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Hi! I’m a new user to Airtable. I absolutely love the usability and UI of the app. However, I cannot seem to find quick way to create nesting or sub-tasks. I wish you could create a way for tasks to be nested under each other and ordered. For example, my primary field is “Task Name,” and my Task Name is “Follow Up with all Current Customers by end of 2018,” is there seems to be no way to create a Sub Task called “Create Follow Up List” and then other sub tasks called “September Follow Up,” “October Follow Up” that are specifically linked to the main task of “Follow Up with All Current Customers.” We currently use Smartsheet at my company which I find clunky and difficult to use, however it is fairly easy to create nesting and sub tasks with it.
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I understand the conditions you don’t allow - referencing record links in primary field formulas - but it it far too limiting. This is a huge, very frustrating issue for me. I’ve gone at length looking at solutions to get around it, but honestly, they’re all so much more data entry and work that it’s not worth the time or effort.
All I want is for the record name, in other tables, to be searchable and addable by a formula-able name, or there’s no point. And I’m never trying to do anything that would create a circular reference anyway. (That I’m aware of)
It would make things so much simpler if you just threw an error in the field when it tried to calculate and it actually created a circular reference, instead of refusing any situation that might possibly create one.
Please?
If not… I need a simple solution/tutorial, that actually fits those needs, and doesn’t require 6 records for every record I want entered and searchable on other tables by a formula-based name.
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I have certain views with sensitive information and would like to have AirTable require me to log in again after a certain amount of time to view these (similar to the way that a bank automatically logs you out after 10 minutes with no activity.)
I would not even mind if the entire app logged me out after 10 minutes with no activity. I realize this might be inconvenient for some users, so perhaps it could be a setting.
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I appreciate the ability to print a data view. I find it particularly useful for printing grouped grid views. However, it would be nice to have a few more formatting options (similar to the page designer block). For example: – custom formatting of summary rows (put summary rows in bold text, different font size, and/or select a background field color to highlight them, for example) – the ability to customize headers/footers with static text (a description of the report, for example), a time stamp, or a graphic element like a company logo
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For some reason, I’m having the odd person create duplicate options in single select fields.
(so, say I have In Stock and Backordered as two single select options, someone could free type In Stock and add it as a third option)
It would be good if either:
a) The option to create a new single select disappeared when the text that had been entered perfectly matched an existing single select option
or
b) When opening the single select setting, you could do a quick merge of the duplicate actions.
The quickest way to do this currently is to change the field type from single select to text and back again, but this has a negative downside in that if you have any single select options not currently being used in the base, you will lose them when converting back from text to single select.
(Also a toggle to automatically keep single selects sorted alphabetically would be nice too, as would the ability to type and create new single select options from a form)
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We have the ability to increase row height, Airtable is a mature software at this point, why isn’t there the ability to either increase the column title height or Wrap for Column titles. The base ends up way to long left to right with way to much scrolling.
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It’d be fantastic to duplicate a URL column and then be able to set it to Bit.ly, or whatever. ESPECIALLY, if it tapped into Dropbox’s API to create http://db.tt links.
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Please add options within the filter UI that allow us to narrow a dataset to just records that meet X requirement within a period of time. In our case, we need to know when one field was changed to X today, yesterday, this week, last week and in the last two weeks.
Similarly, we need to be able to create views for today, tomorrow, next week, next two weeks, next month, next quarter, etc.
I’m sure this can be done via formulas/fields, but a UI is preferable for view-management.
Thank you.
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It would be great if there was the option to select multiple elements in Page designer so you could move and format them all together, using a marquee tool or CTRL and click.
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