We’re advancing into the last week of the custom blocks contest (Submission deadline: July 6). This will be our last AMA in this series - with a twist! We’re turning it around to you: Ask You Anything (AYA).
We’d be interested to hear from you about ...
The Custom Blocks contest deadline is approaching! Do you have questions about releasing or debugging your block? We’re hosting our third live Ask Me Anything (AMA) session in this thread on Wednesday (6/24) at 11am PT.
Billy Littlefield and Tim Deng...
Are you looking for feedback on usability or design best practices for your Custom Block? As part of the ongoing Custom Blocks contest, we’re hosting a live Ask Me Anything (AMA) session in this thread on Wednesday (6/17) at 11am PT .
Jay Ransijn an...
Do you have an idea for the Custom Blocks contest but don’t know where to start or which examples are most relevant to your idea? We’re hosting a live Ask Me Anything (AMA) session in this thread on Wednesday (6/10) at 11am PT.
Michelle Valentine and...
While you can participate as an individual, sometimes it is more rewarding to do things as a team. If you’d like to find a team member to participate in our $100,000 [Custom Blocks Contest] (Airtable Blocks SDK), chime in here! The contest platform m...
Hi @Sal_Suissa :wave: You might be able to adapt the Shipping Block - one of the custom block contest open source winners - to suit your use case. While this was built by a third party developer, it was using the Shippo API and you can follow his i...
Hi @Paul_Warren! Are you on the Custom Blocks beta yet? You can sign up here: Custom apps developer survey
You can then try out the blocks by using the “Remix from Github” feature. We’ll be featuring some of these in the examples gallery too: Airtabl...
Got it. If you delete all installations of the block in the base (as per the screenshot above), this test block should disappear in this gallery view. If you’d like to rename your block, you can simply re-release under a new name. Hope that solves it...
Hi @Brady_Menegay - exciting to hear that you’ve released your first custom block.
Are you trying to delete it from the blocks dashboard? You can click the carat next to your custom block name that provides rename and delete options.
Once you release a block to a base, users can install a non-local version of the block. The development version is connected to your local machine, so will inevitably time out.
When another user in the base sees a block in development (i.e. running l...
