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Hello,I am new to junction tables and have pretty much zero scripting experience, so bear with me.I am trying to create a breakdown of call sheets for group shoots and create individual “shifts” in a junction table. The goal is to be able to adjust start and end times for those linked in the shoots and to be able to create a more comprehensive reporting interface to track hours and OT by multiple criteria.I cannot show the actual base, but have created a basic example of the structure and result of Airtable’s junction table extension.Client tab:Franchise: Franchises have assigned POCs for internal notifications. This could include executive roles/higher level visibility. Would not include anyone linked in “Shoots”Assets: Linked directly to Editors, Creative Directors, and Producers. Shoots: Only linked directly to Directors, Camera Techs, and Actors.Settings for Junction Table Extension: Result - Shifts (Junction Table)  As you can see, it is pulling in combinations for Producers, Edit

Hi Airtable Community,I’m using Airtable in a business setting to track tasks and progress updates, with users updating records through a status dropdown field.I’m interested in building in more assurance so the system can help identify clerical errors when a user misses something. I’m also looking to understand whether Airtable can support a control that prevents a status from being updated unless evidence of task completion has first been provided, such as an attachment or other form of verification.For example, if a user attempts to change a task to complete without uploading the required verification, I would like the system to either block the change or trigger an alert for follow-up.Has anyone implemented something similar, or can point me in the right direction for how this could be achieved within Airtable?ThanksHaydyn N

Hey community! Long-time lurker, first-time builder posting here.Like many of you, I've been frustrated with Page Designer living in base extensions while all my users are interface-only. Every time someone in the community asked "can I use Page Designer in interfaces?" the answer was always not yet. So I decided to just build it myself.What I builtA full drag-and-drop page layout designer that lives directly inside an Interface page as a custom element. It looks and feels like Page Designer, but it's a first-class interface citizen.Here's what it supports so far:📄 Page size presets — A4, Letter, Business Card, custom dimensions 🖱️ Drag-and-drop canvas — absolute positioning, resize handles, rotation, layer ordering (front/back) 🔤 Static text elements with {Field Name} interpolation 🖼️ Static image elements (via URL) 📊 Any field from your table — text, numbers, dates, select fields, attachments 🔗 Linked record fields in Table mode — displays related records as a mini-grid, with c

Engagement Model: Two-Phase (Phase 1: Discovery/Architecture | Phase 2: System Build)Reporting to: Gregg Curtis, CEO & Senior ProducerLocation : California, USA based - remote The MissionTAS PRO is looking for an Airtable Architect to design and deploy a centralized "Project Bible"—a master application that serves as the single source of truth for projects ranging from $10,000 to $10,000,000.We aren't looking for a data entry specialist or a basic builder; we are looking for a systems visionary who can translate complex creative production workflows into an intuitive, high-velocity digital ecosystem.The Critical Mandate: Ease of UseOur previous systems (specifically the Lightscape base) were technically sound but limited due to Stakeholder Friction. If our riggers, creative leads, and clients find the system cumbersome, it is a failure.Your primary KPI is User Adoption. You must move away from "Grid/Spreadsheet" views and utilize Airtable Interface Designer to build bespoke, fricti

This blog post by Airtable recommends using Airtable as a DAM (digital asset management) tool.My company uses Airtable as a DAM, and when I was a consultant, I worked on projects involving using Airtable as a DAM. Airtable's blog article leaves out a few concepts that you should consider if you want to use Airtable as a DAM.- Most DAMs also provide CDN (content delivery network) services. Airtable has stated that it is not designed to be a CDN. The loss of permanent attachment URLs matches the idea of Airtable not being a CDN. If you want to use Airtable as a DAM, make sure that you don't also need it to be a CDN.- Most of the systems that I have built for using Airtable as a DAM involved at least one third-party service, and some use multiple third-party services. Due to their nature, digital assets tend to be consumed outside of Airtable. Think through how you will integrate your Airtable content with where the content will be consumed. Make sure that wherever is recei

my organization does trainings and after each training, we send participants a post-survey to fill out. each training covers slightly different topics, so the questions we want feedback on change slightly with each training as well. right now, i have one table called post-surveys where each field corresponds to the questions we ask, and the field names are shortened versions of the questions. then we build the form for each post-survey based on which questions we’d like to include. the downside is that it means that table has a huge number of fields and it’s hard to see if the question you want to include already exists as a field or you need to create a new one. (e.g. “S3 FSOW: Challenges” means in session 3, we had a question about challenges that related to the reasons we did the session, you can see how that makes it hard to keep track of the actual question)i’d like to have a table that’s a list of the questions & what type of question they are, a related field for the trainin

I currently have a sign-up form that collects both a name and email address. When the person signs up, I have an automation set up to send a confirmation email. I have a bizarre situation where one person somehow keeps submitting their name and email address in what I assume is unicode bold, sometimes courier, and sometimes in a type of cursive. Whenever this happens, the confirmation email fails. The person who signs up on this form is older, and has no idea what she’s doing. I am hoping to be able to somehow convert all the unicode fonts into something that is readable so it can send emails.Some more context, the font also doesn’t get picked up if I do a Ctrl+F on the back end of the form. It’s as if the text isn’t there. If I copy and paste the text somewhere else online, it keeps the formatting, which makes me think it’s some kind of unicode that is still readable, but obviously not in this email situation. Can I fix this on the back end of AirTable so anytime she puts her “fonts”

YES! Yes, yes, yes! They are finally here!!! Airtable is a relational database. As such, it allows you to link records from one table to record(s) from a different table and keep such relationship on both sides.However, there are interesting use cases in which you’d want to link records from one table to records from the exact same table. For example, you might want to have one unique table for Tasks and handle hierarchy between them (e.g. Parent task, and Sub Task(s)).When creating a linked record field to its own table, you would have seen that only one field was created (the one you did manually). You would call this field Child Tasks for example, and link through it the child tasks to any parent task. However, the inverse relationship (backlink) would not be tracked anyway -meaning which are the parent tasks for each child tasks. To such effect we used to have to create yet an additional linked record field to the same Tasks table, and create all sort of nasty automations and scrip

Hey builders! 👋Starting something new can feel like staring at a blank canvas — exciting, but also where do I even click first?That's exactly why we run Set the Table: Builder Basics — a live, beginner-friendly session designed to take you from "I just signed up" to "oh wait, I can actually build this" in under an hour.📅 Tuesday, April 29, 2026 💻 Live virtual session What You'll Walk Away With🖥️ A guided demo of Airtable's core features — tables, views, field types, and how they all connect. We'll walk through it step by step, and you can follow along in a practice base if you want to get hands-on.💬 Live Q&A with our team — no question is too basic. Seriously. That's the whole point. Bring whatever's on your mind and we'll try and work through it together. Who This Is ForThis one's for the folks who are just getting started. Maybe you joined your company's workspace last week. Maybe you've been poking around but haven't built anything yet. Maybe you just want a proper walkthro

I want to give to some users ( managers … )  the ability to invite new users ( projet team … ) from a creation form in the interface, I tried to do it but I should add the new ones from the base first then select him in the dropdown list showed in the creation form. How can I centralize the invitation just from the interface no need to go the base and add him from there ( it’s so hard to do this when we have a lot of inviations to handle ) 

Hi, EDUsers,My name’s Sean---I’m the fellowships/scholarships advisor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. I’m reaching out to all of you Airtable EDU experts with a question about accessibility and WCAG compliance.Some background: I use Airtable for awards/fellowships tracking, on the back end to automate student contact points, and on the front end via a public database of award opportunities students can explore. I’m a one-man team charged with advising several thousand students, so Airtable has been crucial to my scaling up my capacity for advising.My state-funded, public university has scrambled over the past year to update our student- and public-facing resources to WCAG 2.1 standards, in line with the latest Title II digital accessibility rules. For most offices, this has meant new PDFs, new website content, different PowerPoints, and so on. For me, this has meant figuring out how to make the external components of Airtable (forms and interfaces, especially) digitally acce

Hi, I am trying to create a pipeline that a few users can manage a “global view” and then when updates are made to automations or tables from there all the workspaces sync, but the workspaces can be broken into regions and maintained separately by diff teams. Are we able to do something like this? Thanks! 

Hey M&E Builders in the UK! 👋We're SO excited to share this one with you — Airtable is hosting an in-person Media & Entertainment Forum right in the heart of London's Soho.📅 Thursday, April 16, 2026🕐 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM BST📍 Courthouse Hotel, 19-21 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7HL(Yes, that's a Grade II-listed former magistrates' court. The vibes are immaculate.) What's This All About?This is a full-day event built specifically for media and entertainment teams who want to see how AI is moving from buzzword to actual, measurable business impact inside Airtable.We're talking real stories, real workflows, real results — plus a hands-on AI masterclass where you'll build stuff you can take back to your team that same week.This is NOT a lecture. It's a working session designed to help you move faster with AI, whether you're just getting started or scaling across teams. 🎤 Who's Speaking?The lineup is 🔥:Alex Webb — Media & Entertainment Vertical Lead, Airtable (your h

I’m reopening this topic, I’ve seen there was an old one and this issue seems to keep being not solved after 5 years, which is kinda ridiculous.Out of the blue, without any reasonable explanation, the record IDs of one of my main tables have changed.We use the Record IDs as the primary key to run reporting outside of Airtable. It fully broke our scheduling system. From the 31st of March to today, all the IDs of my records have changed.This happens in a synced table, which might be the reason, although not logic at all. No record has been deleted an re-created.How come this happens? A unique ID must be immutable, what’s the point of having IDs that change in time? 

Hello Airtable Community,I am working with a non-profit Educational Institute to centralize over 20 years of data currently scattered across various spreadsheets. Our data includes Programs (15+), Students, Enrollments, Mentors, Alumni, Marketing, Scholarships, Startups, and Events.Our Goal: We want to move away from siloed spreadsheets into a centralized Airtable ecosystem where we can track a participant’s journey from Student to Alumnus to Mentor or Founder.My Questions: Single Base vs. Multiple Bases: Given the volume and variety of data, should we aim for one "Mega Base" or multiple specialized bases? Unique Identifiers across Roles: For our Students, we use a University ID as a unique identifier. However, for Mentors, Alumni, and other external partners, we don't have a standardized ID. What do you recommend as a Unique Identifier for non-student entities to ensure we don't create duplicate records when a person changes roles (e.g., an Alumnus becoming a Mentor)? Syncing &amp

Hi all,If you’re using HyperDB, or making plans to use it, what are you hoping to do with it? It seems like a powerful addition to Airtable, and I thought folks might be doing some interesting things with it.Thanks and have a good day,Joe M.

We’re an embroidery company and We’ve been working on relaunching our website on Shopify and we were planning on using a third party warehouse management system but we’ve had a dreadful time with the supplier and we’ve decided to scrap that project as its delaying launching our website (already three months late) For at least this year, we’re looking to use Airtable as our operations system and set up with a two-way sync with Shopify.  Has anyone used Airtable as a :  lightweight WMS / production workflow layer alongside Shopify? Has anyone managed production workflows (e.g. batching, manufacturing, customisation) in Airtable?  Basically  we’llUse Shopify for: storefronts (each school has its own store) orders + payments Use Airtable as our operational system, to manage: order lines (each item in an order) supplier ordering goods received embroidery workflow (including batching by logo) dispatch tracking  

So far, I haven’t had any trouble entering text and currency into Airtable bases, but I’d like to calculate simple overall percentages from my data. I’ve looked everywhere and can’t figure out how to do it in Airtable.I know how to do it at the row level, but I don’t know how to calculate it for the total data. For example, I have values in Column 1 and Column 2, and I need to sum all the data from Column 1 and all the data from Column 2, then divide them to get the overall percentage. Im trying to do this in the interface view too, but its imposible.I’m starting to think that it’s not possible to calculate simple total percentages in Airtable. Or am I missing something?Thanks very much in advance for any help with this.

I sometimes wonder why I still pay airtable money. For an application that claims to be good for time planning it’s mad it still doesn’t seem to be able to do time and date maths properly. I am in UK (so GMT/BST) - I want to have a date field and a separate time field, and to be able to combine these two into a calculated dateTimenothing I have tried seems to work reliably for this without jumping the date back to UTC Has anyone found a solution for what should be a trivial task?Thanks Richard

Hi there, It appears that there are a lot of threads but I can’t find an answer. I want to be able to add some images and font sizes and colours. I’ve tried connecting to GMail and setting up a signature but it doesn’t include the signature in the email body. I also have a field with the persons name in the airtable base, however that isn’t displaying for some reason.  This should be pretty straight forward. I’m open to paying someone to do this.  Thanks in advance. Jared.

Hey everyone,  I'm James, Airtable's ANZ Country Manager, and I'm genuinely excited to see this community come to life for our Australia and New Zealand builders. We've been building something special here in Australia and New Zealand for a while now, and the one thing that's always stood out is the calibre of people using Airtable to solve real problems in creative ways. This group exists to bring those people together. This is a community for builders, by the builders, not a sales channel, not a broadcast feed. It's a space where practitioners share what's working, swap ideas, ask hard questions, and help each other go further. The incredible team at Nifty Solutions will be leading the charge as your community hosts, so you're in great hands. To kick things off, I'd love for every new member to drop an intro post using the template below, it's a great way to find your people: 👋 Introduce yourself!Name:Company / Role:City:How has Airtable helped you unlock wins in your work: Looking