Has a great potential, but it needs more flexibility and localisation
I’m starting to use this tool to help drive some of my agency data, but I found it to be very USA-oriented by default. There are some very nice options to localise it per your needs, but it fails to do so in many other ways. Weeks start on Sundays in the calendar view and this cannot be changed. The tool uses dots instead of commas for currencies. Moreover, it is unable to set the default currency format within the currency column, making it tedious and manual to adjust every time you open a new currency column. Some currency settings when you go deeper in formula views are much less flexible which is counterintuitive for an AI tool and counterproductive for a tool that needs to help you to be more productive...
I would also like to have widgets more customisable (or more AI?), to have an option to follow the (filtered) views data instead to be locked to the view of preference...
I just scratched the surface so it may be more (good and the bad) but these are the things I would change immediately to make it more (out of USA) friendly.
Gary_AITable
Aug 3, 2024Hi e203847c65ff4fbd8178d441516f8980, thanks for your review. To be honest, there are hundreds of regions that require localization, and due to limited team resources, we can only continually optimize as much as possible but cannot achieve 100% satisfaction immediately. I hope you can understand this.
Regarding the issues you mentioned, some might be based on misunderstandings. Please allow me to explain or seek further confirmation:
1. Our calendar view does not start on Sundays; it actually starts on Monday as you can verify in our help center document: https://help.aitable.ai/docs/guide/manual-calendar-view
2. We use commas as the thousand separator. When you mentioned, "The tool uses dots instead of commas for currencies," could you specify what exactly you are referring to?
3. Indeed, as you mentioned, AITable is unable to set the default currency format within the currency column, and I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. However, to be honest, we have received very limited feedback regarding this issue, so based on user feedback, the priority of this request is not very high. Considering that users do not frequently need to set the currency field, it is not very complicated to adjust the settings when needed.
4. You do have the option to follow the data in the views; we don’t lock the view.