Each week the BuiltOnAir team pulls together the best discussions, updates and activity relating to Airtable happening across the web. Here you can find a weekly summary of those events (click any title to be taken directly to the community item):
Are you aware of or running an Airtable community and want it included in the roundup? If so let us know here.
Airtable Community
An active community for Airtable users, hosted by the Airtable company. The community has frequent interaction across different discussion categories for integrations, ask the community, feature requests, work offered, and more.
New Updates
Fastest way to link multiple records (monthly/quarterly/yearly overview)
Having Timezone issues – Examples within
Ingredient Conversions from cups/tbsp to g
Result type is not a number or a date
Display an individual field from a lookup instead of the complete record?
Find the Earliest Date Across Multiple Date Fields
Be able to create new records in another table via form
Dynamic filter based on collaborator field (“Me” view)
GAP Videos Community
A learning-focused Youtube channel for people starting out with Airtable, offering a range of videos teaching everything from basic set up to more advanced formulas.
New Update
AIRTABLE GROUPS ON FACEBOOK
Private Facebook groups (requests to join are vetted by admins) to serve the web professionals community and Airtable users of all skill levels.
New Updates
Airtable for Web Professionals Discussion this week:
- Welcome New Members
- Recommendations for Airtabe data visualization tools
Airtable Facebook Community Discussion this week:
- Help with views & filters
- Tips for archiving data in bases
- Creating WordPress posts from Airtable records
- Fixing extra quotation marks
- Question about a Zapier search function
- Looking for ‘fix’ to sync two bases together
Reddit Airtable Community
Active Airtable discussion on the popular online forum. Great option for discussion on Airtable uses, questions, and concerns, using the popular Reddit forum format.
New Updates
- Question about creating an Airtable output link
- Tips to run an API dry run
- Show & Tell: ERP Base Schema
- Questions on rollups
- Seeking Airtable Consultant
- Date formula help
- Question about Airtable API and JSON
BUILTONAIR COMMUNITY
The social center for all Airtable users and creators, this community includes weekly updates on new threads in the Airtable community, highlights on the best projects built by power users, a library of resources, and the official Built On Air podcast
New Updates
New podcast episode this week:
SPRING SERIES – SEE AN INFRASTRUCTURE BREAKDOWN OF A SOPHISTICATED AIRTABLE BASE
Monthly Metrics for April 2020
Neighbors, Take-Out, and Metaphors
New Script Added to the Script Library: Find the Earliest Date Across Multiple Date Fields
BuiltOnAir Slack community discussions:
- Question on limiting individual base accessibility
- New Features:
- Conditional lookup, rollup, and count fields
- Conditional form field visability
- Field & table editing permissions
- URL Preview block
- Welcome New Members!
Recently created Slack community. Come join us here.
