Added We have added more shortcut (gear) icons to make it easier to edit on-screen elements on our extensions, e.g. form header, portal tables and login page and fields customization.

Improved The Login and Share settings have been merged for the form. These settings are closely linked to each other, so presenting them on the same page should make it much easier to understand how they interact. The login page is now enabled via the “How do users access their records?” setting.

Improved Collaborators have been renamed to “Builders” throughout our platform, in an effort to prevent confusion between end-users, and people who can create or edit extensions.

Improved The number of builders, along with the appropriate limit, is now shown in the usage counters on the dashboard and the workspace settings page.

Improved Select-style settings with only two options now show those options side-by-side on the configuration page to take better advantage of the available space.

Improved When showing a read-only version of the submitted record after submission, the form now scrolls back to the top of the page automatically.

Improved The “View” button to open records from a grid is now less prominent, unless the user hovers over a specific record.

Improved The “Disable form at scheduled date” settings have been tweaked slightly to avoid repetitive titles and decrease clutter on the page.

Improved The “Load more” button on portals and shared views has been redesigned and moved to the bottom left corner of the extension.

Improved The option to show a form field on the side of the previous one has been renamed to “Row placement”, and turned into a select-style settings to decrease confusion.

Improved The “back” button to go from a base’s extensions list to the list of all bases now contains a “Back” label, in addition to the icon.

Fixed Several bug fixes. As always, we will notify affected users directly.

Added You can now hide field titles for portal summary fields! This gives you the ability to either not show a title at all for a more streamlined look, or to set a custom title by simply including it in the field itself.

Added A brief success message is now shown when creating a new linked record through a child form.

Added We have added a shortcut to the dashboard to add our extension from the Airtable Marketplace. This makes it easier to administer the extensions for each base. Give it a try!

Added When running an automation in test mode, the record that has been processed will now be opened automatically for your convenience.

Improved We are now showing the actual extension instead of the configuration page when creating a brand new extension, or when accessing an extension from the dashboard.

Improved Any new forms that are created will now add up to the first 10 fields from your table by default.

Improved Expanding a record in the side panel will no longer squeeze gallery cards to be extremely narrow.

Improved We have grouped the mutually exclusive settings in the form’s Submission Actions section into a dropdown to reduce confusion caused by these settings previously hiding each other.

Improved The default label for the “Open Record” button on the grid is now “View”.

Improved Child forms used exclusively for creating now records now default to “Add” for their submit button label. Other child forms now default to “Save”.

Improved The “Open Form” button will now always open the form, regardless of the settings. If creating records is disabled, it will open a record from the table.

Improved We have renamed some settings in the Users Table & Login section in both the Form and Portal to make them easier to understand.

Improved Email and Field Validation will no longer be applied to read-only form fields, since the user would have no way of resolving the issue themselves.

Improved When opening a base that doesn’t have any extensions in it, the quick start popup that is shown now features table pickers for the form and portal so you can create these extensions with the appropriate settings. Skipping this popup will now take you straight to the Create Extension page.

Improved We’ve streamlined the experience for adding external links to a portal or shared view. The configuration for the new link is now opened immediately once it’s been created.

Improved Search on the create extension page has been improved. We now also detect keywords from the text in the extension recommendation screen shown first, to then present the most relevant extensions and automations.

Improved We have added red asterisks to every required setting in our product’s creation screens.

Improved Portals and shared views can no longer be created without any data tables.

Improved Selecting a view type is now required when creating a portal. Selection is limited to the most popular types (Grid, Gallery, List). Other view types can still be configured once the portal has been created.

Improved We have tweaked the selection mechanism for the default login field for forms and portals to more reliably select an “email” field as the default.

Improved Newly added portal and shared view tables will now only feature the first select field as a dropdown filter by default, instead of adding all select fields from the start.

Improved Linked record fields on child forms are now expandable by default for any new child form.

Improved We’ve added some tooltips in field pickers to explain why certain field types cannot be selected in some cases.

Improved We have made some improvements to the popup shown when trying to understand why you’re ineligible for a certain plan. This should help reduce confusion around this topic.

Improved The “Title” setting for fields and tables has been renamed to “Custom Title”.

Improved The “Embedded Redirect Type” setting has been moved to the Share section, alongside the embed code.

Improved Updating a portal’s user profile will now refresh the tables available to the user, so that any tables that might (no longer) need to be hidden from the user can be shown/hidden accordingly.

Improved We’ve slightly tweaked the landscape setting for our PDF generation automations. It is now a setting to choose between portrait and landscape, instead of just a switch to toggle landscape on or off.

Improved When generating tables using the Invoice Form / Order Form template, the products table will now be pre-populated with a few products.

Improved On the free plan, we now show labels identifying Advanced and Starter extensions in more places.

Improved We now show longer extension titles on the configuration page before truncating.

Improved We have added some icons to buttons across our products for improved clarity.

Improved We have made some improvements to the extension usage counter shown in the top right corner of the dashboard to help reduce confusion on certain plans.

Improved The Advanced section is now hidden for portal/shared view tables in most cases. This will now only show when any of the deprecated settings within are in use.

Improved The “Copy Formula” button found in Automations has been made smaller and renamed to “Get Link”.

Improved The “How to use this extension” buttons shown on configuration pages have been renamed to “Demo”.

Improved Icons have been added to subsection headers found on configuration pages to help them stand out more.

Improved When using a top bar menu in a portal/shared view, a hint will now be shown to make it easier to find the option to add a description.

Fixed Several bug fixes. As always, we will notify affected users directly.

Removed The option to add an internal description to extensions and automations has been deprecated.

Added We have introduced an “Invoice Form” template, which makes it much easier to create a full Airtable and miniExtensions setup for an invoice or purchase order form (or similar). We can even auto-generate all the tables for you so everything is connected correctly out of the box!

Added When adding new views to a portal/shared view table, you are now prompted to select which Airtable views to add. Any views that are selected will be added as a view to the table and their sorting and filtering will be applied. Please note that these new views will still respect the view type set in the table settings, so may not reflect the view type in Airtable when first added.

Added Our PDF generation automations now support landscape mode.

Added We have added a toggle to turn off the field title for a form field. Previously a workaround was needed to achieve this.

Added You can now log into a portal or login form as a random user to test out the Magic Link feature.

Added A banner will now be shown on the dashboard when a workspace subscription is set to be canceled at the end of the billing cycle.

Added We are now checking for correct syntax for common embed URLs (specifically Airtable and YouTube) for external links to prevent confusion when using the incorrect URL for an embedded link.

Improved We have added an additional step to the portal creation process. Users are now asked to confirm if they already have a user table. If the answer is “No”, we provide instructions for how to set this up. This is another step in making it easier to set up a portal. Stay tuned for further improvements!

Improved When reaching the limit for the maximum number of records to be linked in a field, the “Find” and “Create New” buttons will no longer hide completely. This has caused some confusion in the past, so now these buttons will be greyed out instead with a tooltip shown when hovering over them. This should make it much clearer to users why they can’t link or create records.

Improved More field types can now be used when selecting fields for certain settings. Previously, we had restricted types in an overly strict manner. Now, you have more flexibility as to which field to use in automations, or extensions settings.

Improved The “x” icon to unlink records in linked record fields has been replaced with a “-” to prevent confusion with the delete functionality. We have also added a tooltip when hovering over the button to make it clearer what it does.

Improved A redirect delay can now be set when showing a read only version of the record after submission.

Improved We have added some disclaimers to make it clearer that the form table and portal users table cannot be changed once the extensions have been created.

Improved We have renamed the settings in the “Header & Footer” section of the form settings to make them easier to understand.

Improved We have renamed all settings in the popup shown when editing an external link in a portal/shared view to make them easier to understand.

Improved We have renamed the “Group Menus” setting to “Group External Links” and the “Show Tables and Menu Items” setting to “Show Tables and External Links”.

Improved We have tweaked some settings titles in the “Submission Actions” section of the form settings.

Improved Multi-page mode is now disabled by default for child forms.

Improved The “Thousands seperator” settings for number and currency fields now apply to read-only fields as well.

Improved The “Allow users to select”, and “Maximum/Minimum number of records to select” settings have been renamed to “Allow users to link” and “Maximum/Minimum number of records to link”, respectively.

Fixed Several bug fixes. As always, we will notify affected users directly.

Removed The “Footer Description”, “Truncate Description” and “Lock the form after submission” features are no longer available for Starter Forms or child forms in other Starter Extensions.

Added We have added email support for the Free plan. This now allows users to test the Advanced Form’s submission email features, as well as the “Send Emails for Airtable Records” automation.

Added We heard your feedback and have brought back the delete feature to our extensions! We still don’t recommend using it, but it’s back now for those of you that do want to use it.

Added A brief success message in the chosen extension language is now shown when updating records through a Portal/Shared View’s child form.

Added The current Starter Extension limit is now shown on the dashboard for Free plan users.

Added New Portals and Forms with Login now include a description on the login page by default, explaining how to easily impersonate users. We’re also enabling the option to pick from existing records by default to improve this experience.

Added We have added a confirmation prompt when turning off “Allow users to expand and edit records” for a view to ensure that the user understands the consequences of this change.

Improved The “Header & Profile” section for Portals and Shared Views has been split up into separate “Header”, “Profile”(Portal only) and “Menu” sections to make finding the right setting easier.

Improved When using “submenu” mode for Portal views, tables with only one view no longer display that view as a separate item. Also, all tables are now expanded by default, so all views are visible in the menu for easier access.

Improved Changes made through inline editing now trigger updates to summary fields.

Improved The “Submission Actions” and “Header & Footer” sections have been split up using some headers, to more clearly distinguish the different settings.

Improved We’ve changed how the “keep users logged in after submission” setting is configured. Instead of a toggle that has been somewhat confusing, it is now a choice between two clearly labeled options.

Improved It is now required to set a title when adding an external link or embed (aka menu item).

Improved Forms with Login will now add the table’s primary field as a login field by default.

Improved Proper syntax is now enforced in the “Prefill New Records” setting, since this was often used incorrectly.

Improved The “Share Form” button has been renamed to “Open Form” to avoid confusing it with the “Share” menu.

Improved The “Download URLs to Attachments on Airtable” automation has been renamed to “Convert URLs to Attachments on Airtable”.

Improved The admin bar on extensions is now clearly separated from the actual extension.

Improved The redirect toggle is now turned off by default for Forms with Login, as most users don’t use it.

Improved The “Enable multi-page form for section headers” setting has been renamed to “Multi-page mode for section headers”.

Improved The shortcuts shown in the Form’s “Add field” menu now send a message to Fin, instead of opening an article. This makes it much easier to ask follow-up questions and receive better guidance.

Improved We’ve removed the Ask AI textbox from the create extension page and instead made the search bar more prominent.

Improved We have added some guidance on how to create the “Edit Records” formula in Airtable to help less experienced users set this up.

Fixed Several bug fixes. As always, we will notify affected users directly.

Removed The following automations have been deprecated. Any instances of these that are currently in use will continue to function: Embed Map (can use a Map View instead), Formula Builder, Firetable, Generate Self Links for Airtable Records, ChatGPT Chatbot using Airtable Data

Removed We’ve removed the filter conditions for the “Auto Delete Records” automation. Filtering should be applied by selecting an Airtable view in the “Run” menu.

Added By popular demand, we’ve added an automation that allows you to update existing records using the Airtable form. This automation had previously been available on our legacy site and was then replaced by our form extension. We still recommend using our form for editing existing records, but if you want to keep using your existing Airtable form, this is now an option.

Added You can now add a description to the portal when using side bar mode for the portal header. This shows underneath the portal tables and can be used to provide instructions to your users, for example.

Improved The Share menu has received a significant overhaul, which should make it much easier to understand and use!

Improved Portals and Shared Views will now show individual views within the side bar. This makes for a much improved look!

Improved We have removed fixed size restrictions from the Bulk Download Attachments automation when processing individual records. Please note that very large downloads may still cause issues.

Improved You can now turn existing Starter Shared Views and Starter Portals into their Advanced counterparts. This makes it much easier to explore the full functionality if you find that the Starter versions don’t quite offer enough for your use case!

Improved Opening portal/shared view child forms in the side panel now respects the “Child Form Width” setting from the Styling & Customization section. We have also increased the default width.

Improved We have added a confirmation prompt when closing a portal/shared view while inline editing changes are still being processed.

Improved Adding or removing a section header is now handled by a toggle in the field’s Section header settings. Previously, removing the section header was not obvious.

Improved When trying to remove a linked record field from a form you will now see a confirmation prompt to prevent accidental deletion of child forms (and their settings).

Improved We have renamed the “Public URLs for Airtable Attachments” automation to “Permanent Public URLs for Airtable Attachments” to better reflect its key feature.

Improved If your subscription is canceled (for example after failed renewal payments), you will now see a message on the dashboard alerting you to that fact.

Improved We moved the form’s submission email settings to the Submission Actions section and have removed the Engagement section as a result.

Improved We have added a little more vertical space between the form title and description to improve readability.

Fixed Several bug fixes. As always, we will notify affected users directly.

Removed We’ve deprecated the logo feature for child forms. If you are currently using this feature you can continue to do so, but this will no longer be available for new child forms.

Improved You can now turn a Starter Form into an Advanced Form with one click, straight from the configuration page. You will no longer have to start over if you find the Starter Form too limiting.

Improved We’ve removed the limit on the number of advanced extensions available for trial on the free plan. This will allow our users to more easily test complicated workflows.

Improved The table’s primary field will now be hidden from portal/shared view tables when not using the fields from the expanding form. Previously, there was no way to fully hide the primary field in that scenario.

Improved Default settings for the portal user profile have been adjusted. The portal now defaults to showing the logged in user record’s title and setting all fields within the profile form to read only. Only non-computed fields will be added to the profile form by default now. All of these settings can, of course, still be adjusted to your liking. Existing portals remain unaffected.

Improved The button used to save a signature in an attachment field has been changed to “Sign” to avoid confusion with the form’s “Submit” button.

Improved We’ve tweaked the default settings for attachment fields when they’re set to signature. By default, they will now only accept one attachment and the thumbnail fit is set to contain to show the full signature.

Improved We’ve added explainer videos to the create popups for most of our extensions and automations.

Improved New Advanced Forms now default to enabling “multi-page” mode for sections.

Improved We have renamed the “Login Formula” feature to “Magic Link Login”.

Improved The CSV Exporter automation can now be tested on the free plan (limited to 10 records).

Improved We’ve introduced a shortcut to add a signature to a form to make it easier to find this functionality. We also added icons to the “Add” menu.

Improved All help icons on our platform will now prefill our AI chat. This should get you much better replies than our previous help article links!

Improved We’ve slightly tweaked the “Create & Expand Records” section for better visual separation between the settings.

Improved Users can now set a theme color and logo during the extension creation process.

Improved When setting an automation to overwrite existing data, a confirmation will now be shown first to ensure that the user understands the consequences of this setting.

Improved The icon for the portal’s “Summaries” section has been changed to be in line with the rollup fields they are usually based on.

Improved The portal’s commenting feature is now available when using the side panel child form.

Improved We’ve made the “Menu item URL” field required when adding a menu item.

Fixed Several bug fixes. As always, we will notify affected users directly.

Removed We’re deprecating the “delete records” feature. You will still be able to use this if you currently have it turned on, but we are removing support for everyone else, since we have been strongly discouraging users from enabling this feature to avoid accidental deletions. Instead, we recommend using checkboxes or single selects to mark records to be archived.

Removed We’ve deprecated the “select child extension” feature that previously allowed for switching between different versions of a child form.

Added We have added a popup to the create extension page making it easier to ask our AI which of our products would be most suited to your use case!

Added When opening a base that doesn’t contain any extensions, you will now be presented with a popup offering you to create some of our most popular extensions automatically.

Improved We have combined all sharing related settings into a new Share section in the extension configuration! This is a first step in improving the sharing experience. Stay tuned for further improvements to this section!

Improved When creating Advanced Portals/Shared Views, a view will now be automatically added, and set to use the filtering and sorting from your Airtable table’s first grid view.

Improved We have made it easier to enable disabled extensions. Simply clicking on a disabled extension on the dashboard will now prompt you to enable the extension.

Improved Portal/Shared view tables with only one view no longer allow that view to override the default view settings and views overriding the default settings are now clearly marked as such. Users will also be prompted to confirm that they want to override default view settings for a specific view. These changes should minimize confusion commonly caused by this particular feature.

Improved When the chat widget is opened, the content of our site will now shift to the left to not be obstructed by the widget.

Improved The Stripe integration can now be tested on the free plan, using test mode keys.

Improved Starter Forms no longer show a read-only version of the created record after submission. Instead, you’ll get the option to redirect (same as Airtable form).

Improved We have updated our upgrade screen to make it easier to understand why certain plans may not be available to you.

Improved Labels indicating the the plan availability of locked down features have been improved.

Improved We have added videos to the create modals for the form and portal extensions.

Fixed Several bug fixes. As always, we will notify affected users directly.

Removed Starter Extensions no longer support prefilling new records via the extension configuration. URL prefills are still supported.

Removed Starter Portals and Shared Views no longer support thumbnails in the list view.

Removed Grandchild forms can no longer be added to Starter Portals/Shared Views.

Added We are introducing the Starter Portal and Starter Shared View on the Free plan! Free plan users can now use these starter extensions (or the already available Starter Form) without a subscription!

Improved The gear icons to edit form field settings from the form itself now only appear when hovering over the field. This provides admins with an experience much closer to what regular end users will see.

Improved When turning on the barcode scanning feature for the linked record finder, the form will now default to opening the camera and linking the record automatically.

Improved Extension/automation configuration pages should now load faster.

Improved View settings within portals and shared views are now split up into sections to make it easier to find the right setting.

Improved The success message shown when a new record is created from within the portal/shared view is now translated to the extension’s language.

Improved Extension/automation configuration pages have been shifted to the left slightly, to allow you to keep the AI chat open as a copilot as you build them out.

Improved The success message shown when a record is submitted is now displayed in the center of the screen (provided you’re not showing a read-only version of the submitted record to the user).

Improved You can now choose to turn a shared view into a portal during the creation process.

Improved For new portal/shared view tables, we are no longer creating a view by default. You’ll now need to go into the table’s configuration to set one up, which will give you the opportunity to configure it as needed.

Improved Disconnected workspaces will now show a Connect to Airtable button on the workspace settings page.

Improved We have moved the workspace “records processed” counter to the top right corner of the dashboard.

Improved We have added a “Get Started” box to free workspaces which will prompt our AI to give new users a tour of our platform.

Improved Our most popular extensions (Form and Portal) are now displayed at the top of the Create page.

Improved We’ve renamed the “Lookup Product Information from Barcodes” automation to “Fetch Data from UPC Codes” to reduce confusion and better reflect its intended use case.

Improved We’ve made some slight tweaks to the layout of the form creation popup.

Fixed Several bug fixes. As always, we will notify affected users directly.

Added You can now scan barcodes and QR codes in the record finder! This can be super helpful for quickly linking items using a code. The new feature can be set up in the record finder options, and includes toggles to automatically start the camera and submit the linked record when scanned.

Added We have added a “records processed” counter for the entire workspace. This can help you better understand your extension and automation usage.

Added Users will now see a simple confirmation message when submitting a new record through a portal or shared view.

Improved Side bar mode is now the default for any new portals and shared views.

Improved The “records processed” counters on your dashboard now include records processed by automations.

Improved We’ve adjusted the color scheme of the dashboard.

Improved Email fields should now offer autocomplete functionality in your users’ browsers to choose from previously entered emails.

Improved The “Standard Options” section for portal/shared view table settings has been renamed to “Options”, and tweaked slightly.

Improved We’ve added confirmation dialogs for deleting extensions.

Removed We’ve deprecated the “view badges” setting. If you are still using this feature, it will remain available, but it will no longer be visible in new configurations.

Fixed Several bug fixes. As always, we will notify affected users directly.

Added Custom Domain users can now customize the URL slug (the part after your custom domain which identifies the exact extension) through the options menu of each extension. This way you can now generate more human-friendly URLs for your forms or portals, e.g. https://forms.mydomain.com/signup

Added Custom Domain users can now set a redirect for their custom domain root. Users will be redirected to the configured URL when accessing your custom domain directly, instead of a specific extension, e.g. https://portal.mydomain.com could redirect to your main portal. This can be set up in the workspace settings, under Custom Domain.

Improved The filter and sorting fields available in portal views/shared views are now solely based on the fields visible in that particular view. Before, in some cases, users would see fields available for filtering and sorting that weren’t visible in the view, but this has been resolved by this change.

Improved In the portal/shared view, when a field has a custom title defined in the expanding form, that custom title will be shown in the list of filter or sorting fields, instead of the actual field name from Airtable. This should avoid confusion by end users.

Improved We’ve improved our thousands and decimal separator options for number and currency fields to also give an option to not use a thousands separator at all.

Improved We’ve improved the loading time of the Create Extension page.

Improved Select option colors now mirror the colors in Airtable exactly.

Improved New forms will now redirect to a read-only version of the record by default, serving as a confirmation screen. This can, of course, be disabled.

Improved We’ve improved the mobile experience for portals/shared views when using side panel mode.

Improved Images included in field descriptions can now be virtually unlimited in size. We still recommend keeping the size to a minimum to improve loading times for your users.

Fixed Several bug fixes. As always, we will notify affected users directly.