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Happy 2022! I hope everyone’s year is off to a great start. As you may have seen earlier this week, as of Tuesday, January 11th, Airtable has rolled out updates to our Free, Plus, and Pro plans*. These updates to our packaging are meant to give users access to more advanced features in Airtable, like apps and sync integrations. We’re also starting off the year with a few much-needed product improvements to our automations and view features. We are excited about all of these changes and would love to have you join us for Table Talk on Thursday, January 20th to learn more. Airtable’s Self Serve Product Leader, Lauryn Isford, and Head of End User Marketing, Christy Roach will join us to share a behind the scenes look at the thinking and strategy behind our packaging changes, and Mary Cook from Airtable’s Automations team will also be joining us to talk about some new functionality we’re launching next week. You can submit questions in advance here. For those who were already planning on j

We just released an update to the “At a scheduled time” automation trigger. Updates include: Ability to select a start date/time for when the trigger should start firing For the weekly interval, you will now be able to specify the # of weeks it should reoccur in (used to be only every week) Our updated support documentation covers all of the new functionality!

Airtable Automations have been immensely popular since their initial release- and for good reason too! Automations allow users the flexibility to build out custom low-code solutions to automate their workflows. We are powering up automations by introducing new integrations, as well as expanding on our existing triggers and actions. Hootsuite action (beta) With our new “Schedule Post” Hootsuite action out in beta: marketers can automatically schedule new social campaigns, with no copy-pasting, as soon as those campaigns meet their standards. Learn more → Jira “Update Issue” action Users can now not only create, but update, Jira issues automatically from an Airtable base. This new update Jira action will ensure peace of mind knowing all the Jira issues in your workflow are always up to date. Learn more → Salesforce actions (beta) With Salesforce automation actions in beta you can seamlessly create or update Salesforce records directly from an Airtable base. Marketers can use these new a

I am excited to share that as of today you will notice some improvements to our mobile experience so that it’s faster than ever to update your data on the go. You can now edit individual cells in the grid view and make changes inline, without opening the entire record. This means you’re now just a tap or two away from updating text, selecting from a list of options, and more! You can expect to see even more improvements to Airtable’s mobile experience over the coming year :partying_face: , so please drop your thoughts and feedback below! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/q5Vv4AgpVaTXfFs1CpqOm0ODI-lZ-IJpRiNO6Qi8TWNJkhwnbeTzm7g4ok9nmamJpnhllqA5OyzI6N-KyJGWg5ZO8WnyJI7tppC3xUHUWC6HlbkJfQzghbYt-3DBxqnZWH97ABA_(image larger than 4 MB) Additional resources: Airtable for mobile: Airtable 101 Airtable for mobile: Fields Let’s make a base, Part 1: Tables, records, and fields Airtable for mobile: More on the attachment field type Airtable for mobile: More on the barcode field type What’s new

Hello Airtable Community! :wave: The November fall launch introduced a bounty of new features to work with! Here is a list of changes, big and small, that we introduced in November! You can click this link if you’d like to see a full-page version.

Hi all! I am excited to announce that Airtable recently rolled out powerful new features that let you sync data from outside sources and streamline even the most complex workflows. We’ve added sync integrations with Jira Server and Jira Data Center, Zendesk, Github Issues, Google Drive, and Box. What does this mean? Teams working on projects with multiple handoffs and interdependencies have better visibility into projects that will affect their work. Read on to learn more about syncing data from outside sources, and about what’s next in Airtable: automations that help you take actions at the right time and under the right conditions. Syncing data in Airtable Here’s a quick refresher on synchronizing data in Airtable. Syncing data, when it’s between two Airtable bases, essentially turns one base into the source of information and another into the destination base. Let’s say one team has generated a complete set of contacts for your company inside a base, and you don’t want other teams c

Hi all! We’ve got something special planned for the last Table Talk of the year. In this Year In Review episode, we’re going to be speaking with Andrew Ofstad, co-founder of Airtable. We’ll talk about the features we launched in 2021, the thought process behind those features (and the feedback received), and generally how these features fit into the broader vision for Airtable. You can submit your questions for Andrew in advance here. Note: Roadmap questions will not be addressed during this session, but we heard your feedback and want to share that we have plans early next year for an episode to properly highlight some of our plans for 2022. More details to come 🙂

We could not be more excited to announce a new weekly stream about all things Airtable on Youtube, which we have fondly named Table Talks. Each week you will have the opportunity to tune in live to ask all your Airtable questions about a specific topic and connect with like-minded creators. We would love to have you join us for our inaugural stream on Thursday, September 16 at 10 am PDT, where we will be chatting about the power of linked records. Here you can find all the details for the first 3 streams, submit questions in advance, or add the events to your calendar. If you’re able to join us live (or just catch the recordings), please don’t hesitate to share your feedback here after the event - we want these streams to be as valuable to the community as possible. Thank you for the support and we hope to see you online. Airtable Join our weekly livestream! - Airtable Explore the "Join our weekly livestream!" view on Airtable.

Views let you visualize a base’s data in unique ways, often leading to quick insights. This year, we’ve released a variety of features that we’re going to dig into below so that users can organize and curate their views (yes, personal views too!) however they’d like - so keep reading, and let us know your thoughts below! There are three view permission types: Collaborative views: This is the default view type for newly created views, unless you have a large base (more on that later). In this view, editors and up can edit the view configuration. Personal views: This view type, available on Pro and Enterprise plans, can only be customized by the view’s owner. This means only the owner can change the view’s grouping, field order, record coloring, and more. Locked views: Locked views are another premium feature for Pro and Enterprise users that prevent all collaborators from altering the view’s configuration until they’ve been unlocked by a collaborator with creator or owner permissions.

Hello everyone! We recently launched some exciting new additions to our formula field with three new regex (regular expression) functions: REGEX_MATCH(string, regex) REGEX_EXTRACT(string, regex) REGEX_REPLACE(string, regex, replacement) These functions can be used to match character combinations within text strings. For those interested, Airtable’s REGEX functions are implemented using the RE2 regular expression library. You can learn more about these functions in this article or check out some example use cases shared in the posts below.

We are excited to announce that as of today, advanced filters are available in Airtable! What are advanced filters? Advanced filters allow Airtable users to reflect both ‘AND’ and “OR” conditions in a single filter configuration. This provides more flexibility and customizability to filter the information in your views. You can get started with advanced filters today, we can’t wait to hear what you think! Related resources: Advanced filtering: combining AND & OR using conditional groups Table Talk Common questions: Where are advanced filters currently integrated within the Product? You can currently access advanced filtering in many areas where filtering is available within the product: View filtering Record coloring Condition form fields Conditional lookups / rollups /counts Mobile record filtering (gradual rollout over the next few weeks) What if I try adding a condition to a nested condition group and make a mistake? Is there a way to revert back to the original? You can ea

Hello Airtable Community! :wave: We wanted to gather all of September’s product updates in one place, to make sure we keep you in the loop. Here is a list of changes, big and small, that we introduced in September!

Hey Community! Navigating views just got so much easier. Today we are happy to announce that Favorite Views are now available for all Pro and Enterprise users. Star your most frequently used views to add them to the “My favorites” section at the top of the view sidebar. Favorites are pinned to the top of the view sidebar so you can easily access the views most important to you.Learn more here →

Hi everyone – I wanted to give you a heads up about some important database upgrades we’re making to improve Airtable’s reliability. Our services will be unavailable for about 20 minutes on Friday, October 15 at 10 p.m. PT, and we wanted to give you a heads up given the potential disruption to your operations. Here are the details, which can also be found here in our help center. We’re making important database upgrades to improve Airtable’s reliability. On Friday, October 15 at 10 p.m. PT, our services will be unavailable for about 20 minutes as we complete this important work. Although these upgrades will improve Airtable’s performance, speed, and ability to scale further in the future, we recognize that any downtime is disruptive to our customers. We’ve identified this timing based on historical usage patterns and the fact we’re able to avoid working hours for the vast majority of our users. While we believe this necessary maintenance will be complete in only a few minutes based on

Hi all - We are excited to share that today, we launched an updated Automations pane that includes some improvements that will help you be able to better utilize automations in your bases. Two major updates to share: We have moved the Automations tool from the right sidebar to a full-screen experience, so you can see both the triggers + the actions at the same time We are improving the icons and descriptions in product so it’s clear what each step is and how it’s all connected Additional resources: Support article: Automations overview We hope this makes your Automations experience even more powerful and we look forward to your feedback. This change is rolling out now and will be visible to all bases soon!

Hi everyone! We’re excited to offer an invitation to try one of our newest features - GitHub Issues External Source Sync and Automation Actions . With GitHub Issues Sync, you can sync all the issues from a GitHub repository matching your own custom filters. From there, you can use all of Airtable’s core functionality to work with the data: views , filters, sorts, automations, and more. Furthermore, with GitHub Issues Automation Actions, you can set up new automations to create and update issues in GitHub. To sign up for the beta, fill out this quick form and click the link at the end. The feature should become available within a few minutes of clicking the link. If it doesn’t, try refreshing the page. Please note that this feature will only work if you’re on a Pro or Enterprise plan. If you are on an enterprise plan, you’ll need to ask your enterprise admin to also enroll in the beta via the same link and enable the feature via the enterprise admin panel. And if you have any feedback

Hello Airtable Community! We wanted to gather all of August’s product updates in one place, to make sure we keep you in the loop. Here is a list of changes, big and small, that we introduced in August! General Product Updates: The base configuration UI has gotten a new look! ⭐ Within automations, you can now link records using the primary field value for any of the primary field types (except the formula field). In tables with many view sections, it can be useful to expand or collapse all of that table’s view sections at once and now you can! Our new workspace sharing restrictions feature allows Enterprise admins and workspace owners, as well as Pro workspace owners, to decide whether or not other collaborators can invite new collaborators to the workspace or a base within the workspace they are working in. Enterprise administrators are now able to request and download audit logs of activity that takes place in enterprise workspaces and bases. The Gantt View received some new

Hello Airtable Community! We wanted to gather all of July’s product updates in one place, to make sure we keep you in the loop. Here is a list of changes, big and small, that we introduced in July! General Product Updates: Pro and Enterprise workspace users can now star, or favorite, their most frequently used views to add them to the easily accessible “My favorites” section at the top of the view sidebar. We have now added “fuzzy” searching to several inputs across the product including: The “Add collaborator” input The Field search input (which is used when you sort/filter) The Workspace & base switcher We have consolidated the view menu, so you can now rename, edit the description of, duplicate, print, and delete a view all from the same menu. The behavior of our new “Add record” button has been tweaked to allow for a better data entering experience, allowing the record to “hang” so you can enter information, before the records pops up to the rest of the table. Automations

A feature just launched today that will help you import entire Google Sheets as either a new base, or as tables within an existing base. This feature is similar to our recently launched Excel importer with much of the same functionality. You can learn more about importing your Sheets into Airtable in this support article. Let us know how it’s working for you and how we improve!

Happy Friday community! I wanted to let everyone know about a handy update to the 3 current email actions available in our Automations feature: Send an email Outlook email: Send email Gmail: Send email You can now preview an email that you are crafting, before testing any of these actions! This means no more multiple email tests before getting the formatting of the email the way you want it to look. Here’s an example using the “Gmail: Send email” action: This feature also allows you to more easily see which test record is being used by our system so you can let a collaborator or client know to disregard any test emails that are sent while you finalize your automation’s setup. Note that the “To”, “Subject”, and “Message” fields must be filled in for the “Preview email” button to become clickable. My workmate, Rose, will have another update later today, so keep an eye out! 👀

Happy Friday Community! Here at Airtable, we are always looking for new ways to unblock people, and help them find the answers they need to build to their heart’s content. With that in mind, we are happy to announce the release of a new Community category named: Featured Resources. The Featured Resources category contains collections of resources created by both Community users and Airtable. We believe this will help to organize and present answers to common questions, provide use case examples, and showcase awesome workflows. We have launched this category with a starting set of collections, but we will continually add to these existing collections, and soon plan to create new collections dedicated to other Airtable features. Each collection of featured resources is correlated to a specific product feature area for easy perusal. If you’d like to nominate a Community Post to an existing feature collection, or to one we don’t have yet, please submit it here!

Hello Airtable Community! We wanted to gather all of June’s product updates in one place, to make sure we keep you in the loop. Here is a list of changes, big and small, that we introduced in June! General Product Updates: The “Create View” section is now collapsible, so you can regain screen real estate whenever you aren’t actively creating views. Users can now add details to their invoices, allowing you to add important information like tax codes, addresses, and any additional notes to future invoices. The “add record” button’s design has changed, and is now a persistent button on the bottom left hand side of the screen. The Google Drive external source sync feature is now in beta. Pro and Enterprise plan users can sign up to join the beta here. The Salesforce external source sync is now open to all users on the Enterprise plan. Automations updates: We are so excited to announce our newest automation trigger: “When a form is submitted”! The “When a form is submitted” trigger can

Hello Airtable Community! We wanted to gather all of May’s product updates in one place, to make sure we keep you in the loop. Here is a list of changes, big and small, that we introduced in May: Users now have the ability to change the trigger of an automation after creation! When rendering records in an email we now fully support: backslashes in a record’s content list and grid column names that include underscores truncating text fields when rendering records in a grid Custom scripts no longer have to adhere to the 1 second limit of CPU time. We officially launched the “Sync Source” field to help manage multi-source syncs. For new multi-source syncs we’ll automatically create this field when you add a second sync source. For existing syncs, you can enable the field in your sync setting. The View sidebar now supports fuzzy search. When an automation is broken we have new error messaging to indicate that an error has occurred. We’ve also added an explicit error to indicate wh

You can now toggle “Find Records” actions between searching by views and by conditions. Previously, this automation action was only able to find records based upon conditions. As noted in this new support article section, there are many cases where you may have already taken the time and effort to set up conditions in a view that you’ve set up, so rather than recreating the same conditions in the find records automation action, you can simply choose to find records in that view. Additionally, when rendering these records in an action step that follows the “Find records” action such as a “Send email” action, you can choose to include a link to your view at the bottom of the rendered record output. We hope this helps to further improve the efficiency of your automations!

Hi everyone! We’re excited to offer an invitation to try one of our newest features - the Google Drive External Source Sync. With our Google Drive External Source Sync, you can sync metadata of Google Drive files into Airtable. Now, you can collaborate with others and maintain connections to canonical Drive files via linked records. To sign up for the beta, fill out this quick form and click the link at the end. There will be a feedback link as well. Please note that this feature will only work if you’re on a Pro or Enterprise plan. Thanks, and let us know if you encounter any issues!