculation would REALLY be helpful. Currently calculated fields are not included on forms. I think this feature would add great value to Airtable, as it would allow people to build invoice forms with live feedback of costs.
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Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
Aug 01, 2023
10:26 AM
Submitted by
HeyJessiJay
on
Aug 01, 2023
10:26 AM

Just as @Sean_Murphy1 asked here, the ability to have conditional data in interfaces. Sean's Example: if you’re tracking network outages you might use one field to specify that the cause is a power outage, in which case you would want other fields to appear that let you specify when the power outage started and ended (so you can track UPS runtime when the power goes out, and site recovery time when it comes back.) My example: the attached has an "answer type" field but I still have to have all available fields (currency, text, number, etc) for the view to work with all the data types. If I could add conditions to fields (IF Answer Type CONTAINS Text, show Text Answer), only the needed fields would show and it make for a much cleaner user experience.
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Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
Mar 13, 2023
03:32 PM
Submitted by
Karlstens
on
Mar 13, 2023
03:32 PM

Button Fields could really use an update to allow for dynamic button labeling. A label could be set to not only Single Line Text, but also support other field types such as Single Select, Link Fields, but also Attachments where an Image could be displayed as a clickable button. Here, we see each button opening a unique URL, however the label is static - locked as the text "Open URL" which is an awful user experience. Why not allow for other fields to be referenced within the Label, exactly how the URL formula works? Part of this issue stems from the URL field itself also being too simplistic, and not supporting text for the referenced URL itself (which then itself could be used by a button field, without the need for an independent Label field).
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Status:
New Ideas
Submitted on
Dec 02, 2022
11:24 AM
Submitted by
Brian_Cavanaugh
on
Dec 02, 2022
11:24 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? When creating a form view, it would be great to set a question's available linked records to be filtered based on a previous questions answer. For example, Q1 is to select a contractor or team from our list of contractors (linked record from a resources base). Then Q2 is to select a project to submit the form against, but ONLY show linked project records that are assigned to the contractor team in Q1 so that the team selected can only see and select their projects, not other teams projects as to only serve a limited list and ensure our teams don't make a mistake in project selection. How does is solve the user problems? Opens up additional use cases for form flexibility. Solves our problem of not being able to have a curated and limited selection list of projects for each team. How was this validated? We send a form weekly to our contractor teams that do work for our agency to submit their hours worked per project so we can calculate project costs, margin...etc. At the moment, the teams can select their name / team from the list to submit hours for, but when they choose a project to submit against, they see all the projects that are active instead of just theirs. This leads to mistakes in teams selecting the wrong project and submitting hours to the wrong records. I could create unique forms for each team separately, but that is tedious and not scalable in managing all of our resources to add / remove new forms for each new team. I'd like one form that can serve up a curated list of linked records dynamically based on the answer to a previous question instead of a hard coded logic filter. Who is the target audience? ...
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