New record experience: now in public beta 🎉

📢 Info & Announcements
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Hi @GH_SE,

Thank you so much, we’re really happy to hear that you’re excited about the new Record Experience :100:

We’re putting a lot of care and effort into this to make it truly outstanding, a real step forward and to create a USP in the market.

Regarding your first question:
It’s still a bit difficult to give a precise timeline. We have 12 field types left, with varying complexity.

Our goal is to have all field types in place this year, ideally more towards late summer or early autumn rather than the very end of the year.

Instead of waiting for one big release, we’ll continue shipping improvements and new field types continuously. This means the overall picture will become clearer step by step as more pieces are completed.

Regarding your second question:
You can already start switching individual apps to the new experience today. As we get closer to the release, we’ll also allow switching entire organizations earlier, even before the final release, so teams can test things in real scenarios.

We haven’t finalized how long both versions will run in parallel, but we currently expect around one month, possibly a bit longer, after full release.

The transition should be very smooth, as setups and defaults will carry over. Bu we’ll coordinate the final switch closely with our community and partners.

Best regards,
Leo

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Hi @CarsonRedCliffLabs,

Thank you so much for pointing this out, really appreciated!

I actually spent quite some time trying to understand this and first thought it might be related to the date field specifically, but in the end it turned out to be something much simpler.

We accidentally had a feature flag set on this option. This means it was only visible to the Tape development team, but hidden for everyone else. That’s why we didn’t notice it at first.

The good news is that we already have a fix in the pipeline, and it will be released tomorrow. After that, the “hidden if empty” option will be visible again for everyone.

Thanks again for catching this, and have a great weekend!

Best,
Leo

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Hi @Leo … in the past we also discussed, that “hidden if not empty” would be as useful as “hidden if empty”.

In processes there are certain fields, which only need to be set once and never be changed again. You don’t even want to see it anymore. If needed at all, I could still show the hidden field again, same way I show “hidden if empty” fields manually.

Is this still a thing?

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Hi @dirk_s,

great to hear from you!

Yes, this is still on our radar. However, the current approach is to handle this via Rules rather than Display Settings.

The idea is to keep the Display Settings intentionally lean and focused only on the most common use cases, to avoid overload.

In Rules, we already have the “Hide Block” and “Show Block” actions. We plan to extend these so that blocks hidden by such a rule can still be shown again manually when needed. On top of that, we only need to add the corresponding filter conditions like “is empty” and “is not empty” to fully cover your use case

So the feature is still planned, just implemented through Rules instead of Display Settings :100:

Best regards and have a great day!
Leo

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This is perfect, that’s all we really need to know for now! Looking forward to do the switch over our records!

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Hey Tape Team, hey @Leo, the new Record Experience has been a game changer for us! Records now look way cleaner and using Rules for showing/hiding fields really bring our workflow to the next level.

There is one field type that I’m still missing before some of our main apps can be fully switched to the new UX: Checklists. Is there any prediction, when they’ll become available?

Thank you a lot in advance and keep up the great work! :raised_hands:

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@erit FWIW we previously used checklists fields for many use cases. Over time however, we’ve shifted away from those and almost exclusively use related items for the same functions that our checklists were serving.

With the new options with how related items can work, we find that we can get a view and functionality that is essentially the same as the checklist field type, but even more powerful with automations and reporting for these unfinished ‘checklist’ type tasks stored in their own database app.

Maybe adjusting to that approach will unlock those remaining apps that you can’t convert quite yet.

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Hi @erit,

thank you so much for your kind words. It really means a lot to us :blue_heart:

Even back when we were Podio users, we always felt that conditionally shown fields can be a real game changer. And honestly, with the new Record Experience, we feel like we are only at the beginning of discovering what this can unlock. We still believe this will become even more powerful with everything that is ahead.

About the Checklist field: it is currently one of the last field types on our list for the new Record Experience. The reason is that we want to rebuild some important foundations here, so we can deliver a really great experience, for example creating checklist items from everywhere, linking them to other records later, private checklist items, and more.

That is why @CarsonRedCliffLabs suggestion is actually a really strong one. Until the Checklist field is available, using a Relation field can be a very good alternative. With the list view for related records, it already gets very close to a task list. You can also work with status, date, and soon member fields inline.

We are also thinking about inline creation for Relation fields as part of this topic, so it could become a real alternative to checklist fields, with the extra benefit that you can filter in the related sub task database, use automations more easily, report on the items, and so on.

So yes, this could really be a good path for your remaining apps in the meantime. And the Checklist field is not too far away anymore. We are talking about a few months, and as mentioned in my post above, we are currently aiming for late summer or early autumn for the full switch to the new Record Experience.

Thanks again for your support, your feedback, and for using Tape. It is amazing to hear that we could excite you with the new Record.

Have a great weekend!
Leo

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Dev team transparency will NEVER get old.

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Update: :new: member field :tada:

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Hello, I want to ask you if there is possible to say when field “Phone” from old view will be available in New record experience? Thank you. :slight_smile:

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Hi @Samuel222,

We are making very good progress with the remaining field types :100:

This means that we plan to start working on the next field package Phone, Email, and Link in the next few days. We currently expect the development to take a few weeks.

These fields are a bit more advanced, especially because multi-value fields require a row system with multi-collaboration, multi-select, and related logic. So they are more complex than, for example, a simple Number field.

But we are optimistic that we can release these fields within the next few weeks.

Best regards!
Leo

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in case you missed it :new: calculation field :tada:

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Update: :new: unique ID field :tada:

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Update: :new: Fields: created by/on and last edited by/on:tada:

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Update: :new: location field :tada:

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Update: :new: phone field :tada:

Update: :new: email field :tada:

Update: :new: link field :tada:

The only remaining field is now the Checklist field. Once that is released, the new record experience will officially support all Tape field types, which will be another major milestone for us :rocket: :100:

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Update: :new: Customize record layout :tada:

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Update: :new: task list (formerly Check list) :tada:

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A few updates, in case you missed them :tada:

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