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Dan Fellars: Welcome back to the BuiltOnAir Podcast.
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Dan Fellars: It’s been a minute.
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Dan Fellars: Good to be back with everyone.
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Dan Fellars: Alli, good to see you.
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Dan Fellars: have been traveling
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Alli Alosa: you.
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Dan Fellars: the world since last we since last we saw each other.
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Dan Fellars: How was your trip and how’s everything going for you?
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Alli Alosa: Thank you.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah, things are crazy.
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Alli Alosa: I went to China and Japan for like two and a half weeks and that was incredible.
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Alli Alosa: got to see a friend get married in China.
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Alli Alosa: That was like just a really unique experience.
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Alli Alosa: so super grateful that I had the opportunity, but glad to be back and trying to get back into the swing of things finally over the jet lag.
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Alli Alosa: Took like a week and a half, two weeks to get
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Dan Fellars: Yeah,
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Alli Alosa: over.
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Dan Fellars: yeah, that can be I noticed that too
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Alli Alosa: Absolutely.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah, but glad to be back and saw lots of the updates as I was gone.
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Alli Alosa: I was like, oh, I can’t wait to try those outside,
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, there’s been a lot going on in the world of Airtable updates.
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Dan Fellars: So we thought it would be good to do a live show and just kind of go through all the latest updates, we’ll play with them, we’ll we’ll show you what they’re about, give our feedback on some of them and our thoughts.
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Dan Fellars: and so yeah, before that, let me let me share my screen.
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Dan Fellars: We’re gonna jump into all the latest features and everything, but before that, I want to give a shout out.
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Dan Fellars: I have been while Alli was traveling, I’ve been making some videos just by myself.
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Dan Fellars: I’m doing a series on DevOps in Airtable and all the admin side of working within your Airtable environment.
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Dan Fellars: So I’ve got three videos up protecting, finding, restoring.
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Dan Fellars: Then using how to how to interact with just a single production environment and then access control and user governance.
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Dan Fellars: So those are the three up here right now.
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Dan Fellars: There’s going to be 6 in total that I’ll do in the coming weeks.
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Dan Fellars: And then at the end of those 6 we’re gonna make a big announcement going to introduce some new things that we’re working on so excited for that but yeah check out those those series and more to come on that front but yeah it’s been fun kind of trying out some new some new approaches to video creation and Everything
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Dan Fellars: on that front.
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Dan Fellars: So with that, Airtable with bending spoons.
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Dan Fellars: I guess I would say on the news front.
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Dan Fellars: if you if you’re on LinkedIn and you’re connected with anybody that worked at Airtable, it was it was unfortunate, I guess a week ago.
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Dan Fellars: October, end of October was the end date for a lot of people that work there.
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Dan Fellars: And I saw a lot of lot of goodbyes from people that I had interacted with at Airtable.
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Dan Fellars: So that’s the that’s the unfortunate side of of this transition is there’s a lot of good people leaving Airtable.
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Dan Fellars: so it’s kind of sad to see them go.
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Dan Fellars: But they are getting a lot of features pushed out the door, a lot of low hanging fruit of things that people have been asking for for years.
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Dan Fellars: And so that is promising to see where they’re going.
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Dan Fellars: And I thought the first thing I I would show is, you know, now they have this where Airtable is headed, if you go to the what’s new page.
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Dan Fellars: And so they actually laid out last month their their roadmap for the end of this year and into next year of the key areas that they want to address.
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Dan Fellars: So continuous improvements to the core.
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Dan Fellars: That’s what we’ll be talking about a lot of that today.
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Dan Fellars: AI that works with you.
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Dan Fellars: Also today we’ll be seeing a lot of a lot of AI improvements, account level, centralized control, and then reliability at the infrastructure level.
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Dan Fellars: So those are kind of their core things, and then they kind of go through what they’re gonna be doing in each of those.
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Dan Fellars: So I do like the transparency that they’re That they’re giving what the roadmap looks like.
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Dan Fellars: That’s something that I pushed Airtable in the past to try to be more transparent about.
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Alli Alosa: Absolutely.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah, it’s nice to be able to see like I’d love to see like a you know full on road map or it’s like you know planning and development like the things that are like actually being worked on would be so cool.
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Alli Alosa: but either way I’m this is like more than we ever had before.
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Alli Alosa: So I’m excited.
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Dan Fellars: Yep, yep, for sure.
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Dan Fellars: So we’ll see, yeah, we’ll see if they get more granular.
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Dan Fellars: you know, specifics of like what they’re gonna address.
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Dan Fellars: That would be nice.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, let’s go back.
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Dan Fellars: So last time we met, We covered a lot of the I know we covered this one, so we kind of covered everything through September.
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Dan Fellars: So we’re gonna go through the the October and November updates.
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Dan Fellars: And okay, let’s start with automations.
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Dan Fellars: So they increased across the board all the unique automation limits.
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Dan Fellars: It was fixed at 50 for all plans.
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Dan Fellars: Now if you I know if you’re on an enterprise and probably on a business, you could ask for an increase, and they were usually pretty generous at increasing that for you.
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Dan Fellars: But now a hundred and fifty for business, two hundred for enterprise.
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Dan Fellars: That that’s a lot of automations.
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Dan Fellars: I don’t know.
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Dan Fellars: You might be hitting against that limit.
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Alli Alosa: I have not come close.
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Alli Alosa: I’ve worked in bases that have hit the two hundred limit and have gone beyond.
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Alli Alosa: I typically would advise, you know, if you’re getting close to that, there’s probably some condensing you can do to like, you know, cut down on it.
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Alli Alosa: some people might have like a different automation setup for, you know, when the status is This versus that, or being like send an email to this person versus this person.
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Alli Alosa: Now you can use conditional logic to put that all in the same automation.
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Alli Alosa: so there’s a lot that can be done to really reduce that number.
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Alli Alosa: but regardless, it’s nice to be able to go over that 50.
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Alli Alosa: Which is huge.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Fifty I would hit you know on occasion.
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Dan Fellars: Not all the time, but yeah, definitely.
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Dan Fellars: So Yeah, that would that was pleasant.
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Dan Fellars: I’m curious what that does to their to you know their systems.
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Dan Fellars: mean that adds a lot more.
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Dan Fellars: You know the other thing, I didn’t see it in their announcements, but I’ve been seeing they now send you an email when their your automation is like overloaded and like maybe running slow.
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Dan Fellars: I I get these emails.
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Dan Fellars: Have you seen that?
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Alli Alosa: I have seen one where like and then no, there’s one from the I sometimes I get it confused with the Zapier emails because Zapier will send out one that’s like your Zap is failing every time it runs or like something like that.
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Alli Alosa: But I have seen I yes, I’ve I believe I’ve seen one from Airtable that’s similar.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, yeah, they’ve always said like if it if it failed, but now I I’ll get these ones that like it’s like Your automation may be running slower than normal due to load.
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Dan Fellars: We especially if you’re hitting it.
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Dan Fellars: We have one that runs on a web hook and it gets hit like in the middle of the night from lots of different places, and so it kinda slows down.
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Dan Fellars: So yeah, I get notifications of that.
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Dan Fellars: So They’re doing more around automation management, which is nice.
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Dan Fellars: And speaking of that, the next one that they released.
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Dan Fellars: now we did talk about these, right?
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Dan Fellars: Because we I think we talked about deleting records.
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Alli Alosa: I
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Dan Fellars: Although
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Alli Alosa: do remember
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Dan Fellars: I think they
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Alli Alosa: that.
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Dan Fellars: released this before, yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Yes, I know.
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Dan Fellars: okay, so maybe some of these we’ve already gone through, but just as a reminder, so yeah, now we you could delete a record directly from an automation, you don’t need to put it in a script.
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Dan Fellars: We talked about the pros and cons of that.
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Dan Fellars: comparing date fields.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, the big one, yeah, creating and editing custom scripts via MCP.
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Dan Fellars: That is cool.
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Alli Alosa: That’s
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Dan Fellars: Have you
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Alli Alosa: a big
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Dan Fellars: done that
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Alli Alosa: one.
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Dan Fellars: yet?
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Alli Alosa: I did, yeah.
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Alli Alosa: It like for a while when they released this, it wasn’t like it didn’t feel like it was out of the box.
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Alli Alosa: I used Claude to write my code for my custom interfaces and Oh wait, I’m sorry, the automations, just kidding.
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Alli Alosa: I totally got this confused with interfaces
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: for a moment.
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Alli Alosa: so no, actually I have not done this.
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Alli Alosa: I have not used the MCP to update script steps in automations or create them.
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Alli Alosa: but I like to write my own scripts.
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Alli Alosa: So
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Dan Fellars: Oh, you do.
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Dan Fellars: Okay.
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Dan Fellars: Very good.
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Alli Alosa: I mean, maybe I’ll hand it over someday, but
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: see.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, it’s pretty cool because it’ll create the input fields as well for you.
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Dan Fellars: So sometimes so I’ve even done it where I’m just like create an automation with you know these input fields.
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Dan Fellars: And then you know, even if you want to write your own script, saving that is huge.
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Alli Alosa: That’s a big time saver.
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Alli Alosa: Like cast.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: So that’s pretty cool.
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Dan Fellars: yeah, and then there’s there’s some usability shows you how many automations left.
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Dan Fellars: searching and then finding five field duplication opens the new field settings.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, this I think is in the In the data layer, if you duplicate a field, yeah, it’ll just take you directly to the settings section.
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Dan Fellars: So
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Alli Alosa: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: yeah I
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Alli Alosa: That
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Dan Fellars: believe
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Alli Alosa: actually
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Dan Fellars: we
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Alli Alosa: has
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Dan Fellars: did.
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Alli Alosa: confused me a little bit recently.
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Alli Alosa: But just because I’m not used to it yet, but I’ll be like, wait a second, like what am I editing right now?
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Alli Alosa: But it is a useful
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: change.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, this one I haven’t I haven’t played with this one.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, so we’ve got calendar comments and permissions so in the interface grant add and delete permissions separately.
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Dan Fellars: Oh I have played with this one.
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Dan Fellars: This is huge because maybe let me show you this.
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Dan Fellars: So in an interface, if you have It used to be used to be you could you could add and delete with a single toggle.
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Dan Fellars: And so you first have to allow for inline, so you have to be able to edit inline.
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Dan Fellars: And that even that is something I wish could be controlled separate, right?
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Dan Fellars: Because sometimes you don’t want inline editing, but Although I guess to add records inline you have to be able to edit
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Alli Alosa: Right.
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Alli Alosa: You can shut off the fields now on a field level.
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Alli Alosa: So if you click on the header for description, yeah.
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Alli Alosa: And then on the side, edit this field in line.
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Alli Alosa: So
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Dan Fellars: Oh
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Alli Alosa: you could shut them all off.
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Dan Fellars: I don’t know if I knew that.
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Dan Fellars: Did
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Alli Alosa: It’s
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Dan Fellars: they?
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Dan Fellars: I
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Alli Alosa: really
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Dan Fellars: don’t think
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Alli Alosa: useful.
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Dan Fellars: they announced
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Alli Alosa: It was kind of under the dire the radar.
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Alli Alosa: I I can’t recall.
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Alli Alosa: It was a while ago.
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Alli Alosa: But it was it was nice.
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Dan Fellars: That that is nice.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, that’s cool.
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Dan Fellars: So you could still do.
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Dan Fellars: okay yeah, so you could do edit, and then yeah, it doesn’t let you do the ones.
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Dan Fellars: Very cool.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah, definitely.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, okay, so now edit and delete is separate.
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Dan Fellars: I know, I know I ran into this where we wanted to allow people to add but not delete.
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Dan Fellars: That is nice to be able to do that.
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Alli Alosa: Absolutely.
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Dan Fellars: So now it’s there.
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Dan Fellars: Now it’s not there.
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Dan Fellars: Very cool.
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Dan Fellars: That’s a good one.
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Dan Fellars: Oh yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Create permissions per level.
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Dan Fellars: yeah.
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Dan Fellars: So if you have a list here with multiple levels.
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Dan Fellars: I don’t think I
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Alli Alosa: Yeah,
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Dan Fellars: gotta
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Alli Alosa: good.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, so now you can set permissions.
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Dan Fellars: Now there’s this option here where each one is configurable.
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Dan Fellars: That’s very cool.
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Alli Alosa: Super useful
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Dan Fellars: Yep.
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Dan Fellars: We had that option as well, where on one level we wanted the ability to add, but not on the other level.
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Dan Fellars: So
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Alli Alosa: definitely.
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Dan Fellars: that is that wasn’t nice.
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Dan Fellars: And I like how I think how they implement it is very easy.
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Alli Alosa: Absolutely.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: Very similar to the record detail panel as well, like when you turn those on per level.
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Alli Alosa: I always think that it was implemented nicely.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, Okay, better collaboration use board.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, so in comments there’s Copy a link to a comment.
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Dan Fellars: So let’s go into comments.
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Dan Fellars: Let’s do this.
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Dan Fellars: So now you can Okay, so all of this is new, so it didn’t have a markdown.
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Alli Alosa: Mm-mm.
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Dan Fellars: Alright.
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Alli Alosa: It you could do links, I thought, but no,
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: couldn’t you could just hyperlink you couldn’t hyperlink text, I don’t think.
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Dan Fellars: Right.
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Alli Alosa: That’s really useful.
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Alli Alosa: There’s other places I and we’ve talked about this on the show before, I know Kamille has listed all the places that they should have the rich text, I think once or twice.
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Alli Alosa: But I would really love them in field descriptions and table descriptions.
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Alli Alosa: would be really nice to have rich text
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, agreed.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, how do we get the link to a comment?
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Alli Alosa: Oh
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Dan Fellars: Maybe we didn’t make it first, and then here we go.
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Dan Fellars: Copy link to comment
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Alli Alosa: Very nice.
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Dan Fellars: So you can copy into a comment.
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Dan Fellars: Takes you right in there.
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Dan Fellars: Look at that.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: That’s cool.
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Dan Fellars: That works nice.
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Dan Fellars: Once the other thing, I think we’ve already talked about it, but now they you can’t They have exposed comment at the automation level.
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Dan Fellars: here here’s where you can see the remaining.
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Dan Fellars: We talked about that.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, so now there’s when comment added.
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Dan Fellars: There isn’t a comment updated trigger.
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Dan Fellars: That would be nice.
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Alli Alosa: It would.
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Dan Fellars: yeah.
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Dan Fellars: But although I guess Yeah, you can update, you can modify your your comments.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah, you can edit it.
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Alli Alosa: I wonder if it triggers off replies.
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Alli Alosa: I would assume so.
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Alli Alosa: Like if you’re replying in a thread.
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Dan Fellars: I think
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Alli Alosa: a reasonable.
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Dan Fellars: that would be a good comment added, yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, and we did I think we looked at that in a previous video.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, calendar.
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Dan Fellars: Now I haven’t I haven’t played much.
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Dan Fellars: So start your calendar week on the day you want.
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Dan Fellars: So you can pick the start day, see now at a glance in calendar views.
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Dan Fellars: We played with the new calendars.
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Alli Alosa: Not with that.
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Alli Alosa: Which could
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Dan Fellars: Let’s
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Alli Alosa: be
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Dan Fellars: see
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Alli Alosa: cool.
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Dan Fellars: I wonder if this is referring to I wonder if it’s just the calendar layout.
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Alli Alosa: The viewers well.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Or can you there isn’t a calendar view like in a dashboard, right?
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Alli Alosa: You can use a calendar and a dashboard.
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Alli Alosa: Th
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Dan Fellars: Let’s
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Alli Alosa: I think
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Dan Fellars: do this.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, so that’s ch I guess you can any i it’s just a visualization, so yeah you could okay where’s our options to
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Alli Alosa: If
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Dan Fellars: click
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Alli Alosa: you click
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Dan Fellars: into
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Alli Alosa: on the
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Dan Fellars: here
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Alli Alosa: under date settings or well there’s where you can start the week on something next to that, where’s this browser default?
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Alli Alosa: then I would assume when you see in the in the calendar itself, You can see where it says month next to today.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah, there.
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Alli Alosa: If you see is now there.
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Dan Fellars: Interesting.
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Dan Fellars: What’s interesting is it only gives you those three, which are the common ones, but
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Alli Alosa: Great.
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Dan Fellars: the tech said any day
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Alli Alosa: Yeah, right?
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Alli Alosa: That’s right.
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Dan Fellars: What I
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Alli Alosa: That’s
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Dan Fellars: want to
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Alli Alosa: funny.
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Dan Fellars: start my week on Friday and end on Sunday.
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Alli Alosa: Right.
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Alli Alosa: Oh, now show and now line.
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Alli Alosa: Okay, I see.
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Alli Alosa: Then the line is gonna be shown I’m guessing if you have it on like the day layout.
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Alli Alosa: so that it’s or the three days.
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Alli Alosa: it’ll just have a the time, I think, like Yeah, go to day.
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Alli Alosa: And scroll down because it’s maybe there’s nothing there.
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Alli Alosa: Interesting.
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Alli Alosa: Oh, I think because you needed the date, the date to have a time field, whatever date you’re pointing
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Dan Fellars: Mm,
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Alli Alosa: it
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Dan Fellars: right, Yeah, these only have these are day shields.
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Dan Fellars: Okay.
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Alli Alosa: One thing that
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: really bothers me about the day layout though, like, is that it starts at midnight.
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Alli Alosa: So it doesn’t your screen will look like this, even if there’s stuff down below, because it just starts too high on the screen.
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Dan Fellars: Right.
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Alli Alosa: If that So if I never use it because it’s like I don’t I don’t have events between midnight and eight a m, generally speaking.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, right, makes sense.
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Dan Fellars: Cool, Reset on the revisit.
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Dan Fellars: No Okay, so no more date options on calendar.
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Dan Fellars: That’s nice.
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Dan Fellars: smaller updates type to select the first linked record.
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Dan Fellars: So linked record fields now auto highlight the first filter match.
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Dan Fellars: Begin typing your search and press enter to select.
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Dan Fellars: So you no longer have to hit the and the arrow key.
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Dan Fellars: That’s kind of nice.
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Dan Fellars: New detail page are easier to orient in.
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Dan Fellars: New record detail page now show a visible group title by default.
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Dan Fellars: Gemini model and then close the templates hub by clicking outside of it’s a bug.
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Dan Fellars: Cool Let’s go on.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, more more automations interface and navigation.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, so automation look up a record directly by its record ID.
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Alli Alosa: That’s awesome.
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Dan Fellars: does that mean?
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Alli Alosa: It’s so before if you say you wanted to find a record on another table to be like where the record ID matches this record ID I have.
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Alli Alosa: Like I have the record ID of the record I’m looking for, and I need to find it.
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Alli Alosa: Previously you would have had to have a formula field on that table with the record ID in the field so that you could point the fine record step at that field.
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Alli Alosa: But now you can just say just use the record ID.
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Alli Alosa: You don’t need to have the field existing on your
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Dan Fellars: Right, Here it is right here.
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Dan Fellars: So they added this.
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Dan Fellars: So it used to just be condition and view.
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Dan Fellars: Now they have record ID.
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Dan Fellars: Now here’s the question.
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Dan Fellars: Does it still return an array?
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Dan Fellars: Oh yeah, because it’s record ID, so you could have multiple comma separated.
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Alli Alosa: That’s actually awesome.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: So I think it and probably even if you just have one, it probably still treats it as an array, like the
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Alli Alosa: would
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Dan Fellars: find
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Alli Alosa: assume so.
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Dan Fellars: records did.
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Alli Alosa: Yes.
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Dan Fellars: so yeah, it always so here’s kind of something I think in a later one, but now you can find up to 4,000 records.
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Dan Fellars: interesting it still defaults to 1,000.
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Alli Alosa: The one thing I never I almost I rarely use The find record step to find lots of records because generally I’m doing something with a script after that.
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Alli Alosa: And so in the script, you can’t really pass those record IDs to it.
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Alli Alosa: Cause there’s a limit, I think, of a hundred record IDs that it can select at a time in a script.
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Alli Alosa: I can’t remember what the limit is, but I wish they would raise that as well because it would be really useful to use it in tandem with this.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: that makes sense.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, that that is nice.
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Dan Fellars: There’s been times where we we have to come up with some crazy looping approach to get all of them.
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Dan Fellars: that’s good.
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Dan Fellars: I wonder the other thing is like you know the sorting, I I don’t use the sort list much.
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Dan Fellars: Part of it is because What I wish they would do is put sorting into the conditional
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Alli Alosa: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: where you can have a condition and then sort your output.
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Dan Fellars: I wish they added sorting right here.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: agree.
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Alli Alosa: I mean the other thing that is frustrating is even if you sort it, like depending on why you need to sort it, might not even be helpful because if you’re trying to loop over those records.
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Alli Alosa: It doesn’t matter, ‘cause like you could sort them, but they’re gonna just fire in whatever order it wants.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: That’s when we need the sequential logic, yeah, for looping.
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Dan Fellars: That would be nice.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Then you could sort it beforehand and go in the order you want.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: we’ll see if they if they add those.
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Dan Fellars: Return a single record you can use.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, so now can now return just one record ready to use in your next set.
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Dan Fellars: No more scripting or array indexing to pull it out of a list.
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Dan Fellars: Okay I didn’t see that.
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Dan Fellars: Where’s that?
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Alli Alosa: when you so if you find a record and then go to use that output, then you can as part of the you know picker when you’re picking the data piece you want.
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Alli Alosa: It’s like use entire list or return I think yeah let’s see.
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Alli Alosa: let’s see if we
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Dan Fellars: See if it might not work on the
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Alli Alosa: Yeah it wouldn’t
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Dan Fellars: Unless
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Alli Alosa: be in that one.
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Alli Alosa: If
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Dan Fellars: so
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Alli Alosa: you go
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Dan Fellars: I
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Alli Alosa: to
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Dan Fellars: got
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Alli Alosa: like
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Dan Fellars: an
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Alli Alosa: an update.
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Dan Fellars: update.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah, here and then the record ID, and then their entire list or first item.
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Dan Fellars: So you can just do that, yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Okay.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, I I have seen that.
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Dan Fellars: Yep.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, that comes in handy, because yeah, I’ve had to do sometimes I’ve had to like create a script that just takes the first element and then outputs it as an object.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Crazy.
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Dan Fellars: Trigger on a specific value change.
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Dan Fellars: Okay.
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Dan Fellars: That’s a big one.
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Dan Fellars: Let’s
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Alli Alosa: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: let’s check that one out.
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Alli Alosa: This might be really like I
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Dan Fellars: Is
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Alli Alosa: I can
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Dan Fellars: it
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Alli Alosa: count
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Dan Fellars: this
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Alli Alosa: on
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Dan Fellars: one?
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Alli Alosa: maybe Yeah record updated.
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Alli Alosa: Oh no, when field changes.
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Dan Fellars: Wind
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Alli Alosa: That’s
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Dan Fellars: field changes.
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Alli Alosa: trigger.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, it’s a new trigger.
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Dan Fellars: Status.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, so if it goes from any of these.
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Dan Fellars: Let’s see.
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Dan Fellars: Or it could be that’s interesting.
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Dan Fellars: What if it was blank
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Alli Alosa: Yeah,
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Dan Fellars: and you want
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Alli Alosa: right.
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Dan Fellars: it to
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Alli Alosa: Then you could just use when record matches
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Dan Fellars: condition,
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Alli Alosa: conditions.
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Dan Fellars: yeah.
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Alli Alosa: But still even that though isn’t the same thing because what if like that would tri that could trigger two automations if you had them both set up.
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Dan Fellars: Okay.
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Dan Fellars: So if it goes from to do to in progress, which is kind of cool.
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Alli Alosa: super useful.
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Dan Fellars: The thing that’s tricky is like if you wanted to be like okay as long as if it goes from anything other than you know in progress to in progress.
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Dan Fellars: Tricky part is if you ever add an option to the dropdown, then you gotta come back into here and check it.
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Dan Fellars: yeah, it’d be nice if this had like full filter control where it is not, you know, in progress and then moves to in progress.
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Alli Alosa: And then you could
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Dan Fellars: But
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Alli Alosa: just use when record matches conditions in that case, but the
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: but the I really like the benefit of this of being like I know it was in this status before it switched to this one.
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Alli Alosa: Like to be able ‘Cause that’s a request I get a lot from clients is like, I want to know what the value was before it changed.
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Alli Alosa: And that’s it’s doable, but y with a bunch of crazy workarounds.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Dan Fellars: That’s true.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, that’s a cool one.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, interfaces freeze columns in list view.
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Dan Fellars: It can stay visible as you scroll, just like in grid view.
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Dan Fellars: Let’s check that out.
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Dan Fellars: Okay.
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Dan Fellars: Does it work with levels?
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Dan Fellars: How do we freeze?
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Alli Alosa: On the right hand column, there’s a toggle freeze first column.
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Dan Fellars: There you go.
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Dan Fellars: That’s cool.
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Dan Fellars: You can’t do the multi column.
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Dan Fellars: Sometimes you have like two or three, so it looks like it’s only the first
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Alli Alosa: Can you drag that over though?
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Alli Alosa: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: No, I guess not.
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Alli Alosa: Is there another picker like Interesting.
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Alli Alosa: I wonder if it doesn’t maybe because you only have one field on the top level?
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Alli Alosa: I don’t know.
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Alli Alosa: I’m just curious.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Interesting.
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Alli Alosa: But it does say specifically first column.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, first column, yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Here it says freeze columns.
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Dan Fellars: Well freeze the first column, yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Okay.
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Dan Fellars: But yeah, in grid view you can freeze multiple more than one.
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Alli Alosa: Drag it over.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Aggregations in interface lists, interface list view, and list page now show field totals and summaries at the foot, just like in grid views.
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Alli Alosa: I do like this.
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Alli Alosa: There’s a couple of things I wish they would change.
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Alli Alosa: but it is Extremely useful
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Dan Fellars: That’s cool.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, that is that is nice.
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Dan Fellars: I miss that, yeah, with the grouping.
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Dan Fellars: and you can pick which fields you want right here.
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Dan Fellars: So that’s cool.
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Dan Fellars: So it’s in the summary section.
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Alli Alosa: Really, really useful.
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Alli Alosa: The one thing I would say is it’s not a problem here on the list layout, but if you are putting a list onto a record detail page or onto the dashboard and you have it the size set to, you know, small, medium, or whatever.
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Alli Alosa: So it’s not like full size list.
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Alli Alosa: That summary is hidden because if your list is so long that it has a scroll bar, the summary you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom to see it.
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Alli Alosa: which to me feels a little weird.
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Alli Alosa: But other than that, I’m super happy with this.
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Dan Fellars: But it looks like it only does I wonder if you have multiple levels, does it put it at each level?
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Dan Fellars: Cause I don’t see the total it doesn’t do a total grouping across all of them.
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Alli Alosa: Oh, interesting.
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Dan Fellars: Let’s see.
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Dan Fellars: Here’s Oh, they went away.
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Dan Fellars: I gotta interesting.
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Dan Fellars: So it’s only the lowest level.
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Dan Fellars: It doesn’t summarize, so it’s just within that grouping.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: So that’s a little I mean I guess I feel like it’s really easy for these list layouts to just look messy with with all the different things.
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Alli Alosa: So I’m wondering if maybe that’s a struggle just to get the UI right on that.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, with all these ad records and everything going on.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, for sure.
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Dan Fellars: Alright, pre-stack totals in kanban view.
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Dan Fellars: Can now show a summary for each stack.
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Dan Fellars: I.
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Dan Fellars: the sum, not just the card count.
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Dan Fellars: I haven’t
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Alli Alosa: Next.
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Dan Fellars: don’t do much can views.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, let’s summarize them.
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Dan Fellars: Skay, Okay.
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Dan Fellars: so you can give a count.
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Dan Fellars: What is this?
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Dan Fellars: Summary.
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Alli Alosa: it’s kind of like the timeline.
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Alli Alosa: That’s cool.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah, the label.
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Alli Alosa: So right now at the bottom it says count in the bottom left corner of the Kanban.
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Dan Fellars: Mm, mm-hmm.
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Alli Alosa: you can that’s what function name means if but you can change that to custom and you could say like T you can type number of tasks or whatever you want.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, and then you can set up your colors.
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Dan Fellars: That’s cool.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah,
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Dan Fellars: Comes
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Alli Alosa: I
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Dan Fellars: in
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Alli Alosa: like
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Dan Fellars: handy.
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Alli Alosa: that.
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Dan Fellars: Filter interface pages by ratings fields.
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Dan Fellars: Okay,
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Alli Alosa: Ooh.
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Dan Fellars: I guess you couldn’t filter by a rating before.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah, because it’s technically a number under the hood.
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Alli Alosa: So number fields don’t work for the dropdowns, but rating would make sense to Be able to do.
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Alli Alosa: That’s awesome.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, grid elements you can lock fields now match list elements to lock fields so it can’t be edited inside the grid.
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Dan Fellars: Oh so like what we talked about where you could Good view here.
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Dan Fellars: Now you can
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Alli Alosa: Yeah, turn
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Dan Fellars: edit
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Alli Alosa: that off.
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Dan Fellars: this.
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Dan Fellars: That’s cool.
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Alli Alosa: Very
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Dan Fellars: That’s actually
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Alli Alosa: nice.
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Dan Fellars: really cool.
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Dan Fellars: I didn’t realize that.
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Dan Fellars: I I have a use case for this where People really like the you know Excel grid view, but we didn’t want to allow edits of every field.
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Dan Fellars: So that’s actually really nice.
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Dan Fellars: Cool.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, frictionless editing, bulk download attachments.
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Dan Fellars: So download every file in an attachment cell in one click instead of one at a time.
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Alli Alosa: Amazing.
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Alli Alosa: Been asking for that since like that was like one of the very first things I ever posted about on the Airtable Forum like seven years ago.
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Dan Fellars: Arrow and tab keys work in expanded cells again.
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Dan Fellars: let’s see, arrow and tab keys.
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Dan Fellars: Oh that’s that was your request.
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Alli Alosa: Yes.
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Dan Fellars: That’s
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Alli Alosa: Thank
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Dan Fellars: right.
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Alli Alosa: you so much, Bending Spoons.
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Alli Alosa: I am so, happy.
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Dan Fellars: Yep.
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Dan Fellars: This one gets a gold star.
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Dan Fellars: Bending Spoons team was watching our podcast and Alli was lamenting on the pains of this feature, and they added it back.
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Alli Alosa: Amazing.
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Alli Alosa: Yes, that made me so happy.
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Dan Fellars: Tab in arrow keys advanced and linked records.
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Dan Fellars: How this was also one of yours, right?
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Alli Alosa: It was similar.
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Alli Alosa: Well it was along the same kind of thing.
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Alli Alosa: but no mine was really number ten.
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Alli Alosa: But the Us tab and out to move Okay.
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Dan Fellars: Creator search a linked record inline and use tab and arrow keys to move focus to the next field again.
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Dan Fellars: Gotcha.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: So after you clicked, it wouldn’t let you hit tab to go to the next one.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, formulator.
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Dan Fellars: This one’s from us.
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Dan Fellars: I know we talked about this one.
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Dan Fellars: Let’s go.
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Dan Fellars: Okay.
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Dan Fellars: Let’s find the formula.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, if we’re going here.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, so everybody’s experienced the pain of this window having to expand it like this.
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Dan Fellars: That’s as far as you can get.
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Dan Fellars: Sometime when I’m working directly on my laptop, I couldn’t even get it wouldn’t even expand enough for me to like see a single line.
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Dan Fellars: It was frustrating.
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Dan Fellars: So now this icon is new and you open it up and now you have a much bigger window.
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Dan Fellars: But there’s some there’s some downsides to this.
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Dan Fellars: I know Kavan called out some room for improvement here.
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Dan Fellars: What is she mentioned?
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Alli Alosa: She said, it’s especially like depending on where you opened this.
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Alli Alosa: So for us we can actually kind of still see the field name on the behind the window here, but It would be great to be able to see the name of the field that we’re editing in this modal here in the pop up,
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: because otherwise it could easily just be behind the window and you could just be like, wait a second, what field am I editing again?
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: That’s kind of the one let’s see.
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Dan Fellars: That’s probably the one thing, yeah that you miss out on.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, and that and that should be an easy fix to just put the field name right there.
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Alli Alosa: Mm-hmm.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: If you’re watching Bending Spoons, put the title on there.
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Dan Fellars: Formatting, yeah, I don’t think you need your formatting up here.
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Alli Alosa: it’d be great to have this in roll up fields too.
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Dan Fellars: That’s right, that was the other one.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Roll ups.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: And roll-ups don’t even like if you’re typing a field name in roll ups, it doesn’t give you the picker.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: I could go on.
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Alli Alosa: I’ve got a whole list of things.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: right here.
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Dan Fellars: Put it right there.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, unless the time your roll up is shorter, your formula.
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Dan Fellars: But not always.
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Alli Alosa: Not if
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Dan Fellars: So
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Alli Alosa: you’re me.
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Alli Alosa: I
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: I abuse.
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Alli Alosa: abuse roll up fields.
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Dan Fellars: and it would be nice if you could get the full, you know the AI helper and autocomplete.
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Dan Fellars: Like have to know your formulas, right?
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Alli Alosa: have to know the name, yeah.
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Alli Alosa: I I so often I’ll get like halfway done with the formula and then I can’t access the field pickers like have to open it in a new window to go find the name of the field.
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Alli Alosa: It’s just
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Dan Fellars: But yeah, the is this new or did it always
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Alli Alosa: No.
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Dan Fellars: give you
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Alli Alosa: It always gave that just for the aggregate
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Dan Fellars: Oh yeah, yeah.
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Dan Fellars: So yeah, it doesn’t it doesn’t Until you type it, you’re like, okay, I got it right.
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Dan Fellars: And then
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Alli Alosa: Exactly.
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Dan Fellars: it switches colors.
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Alli Alosa: Like when it turns purple I know it’s fine.
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Dan Fellars: Yep, yeah.
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Dan Fellars: for sure.
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Dan Fellars: That should the very least you should be able to ampersand and get it.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: I didn’t even know that worked.
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Dan Fellars: I guess actually I guess that just works like that, yeah.
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Dan Fellars: those are those are nice.
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Dan Fellars: There’s a couple more to put on the list there.
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Dan Fellars: Easier navigation, search shared interfaces by base name.
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Dan Fellars: Shared interfaces by base name.
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Dan Fellars: Is that on the outer quick switcher for interfaces shared with you by the base name, even if you don’t have access.
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Dan Fellars: Oh, gotcha, gotcha.
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Dan Fellars: So if you’re in if you’re in the root.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: If it’s shared with you and you’re like, I know the base name.
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Dan Fellars: I can’t remember the interface name.
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Dan Fellars: You can search.
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Dan Fellars: And it’ll show you all of them, all of the interfaces by that.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, cool,
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Alli Alosa: That’s
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Dan Fellars: cool.
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Alli Alosa: useful.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Find a page using its link, paste a page’s link into search to jump straight to it.
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Dan Fellars: That’s kinda nice.
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Dan Fellars: So if you have the link.
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Dan Fellars: You can just go here and search by it.
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Dan Fellars: OT.
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Alli Alosa: And
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Dan Fellars: Just hit enter and it takes you there.
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Alli Alosa: That’s cool, I guess.
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Dan Fellars: I guess how’s
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Alli Alosa: a little
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Dan Fellars: that different
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Alli Alosa: confusing.
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Dan Fellars: than just pasting it into the browser tab?
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Alli Alosa: Yeah, right.
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Alli Alosa: one thing I noticed somewhat recently is like, you know how you can use a record ID?
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Alli Alosa: Like instead of copy and pasting the record name into a linked record field, you can paste the ID and it’ll link to the same record.
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Alli Alosa: You can also paste the entire URL of that record.
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Alli Alosa: And it will It will link to the correct record, which is very
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Dan Fellars: Nice.
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Alli Alosa: in some ways.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, that’s cool.
[00:38:31]
Dan Fellars: Multi-select when creating a token.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, so this is in Builder Hub, the scope picker.
[00:38:36]
Dan Fellars: Oh, this is so annoying when you create a scope for a personal access token.
[00:38:43]
Dan Fellars: It closes the window closed every time, and then you’d open it up again and click a new one.
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Dan Fellars: So now if you’ve ever created a Token.
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Dan Fellars: So now scopes will stay open like that.
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Alli Alosa: That’s nice.
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Dan Fellars: And then open it again.
[00:39:08]
Dan Fellars: So this is nice.
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Dan Fellars: I do wish there was a check all.
[00:39:14]
Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: But it does force you to have to think about what your scopes you want are.
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Dan Fellars: Very good.
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Dan Fellars: Let’s keep going.
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Dan Fellars: We’re twenty minutes in.
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Dan Fellars: Okay.
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Dan Fellars: Omni 2.0.
[00:39:27]
Dan Fellars: So they bit.
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Dan Fellars: So now I’m kind of like you.
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Dan Fellars: I I I kind of just connect Claude to it and I use Claude to to do my building.
[00:39:36]
Dan Fellars: I haven’t used Omni in months.
[00:39:41]
Dan Fellars: but that’s good to know that it’s improved if you don’t have an external AI agent, then you can use Omni.
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Dan Fellars: There are some things that Omni can still only do.
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Alli Alosa: Mm-hmm.
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Dan Fellars: Hopefully
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Alli Alosa: I
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Dan Fellars: that changes
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Alli Alosa: Yeah, that I definitely hope so.
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Alli Alosa: I was I got so confused the other day, like it started telling me that it couldn’t do a thing that I’ve literally done a million times and like have like I’m like this is What do you mean you can’t do it?
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Alli Alosa: You can.
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Alli Alosa: I’ve I did this yesterday.
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Dan Fellars: Claude or Omni?
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Alli Alosa: Omni, it was like Yeah, just adding a custom element to a dashboard.
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Alli Alosa: Like not a full interface page.
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Alli Alosa: I wanted a custom element, which is like I’ve gone over I did a whole episode on it like a year ago, but like it’s I wanted to be able to like have a I wanted my own pivot table on a dashboard that I had already had.
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Alli Alosa: Like I wanted to summarize by two things.
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Alli Alosa: But it kept being like, I can’t add it to an existing dashboard.
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Alli Alosa: And I was like, yes, but you but you can’t.
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Alli Alosa: I don’t know.
[00:40:47]
Alli Alosa: I don’t know why it’s saying it can’t now.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, interesting.
[00:40:53]
Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, so yeah, Omni, new and improved.
[00:40:57]
Dan Fellars: Yeah, I’d be curious, anybody watching, if you use Omni, what what the upgrade feels like.
[00:41:07]
Dan Fellars: Okay.
[00:41:08]
Dan Fellars: This is this is one that’s cool.
[00:41:11]
Dan Fellars: So now forms can be built.
[00:41:13]
Dan Fellars: So I guess Omni 2.0 or Omni before couldn’t do forms, or maybe it could, I don’t know.
[00:41:18]
Dan Fellars: But now it can edit them and now you can do it via MCP.
[00:41:22]
Dan Fellars: I like that they’re they understand like to try to get MCP to be where you could do anything in the in the you know interface level.
[00:41:34]
Dan Fellars: through the MCP.
[00:41:35]
Dan Fellars: That’s if they can get to full compliance, that would be huge.
[00:41:41]
Dan Fellars: They’re getting closer.
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Alli Alosa: Definitely.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: I just
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Dan Fellars: So
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Alli Alosa: noticed a difference yesterday between yesterday and the day before there was like a big difference even like in what Cloud was able to do for me, which was really cool
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Dan Fellars: that’s cool.
[00:41:58]
Dan Fellars: Yeah, there’s that.
[00:42:00]
Dan Fellars: Okay, so this is this is where you’ve been playing.
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Alli Alosa: yes
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Dan Fellars: So now you can create custom interface elements through the MCP server.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, what does that mean?
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Alli Alosa: I think it’s what I was talking about.
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Alli Alosa: I wonder if it if it like it feels like they took Omni’s ability away and maybe gave it to Claude.
[00:42:20]
Alli Alosa: So it’s not a full I mean to the other to the MCP, whatever, but on a dashboard, you can have a custom coded element
[00:42:29]
Dan Fellars: Element.
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Alli Alosa: on the dashboard
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: page.
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Alli Alosa: So, for example, like my use case the other day was I had I had two pivot tables next to each other because I wanted a count and a sum.
[00:42:40]
Alli Alosa: And I was like, this is just confusing seeing them next to each other.
[00:42:43]
Alli Alosa: I want just one pivot table.
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Alli Alosa: so this would be a great use case for that where you could custom code a pivot table that’s showing you both things.
[00:42:52]
Alli Alosa: or really anything you want.
[00:42:53]
Alli Alosa: Like they have a heat map in their example that’s really cool.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, because the difference there is they host the code, the code all resides within their table.
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Dan Fellars: Well I guess it always does, but you’re not testing it locally, running it locally like the full blown custom extension.
[00:43:13]
Dan Fellars: Yeah.
[00:43:14]
Dan Fellars: Okay.
[00:43:15]
Dan Fellars: So that’s cool.
[00:43:16]
Dan Fellars: So it’ll write the code and do it.
[00:43:18]
Dan Fellars: And you could And this is this just inside a dashboard?
[00:43:23]
Dan Fellars: You you can also insert custom elements in other views, right.
[00:43:27]
Alli Alosa: Not that I know of unless they’ve changed it with this update.
[00:43:30]
Alli Alosa: I’ve yearned for them on record detail pages.
[00:43:34]
Alli Alosa: Like I’m like I really wish I could have that here, but not that I know of yet.
[00:43:40]
Dan Fellars: Okay, so you can’t put Yeah, so there’s no way Put a custom element.
[00:43:51]
Dan Fellars: That would be cool.
[00:43:53]
Dan Fellars: Some reason I thought there was one other page where you could maybe what about a record review page
[00:44:02]
Alli Alosa: I
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Dan Fellars: Not
[00:44:02]
Alli Alosa: don’t think
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Dan Fellars: there either.
[00:44:04]
Alli Alosa: Don’t think so.
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Dan Fellars: Nope, Okay, so just dashboard, but you could in theory like create a dashboard page and Just have one big element that was a custom element.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: Definitely.
[00:44:27]
Dan Fellars: that’s kind of there’s your custom.
[00:44:32]
Alli Alosa: So this is really strange is like the you can connect it to an a custom element that you’ve coded and have locally.
[00:44:42]
Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: but then you can ask Omni, like there’s I don’t think you can insert code.
[00:44:49]
Alli Alosa: You can’t use that insert custom to insert your own code here.
[00:44:52]
Alli Alosa: Like have to do it and you have to like go in through the back door somehow.
[00:44:57]
Dan Fellars: Interesting.
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Alli Alosa: but omni up until literally yesterday to my knowledge, you could just be like omni add a custom interface element to this page that is a and you have to kind of be careful in your the way you word it if you are using Omni, especially because If I just said create me a custom pivot table, it would probably
[00:45:20]
Alli Alosa: just put a pivot table, like the the native one.
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Alli Alosa: So sometimes I kind of like trick it by being like, make me a heat map, like something I don’t actually need, and then it gives me the place that I could now edit the code, and then I take it over from there.
[00:45:36]
Alli Alosa: So
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Dan Fellars: That’s interesting, yeah.
[00:45:38]
Dan Fellars: I wonder is it yeah, I don’t know why they don’t they should make that here or create new, you know.
[00:45:47]
Dan Fellars: That’s
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Alli Alosa: makes
[00:45:47]
Dan Fellars: interesting.
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Alli Alosa: it it’s like a black box to me.
[00:45:49]
Alli Alosa: It’s like, okay, like and there’s not even a way to like it doesn’t tell you how to add things to that list.
[00:45:56]
Alli Alosa: From there.
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Dan Fellars: Right, Yeah, it’s kinda let’s see, yeah.
[00:46:05]
Dan Fellars: Interesting, and you can’t not here.
[00:46:09]
Dan Fellars: Yeah.
[00:46:12]
Dan Fellars: Okay, so yeah, at some point they’ll make that more straightforward.
[00:46:19]
Dan Fellars: But now you can do it through MCP, which is huge.
[00:46:22]
Dan Fellars: Yeah.
[00:46:24]
Dan Fellars: Cool, Okay, getting close to the end.
[00:46:27]
Dan Fellars: Here’s a big update.
[00:46:29]
Dan Fellars: Okay, so we already talked about finding records above a thousand, so now you can go up to four thousand.
[00:46:34]
Dan Fellars: We showed you that.
[00:46:36]
Dan Fellars: Run automation buttons on interface pages.
[00:46:39]
Dan Fellars: So now you can place run automation buttons on interface pages.
[00:46:44]
Dan Fellars: Until now they are only available on record detail and review layouts.
[00:46:47]
Dan Fellars: That means your team can kick off an automation right from the page where they’re already working with no need to open each record.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, let’s test that out.
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Alli Alosa: So I haven’t tested this and this I ha it has really piqued my interest.
[00:47:02]
Alli Alosa: I’m very excited.
[00:47:03]
Alli Alosa: Let’s see.
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Alli Alosa: What can it does?
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Alli Alosa: Can it Does it return what the filters of the page were?
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Dan Fellars: Let’s see.
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Dan Fellars: It just tells you the user
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Alli Alosa: What about input?
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Dan Fellars: step run a few times.
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Alli Alosa: Interesting.
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Dan Fellars: Doesn’t tell you.
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Dan Fellars: Let’s
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Alli Alosa: If
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Dan Fellars: try
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Alli Alosa: you
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Dan Fellars: clicking that.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah, that’s
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Dan Fellars: It’s gotta be deployed.
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Dan Fellars: See what can I get from button clicked, only the user.
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Alli Alosa: thing.
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Alli Alosa: I’m gonna try on a list view on my source.
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Alli Alosa: What’s what is the
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, it’s only the user.
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Dan Fellars: That’s not very helpful.
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Alli Alosa: If you go into the interface and then see source mouse over that.
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Alli Alosa: It says records and filters from this page are not past the automation.
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Alli Alosa: But why would they have a dropdown and have it be gray out?
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Alli Alosa: How like Are there other pages where you could pass them?
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Alli Alosa: Like
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Dan Fellars: If
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Alli Alosa: if you add a
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Dan Fellars: you
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Alli Alosa: filter.
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Dan Fellars: if you I wonder if let’s see like on this one this whole page is tight well I guess there’s multiple tables
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Alli Alosa: Let’s see.
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Dan Fellars: Source, record.
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Dan Fellars: I think it’s because when you have it on a record view page, then there’s a source.
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Alli Alosa: Okay, yeah, so that makes sense.
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Dan Fellars: So it’s
[00:49:21]
Alli Alosa: But
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Dan Fellars: kind of the same.
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Alli Alosa: yeah, if they’re just reusing the same UI.
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Alli Alosa: But I’m hoping the fact that they left it there and made that note in the tooltip is exactly what I’ve been mentioning for since day one when interfaces came out, is I would love, if that button did pass the records and filters.
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Alli Alosa: to the automation.
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Alli Alosa: That would be the only like one of the only reasons I would want a button on the list view would be like send an email to everybody on this on my screen right now.
[00:49:50]
Alli Alosa: Or like, you know, whatever, run it run an automation on this selected group of records.
[00:49:57]
Alli Alosa: That would be really powerful.
[00:49:59]
Alli Alosa: And so it seems like the infrastructure might be in place to maybe someday allow for that.
[00:50:03]
Alli Alosa: So that would really cool.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Gotcha.
[00:50:09]
Dan Fellars: Okay.
[00:50:10]
Dan Fellars: Search comments on a record.
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Dan Fellars: Comments are now searchable in the comments panel.
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Dan Fellars: That’s nice.
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Dan Fellars: See selected option first in condition pictures.
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Dan Fellars: Let’s see.
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Dan Fellars: So when you set conditions on a select field with lots of options, you can now see which ones are switched on without scrolling the whole list.
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Dan Fellars: Anywhere you set conditions on a select field, including automation conditions and roll up lookup conditions.
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Dan Fellars: Alright interf interface CSV import remembers your settings.
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Dan Fellars: So if you have I was actually playing with this So if you enable oops at the top level, if you enable import from CSV, and when you come in, you can import and basically all the the mappings and everything once you run it once you do have to import it.
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Dan Fellars: Now one thing, like I I always was confused why this when do you n when is when is your first row not the headers.
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Dan Fellars: Almost always have to click that.
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Alli Alosa: mean it depends, I think, on whether you’re uploading a true maybe you’re copying and pasting.
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Alli Alosa: I don’t know.
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Alli Alosa: Maybe you don’t have headers.
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Alli Alosa: I don’t or maybe you I don’t know.
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Alli Alosa: Sometimes I’ve had weird CSV files that have been treated differently where it does import the header, where it does or it’s strange.
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Dan Fellars: Let’s see if that one got remembered, or if it was just the mapping.
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Dan Fellars: I should I guess I use the default.
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Dan Fellars: Mapping, so there we go.
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Dan Fellars: I remembered it.
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Dan Fellars: Alright, that’s good.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: No, it didn’t remember.
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Dan Fellars: That’s interesting.
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Dan Fellars: I toggled that off, but it
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Alli Alosa: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Hm anyway.
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Dan Fellars: So maybe it just remembers the fields, but they didn’t do the check.
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Dan Fellars: Hide off show all the field dropdowns on a custom interface page.
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Dan Fellars: so yeah, that’s for custom pages.
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Dan Fellars: you can show all it’s kind of a pain you have to go through one at a time.
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Dan Fellars: Deal with that.
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Dan Fellars: Okay, last one.
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Dan Fellars: Full page custom interfaces are now Usable on mobile.
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Dan Fellars: That’s cool.
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Dan Fellars: I haven’t tested that yet.
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Alli Alosa: I haven’t either Russ commented on my post in Slack and said that He tried it and it worked beautifully.
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Alli Alosa: I’m super excited about that.
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Alli Alosa: I’ve got a few clients that are like using a shared link, like making a public link to an interface page that’s custom so that they can access it on their phone.
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Alli Alosa: So this really cuts that out of the necessary
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Dan Fellars: That’s
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Alli Alosa: steps,
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Dan Fellars: funny
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Alli Alosa: which is
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Dan Fellars: because
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Alli Alosa: of
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Dan Fellars: they still have some some layout that don’t work on mobile, right?
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Dan Fellars: Or
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Alli Alosa: Yeah,
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Dan Fellars: have
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Alli Alosa: the
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Dan Fellars: they
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Alli Alosa: blank
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Dan Fellars: timeline doesn’t work.
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Alli Alosa: that’s weird.
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Dan Fellars: roadmap doesn’t work.
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Dan Fellars: That’s funny, they haven’t updated this.
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Alli Alosa: Interesting.
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Dan Fellars: And then blank.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah, desktop only.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: So they need this one on mobile, especially.
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Dan Fellars: Although blank, we’re now kind of just doing custom over blank now.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Dan Fellars: Cool.
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Dan Fellars: That concludes all the latest updates.
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Dan Fellars: Took us an hour to get through them all.
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Dan Fellars: Lots of updates.
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Dan Fellars: We’ll see what what they do the rest of the year.
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Dan Fellars: exciting stuff.
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Dan Fellars: So what was your favorite that they added?
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Alli Alosa: I mean, I’m super excited about the fix that I had asked for, so I’m like really happy about that.
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Alli Alosa: it saves me so much time having that back.
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Alli Alosa: But honestly, I think my favorite.
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Alli Alosa: Oh gosh, I almost just like I was like, wait, no, maybe this other one, maybe this other one.
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Alli Alosa: There’s so many to pick from.
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Alli Alosa: I love the Mob custom interfaces being mobile friendly, that’s a huge one that everybody’s been asking for for a really long time.
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Alli Alosa: I’d say that’s probably my favorite right now.
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Dan Fellars: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: How about you
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Dan Fellars: For me, I would go I’ll give you a big one and a little one.
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Dan Fellars: I like the the automation improvements that they’re making, so I’ll go with the the find by record ID.
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Dan Fellars: I like that one.
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Dan Fellars: As well as like being able to get the first or last single entity in a list.
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Dan Fellars: and then big ones, just the MCP integration, being able to do as much as possible through MCP.
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Dan Fellars: I find myself across all my tools just doing more and more like through my agent and wanting to just make that be kind of how I build things.
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Dan Fellars: and I I think that becomes everybody kind of is setting up how they want to work with their AI and their agents.
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Dan Fellars: And I think we kind of need to go to them as tool builders and, you know, work in their environment.
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Dan Fellars: If you have to if you’re if More and more you’re working with your AI agents, it’ll become a pain and a nuisance to leave that to go to a new interface to work.
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Dan Fellars: Within reason.
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Dan Fellars: Like you still have your UI to like look at your data and everything, but as far as like building tools,
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Alli Alosa: Right.
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Dan Fellars: I think that needs to be inside the agents more and more.
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Alli Alosa: Yeah.
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Alli Alosa: I found that really useful to be instead of having to copy and paste the output from Claude into my interface builder, he can just do it now.
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Alli Alosa: Or it can just do it.
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Dan Fellars: Yep,
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Alli Alosa: Which is
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Dan Fellars: Cool, Let us know your favorites of all the new changes and check out the DevOps series.
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Dan Fellars: And we’ll be back for big announcements.
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Dan Fellars: And if there’s a lot of new features added in the next month or so, then we’ll do another show like this.
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Dan Fellars: So good to be back with everybody.
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Dan Fellars: Have a great week, and we will see you next time.