Robert Cooper
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Steven Hansen
In our case we would love to have the ability to filter to a specific set of rows and then be able to bulk edit those specific rows to set a specific value on all of those. In our case it would be to bulk change a status column from one status to another.
Daniel Chua
This would totally be awesome! I'm currently using Airtable synced to postgres simply because Airtable allows my non-devs to edit data easier – and bulk edits is one of the things they really need
Robert Cooper
Daniel Chua: how are you keeping Airtable synced with postgres? Also, do you use Sequin to connect you Airtable data to Basedash?
Daniel Chua
Robert Cooper: Sorry missed this! Tried Sequin, but it was problematic as they do some kind of database mirroring and replacing on the fly, which breaks Postgres replication functions. We now use Hightouch for a one way (instead of two) sync from Postgres > Airtable, and Airtable Automations for Airtable > Postgres edits. Hacky, but it works. Frankly as a non-dev, low code user, if I could copy a bunch of cells from Excel into Basedash (bulk edit with multiple different values), it'll make the world of difference and I can chuck out Airtable. The only reason Airtable exists is as a UI tool. All our users don't know SQL, but they understand how a spreadsheet works.
Robert Cooper
Daniel Chua: ok great. Thanks for the details. We are planning to add bulk editing this quarter.
Tom Johnson
planned
Di Qi
I'd find this really helpful! I have a unique sort_order column, and it's hard to edit these one by one in the UI without a conflict.