Mar 20 – Mar 27 2021 Community Roundup

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

Base Design

For an inventory of musical instruments, is it better to put all in one table or separate each type of instrument on a separate table?

Create a record synced to another record in the same table, for scheduling

Header “Rows” as stationary rows

Entering Multiple Values in a Field which are ranked e.g. 1 Burger ,2 Chips ,3 Shakes

Show And Tell/Product Suggestsion

Automation: Allow users to add new options to a predefined list via a form

Notifications window – include name of the Base with the notification

For the Airtable scripters

Youtube Videos

A collection of videos/tutorials/etc hosted on Youtube from members of the Airtable community.

New Updates

New Videos this week:

Airtblae Gannt View for Project Management

Learn Airtable scripting #1: basics & removing duplicates with Giovanni Briggs

Should you use Airtable or Spreedsheets???

Import JSON data into Airtable- NoCodeAPI

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:

(no new content)

Airtable Facebook Community Discussion this week:

Online project management portal for teams
What do you use to build internal tools to create and modify Airtable data?
Release of the Habit Store
Views can be grouped in sections
Personal questions

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

Discussion this week:

What do you want to learn about integrating frontend tools (e.g., Webflow) with Airtable?

You can now create background jobs or trigger Airtable automations from other apps

How can I determine if a Date/Time field is in the past?

FINALLY VIEW SECTIONS

Linked Field -> Plain Text: Is this possible to create a field that will re-create the “linked” field as text?

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