Is it possible to have real time updates across users with Airtable?

jtolive · 2023-08-29T01:37:27.168Z

I know elements and repeating groups that are displaying data from airtable (using the plugin) WILL update in real time when Airtable records are modified as a part of workflow actions. However, the real time updates only occur for a single user (the user who edited the record and triggered the workflow). Other users have to refresh the page to see any new updates.

Is it possible to have real time updates across users? So that when one user makes a change, all other users see the newest data without refreshing the page?

jtolive · 2023-08-29T01:38:17.060Z

@dbom009 I saw you were poking around real time updates with airtable in this other post. Any idea?

jtolive · 2023-08-29T01:38:56.170Z

Or perhaps @sam8 you may be able to share!

dbom009 · 2023-08-29T11:50:44.395Z

@jtolive Unfortunately, this is one of the issues with using airtable over the actual backend database. You can try running a workflow that runs every 5 seconds that does the change with airtable but that does rack up a lot of workload units and can slow the app.

Other than that you can try to integrate the “make changes” workflow when the user swaps between states or actions to make it more seemless.

Last option is trying the actual API but I am not sure how different that is than the plugin.