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It would be extremely helpful to be able to color code the table. I’m not necessarily looking for color to be based on a condition (hence a different thread).
Example Case: There are five tables within an airbase. Two of those tables are focused on action: projects and tasks. Three are focused on people: the individuals themselves, the vendors they work for and their expertise. The tab for the two tables focused on action could be one color and the three tables focused on people are another.
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What is the proposed idea/solution? Have a privacy field that requires certain permissions or password protected for information stored such as social security numbers. Who is the target audience? - services industry where private information from the clients is collected.
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I love the fact that, in Grid View, you can manually re-order records, and sort by a variety of criteria. But it would also be nice if you could sort and manually re-order GROUPS of records, when displaying in groups.
Currently, the only option is an alphabetical sorting of groups. That just doesn’t work for our project management base, in which we commonly create views for a particular user, sorted by status (in progress, with client, on hold, etc) or by priority. It would be great to be able to put the most relevant groups at the top.
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What is the proposed idea/solution? Within a Calendar Week View - Similarly to how we can collapse a weekend to only show weekdays, I'd like the ability to collapse hours outside of designated working hours. This requirements differs for each user, some who work 24/hr shifts need access to all hours, but those of us who don't most likely just need to see a configurable 1/3 of the day. How does is solve the user problems? Screenshot below shows how user Calendar engagement is constantly interrupted by vertical scrolling to access the weeks data. Who is the target audience? Anyone who uses a Calendar View or Calendar interface to juggle their working week.
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I am wondering whether Airtable team ever considered rolling out a paid plan targeted at individual users. By individual users I mean people who have the product for personal use, maybe only occasional and whose volume of data is really low. Such a plan could include some blocks useful for personal planning, like Timeline, Matrix or Map.
Let me share an example. When blocks were present in the Free Plan, I decided to use the Map block for planning a trip with my friends. I invited them to Airtable and we had a table with destinations each linked to the map. That was very convenient as everyone was able to overview the map.
The only problem is that blocks are part of the Pro plan which costs too much for individual users and their use cases. I think the key differentiator of those users is that the amount of records they work on is small. Literally tens of records per base. What will do for them is some reasonable fee for the features included in the Free plan + some blocks enabled. I would say 1,200 records/2GB of attachments per base is even too much.
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I would find it very useful if there was an embed block that would be kind of similar to the page designer except that instead of printing it would be for embedding it into a website. The use case would be showing records from Airtable in a more customized way that would feel and look more just like a part of the webpage. Say I wanted to show a table with all our employees. Right now it would be via an embed view (which is great) but if I could design it to look and feel just like our website it would be very useful
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What is the proposed idea/solution? All Interfaces should be mobile responsive by default. In the Preview mode give two icons (mobile and laptop screens) to toggle between Preview on Mobile or Preview on Laptop In the Interface > Preview on Mobile screen, is very ikely that the user may want to either rearrange or hide certain elements from the mobile responsive view. So provide list of all elements with a Show/Hide toggle. If an elements is hidden in mobile view, it should not get automatically hidden from the web view. Refer Wix Editor for reference How does is solve the user problems? The target audience are most likely to view the Interfaces on a mobile phone. Hence, by making it available and mobile responsive, it'll significantly improve Interface usability How was this validated? Common sense. Who is the target audience? Senior management, clients, field sales etc.
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When I used to use salesforce, I was able to manage a lot of data with charts/graphs. I could click sections of a graph (a piece of a pie/donut chart bar graph, dot on a scatterplot, etc) and it would show the underlying data tables that was being summarized by the chart/dashboard. This would be a very powerful feature in interface designer for managers and understanding the underlying data in a dashboard.
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What is the proposed idea/solution? Identify which area the columns belong to through colors. How does is solve the user problems? It allows identifying groups of columns belonging to different teams, departments or stages of a process. How was this validated? By right clicking on a column, in the edition, there will be a colored icon. There, you could choose the color of the column (using the same shape and colors used in Single Select. When selecting the color, it will display a subtle, minimalist and thin line of color above the column name. (See capture) Who is the target audience? All the people that: 1) Manage more than one process in the same AirTable table 2) Work on shared tables with other people. 3) Different departments interact in the same table ("Collections" and "Accounting") 4) Anyone who wants to identify columns of: debit, credit, balance. Etc etc etc
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It would be an amazing tool to be able to embed a link using the URL field. Aesthetically, it it more pleasing and it's more clear to someone reading the link what they are clicking on.
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