Airtable

What is Airtable?

Airtable is a database management solution designed for teams, organizations, and businesses of all sizes. Equipped with organization and collaboration functionalities and capabilities, Airtable serves as a very flexible and mobile-friendly database management solution.

It allows users to organize their content, ideas, projects, and records into a centralized system. Airtable functions as a typical spreadsheet; however, it is more powerful than a spreadsheet because of its relational database capability. The software can link related records and data, enabling users to directly access the information in one database from another database and vice versa.

Airtable consists of rich field types: texts, attachments, checkboxes, photos, long notes, barcodes, and more. Furthermore, Airtable allows users to share their records and databases with the other members of their team or organization. While sharing databases, they can configure the software to set permission levels, which define how other users will be able to access the database. As a result, other users will also be able to edit and change a database, or create a new one.

Another interesting possibility is to add comments, notes, or discussions on records; allowing them to collaborate right from the database itself.  Airtable is consist of rich field types: texts, attachments, checkboxes, photos, long notes, barcodes, and more.

Overview of Airtable benefits

The capability of Airtable to link records between databases is one of its best-known and unique functionalities. To better understand this functionality, users should first know the basic components of a database in Airtable. Generally, the software is made up of bases that contain all the information needed by an organization or a team. Bases organize information such as immunization records, applicant tracking, or the records of a local restaurant.

Within a base, users will be able to view all tables. These tables contain specific types of records. As an example, a local restaurant can create three tables: menus, ingredients, and vendors. As mentioned earlier, Airtable is like a spreadsheet; so the tables in the software are consist of columns and rows. Columns and rows display the record details, and users will be able to set them up by creating and naming specific fields.

To illustrate this, again for a local restaurant; fields for menu name, menu date, photo, course, price, dietary restrictions, ingredients, and Chef’s Notes can be created as the columns for the menu table. As users add in new menus, they will then be able to create a list of rows as records.