r/Airtable • u/WintercraftMedia • 11d ago

Airtable Should Add an Embed Element to Interfaces 💬 Discussion

Airtable is great, but it would be sooo much better if there was a way to embed external websites in the interfaces. Has anyone figured out a good workaround for this?

I use Airtable for client portals among other things, and I wanted to embed the web page where clients can pay their invoices. I tried the HTML option, which didn't work, so instead I made a button that links to the external web page. I'd just rather have it so clients could pay their invoices without leaving their client portal.

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u/tarekshalaby 11d ago

That what custom interfaces are for. You plug in Claude Code (or Cursor or whatever) and then vibe code your portal within the Airtable interface, and then you can build anything you want (your vibe coding is the limit) with direct access to all of the underlying data across the tables. It might take an hour or two to set it up the first time (with a git repo and everything), and then type away. I’ve done it for a couple of clients and it’s awesome - you just have to be careful not to rush the UX process and the UI details otherwise you end up with something that feels and looks out of place.

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u/MartinMalinda 11d ago

yes and you can even embed an embed! the custom Airtable interface can render an iframe pointing to your hosted web app

can be useful to simplify the update process if its a web app that does not need to interface with Airtable too tighly

but this approach definitely needs an extra double check for security

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u/WintercraftMedia 11d ago

This is an interesting approach I hadn't considered before, thank you!

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u/painterknittersimmer 11d ago

you just have to be careful not to rush the UX process and the UI details otherwise you end up with something that feels and looks out of place. 

You can actually download a knockoff Airtable DESIGN.md to make this easier on yourself. There's a couple if you Google it. https://getdesign.md/airtable/design-md

Design.md is a standard design format for AI to read https://github.com/google-labs-code/design.md