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):

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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

Base Design

Record as column name

Creating Link to bring you to entire table

Creating a Master Case Study and Resume Database

Dial a Phone Number in field with Ring Central

Random number functions

Summarize Data for Reporting (In Excel would use Sumifs summing data on different sheets)

How to group freelance vendors by discipline

How can I count the number of multi-select items selected?

How do I create subtasks?

Show And Tell

(No new content)

Product Suggestions

Would love a find/replace option!

Product Suggestion: allow column headers to wrap field names onto multiple lines

Dynamic filter based on collaborator field (“Me” view)

Organizing Saved Views

Kanban columns based on formula field

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

New Videos this week:

How to Prefill a Hidden Form Field

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:

  • Ideas for allowing clients to export a report
  • New Button Field in beta

Airtable Facebook Community Discussion this week:

  • Using an IF statement to alert due dates
  • Help with converting formulas
  • How to filter with date + time
  • Help with how to create an automation to create record and assign collaborator 

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

Discussion this week:

  • How are you using the new button field
  • Help with getting a due date formula to work
  • Ways to automate available slots in a booking system
  • Video: How to structure your relational data in Airtable

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:

BUILTONAIR S05:E08 – JON LETTS, ORGANIZATION & COMMUNICATION EXPERT

Articles this week:

New Script Added to the Script Library: Bulk Add a Linked Records to Fields that have existing Linked Records

BuiltOnAir Slack community discussions:

  • Thoughts on opening a record(expandRecord) after its created via a custom block
  • Video: How to set up a simple booking system in Airtable
  • Welcome New Members!

Recently created Slack community. Come join us here.