Baserow 1.32: Dashboards, enhanced Airtable import, SSO for Application Builder, and more

Introducing Baserow 1.32, one of our biggest updates! We’re finally publishing a feature we’ve been working on for a while—Dashboards. These will help you understand your data quickly by turning it into easy-to-read insights and visuals.

Plus, our Airtable importer is out of beta, making importing from Airtable much smoother—now you can bring over your entire workspace with all your grid views intact.

For users on the Advanced or Enterprise plan, we’ve added secure sign-in (SSO) to the Application Builder to make access management simpler.

There’s a lot more to discover in this update. Here’s what’s new:

Dashboards

Introducing Baserow Dashboards, a new way to understand your Baserow data.

Looking at hundreds of rows of data can be overwhelming. Dashboards help you easily spot trends, monitor progress, and make faster decisions.

Our widgets include:

• Summary: Get quick insights through key metrics like totals, averages, and counts. Perfect for tracking important numbers at a glance.
• Bar chart: Visualize data as vertical bars with up to three series per chart (only the first 10 results are displayed). This makes it simple to compare values and monitor progress over time.

Each widget can be customized with unique titles, descriptions, data sources, grouping options, and sorting preferences. The widgets update automatically whenever the underlying Baserow tables change.

A single dashboard can combine multiple widgets, bringing data from various databases or tables together for enhanced analysis.

To create a dashboard:

• Click + Create new.
• Select Dashboard from the dropdown option.

We’re developing more widgets and features for future releases. Your feedback during this beta phase helps us build exactly what you need.

Enhanced Airtable import

Switch from Airtable to Baserow seamlessly with our improved import feature, now out of beta. We’ve made the transition process smooth and comprehensive, ensuring your data structure and views stay exactly as you designed them.

The importer keeps your complete setup intact—including the Grid view with field arrangements, sorting preferences, grouping settings, filters, and row coloring. We’re soon going to add support for Gallery, Kanban, Calendar, and Form views, allowing you to pick up right where you left off in Airtable.

You have the option to skip file imports, and you’ll get a detailed report of any item that wasn’t imported, making it easy to track what might be missing.

To import your Airtable base, go to your Workspace:

1. Click the + Create new button in the workspace you want to add the database to
2. Select Database from the dropdown option
3. Switch to the Import from Airtable tab

Export media from Grid View

The export media from Grid View feature lets you download files and images stored in your Baserow tables. This is especially helpful when you need to back up files or work with them outside of Baserow.

When you export files from specific fields in your Grid view, they download as a ZIP archive that preserves the original filenames. You can also choose to group files by row ID within the archive.

To export files:

1. Click the three dots (•••) next to the Grid view you want to export to open view settings.
2. Select Export files.

This feature is available with the Premium plan or higher.

Merge or insert rows during additional import

When importing data into an existing table, you can now choose how to handle duplicate records. The “Import data into an existing table” feature offers two options:

• Create new records: Import all rows as new records, regardless of potential duplicates
• Update existing records: Update existing records with imported data when matches are found

To import a file into an existing table:

1. Click on the ellipsis (•••) beside a view to open your view settings.
2. Select Import file.
3. Select the file type you would like to import and click Import.
4. Check the new option - Update rows if they already exist.

Row enters view webhook event type

We’re introducing a new webhook event type that triggers when a row enters a view. This means the webhook will fire in two scenarios:

• When a new row is created and matches the view’s filter conditions
• When an existing row is updated and newly matches the view’s filter (but didn’t match before)

To set up a new webhook:

1. Click on the ••• beside the required view or table
2. Select Webhooks
3. Click ‘Create webhook +’ and Enter a name to identify the webhook by

This feature is available in the Advanced or Enterprise plan.

Deactivation notifications

We’ve introduced new important notification features to help you stay informed about system changes:

• Webhook deactivation notifications: You’ll receive alerts when a webhook becomes inactive after failing 4 times.
• Webhook payload size notifications: Notifications are sent when a webhook cannot send all the data due to the payload being too large. For example, in the Row enters view webhook event type, if 10,000 rows enter the view, the first 1,000 rows are sent, and a notification is issued stating that not all data could be delivered.
• Periodic data sync deactivation notifications: Get notified when your scheduled data synchronizations stop working. Whether it’s due to authentication issues, changed endpoints, or other technical problems, you’ll know immediately when your data sync needs attention.

You can view notifications in the Notifications sidebar section and adjust notification frequency in the workspace settings.

Sort single-select values by option order

You can now sort single-select field values according to their option order instead of alphabetically. In the sort settings, simply choose either first to last or last to first to follow the order you set for your options.

SSO for Application Builder

Single Sign-On (SSO) is now available for Application Builder. This enterprise-grade security feature allows organizations to manage user access through their preferred identity provider.

Application Builder SSO supports these providers and configurations:

• OpenID Connect (OIDC)
• SAML 2.0

Menu element for Application Builder

The Menu element for Application Builder adds dynamic navigation to your applications. This component lets you create custom menus and navigation structures to improve user experience and workflow organization.

The Menu element can be styled as:

• Button
• Link

To add a Menu element to your application:

1. Open the Elements panel from the top bar
2. Select the Menu element
3. Configure menu items and styling through the properties panel

Application Builder theme templates

Elevate your applications with our 2 pre-designed themes for Application Builder!

Skip starting your application design from scratch—simply choose one of our themes:

• Baserow
• Eclipse
• Ivory

Each includes carefully selected typography, color schemes, and styling elements to help you create beautiful applications with ease!

You’ll find the themes in the Template section.

New templates

We’ve made significant improvements to existing templates and added new ones to our library.

• Car Dealership Inventory
• Skill Discovery Management
• Purchase Order
• Task Management (with Formula Examples)

Other features:

• Collaborator field support in Form View
• Group by Collaborator field
• Ability to reduce minimum field width
• Container element
• Improved performance of published applications

Company news

Expert course for the Baserow Academy

The Expert course in the Baserow Academy is now live! 🚀

Master Baserow at scale with the Expert Course and learn how to:

• ✅ Scale, customize, and deploy Baserow
• ✅ Implement security and compliance best practices
• ✅ Optimize large-scale database performance

All three courses in our Academy are now available, offering a comprehensive path to Baserow certification and expertise.

Take your Baserow skills to expert level

Partner program

We’re excited to announce the launch of our Partner Program! This opportunity opens up new horizons for certified Baserow experts who complete our Expert course. As a Baserow Partner, you’ll be officially recognized to provide professional consulting and implementation services to organizations using Baserow.

Apply now

Formula-driven automation webinar

🎯 Master Baserow formulas! Join us this Thursday, March 20th, at 4 PM CET for an in-depth webinar on Formula-Driven Automation in Baserow. Learn how to:

• Automate task scheduling
• Set up smart data validation
• Create automatic status updates with webhooks
• Build an organized asset repository
• Optimize team workload planning

Plus discover many more best practices to streamline your workflow!

Secure your spot now 🎟️

What’s next

The next big features on the roadmap include more widgets for dashboards, the ability to move databases/applications between workspaces, new Application Builder features, and other community-suggested improvements.

If you have any questions about the new updates, please leave them in our official community forum. We’re happy to answer them!