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This product would be very useful for both higher education and P-12 applications if it was FERPA compliant. FERPA came up a few times in the HIPPA section, but it is worth examining on its own as FERPA compliance is likely more of a contractual issue than a technical issue. Schools (P-12 and higher ed.) have a responsibility to keep student data private and only contact with software companies who agree contractually to abide by the same data responsibilities. Perhaps Airtable already has all the technical data controls needed to be FERPA compliant and the only issue is the necessary contractual guarantees to meet educational standards.
The educational software market is a massive multi-billion dollar market and growing rapidly … in case you are worried about the returns from putting in a bit of work on this. Partly because of the FERPA issues, the current data solutions in education are poor. There are either massive, unwieldily databases like Student Information Systems or folks at the department/school/classroom level trying to build excel sheets to manage all the data. A solution between those 2 (your product) would be really useful for a large number of applications.
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In addition to your current print export options, it’d be fantastic to be able to lay out Dymo labels using provided templates and then using our base’s knowledge to drive automated output of labels based on all kinds of strategic criteria.
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Maybe I’m missing a trick, but it would be really handy to be able to group fields/objects together in Page Designer so they can be moved as one block, either by using a marquee tool or holding down CTRL while selecting?
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I would suggest that form submissions that include attachments should also be able to (optionally) include those attachments in the automated emails that get sent out.
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I really like the recent addition of the grouped records function. It came at a really perfect time and has been very useful for my application. I can use it to slice my data set in really functional ways. The problem comes when I want to export the data in my grouped view. I would have expected that the records that are grouped to be somehow separated when the download CSV button was pressed.
At the moment, the entire list is downloaded in a single file without any distinction between groups. This is problematic when the fields that are used to group the records in AirTable are hidden.
I would expect that each group might have their own CSV, or that the single CSV would have a ghost row which would separate the groups and mimic the look of the grouped records in excel.
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In Excel and Google Sheets, you can double click the border between column headers and the columns will automatically resize to the best viewing size. It would be great if this was available in Airtable where the columns resized to view the entire name + the dropdown arrow to the right of the name.Thanks
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I’ve seen questions if formulas can access other tables, and it’s a no. Workaround is that you use lookup fields and calculate with those fields from within the same table. But this very quickly clutters the table with fields from other tables, only to get them into a formula. Our tables quickly grew and got really messy.
I’d like to skip one step and directly access other tables in formulas:
{DesignTable.TimeEstimation}+{ProgrammingTable.TimeEstimation}
This would de-clutter a lot of tables for us. Since I haven’t found a feature request for this, I’d like to request it here.
Thanks! Chris
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Perhaps other views are more touch-friendly, but grid-view is almost impossible to work with on my 15" laptop touch screen. It’s not even a matter of size. I can enlarge the screen so that cells are larger than my finger, but that doesn’t help. The scrollbars pretty much don’t work at all when dragging them on screen, and I can’t swipe through to unseen areas of the grid. Basically, it’s just not built for using with touchscreen, but it should be. Don’t think just in terms of mobile or small tablets. Recognize the need to use this on large touch screens as well. It should just work.
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Field Manager These will help with troubleshooting. Add data points for these: When the field was created (timestamp) Who create the field (user) Field last modified Field last modified by Changes to field description Changes to field permissions Changes to field name Changes to field type Changes to default value Changes to field configuration/setting options
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