Unanswered questions

After two years in the AI wilderness, finally the technology is allowing me to do business again with real opportunities to help other entrepreneurs and earn money doing it.  I have learned a lot these past two years, building an app concept in the mental health care space, and now AI audit tools for small businesses.  This past week, I struggled with two AI assistants trying to set up my lead generation database from one of the tools that were ready for launch. The experience, and an interview on YouTube with CEO Howie Liu, led me back to Airtable as a CRM for my new venture. Historically, I used Airtable for marketing content planning. I saw the value of integrations, but I didn’t want to pay for it. Now, I am hearing so many good things about what people have built and the huge benefits at the free level, I decided to come back. A lot has changed here too in two years. So, I’m hoping someone in the community can help me with their immediate experience with integrations through Make

Hello !I couldn’t attend this webinar last week : From dashboards to agents: The new era of product operations.Is there a recap available somewhere ? Thanks a lot !

Hi there, I’ve set-up a Airtable to Google Calendar sync. The event (record from Airtable) on Google shows the start date/time and end date/time. However I’d like to add the address to the Google event from my Airtable data. Is there an option to bring this data from Airtable to the Google Calendar event please? Any support would be great! Thanks 😀

Hi I would like to translate this formula to function in an airtable workspace, please help me.=IF(G2="Yes", SUMIFS(F:F, A:A, ">="&NOW(), A:A, "<"&A2, D:D, "Yes"), "-")

This seems to be a grossly missing option for sorts.  I should be able to check a box to decide if I want blank fields to show at the top or bottom of a sorted column.  I know there is a workaround, but I shouldn’t have to create a workaround for a painfully missing feature.  How do I submit this as a feature request and get everyone to upvote it?

Hi all. I have an automation that creates a doc in Google Docs as one of its steps. It’s triggered by a button press in an interface. We run it 20-30 times a day. 90% of the time, no problem. However, 5-10% of the time it randomly fails to create the doc with a very nonspecific error: When we re-run it with the same data and so on, it runs successfully.The workaround is simply pressing the button again, which is fine, but I’d still like to know what is going wrong. Is there any way to see more information on this error? Or, has anyone else encountered a similar issue?-Natalka

Looking to hire a consultant that provide an audit and clean up of our data and workflow in Airtable.  Seems that several workflows are starting to break.  

I’m invoicing time records by project, by month. Each time record has a “Time Task” which comes from a linked lookup table. There’s some 42 time tasks and more may be added in the future. When creating a monthly invoice I want to summarize the hours for each task utilized by that monthly collection of time records for each project invoiced.e.g.5/1/2026 2.0 hours Preparation5/19/2026 1.3 hours Preparation5/21/2026 1.0 hours Preparation*Total Preparation 4.3 hours 5/8/2026 1.5 hours Development5/8/2026 5.8 hours Development*Total Development 7.3 hours I only want to show the * totals, not the actual individual time records.Ideally these totals would simply go into a separate table linked to the invoice.I really don’t want to use a third party tool like Make or Zapier. How can I go about doing that?

Why when I get just only 1 item in a search node with airtable and 1 item in update record the API calls is not only 2?

Hi all - I’m fairly new to Airtable and hitting a roadblock… I have a form where people submit a list of activities they’ve participated in over a period of time. To avoid burdening the user with repeat submissions, I’ve set up my form/table with Activity 1, Activity 2, Activity 3, Activity 4, etc for all the different fields. However, I’d like to create a clean view where the data in all of those fields wraps up into one list of activities, as different records (i.e., if John Doe submits details for Activity 1, Activity 2, and Activity 3 all in one record, how can I get a list where John Doe has 3 records, one for each activity?).I’m struggling with how to make this happen. I tried nesting the records but it only works for 3 and I have 10 activity fields in my form. Does anyone have experience writing a script for an automation for something like this? I’ve never written a script and have no idea where to even start, so any guidance would be helpful!

Hi everyone,We're currently managing Microsoft 365 mailbox migration projects and using Airtable as a project tracking platform.The migration itself is performed using SysTools Office 365 migration software, which generates detailed CSV reports containing mailbox status, migrated item counts, failures, timestamps, and other statistics.What I'd like to do is automatically push those CSV reports into Airtable so customers can view migration progress in near real time through a dashboard or interface, rather than sending them updated spreadsheets manually.Has anyone built something similar?I'm considering a workflow where Airtable automatically imports the latest CSV data and updates customer-facing views. I'm curious whether people are using Airtable Automations, Make, Zapier, custom scripts, or another approach for this type of reporting.Would appreciate any suggestions or examples from those who have implemented client-facing status dashboards.

Hi everyone,I’ve been managing our entire product catalog in Excel, but it’s getting short. I really need to have a better workflow, and I’m trying to figure out if Airtable is the right solution for my company or if I will hit a wall soon.I interact a lot with the products, change prices frequently, and need a highly visual and optimized system. Here is my specific scenario:The Data & Workflow:We manage around 3,000 to 4,000 products.I have a Master Products Table with historical data: UPC, Name, Brand, and Image Every single day, I receive 5 separate Excel files with updated prices and current availability. Each file belongs to a different customer tier (VIP, Wholesale, Distributor, etc.). If an item is not in the daily Excel, it means it's out of stock for the day.My ultimate goal is to use Airtable Interfaces (Gallery View) to show the active products with their respective prices, export them to PDF, and send them to clients.Based on your experience, is Airtable truly the right

I've created a calendar table synced to GCAL and wish to populate a calendar view with the events based on the Event Start and when Event Start is not available based on Event Created. I've struggled to achieve this (I welcome any other possible solutions) so I attempted to create a formula field with the following formula: “IF({Event Start}, {Event Start}, {Event Created})”.  As generated by the ai agent. Somehow that formula changes both Event Start and Event Created data. I've also tried the following formula: DATETIME_PARSE(IF({Event Start} = BLANK(), {Event Created}, {Event Start}))To the same effect. Screenshot attached to quell my possibly insufficient description. Questions.Why is the data changing when the formula is only requesting to display the data? Are my assumptions about the formula only asking to display data correct? Is my formula broken/insufficient? if so, what's the fix? Is there a simpler way to achieve my goal of populating a calendar view with the events based o

hi all, i am sure this should be easy and i cannot get it to work i have a products table {product id} and {product name}a menu table which pulls the product name using the product idand an orders table which lookups the product name from the menu i am then trying to concatenate in orders the product_name and qty into one string {products}&" ("&qty&")"{products} here is a lookup field i’m expecting Bread(1)but instead get 2(1) 2 is the product id i’ve tried formula, arrays and rollup function thank you

Washington County was established in 1777 and the county seat, Jonesborough, was established in 1779; the oldest county and town in Tennessee.  We have over a 1,000 family folders and over 400 local history folders along with books, microfilm, maps, etc. in the library genealogy collection.  We are building a searchable database on these family folders and local history folders. In this data base, we also set up through ‘extensions’ a search engine.We want to share this database with family researchers.  But we would like to share with them a “read only” database that is searchable.  This is our problem.  How can we set up a “read only” database that researchers could use?  We do not want to put this database on the internet.  Is there a way that we can set up a searchable database that is only ‘read only?’ 

Thought this might be a good regular conversation piece - what is on your mind (when it comes to Airtable)?I’ll kick us off:I’m about to undertake a revamp of how we organise our workspaces/bases. Until now, everything was in one workspace (except for sandboxes and templates). But because we want to keep workspace creator permissions low (literally me, IT and C suite) so that people cannot snoop in and out of any base, creating new bases is down to me. There is no separation of creating bases from access to all bases… AFAIK anyway.So, I’m now looking at splitting out into departmental workspaces to free up permissions. Plus, our SSO/SKIM provisioning can then automate a lot of things for onboarding/offboarding. 

Dear Airtable Community, for a Project Gantt Plan I have differnt swimlanes that are grouped by Workstream Tags. The gantt view used to show the Tags in a column on the very left side of the table (directly next to the column of the different views). Now this column with the Grouped Workstreams disappeared and there is no option to show it again only when I change the Layout from Gantt to stacked. Please help

Seeking an Airtable consultant with experience building product development, merchandising, or retail operations systems in apparel, home décor, gift, or consumer products. I am currently implementing Airtable for a nonprofit client and looking for hourly screen-share coaching while I build the base myself. Need guidance on product development calendars, cross-functional workflows, linked records, and database architecture. Seeking flexible, pay-as-you-go support rather than a large consulting package or minimum-hour commitment.Thank you! Rebekah 

Hi all,Anyone else having this issue today?  I’m not doing anything I haven’t several times before.  Not sure if the issue is with me or Airtable is having a challenge.  

Hi everyone,I'm creating a new post and I can see two fields: Title and Description. Could someone explain what information should be entered in each field and share any tips for writing a clear and effective post?Thanks in advance for your help!

I had Omni create a custom interface for me. It went through all the steps, and according to omni it is done. But my interface page is still not loading after an hr. I tried this twice with the same resultsl

Interested to know if there are any other UK members outside London that are left feeling a bit disconnected and unsupported.Airtable as a company seem to assume that everyone in the UK is OK to have everything airtable related in London - but to be honest, as much as I love Airtable, I’m just not in a position to spend a couple of hundred quid and take a couple of days out trek down to the old smoke for the events that are put on.I get that they have to deal with the majority first - but is Airtable really focused in London and nowhere else in the UK because I seem to be able to find clients using Airtable all over the country

Hi folks!Our very first Nonprofit build along event was such a blast, the chat was one of the most active Airtable has ever seen. So we want to hear from you: what should we cover next?A few ideas we're kicking around: Grant management and reporting Volunteer coordination and scheduling Impact and outcome tracking Connecting Airtable to your other tools (Mailchimp, QuickBooks, etc.)Drop a comment with the one you'd find most useful, or tell us about a process at your org that still feels messy and we'll see if we can build a session around it. 

¿que esta pasando?, se ha caido todo, no funciona ninguna aplicacion de las que tengo consultando la BBDD, por favor arreglarlo rapido What's happening? Everything has crashed, none of the applications I have accessing the database are working. Please fix it quickly.

Hi, how can I use script to prompt a user to confirm an action when a button is clicked on the interface? The Button is linked to a record picker on a Blank Layout.I tried adding this to my script:// Ask for confirmationlet confirmed = await input.buttonsAsync("Are you sure you want to perform this action?",[ {label: "Cancel", value: "cancel"}, {label: "Confirm", value: "confirm"} ]);if (confirmed !== "confirm") {output.text("Action canceled.");return;}But I am getting this error:Property 'buttonsAsync' does not exist on type '{ config(): { readonly recordID: string; }; }'.(2339)Here is my script:let table = base.getTable("Test Log");let view = table.getView("New");const recordID = input.config().recordID;let record = await view.selectRecordAsync(recordID);// Ask for confirmationlet confirmed = await input.buttonsAsync("Are you sure you want to perform this action?",[ {label: "Cancel", value: "cancel"}, {label: "Confirm", value: "confirm"} ]);if (confirmed !== "confirm") {output.text("