Hi all, I’m looking for ideas on how to speed up a particular process concerning attachments. In this case it’s a trucking company who handles a lot of incoming actual papers which get scanned and then added to the relevant record. One record has usually 4 main attachment fields, each holding mos…

I haven’t noticed any slow loading of PDFs of my end. I also just tested this right now on my end. I have an attachment field that has 7 large PDF files in it, and each PDF is more than 50 pages long. I clicked on one of the PDFs which is 52 pages long and it appeared instantly on my screen. All 52…

Thanks Scott for your reply! I made you a little clip to show you what it looks like on my end. It used to be instant until the box logo showed up a long while ago, you’ll see it in the video. Every since then it’s with a 2-3 second delay to open a file. I have fast internet in both locations wher…

Oh, that’s weird… I am now getting the same behavior as you are, and I am seeing the Box logo as well. So, this is either new behavior that they are slowly rolling out to people, or it’s a mistake on their end. My guess is that it’s probably new behavior moving forward. The 2-3 second delay doesn’t…

Oh you are right! On the ipad it is one more click but at least the viewing is instant! That is a good workaround and I can incorporate this into the process. It also mimicks the actual physical paper process in a way because you use your hands to look at them :wink: so not too bad at all. I did …

Another option is Cloudinary for storage of documents, in case you still find it’s an issue. Cloudinary is top performance and it’s dirt cheap. The only thing is, you can’t see a thumbnail to click to zoom in Airtable if using Cloudinary. I really wish Airtable provides Cloudinary integration in th…

Forgot to mention ChatGPT Plugins is something that may be worth looking into now that the ungrateful work of looking at PDFs and checking them became less pleasant with the delay. I am looking right now into sorting 1000’s of PDF documents I have myself. I have amassed about 60,000 PDFs on computer…

Yes great points thanks! And I have been in this rabbit hole myself :slight_smile: Looking into general document handling solutions and yesterday specifically with chatgpt. It’s fascinating but the moment you get into one thing, the next one opens… neverending rabbit hole! :wink:

Airtable sent the following info: Thanks for reaching out about this, and helping us understand what’s going on. Based on what you’ve described this sounds like an issue that our engineering team is currently investigating. Though we don’t have an ETA on when a fix will be in place just yet, we’l…

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itoldusoandso December 6, 2023, 1:47am 10

At least you got an answer from them saying they are investigating.

They don’t answer to me anymore. I burned my bridges with my constant complains they have me on block list already for my extreme perseverance

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