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If you haven’t had a chance to test out the developer preview of the Custom Blocks SDK yet, now’s the time to give it a whirl. The platform team is offering big prizes for the best blocks in three categories: Blocks for Business Teams (5 winners) Blocks for Education or Non-Profit (2 winners) Wildcard (2 winners) With a handy UI kit at your fingertips to make polished interfaces a breeze, a CLI that lets you leverage your favorite developer tools, built-in hosting, and real-time that just works - all working in concert with the user-facing Airtable interface you already know so well - we think you’ll find working with Custom Blocks to build powerful apps fast, easy, and delightful. We’ve even included some use cases to help inspire your blocks! With more than 170,000 organizations powering mission-critical workflows on Airtable today, there’s a tremendous opportunity to expand the functionality of the Airtable platform and help teams around the world achieve more. The contest runs u

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If you’re looking to get started with Airtable, signup to join a live training session on getting started with Airtable! The webinar will cover creating your first base, customizing with fields, views, and linked records, and sharing with collaborators. No prior Airtable knowledge required! Signup here before the webinar starts today at 11:00am PT.. You can signup for other upcoming webinars at airtable.com/webinars.

Hey everyone! We just launched the ability to view, create, and edit groups in grid views for the iOS app. Some notes: Like in the web app, grouping by a field adds headers to the grid view Like in the web app, you can tap and drag records from one group to another to reassign their value (except in views grouped by a computed field) Happy grouping!

Hi folks! The Jira Cloud block is now available to all Pro and Enterprise users. You can use it to initiate a one-way import of tasks and epics from Jira Cloud into an Airtable base. Learn more about it in our support documentation.

We just introduced several formatting options for when you’re displaying attachments from a linked record field in page designer block: Display just the first image in the attachment field, or all Size attachments as square thumbnails, with fixed height/automatic width, or with automatic height/fixed width Set image size and padding

Hi Airtable Community! Airtable is up for a Webby People’s Voice Award, and we wanted to share this with you to ask for your support. The Webby Awards is the leading internation award that honors excellence on the internet. We’re honored to help our community create the systems they need to define—and achieve—productivity for themselves. If Airtable has helped create more productive workflows and systems for you, we’d appreciate your support! Voting ends tomorrow, so if you have a few moments please get your vote in here. Thanks from the Airtable Team!

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve opened up our blocks platform to five trusted partners to create deeply integrated experiences that combine the power of Airtable with their respective products. Learn more: https://blog.airtable.com/extend-your-work-system-with-5-new-partner-blocks/

Hi! We just shipped a small update to the URL preview block: You can now choose to use a specific field, rather than the selected field, in the URL preview block. This makes it easier to display the right preview if the URL is always coming from a single field.

We’re excited to announce a new input method for the scripting block: input.fileAsync! This enables script users to upload files, which the script can then use to do things like create or update records. If you’ve ever wanted to preprocess the data in your files before importing it to your base with the CSV or XML import block, you can now do so with input.fileAsync! Because you can access the file contents from inside the script, you could also do things like conditional record creation or custom fuzzy matching to update existing records. We’re excited to see how you can use this to empower your scripts! The returned value from the file input gives you access to the uploaded File itself, as well as the parsed contents of the file (if supported). Currently, parsing is automatically performed for .csv, .xls, .xlsx, .json, .xml, and .txt files, giving you immediate access to the underlying data. Check out the full documentation for input.fileAsync in the API reference inside the block, o

The page designer block now has a new Set as default font option, which will change the default to the selected font for all new text elements. Any existing text elements with the default also switch to the new font.

We are searching the Airtable community for power-users who’d love to join the Airtable team full-time as an Implementation Specialist! We’re hiring in New York, Austin and San Francisco HQ – check out our careers page to apply.

Hello! We just launched the new web clipper block—you can read more about it here. One of the features of the web clipper block that we’re especially excited about is the ability to export your web clipper recipes and import other people’s web clipper recipes. And so, we think it’s only appropriate that we have a place on the community forum for people to share their web clipper recipes with one another. You’ll now see a new “Web clipper” section in the “Ask the community” category. Here, you can ask others for help, show off your work, or talk about tricky CSS selectors. Also, to celebrate the launch, we’re running a contest until November 9, 12:01 a.m. PST for you to send us your best web clipper recipes. The winner gets a pair of Airpods! Learn more here.

Hi folks! In case you haven’t checked out What’s new in a while, there are a couple of new feature updates that have been released in the last couple of months: New formula function: the ENCODE_URL_COMPONENT() function replaces certain characters with encoded equivalents for use in constructing URLs or URIs. Page designer block update: you can now add borders to all image and text elements on your page. Gantt block updates: you can now export Gantt charts as PDFs , and view your Gantt chart on a 5 year date range.

Due to changes in Google’s APIs, and very low usage of these integrations, we’ve decided to temporarily remove the ability to attach files directly from Google services (Drive, Gmail, Photos) from our iOS & Android mobile apps. We understand that this decision may have implications for existing workflows and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience it creates. Looking further down the roadmap for Airtable on mobile, removing legacy functionality allows us to explore a wider range of possible product decisions. In the meantime, we recommend using either our web or desktop apps to attach files from Google services. We appreciate your understanding!

Airtable plans to end support for direct file uploads from Evernote and Flickr at the end of May 2019. After this date, users will no longer be able to select these services from the sidebar in the file picker dialog; instead, users will have to download files to their local device and reupload them to Airtable. Although our metrics indicate that these integrations are rarely used, we recognize that these changes can be disruptive to some users. We are making the difficult decision to disable this functionality because it is unfortunately required to implement internal reliability and security improvements that will benefit all our users.

Hi Community! Today we’re spring cleaning the Community Forum. While every topic in the forum sparks joy, they aren’t always organized in a way that is easy to find or to follow. We’re adding some new faces to the forum this month (including me!) and we’ll be reorganizing categories as a way to make solutions more visible. Who am I? I’m Danielle! I’ve been at Airtable for about a year and I focus on all things Community, from events to giveaways and everything in between. I’m excited to spend more time celebrating our forum community! What are we changing? Removing Bugs - if you are experiencing a bug, we’d like to know right away! Please submit bug reports directly to support@airtable.com from now on, instead of posting them on the forum. Cleaning Misc - because most Misc posts can fit in existing categories. Adding Formulas - so that all formula discussions can be easily found. Consolidating iOS , Android , and Feature Requests - these categories will become Product Suggestions!

Announcements about Airtable, usually pertaining to new features, improvements, or fixes. For real-time updates on our new features and fixes, check out our What’s New page.

It’s what it sounds like: you can now use chart blocks to create pie and donut charts!

If you have editor, creator, or owner permissions, you can now create new records directly from matrix block. Simply click the + button in the bottom right corner of the desired matrix cell. New records will automatically be filled with the appropriate values in the field used to define the rows of the matrix and the field used to define the columns of the matrix.

Hi everyone! I know we’re not always as consistent with posting in this forum category as we could be (to say the least), but I figured that this latest new formula was especially worth signal-boosting, given how many people who come to the forums are either formula experts or aspiring formula experts. Using the new formula: SWITCH(expression [, pattern, result]... [, default]) you can take an expression, a list of possible values for that expression, and for each one, a value that the expression should take in that case. It can also take a default value if the expression input doesn’t match any of the defined patterns. This is formula is particularly helpful if you often find yourself fumbling through complicated nested IF() statements, since this can replace IF() in situations where you’re comparing a value to a series of explicit values. Consider the following example, in which you want to return different emoji flags depending on the value in a status field. With a nested IF() form

Today’s the day: we’ve officially launched Airtable Blocks! Blocks are modular apps that live on top of your Airtable bases that will allow you to extend your workflows in completely new ways. We’re initially releasing 27 blocks, including ones that let you visualize your information like map, chart, and timeline, and ones that take the information from your base and put it into action, like Google Cloud Vision, translate, and send SMS. (And of course, there will be more blocks coming soon…) The launch post on our blog has all the details. Blocks is normally a feature for Pro and Enterprise plans, but don’t worry, free and Plus users: we’re giving everyone a free trial of Blocks until the end of Saturday, March 31. If you have questions about how to use any of the blocks, check out our knowledge base, which is full of articles and videos to help you out. Even more questions, or ideas for new blocks? Drop us a line at blocks@airtable.com.

Today we launched three new features related to data security and permissions: a new permission level, commenter; password-restricted share links; and email-domain restricted share links. You can read more about all these features on our launch post. Commenter permissions Commenters can see and directly comment on records in a workspace or base, but cannot modify any of the records, fields, tables, or collaborative views. They can also make personal views for themselves (if they’re part of a Pro plan workspace). Password-restricted share links This is a feature only available on Pro and Enterprise plans. You can choose to restrict access to a base or view share link with a password. If you do this, anyone that wants to view the contents of your share link will need both the randomly generated URL and the password. Email domain-restricted share links This is a feature only available on Pro and Enterprise plans. You can choose restrict access to a base or view share link to an email doma

The latest field type, duration, is now live! It’s designed to store time durations measured in hours, minutes, seconds, or milliseconds. There are five different formatting options: h:mm - for hours and minutes, e.g. 1:23 h:mm:ss - for minutes and seconds, e.g. 3:45, or hours, minutes, and seconds, such as 1:23:40 h:mm:ss.s - for minutes, seconds, and deciseconds, e.g. 3:45.6, or hours, minutes, seconds, and deciseconds, such as 1:23:40.0 h:mm:ss.ss - for minutes, seconds, and centiseconds, e.g. 3:45.67, or hours, minutes, seconds, and centiseconds, such as 1:23:40.00 h:mm:ss.sss - for minutes, seconds, and milliseconds, e.g. 3:45.678, or hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds, such as 1:23:40.000 You can also now format the output of computed fields as durations, and use durations in formula fields. You can read more about it here.

With our new adjustable row heights, you can now choose to have your records display more text and larger images while in grid views! Select from one of four different row height settings: stick with the default short height to maximize the number of records you can see on your screen, or pick tall to see larger images and more text per each record. Questions? You can learn more about row height here. (If you can’t see the row height button, try refreshing and/or making sure that you’re in a grid view.)