Airtable

Airtable and Asana are best suited for the same users: smaller, creative project teams. Airtable comes out on top due to its overall features set, which includes advanced reporting, external. Airtable evolves with you and your team, so you can build a solution with increasing sophistication and capability. With Airtable, you get more than an org chart. You get an all-in-one people planning system. Visualize your workforce, build your hiring or restructuring plan, manage your recruiting pipeline and onboard new hires, all in one place. Airtable for Students can support you in various ways: 1. Get organized exactly the way you want. You get to decide how you capture your big ideas and see them through to reality. Our features make it easy for you to design around your data, your schedule, or your goals. Visit the Getting started guide to learn the basics.

Today, an increasing number of schools are facing the prospect of working remotely. We had been planning to release a student offering for some time, but as schools shift towards remote education in response to COVID-19, we knew it was important to provide extra support. So, from today on, your current school email address provides you with a powerful new way to manage your workload and build custom software to make your school year more successful.

Anyone who signs up with an '.edu' domain will receive a 120 day trial of Airtable Pro (this includes educators as well). Domestic students will have the option to claim free access to Airtable Pro for a maximum of 2 years (they'll receive prompts within the product to redeem the offer), while international students can apply through this form.

Educators and administrators are still able to apply for our discounted Educator plans after their trial ends.

How it works

Any student with a current school-issued email address can access this plan, which includes the ability to neatly organize up to 20 GB of data. And if you’re already using Airtable, you can enjoy your favorite features in even more color. Students can follow this link to get the plan. If you need to update your account with an edu email, check out this article to learn how.

To celebrate, here are some school-favorite templates:

• Build a study guide 📚
• Create a campus editorial calendar 🗓
• Plan class schedules 📃
• Track job applications 💼
• Set and track goals 🎯
• Manage a group project 💬
• Plan a budget 💵
• Explore hobbies and interests 😎

Airtable for Students can support you in various ways:

1. Get organized exactly the way you want

You get to decide how you capture your big ideas and see them through to reality. Our features make it easy for you to design around your data, your schedule, or your goals. Visit the Getting started guide to learn the basics.

2. Enable remote collaboration within groups or classes

Students, teachers and peers can work remotely and simultaneously within same Airtable base, with each user being able to create their own personal views, build dashboards, tag or assign to others, comment on information, and more.

3. Present your information in creative and powerful ways

You can embed Airtable around the web or connect it to your other tools (email, external websites and more) to design seamless work habits. With Airtable blocks, you can utilize your information in a wide range of ways as well: build a flowchart, design a page, run queries and much more!

Lastly, don’t forget to have fun. Even with classes, midterms and finals, taking a break is essential for well-being. Use Airtable to keep track of your favorite movies or recipes, write your novel, design (and build) your app, or find ways to give back to your community. We're inspired by how people have been using the product to mobilize during these difficult times.

Additional resources for students

• You can check out Airtable Universe to discover more ways people are using us.
• Our support pages and team are there to provide you with any assistance you need.
• We'll be running contests specifically for students in the 🆕 student section of our community forum, where you can share what you build. Our first one went live today!

Whatever the rest of semester looks like for you, Airtable is there to support you.

Airtable is a cloud collaboration service headquartered in San Francisco. It was founded in 2012 by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas.

Airtable is a spreadsheet-database hybrid, with the features of a database but applied to a spreadsheet. The fields in an Airtable table are similar to cells in a spreadsheet, but have types such as 'checkbox', 'phone number', and 'drop-down list', and can reference file attachments like images.^[1][2]

Users can create a database, set up column types, add records, link tables to one another, collaborate, sort records and publish views to external websites.

History[edit]

• 2012: Airtable founded.^[3]
• Feb 2015: Raised $3 million from Caffeinated Capital, Freestyle Capital, Data Collective, CrunchFund.^[4]
• April 2015: Airtable launches its API and embedded databases.^[5]
• May 2015: Raised $7.6 million funding from Charles River Ventures and Ashton Kutcher.^[6]
• July 2015: Introduced Airtable Forms to collect and organize data.^[7]
• August 2015: Airtable made 'Add to Slack' option available to integrate Airtable with Slack.^[8]
• December 2015: Airtable redesigned its iOS app.^[9]
• December 2015: Airtable introduced barcode as new field type.^[10]
• March 2018: Raised $52 million in Series B funding; announced the launch of Airtable Blocks.^[11]
• November 2018: Raised $100 million in Series C funding.^[12]
• September 2020: Raised $185 million in Series D funding.^[13]

• March 2021: Raised $270 million in Series E funding^[14].

Basic components[edit]

Airtable has six basic components:^[15]

1. Bases: All the information needed to create a project is contained in a Base. Bases can be built from existing templates provided by Airtable. They can also be built from scratch, from a spreadsheet or from an existing Base.
2. Tables: A table is similar to a spreadsheet. A base is a collection of tables.
3. Views: Views show the result sets of data queries and can be saved for future purposes.
4. Fields: Each entry in a table is a field. They are not just restricted to hold text. Airtable currently offers 16 basic field types.^[16] These are: single-line texts, long text articles, file attachments, check-boxes, single select from drop-down list, multiple-selects from drop-down lists, date and time, phone numbers, email ids, URLs, numbers, currency, percentage, auto-number, formulae and barcodes.^[17]
5. Records: Each row of a Table is a Record.
6. Workspaces: A workspace is a collection of Bases in Airtable.

Key features[edit]

Linking between tables[edit]

To avoid the need to form a single large table when there is related data in multiple tables, Airtables provides an option to link records of different tables. Airtable allows linking existing tables of related records, creating a new linked table and also multiple links between existing tables.^[18]

Collaboration[edit]

Airtable allows multiple users to work simultaneously on the same Base allowing more productivity at workplace. A new collaborator is added by clicking share button found at top of Base and providing the email ID of the collaborator. The owner can set the permission level of collaborator while sharing the Base.^[19] There are three permission levels in Airtable Base, namely 'Creator', 'Edit Only' and 'Read Only'.

If multiple Bases are required then a Team is formed in Airtable.^[19] An Airtable Team can hold multiple Bases and collaborators of the Team can work on all the available Bases in the Team. There are four permission levels in Team, unlike for a Base which only has three. The extra permission level in Team is Owner, who has full access to Team Base.

Publishing views[edit]

Airtable App

Bases can be easily shared with the public. One need not have an Airtable account to view the published Bases. These view-only Bases shared in public are called Airtable views. These views can be embedded into one's own website and allows the website users see the real-time information in Base, without needing them to have an Airtable account. One possible use-case is Airtable Form, which can be used to take a survey of a product. The feedback received from a customer can also be shown to public by sharing the Airtable View.

Airtable Forms[edit]

Airtable introduced Forms in July 2015.^[7] Forms could be used to collect data from others like co-workers, customers or the public. A Form can be easily created from an existing Base, and the data collected by the Form is automatically organized in the Airtable Base. Airtable allows user to organize the required fields in the Form. A separate link is created for every Airtable Form. This link can be shared with others to get the required data. An Airtable Form can also be embedded in a website, to get the feedback from the website users.

Airtable integration[edit]

Airtable's API can be used to connect to other web services by which information can be exchanged between external web applications and Airtable. Using the Zapier platform, Airtable can connect to over 450 applications and websites. Changes can be set up as triggers for actions in connected applications.^[20]

Snapshot[edit]

Airtable provides a greater sophistication to backup the data than just allow the users to undo/redo. Airtable periodically snapshots the Base. When a previous version of a Base is needed, the appropriate snapshot is selected by the user from the snapshots list. In addition, the user can manually snapshot a Base at any time.^{[citation needed]}

Mobile apps[edit]

Airtable introduced its version 2.0 iOS application on December 2015,^[9] allowing users to work on tables from their iPhone. Airtable for Android is also available.^[21]

API[edit]

Airtable provides an API to provide ability to users to build applications that cannot be built within the table constraints. A key, which is present at overview section, is necessary to use Airtable's API. The key should be kept secret. The API follows REST semantics, uses JSON to encode objects, and uses standard HTTP codes to signal operation outcomes.^[22]

Initially, the user has to create a Base in Airtable. Then, Airtable's API can be used to create, read, update, or delete records (i.e. CRUD). As of 2016, Airtable's API does not allow users to create or modify the Base schema.

Security[edit]

It also uses 256-bit SSL/TLS encryption in data transit.^[23]

Airtable Security

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Airtable Careers

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4. ^Lawler, Ryan; Contributor. 'With $3M in Funding, Airtable Makes Complex Databases Usable on Your Mobile Phone'. TechCrunch. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
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13. ^'Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features'. TechCrunch. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
14. ^'Cloud-based software company Airtable'. mg21. April 20, 2021.
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18. ^'Linking to another record'. Airtable – Support. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
19. ^ ^ab'Collaborating with a Team – Airtable Guide'. Airtable Guide. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
20. ^'Airtable Integrations'. Airtable. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
21. ^'Here's how to use Airtable, the user-friendly spreadsheet app that's taking Silicon Valley by storm'. Business Insider. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
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23. ^'Airtable security practices'. Airtable – Support. Retrieved February 6, 2016.