Each week the BuiltOnAir team pulls together the best discussions, updates and activity relating to Airtable happening across the web. Here you can find a weekly summary of those events (click any title to be taken directly to the community item):
Are you aware of or running an Airtable community and want it included in the roundup? If so let us know here.
Airtable Community
An active community for Airtable users, hosted by the Airtable company. The community has frequent interaction across different discussion categories for integrations, ask the community, feature requests, work offered, and more.
New Updates
Creating Link to bring you to entire table
Creating a Master Case Study and Resume Database
Dial a Phone Number in field with Ring Central
Summarize Data for Reporting (In Excel would use Sumifs summing data on different sheets)
How to group freelance vendors by discipline
How can I count the number of multi-select items selected?
(No new content)
Would love a find/replace option!
Product Suggestion: allow column headers to wrap field names onto multiple lines
GAP Videos Community
A learning-focused Youtube channel for people starting out with Airtable, offering a range of videos teaching everything from basic set up to more advanced formulas.
New Update
AIRTABLE GROUPS ON FACEBOOK
Private Facebook groups (requests to join are vetted by admins) to serve the web professionals community and Airtable users of all skill levels.
New Updates
Airtable for Web Professionals Discussion this week:
- Ideas for allowing clients to export a report
- New Button Field in beta
Airtable Facebook Community Discussion this week:
- Using an IF statement to alert due dates
- Help with converting formulas
- How to filter with date + time
- Help with how to create an automation to create record and assign collaborator
Reddit Airtable Community
Active Airtable discussion on the popular online forum. Great option for discussion on Airtable uses, questions, and concerns, using the popular Reddit forum format.
New Updates
- How are you using the new button field
- Help with getting a due date formula to work
- Ways to automate available slots in a booking system
- Video: How to structure your relational data in Airtable
BUILTONAIR COMMUNITY
The social center for all Airtable users and creators, this community includes weekly updates on new threads in the Airtable community, highlights on the best projects built by power users, a library of resources, and the official Built On Air podcast
New Updates
New podcast episode this week:
BUILTONAIR S05:E08 – JON LETTS, ORGANIZATION & COMMUNICATION EXPERT
New Script Added to the Script Library: Bulk Add a Linked Records to Fields that have existing Linked Records
BuiltOnAir Slack community discussions:
- Thoughts on opening a record(expandRecord) after its created via a custom block
- Video: How to set up a simple booking system in Airtable
- Welcome New Members!
Recently created Slack community. Come join us here.
