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I have a custom interface created by Omni where I have a button to create a new record in a table. When I’m creating a record from this interface, I want to upload a csv file into an attachment field, however, the code isn't working. The file will appear to have been uploaded, but when I check the data table, it's not uploaded or it's uploaded in a corrupt format that doesn't load again. How can I fix this in the interface? Omni has not been able to solve for this yet.

Hi, everyone! For the last 24 hours, I haven’t been able to download CSV files from any of my bases. I’ve tried in the app (on Mac and Windows), and in multiple browsers. Although I see the “preparing CSV file for download” popup, no file is downloaded. Anyone else experiencing this issue, or have a workaround? (UPDATE: it appears it is specific to my workplace, as I can download files from my home network. Anyone have such an issue with their IT setup blocking Airtable downloads?)Thanks in advance, Carole

As you can see below, I want to know if the users can comment with text and attachments, because I saw on the dropdown list for choosing the displaying options. I wonder if the users can comment with text and Attachments as proof or something else, it would be beneficial. 

We have a master base “template” created with all of the usual requests from a client and different bases per campaign. How can we duplicate a table from the master template to a campaign base with including the formulas? It works when you sync and unsync but somehow when duplicating the formulas are lost. Is there a work around?

I have a text field which I’m manually populating with UUIDv7s. This string is time-ordered by the first sequence of characters.When sorting A-Z on this column, I’d expect that to happen. It isn’t. These two entries sort in this order. 019c607b-60d7-72dd-b925-f76680dae347 019c6051-5b66-7586-85b8-c54c63dbf350What am I missing?

I am trying to open Airtable in Chrome but when I enter a url into a browser and hit return, the screen turns white and my Airtable is tab at the top of browser spins as though it was loading.  Then nothing happens.  The same url works on my colleagues computers no problem (by way of trouble shooting, my internet is working fine, OS and browser is up to date and running most recent version, I cleared my cache and browsing history, disabled all extensions).  I can get it to load in Safari but I want to use Chrome (I’ve set up some extensions and automations in Chrome and don’t want to leave this browser).  Not sure what to do!  

Hi community!I'm building a Custom Interface Extension (with Claude Code) and want to add the native Airtable comments section to my detail view - just like you can add it in the Interface Designer.Question: Is there a component or method to embed the native comments UI in a Custom Interface Extension?What I've tried: Searching for components like RecordComments, CommentSection in @airtable/blocks interface-alpha SDK Using expandRecord() - but this opens a separate modal instead of inline display Building a custom solution via REST API (works, but missing @mention autocomplete)  What I want:  The same comments section you get in Interface Designer - with all features like:Inline display (no modal) @mentions with autocomplete Profile pictures Full comment threadIs this possible? Or is the only option to build everything custom via the Comments REST API?Working with Claude Code and we can't find any documentation for this.Any guidance appreciated! 🙏

Good afternoon, I have a database with a number of different membership categories - e.g. Partner, Society, PAHH - and have set up automations to pass the membership details to generate either a form letter (via MAKE) or email (native Airtable) as a reminder that the membership is due. At the moment, I have multiple automations for each membership category for each of the 4 letters required. This is unwieldy, and there is a lot of scope for mistakes with so many automations and webhooks.All the 4 letters for each membership category are the same, other than the partnership category. I cannot work out how to have just one set of automations for these letters which passes the membership category to either the email or MAKE to personalise them. The problem is that some members are in more than one category, so I cannot, for example, use the membership field as there may be “Partner” and “PAHH” in that field, and I only want the reminder to be sent for one category.Ideally, when the button

I'm using Airtable's MCP server to let an AI agent (Claude Code) build and manage a base on my behalf — creating tables, fields, records, linked relationships, the works. The API is excellent for all of this. But I've hit what feels like a showstopper: there is no way to programmatically configure view sorting, filtering, grouping, field visibility, or field order.The result is that my AI agent creates a beautifully structured base with sequenced milestones, prioritised tasks, linked goals — and when I open Airtable, I see records in an arbitrary internal order that bears no relation to creation sequence or any other logic. Every view needs manual sort/filter configuration before the data is usable.I tried the obvious workaround of deleting and recreating records in the desired order. Doesn't work — the UI still displays them in an opaque internal order. I've added Sequence fields to every table so the correct order is encoded in the data, but there's no way to tell a view to sort by t

Hi Airtable Community 👋,I’m exploring how constraint-based logic games like Letter Boxed  answers (from The New York Times) can inspire better product and workflow designs especially for knowledge work and team habits.One idea I’m playing with is an Airtable base that models Letter Boxed mechanics to:• Track word sequences where each new entry must start with the previous word’s last character• Automatically validate whether entries follow the constraints• Score progress, trends, and “streaks” over time• Enable different rule sets (daily challenge, team competitions, word limits)I’ve started a base with:✅ Tables for Word Entries✅ Automations to check validation logic✅ Views for Daily Challenges vs All Time✅ Blocks/Scripts for scoringBut I’m running into these questions:🔹 Best way to validate entry sequences automatically?🔹 Should I use Scripting Block, Automations, or both?🔹 What’s a clean schema for tracking constraint violations & user history?🔹 Any template ideas for extend

Have you made a Custom Interface Extension using extension scripting or other options? What does it do, how did you make it and show me an example of it!! 🙌 This is more about the Extensions used in Interfaces but by all means show me your extensions 😎!!

Hello,I have an events table with several events, each taking place on a different date. (Example: Event 1 on January 1st, Event 2 on February 1st, etc.)I would like people to be able to sign up as volunteers for one-hour slots for each of these events.What database structure would you recommend I create?Could I automate this process so that, once an event is created, it populates a new "slot" table by creating x new rows linked to each event, each row representing a different time slot?(Row 1: Event 1 - 9am to 10amRow 2: Event 1 - 10am to 11ametc.)Thank you very much for your help!

I’m building up a base for my team. We have many workflows/processes that occur throughout the year and I want to track them, so our team stays on track and have ownership. I’m starting with one workflow but I’m running into an issue where my workflow tasks aren’t getting automated correctly when it runs for the month. My base is currently set up with People, Tasks, Projects, Process Templates (Where our workflows are held), Task Templates (where I would like the tasks that are associated with the processes held), Runs (when this workflow occurs), and then Workflow Tasks (where the team would edit and keep track of their tasks associated with this workflow).Two Things:1. When my automation runs, its supposed to populate all 7 tasks into the Workflow Tasks so that the team can start tracking them. However its only pulling up 1 out of the 7 tasks even though my Find Record is showing all 7 Tasks. I have it repeated and for it to create a record but it only does one. How can I fix this?I

Tengo dos bases de datos. La primera, llamada "transmisiones" , hace referencia a varios registros porque deben registrarse en paquetes. También tengo otra tabla para registros individuales donde tengo que registrar manualmente los mismos registros, uno por uno.Lo que me gustaría es que al crear una transmisión y seleccionar varios registros a la vez, automáticamente se genere un registro en la tabla de registros individuales.No hay problema con los datos, ya que los registros individuales están vinculados a la transmisión y pueden recuperar la información. El problema es que actualmente el proceso de registro individual debe realizarse manualmente, uno por uno.

Given the advent of tools like Claude Code / Codex are there any plans to expand API capabilities do allow more complete read and write?  It has been a long standing community request to allow creation and modification of lookup, rollup and formula fields. Additionally, many field attributes are not available (readable) via API.  I think the urgency on this is much higher now. Agentic coding currently require 1) manual extraction of the full schema data to give sufficient context to coding agents 2) manual human intervention to create key field types.This is going already beginning to affect the build (traditional database) vs buy (Airtable) decision. Both the development process and the long term maintenance process are moving to agentic AI, which at current, is not fully feasible with Airtable.   

My DB have interfaces with Tally and Zapier, and they just stopped working.When I try connect it in Tally, it recognizes all DBs in my workspace, but can find no tables in the BD.Even tried duplicate the BD and rebuild the connections, but just got the same message: “No tables found”. But all tables are there, and all data’s there…Asked AI about it, and it wrote about API key and Tokens…Help, please?...

Hi Airtable community! 👋I’m working on a base where I track projects and tasks. I have two tables:✅ Projects – one record per project✅ Tasks – linked to Projects (many tasks per project)In the Tasks table, I have a checkbox field called “Completed”. What I’d like to do is:➡️ When ALL tasks linked to a project are marked Completed, I want a field in the Projects table — like “All Tasks Done?” — to automatically update to checked.➡️ If even one linked task is not completed, then “All Tasks Done?” should remain unchecked.Right now, I’m trying to achieve this with: A rollup field in Projects that counts whether tasks are checked (ARRAYUNIQUE(values) or COUNTALL(values)), A formula field to decide if all tasks are completed. But I’m stuck on getting the formula right so that it reliably returns TRUE/FALSE without manual intervention.Here’s what I’m currently using in the rollup and formula:📌 Rollup (Tasks → Completed):values📌 Formula (Projects):IF({Completed Count} = {Total Task Count}

Hello! I am a new AirTable user and have spent over 30 hours trying to build a worksheet generator for my classes. Since I don’t quite know how AirTable works, Chat GPT has been walking me through all of the steps. But … it isn’t working and after 30 hours I’m feeling like I should give up. Would anyone be willing to take a look at it and help me?

Hi everyone,I’m starting this topic to learn from others in the media & entertainment space who are using Airtable at scale.I’m part of a podcast company, and we don’t just use Airtable as a database — we’ve built a significant portion of our operational workflows inside it. Our team works primarily through Interfaces, and all inputs are stored as structured data in the backend. In many ways, Airtable functions as our operational backbone.Recently, we’ve noticed that we’re approaching record limits faster than expected. This seems to be driven by the volume of workflows, automations, and syncs to other systems. It’s prompted a bigger question for us: are we structuring our architecture in a suboptimal way, or are we pushing Airtable beyond what it’s realistically designed to support at scale?I’d really appreciate hearing how other larger teams in this group are approaching this. Specifically: How are you structuring your bases to manage operational workflows and long-term data grow

Hi,We’re automating invoice creation, and need therefore to create payment reference numbers. I’d prefer to create these programmatically within Airtable.As a basis I wanted to use a autonumbering field we already have for creating unique IDs for the orders. Basically the base number will get an added checksum number, so that electronic banking systems can validate that the payer has entered the correct reference number.I found an Excel formula that creates the reference numbers according to our (Finland) banking standards (have tested, it works in Excel). I have been trying to convert it to Airtable, but I can’t get it to work.ORIGINAL:=IF(ISNUMBER(A2);(10*A2+RIGHT(10-RIGHT(7*MID(10000000000+A2;2;1)+1*MID(10000000000+A2;3;1)+3*MID(10000000000+A2;4;1)+(7*MID(10000000000+A2;5;1))+(1*MID(10000000000+A2;6;1))+(3*MID(10000000000+A2;7;1))+(7*MID(10000000000+A2;8;1))+(1*MID(10000000000+A2;9;1))+(3*MID(10000000000+A2;10;1))+(7*MID(10000000000+A2;11;1));1);1));"") Identified change needs:cell

Hi everyone!In Airtable Interfaces, is there a way to restrict comment notifications / @mentions so that only Admins can be mentioned (or only Admins receive the notifications)?We want interface users to be able to leave notes, but ensure that @mentions/notifications go only to our Admin team.Any best practices or recommended workaround (permissions vs automations) would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi, is there an alternative way to send a message outside of the 24-hour window? Our current tagging is "account_update," but according to Meta's new policy, this is one of the deprecated tags. Thank you.

Hi everyone! 👋I’m fairly new to Airtable and I’ve been trying to build a base where I can filter records based on values in a lookup field, but I can’t seem to get it working the way I want. I’ve read some community posts and tried a few different approaches, but I’m still stuck — so I thought I’d ask here for guidance. 😊Here’s what I’m trying to do:🔹 Base setup Table A: Projects – Contains project names and related client. Table B: Clients – Contains client details + a lookup field in Table A. In Table A, I have a lookup field that pulls the client industry from Table B. 🔹 GoalI want to filter Table A to only show projects where the client’s industry includes the word “Technology”.I’ve tried: Setting a view filter in Table A → Lookup Industry contains “Technology” Creating a formula field referencing the lookup Adding a rollup field But none of these filters ever show the expected records when I test it. I suspect I might be misunderstanding how lookup values behave in fil

I own a small business with a limited budget. I’m looking a company that can help me build out a Airtable for my small business. 

I had Omni build a Form for users to collect new record information. It has two levels: Claims and Claim Details. I wanted it to allow a user to create a new “Claim” and the continue to add each new “Claim detail record” from this same form. It works in the regular interface, but as a form it only allows the user to select from existing “Claim Details.” Is there a setting for that field that I need to change in order to adds new detail records?