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John_Bacino
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

So happy that someone finally filled the void left by Dabble DB.

One of the features I found most useful there, but can’t seem to do in Airtable, is linking to entries in another Base. Often, one will have multiple bases which handle distinct aspects of a business or project, but in which one piece of data overlaps.

Example: A political campaign may want Bases for contacting voters, managing events, and recording donations. Those are distinct domains which need their own Bases, but which could benefit from linking parts of them together. For example, it would be great to link donations to the event they occurred at, or voters to donations, or record who attended each event.

In Airtable at present one has to either cram all of those bases into one, or foregoe the linkage which makes this software so great. It may seem like a small thing, but once you can link bases, the sky is really the limit.

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Michela_Caruso
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

You can just share view links for overcoming security issues, i.e. you want to share just a portion of data with some personas.

Alexander_Black
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

This doesn’t work if those personas require simple per field interactions to move a process forward.

I am looking for an alternative to Airtable because development on some of the critical pieces that would make it really shine for operations have not materialized in years.

dev_shr
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

8 Years and no Update? REALLY!... 8 years... and nothing. Someone from Airtable must give an explanation for why they won't give us the most voted feature... If they could do this... It will be a game changer!.. they better pray SmartSuite doesn't implement UNDO, REDO and custom extensions because AT will be out in a few months.... 8 YEARS?!?!? WHY?????

Foerster
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

It’s an absolute shame. This is the single feature that holds most people back from switching completely to AirTable. Really sad to see how they just ignore it 😔

Menashkes
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

Any comments from Airtable's team?