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Hi all. I’m a PhD student in history using Airtable to manage archival research for my dissertation. My research involves tracking individuals and family groupings through many different archives.
At the moment, I have a table for “people” and I will...
Justin_Barrett:
Not necessarily. Rollups are good for aggregating data points from various linked records, but there currently aren’t any options for sorting that data in the rollup field’s output. The order of items in the array that the rollup...
Hi Justin - thanks so much for this detailed reply. Given the significant variety in the types of fields that I need for different archives, I think that I could probably divide the archival material into 2-3 types and therefore 2-3 tables. That woul...
Thank you!!
I think it would make sense for each archive to have its own table. Firstly the fields would be somewhat different for each archive, and secondly I think it will be less unwieldy for me to manage it that way. I also want to be able to per...