I am in a bit of a situation. When I use AirTable, and use a Long Text to store an Image URL. That field cannot be selected when I am in studio and selecting a field for an image. It’s believe it is an incompatible data type, so it cannot be selected.
In my case I am doing amazon affiliate marketing with 1000 products and with each product your supplied an image URL eg:
If my datastore was Google Sheets, there is no problem, because google sheets does not have a field type per se, however if I use AirTable, then I am forced to use the “Attachment” field type and upload the images into that field. If you think I am going to do that with 1000 items, you are wrong.
This sounds like an easy fix. If the image URL’s are stored in a long text in air table, then it SHOULD be “a compatible field type”. You already have the code how to handle URL’s just as if it was from Google sheets, I assume the fix could be implemented very quickly, otherwise I see no reason to use and pay for AirTable whatsoever.
Please Fix This Bug Or Push It To the Top as a feature.
Hello, apologies for bumping this topic but it matches my issue exactly and I don’t believe it’s on the roadmap.
I started building my Softr site using Google Sheets as a data source, but after some reflection felt it was unsustainable and migrated my data to Airtable.
However, I then had the same issue as Jeff regarding images, as using URLs worked with Google Sheets but now does not work with Airtable. I’d already made a decision to host images elsewhere, so I would prefer not to change that by uploading images into Airtable.
I’m adding on this thread as I’d of course like this to be a feature, but if not, I’m wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience and resolution/ workaround?
Hello @servdir, we took your feedback into consideration and the feature of mapping Airtable Text/Long Text field to Softr Image field is now implemented.
Hope you’ll enjoy it.
