I brought this topic up over a year ago and I still don’t see it addressed by Airtable even though I see lots of folks talking about this essential need in various ways.I will recap the topic here.I have a Parent/Child relationship between 2 tables (...
One thing that is currently missing in Airtable is the concept of a Current Row. This would be the current row of each table that is currently in the base. Current Row of a table could be used in filters to filter in only the children of a parent rec...
As far as I know, currently it’s not possible to create a parent/child style application in AirTable. A dynamic filter that could filter records in one table based on the current record in another related table would help tremendously.Example:Table: ...
I’m am asking Airtable folk to add the filtering capability. How the capability is consumed would be up to the user. However, as you also mentioned, a view would be the way I’d use it. Creating something like that using button/scripting/etc. would be...
Airtable does have its uses. At one point it needs to (maybe not) decide whether it wants to take the database or the spreadsheet route. Currently, from a technical perspective, it’s neither. Example, you cannot create a record with start and end dat...
Thank you for your reply William. I understand your point. I have not worked with FileMaker for many many years. But I have worked with lots of larger databases like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server. I also have a good deal of application development exper...
Basically with your checkbox method your’re manually identifying the current row. Following your lead using the checkbox method, I came up with this method, which eliminates some of the overhead (like the “.” table).
All I did was, I added a checkb...
