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george_fang126New Participant

Best approach to automate data pulls from unreliable government utility sites?

I'm working on a small Airtable automation to track monthly utility expenses by pulling data from a regional electricity provider’s site — the fesco online bill system. The challenge is that the site often loads slowly or becomes unresponsive, especially in the evenings.Has anyone dealt with similar issues when pulling data from sites that don’t have public APIs and aren't always stable? I’ve tried simple fetch scripts and automation tools, but they tend to fail unpredictably.Would appreciate suggestions on how to handle unreliable external sources in automations, or even alternative approaches like manual syncing that aren’t too time-consuming.Thanks in advance!

elisaddekoNew Participant

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whitelabel airtable or own the data from multiple clients

 Hi guys,Our company is looking to provide tools to our clients and own their data, so that we can analyse it and see what marketing outreach methods work in the market. We currently give our clients a gsheet to track their outreach data, such as sales calls booked, scripts, follow ups, niche.1 client = 1 gsheet with multiple tabs(every client has their private gsheet, but we store it on our gdrive. Now, I know that Airtable could be way more powerful, but wondering what could be the way to go about it? Would it even work? What other alternatives would there be for us?

adehaan86Participating Frequently

Automation not updated "Added_by" which is user.email

Have automation to run when record is created, When record is created, It will set added_date, add_by(person email) and set record as active. It does 2 of 3… It doesnt add person email address. What could I be doing wrong?

Will_ChenNew Participant

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Using SendGrid to send photos in email

Hi, each record in my table has an email address {email} and photo {photo}. For each record, I’d like to send the record’s photo to the record’s email address. Is there a way to do this using SendGrid? I’ve tried turning on “Send as HTML” and doing <img src="{photo}"> but doesn’t work as {photo} is replaced by “filename (url-to-file)” when I only want url-to-file.

DrosinatorNew Participant

Script Automation - Exceeded Execution Time

I am trying to run a script through a button triggered automation, but I am running into an error for exceeding the time limit of 30 seconds for execution. Is there a way that I can get around this so I can run the script?I have heard that people have been running the scripts in batches, however, I am not too sure how people are doing this as I cannot find an tutorials on how to work it into the automation. Any ideas?

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Uzi_ShabatNew Participant

Scheduling a Follow Up

Hello, I would like to know if there is any option to schedule email in the Automations area. My idea is to schedule a follow up for a lead 2 days after I change it’s status to “In Negotiations”.

Jan_WilhelmNew Participant

Are follow up mails possible?

Hi! I wanted to ask, if there is an automation for following up on unanswered e-mails? We are tracking our leads with airtable, and if someone doesn’t respond to our first mail, that we send out an automatic follow up E-Mail? Looking forward to your help!

Jan123New Participant

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Linking Records together from a form

I have 2 forms that a customer fills out - 1 is info about the company, which populates on the company table. The second is for the employees table and it collects info about each employee that works at the company. I currently have the form set up to collect the company info first, then they click “continue” and it redirects to the employee form. They then have the ability to fill out the employee form as many times as needed. I tried using a pre-filled link for this button to auto fill in the company name on the employee table linking the two, but that does not work. Should I be using an automation? Is there any solution for this that does not include using a 3rd app?Any ideas for linking the records is greatly appreciated!! Thank you!

TableAirEnjoyerNew Participant

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Teammembers with interface access are not able to run Airtable automations through a button all of a sudden.

Hello Community,since this morning our teammembers, who only have access to our interfaces, are not able to run Airtable automations through buttons anymore. The buttons are greyed out and they get a warning saying "Not connected to an automation".However, when logged in through our administrator account (with full data access) the buttons and Airtable automations work as intended.We did not make any changes to the interface, database structure or fields, automations, or the users permissions and capabilities. No changes to anything recently. Overnight things just stopped working.Yesterday everything was working fine, today no automation can be triggered through a button unless it is the administrator account with full access to the data. What happened? What could that be?We need URGENT help here. 🙄

george_fang126New Participant

Best approach to automate data pulls from unreliable government utility sites?

I'm working on a small Airtable automation to track monthly utility expenses by pulling data from a regional electricity provider’s site — the fesco online bill system. The challenge is that the site often loads slowly or becomes unresponsive, especially in the evenings.Has anyone dealt with similar issues when pulling data from sites that don’t have public APIs and aren't always stable? I’ve tried simple fetch scripts and automation tools, but they tend to fail unpredictably.Would appreciate suggestions on how to handle unreliable external sources in automations, or even alternative approaches like manual syncing that aren’t too time-consuming.Thanks in advance!

Jan123New Participant

Interface Designer

Linking Records together from a form

I have 2 forms that a customer fills out - 1 is info about the company, which populates on the company table. The second is for the employees table and it collects info about each employee that works at the company. I currently have the form set up to collect the company info first, then they click “continue” and it redirects to the employee form. They then have the ability to fill out the employee form as many times as needed. I tried using a pre-filled link for this button to auto fill in the company name on the employee table linking the two, but that does not work. Should I be using an automation? Is there any solution for this that does not include using a 3rd app?Any ideas for linking the records is greatly appreciated!! Thank you!

TableAirEnjoyerNew Participant

Interface Designer

Teammembers with interface access are not able to run Airtable automations through a button all of a sudden.

Hello Community,since this morning our teammembers, who only have access to our interfaces, are not able to run Airtable automations through buttons anymore. The buttons are greyed out and they get a warning saying "Not connected to an automation".However, when logged in through our administrator account (with full data access) the buttons and Airtable automations work as intended.We did not make any changes to the interface, database structure or fields, automations, or the users permissions and capabilities. No changes to anything recently. Overnight things just stopped working.Yesterday everything was working fine, today no automation can be triggered through a button unless it is the administrator account with full access to the data. What happened? What could that be?We need URGENT help here. 🙄

NdrewYNew Participant

recordId does not exist for my automation script to work

Hi there, I’m trying to create an airtable automation script whereby it takes in the Full name of a record and changes only the first letter into uppercase (upper caps). This is my code, I can’t seem to get it to work, can anyone help me with this? let table = base.getTable("Training Masterlist"); // Use the correct field name that maps to the automation's Record IDlet recordId = input.config().AirtableRecordID; // Correct this if it's named differently // Ensure that the recordId exists, if not, log an errorif (!recordId) { throw new Error("Record ID is undefined.");} // Field namelet fullNameField = "Full Name (As in NRIC)"; // Fetch the record that triggered the automationlet record = await table.selectRecordAsync(recordId); // Get the current value of the "Full Name (As in NRIC)" fieldlet fullName = record.getCellValue(fullNameField); if (fullName) { // Convert the full name to the desired format let formattedName = fullName .split(" ") // Split the name into words

aruckerbuiceNew Participant

Need to automate sending an email identifying a unique record

I’m trying to identify where a record has an expiration date and send an email identifying that record.I can automate an email that recognizes the expired date but can’t find a way to attach/send the identity of that record. I have a log (record from a table) and the entries have a field “expiration date”. My automation finds that record and sends an email that a record has expired. I need a way for it to not only do that but identify what record that expired (separate field). Is there a way to do that?

crotheyNew Participant

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Copy and paste statuses across list view records

Hi! I might just be silly, but is there not a way to copy and paste a status across several records in list view? In grid view it’s easy, just copy a cell and paste. Is there not an easy and quick way to do this in list view?

dcurmeNew Participant

Interface Designer

Lookup field in end-user interface?

Hi All – I have a large base which essentially functions as a CRM. The first field in the base is “partner name” and the subsequent fields are information about the partner - location, bio, Linkedin profile, etc. We use the base to track engagement and other touchpoints with the partners. I want to build an end-user interface while allows my executive director to input the name of an individual from the base and then have it return a few specified fields. For example, the ED has an end-user interface and is instructed to input a partner name. After inputting the name, the interface returns Linkedin profile, bio, and last-emailed (all fields that we collect and keep up-to-date). I know it’s possible to just make my ED an editor and give access to the entire base but we have 50+ fields and I want an more user-friendly experience. Privacy is not the concern here, rather my ED doesn’t need to see all the fields and details in the base. Is this kind of build possible with an interfa

SaSATNew Participant

Pretty Print Link

What happened to the Pretty Print link? It no longer works, but there are so many references to it for formulas.

BarbTInspiring

Other Questions

Calendar updated via form

I am on the free plan. A few Co-workers can add an event to the calendar by submitting a shared form. The Airtable calendar is then updated. That works well. But say they need to delete an event. How can that be done using the same form, or do I need to make a new shared form?

BenFortunatoKnown Participant

Link to interface page with specific filter - understanding airtable's filter parameter values

I am trying to set up specific filters after a user clicks a button to visit an interface page. It seems that there is no native way to do this given the options airtable gives you,. It also seems like there is no way to add url parameters to an http address but I thought it might be possible to just do this using url parameters and a http page.Maybe there is a way to do this with a script? I’d have to figure out what the parameter values for the filter are, and then also have some way to redirect to a new page which might not be possible in the airtable scripting environment.

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