Use Airtable comments in your miniExtensions Portal to view and discuss existing records.
Enable Airtable comments
Open your Portal's Extension Settings.
Go to the Engagement section.
Turn on Enable Airtable comments on child forms.
Comments are only available on child forms for existing records. Users cannot add comments while creating a new record.
View and add comments
Open an existing record in a child form. In the header, open the three-dot menu next to the close button and select Comments.
You can view or add comments here. Comments are automatically timestamped in Airtable.
Adding comments requires a portal with login enabled. Users of the Interface extension can view comments, but cannot add them.
Choose the commenter name
In the Engagement section, you can choose an Airtable field to use as the commenter's name when a user adds a comment through miniExtensions.
In Airtable, the comment is posted by the account connected to miniExtensions. The name from your chosen field appears in curly brackets, as shown below:
miniExtensions displays these commenter names in a readable format:
