I was at ONA24 in Atlanta last week and, as someone who has used Airtable in my last four newsrooms, I can say Airtable would make a killing signing up new paid users. It is by far the best content management system available (I've tried them all). You really need to have a midway presence at ONA25 in New Orleans. ... View more

I would like to copy filters from multiple views and combine them in one single view. I'm getting to the point where one view has what I need and I want to compare it with another view. The current solution is to hire an engineer to write a script or painstakingly rebuild one filter onto an existing one.  I've seen this idea before and will hope a new 'request' will resurface the need for more reusable functionality around filters.   ... View more

On filter options, it would be useful if there was an option on the comparitor to be "in list" and "not in list". After either of these are selected, you can reference another record/view and a field to represent that list. As an example, lets say there is a table of "Teachers" and some of them have a "Teacher Type" field of "Art","History","Math", etc.  A view might be created to have a list of just Art Teachers ("Teacher Type" is "Art").  It would be nice if on another table that references Teachers that are interested in art projects, there could be a condition that says "Teacher" "is in list"  Table:Teachers; View "Art Teachers". And yes, I realize that this can probably be done by a mixture of linked tables and adding additional conditions within the view, but this methodology allows people to break down their views into simpler organizational blocks to be used in different places. If I have a need to get Art Teachers in 10 other views, I don't want to have to add all the extra table links and conditions for all 10, if I can just do the "in list" and leave the Art Teacher designation in one view. Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks. ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? When creating a grid, you have filter and sort. Add "limit rows returned". How does is solve the user problems? Lets say you have scheduled meetings, and you want to have a view that just lists the next meeting. You can filter to have scheduled date "after today", and sort it automatically so the next meeting is at the top. But there's no way to limit to the top row.  If you had a row limit with the options of ("Show All" (default), "First Row Only", or "Specific Limit" (with value), I can see this type of view being very handy when driving some automations. It would also be incredibly handy for people that want to schedule a price increase. Lets say I have 4 dates with 4 different prices, it would be possible to list the most current price by using a mixture of the max date that less than current, and showing the top row. How was this validated? Pretty basic. If you say only show 3 rows, only 3 rows should show up on the view. Who is the target audience? Anyone that has complex data sets that are driven by schedule, or any other data set where they want to limit results based on a filter/sort such as "top 3 winners". ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? Extend controls for users with editor access to interfaces to be able to make columns wider and even move fields in the interface Grid view, just as it works in the database view. How does is solve the user problems? Right now, you can't make columns wider, which is even more restrictive than the list view of interfaces. I think having some additional controls over the grid view will make it appeal to certain users more familiar with spreadsheets and give them more of a sense of control. How was this validated? Users more familiar with Airtable have found some interfaces to be more restrictive than they prefer, even if they enjoy interfaces. Especially the grid view, which is so powerful in the base, is especially limiting in the interface. Who is the target audience? Users more familiar with spreadsheets. Users with some experience in Airtable. Commercial clients who want a bit more flexibility than is currently available on the grid view. ... View more

What is your idea? Create a new role for users with interface-only access called Designer or something. These users could edit interface pages, show/hide fields, and even edit fields as necessary. They wouldn't be able to access the database or automations, or even add pages, but could modify existing pages as necessary. What Problem would it Solve? Users would be able to change values of some fields that they otherwise wouldn't be able to: single select, multiple select, etc. which can be helpful for users who accidentally create a value in these fields which are mispelled or have the wrong color etc. Users would be able to make minor cosmetic changes and move fields around as necessary.  Less time would be taken from developers for making modest changes and fixing simple mistakes Who would benefit? I think this would give some users a sense of control over their apps, so they're not entirely locked to users with editor/creator access. Especially for more minor issues - like fixing incorrect single select fields - having to wait for a user who is a creator to fix those fields or update colors might be considered a minor annoyance for users. It would also appeal to users who consider themselves more designers than database engineers and give them an intro into airtable app development. It would also save time for base creators who may be managing multiple apps so they don't have to focus on more minor things that are easily fixable.   ... View more

When in the timeline view, I often need to change start and end times on a record by 5 or 10 minutes at a time rather than 1 hour or 30 minute increments. It would be extremely helpful if i could drag the edge of a record more precisely than the 1 hour increments that are currently allowed rather than having to manually type in the time.   Also, it would be nice to be able to zoom in and out of the timeline using the mouse scroll wheel and have more precision on how much time is seen at once, rather than being limited to the standard day or week view.  ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? Feature to manually select decimal places on a number in Interfaces, similar to the number/format field. How does is solve the user problems? More options to show relevant data, either more detailed with more decimal places or more of an overview with less/none decimal places. Who is the target audience? Anyone using numbers in Interfaces. ... View more

What is the proposed idea/solution? We should be able to filter records or create automations based off activites (e.g. show records that were marked as Done today, or if record was linked to another record 2 days ago...) How does is solve the user problems? This will help filter records (Attendees) that were linked today to another record (Event) to see how many sign ups we get per day. For automations, this will help Customer success have a list of all Tasks that have passed a certain stage after a certain amount of time.  I'm sure there's a lot more we can do once we can use activity for Filters and automations. ... View more