I was just curious how many other Airtable users live in a relational database for their full time jobs.
If so, I was curious what the biggest challenges you’ve faced using Airtable are so far.
I think the biggest for me so far is only being able to ...
If it’s based off a single select field (for example Status), it’s based off the ordering of the options. In this case, changing the sort order (even if the Status field), doesn’t actually change the column sorting.
But if there’s a need for multiple views with the same fields (such as different filter or group criteria) it’s back to the tediousness of individually hiding multiple fields.
I like this idea as well, especially given that you can’t reference fields in joined tables without first making a lookup column in the current table first.
I’m in a similar situation with the electronic [aviation] logbook I’ve built for myself where...
