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
Making “Linked to” Fields Filter like “Multiple Select” fields
Add email to a record for reference
How to protect from multiple similar entries being added to linked record field
Counting Checkbox fields with a Rollup
Filter based on latest 3 values of a linked field
How to calculate elapsed time? (stopwatch / timer / timestamps)
Barcode Inventory check in/check out
This is how we help hundreds of people during COVID-19
Track your finances in Airtable with Parabola and Tillermoney
API Connection – Custom Block for Airtable
The ability to add a Captcha to forms
Embed/link to individual records
Number format (##,###,###.##) with comma or other separators
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:
- Question on an automated solution to display data to Facebook
Airtable Facebook Community Discussion this week:
- Question on how to update a drive folder automatically
- Looking for a solution to report expenses and income from a team
- How to rearrange records in the calendar view
- Looking for sample bases and templates for food and deliveries
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
- An approach to create tree structures in Airtable
- Help with an IF formula
- How to print a packing slip from Airtable
- How to hide fields form collaborators
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:
BUILTONAIR S05:E04 – CHRIS DANCY, THE MOST CONNECTED MAN ON EARTH
(No new content)
BuiltOnAir Slack community discussions:
- Limiting date selection in the date field
- Question on using commas as a separator for numbers in the thousands
- Welcome New Members!
Recently created Slack community. Come join us here.
