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We have ~2000 applicants per applications cycle. I’d like to add them all as read only portal guests filtered to only see their own record that has their login email associated with it. Is there any limit on how many applicants I can do this for?

The public link cannot open the mobile page on my phone.The page opened on the phone shows the desktop version. I’ve tried all browsers and also tested on my friend’s phones.  

The Art of the Ask: Claude, Airtable, & Prompting that Actually WorksOne of the most interesting parts of leading the Airtable AI User Group is sitting at the intersection of three very different perspectives:• What Airtable is seeing internally across enablement, product evolution, and enterprise adoption• What we’re seeing as Partners inside real operational environments• What the broader community actually needs to understand to make AI useful in practiceThat synthesis is what shaped this month’s session.Last month, I hosted a conversation with Anna Rigby around the Airtable <> Claude connection and how prompting is evolving as AI shifts from simple chat interactions into workflows, automation, and agents.As those conversations have continued, I wanted to intentionally bring together voices from different parts of the ecosystem because successful AI adoption is not happening in silos.That’s why I’m excited to be joined by:Afua Laast, Airtable’s Lead Trainer, sharing what’s

 Title: API/MCP Support for Forms and Interfaces Management Category: Feature Request Description:Currently, the Airtable API and MCP server support creating and modifying tables, fields, and records—but not forms or interfaces. This gap limits developers and teams who need to: Programmatically spin up consistent form/interface configurations across multiple bases Version control UI elements alongside data schemas Integrate form/interface creation into automated workflows (CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code) Build local AI agents that can fully manage Airtable environments  Use Case:When building a local agent connected to Airtable via MCP, the agent can handle data operations effectively but cannot configure the presentation layer. This forces a hybrid workflow—automation for data, manual clicks for forms/interfaces—which breaks the promise of end-to-end programmability. Request:Please consider adding API and MCP endpoints for: Creating, updating, and deleting  forms Creating, upda

Buildathon New York was a blowout success, and I've got high hopes for Airspace LA. Let me know if you'll be there. I would love to meet up in real life! https://airspace.airtable.com/

I have a PostgreSQL database and I'm currently trying to sync it with Airtable. My current setup triggers a sync whenever a new record is created in the database, but I'm getting frequent synchronization errors.I'm wondering: is there a way to connect Airtable directly to a PostgreSQL database as a data source — similar to how Metabase lets you query a database directly — rather than relying on a sync mechanism? Essentially, I'd like Airtable to read data live from the DB without needing to replicate records.If not natively, are there recommended integrations or workarounds for this use case?

Im trying to use airtable record search in Make . . .I have a field called PostID. I want to search it for a number. I Cant find anywhere how a simple airtable syntax works for this  .. is it {PostID}=”123456” or do i put search or someting in front of it? 

Hey there, and welcome to the Airtable Nonprofit User Group! Whether you're just getting started or already deep into Airtable, this is a space for people in nonprofits to connect, share, and learn from each other. From program operations to grant management and impact tracking, this group is all about making Airtable work for real mission driven teams. I’m one of your Community Leaders here. I come from a nonprofit background myself, including time with the Red Cross, and still have a strong focus on helping organizations build better systems behind their impact. Be sure to join and follow the group so you stay in the loop on discussions and upcoming events. To get things started, introduce yourself:Name:Organization/Role:Location:How are you currently using Airtable in your nonprofit work?

Hey all, I’m making a Custom Interface Extension table module so I can have user facing sorting on the dashboard template. I’m trying to figure out how I can have the order of the columns tied to the order of the fields in the data panel the same way it works in the native AT tables. Anyone know? Thank you. 

We’re using Airtable to review pdf documents, and the thumbnail on the interface page is just 5-10% too small for our users to do their job. They need to be able to look at the document and enter information on the same page, and clicking on the attachment field to get a better look takes the user away from the fields the need to access.Setting the appearance to “hero” in the settings and fitting the image to size makes it slightly too small to be useable. Unchecking “fit image size” degrades the quality to slightly too fuzzy to be comfortable to read.Noloco’s interface solves this particular problem easily, because they place the preview window directly in the interface, but we want to go back to Airtable’s native interface for a lot of other reasons.Does anyone have an idea of how to solve this, or can we request a slightly larger zoom on a pdf fit to size, or better quality preview resolution?

Hello!I’ve been wracking my brain trying to figure this out - can anybody help?In my base, I have a main table named “Contacts” in which there’s a single select column for “Category” (stylist, producer etc...)I then have a table for each of these Categories with more info to add there.In those tables, I have added a Linked Record column to take the name from the main contacts table, with a condition:“Filter record selection by a conditionwhere all of the following condition is trueWhereCategoryisStylist” Even with that condition, it’s still pulling the info for all contacts. I even tried to filter by view, to no avail with the same result. Has anyone faced this before?

Hello everyone,I’m a beginner in Airtable.I created liked to another records in my database but it doesn’t goes out automatically. A helper said that I have to enter the link manually by clicking in the box and selecting the correct link to establish. He corrected the field books to show me an exemple. But I don’t see what’s wrong. Here is the link to my database :https://airtable.com/invite/l?inviteId=invaGndItH1AMLc6T&inviteToken=397c73d5eb028ef680e8e173e4a730b416c544f294d7c3917f344bbb0d0fe1c1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=product_team&utm_content=transactional-alerts 

Right now I am using Fillout for all of my questionnaires/lead retreival and zapping into Airtable. Now with Claude AI coming on board is there a way to utilize Airtable again for dynamic questionnaires?

Somewhat recently, Airtable updated self-linked record fields so they automatically create a second field on the same table showing the inverse relationship — same as how linking between two different tables has always created a field on both sides.I have a few tables with self-links that I set up before that change, and they're still one-way. Is there a way to add the inverse field to an existing self-link without deleting and recreating it? 

Our team just got home from spending a few days at the NASCIO mid-year conference, where we heard from IT and Operations leaders from around the US talking about their prerogative on AI, what it means to ‘Modernize’ and some of the current IT projects that are top of mind. Among many topics, we heard most about:IT Portfolios that have no central project management or progress tracking Enterprise Governance and Responsible AI Adoption Procurement workflows that live in spreadsheets ITSM and Asset Management that is disconnected across several tools Leaders needing a more consistent ‘single-pane-of-glass’ to measure their success against key initiatives Would welcome any additions to the list of what we should prioritize, or your thoughts on any of the above!

Senior Airtable ConsultantFull timeMoonland Role OverviewMoonland is hiring a senior Airtable consultant to work embedded with one of our international clients, collaborating closely with their IT team on the design and delivery of business critical Airtable solutions.You will operate as part of the client’s core IT and product environment, working with technical and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable Airtable systems.This is a hands on role. You will design, build, and evolve production grade Airtable applications used across multiple regions and teams.You will work closely with teams based in Brussels and London. Remote work is possible, but availability within or close to GMT+1 is essential to ensure smooth collaboration through daily standups and regular calls. About MoonlandMoonland partners with impact driven organisations to help them scale their mission through better systems, tools, and workflows.We focus on building practical, scalable solut

There is a BASE / Table / bunch of fields.There is web app using API, which neatly makes a form for users to change their details, not just create as Airtable native forms.Everything works perfectly, until team member changes the field name.I know you can use serial name “fld123ABC456”, but it involves creating another object to hold pairs of serial names and human readable name. Code is also much cleaner with field names. rawContacts[xyz].fields[“Some Field Name”] reads much better than rawContacts[xyz].fields.fld123ABC456Question: is there a native way to find who and when made a field name change.Also how the change was made old name → new name and old type → new type I have been asking Airtable, as enterprise user for years now, to implement admin layer on field definitions, so that very few people can make these devastating changes. In the meantime, is there a log of these changes natively?Or does it have to be a hack of either manually defininThere is a BASE / Table / bunch of fi

I’ve been building a workflow that connects Airtable to a CMS so blog content can move from planning to publishing with less manual work.The setup usually includes title, slug, content, images, publish date, and status fields, plus a draft/review/publish flow.I’m curious how others here manage content operations: do you keep Airtable as the source of truth, or do you use it only for planning?Happy to share the structure I use if anyone is trying to reduce manual blog publishing work.

Hi everyone — I’m curious whether any colleges or universities are using Airtable as an alumni database and/or as a platform to support alumni–student or alumni–alumni networking.If so, I’d love to hear how it’s going: what’s working well, what challenges you’ve encountered, and any lessons learned around scale, access, or engagement. If you’re open to a brief conversation or sharing examples, that would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance! My contact info is mdeitch@haverford.edu 

Hi All, We are considering using Airtable for our team to manage projects we are doing for client. However, some of the data will be sensitive data belonging to the client. What’s the best way to manage this?  

Hi everyone,I earned my Airtable certification using my previous work email address. I no longer work for that company, and I’d like to renew my certification using my current email/account.Has anyone here successfully transferred or merged their Airtable Academy certification history, badges, or Community profile from an old work account to a new personal or work account?I’m especially interested in understanding:whether Airtable Support can merge Academy and Community profiles; what information they usually ask for; whether certification history and badges are preserved after the transfer; how long the process usually takes.Thanks in advance for any advice or experience you can share.

Hey all, figured I’d ask this question and see if anyone has advice/experience, plus it’s been awhile since an Outlook integration thread in case of application changes…So I’ve got an active automation setup integrated with an Outlook calendar wherein people submit tickets and dates, and when a date is created an automation fires to create an Outlook event, with the Outlook ID written into the record for reference. Then when certain conditions are met, another automation fires to update the Outlook Calendar event by referencing the ID. For the most part (like 97% of the time) this works fine, but I’m having a devil of a time on that last 3%. Some of this is accountable to people using the data layer and fulfilling update conditions at creation, those are able to be rectified. The real bothersome one is that rarely the creation automation gets thrown the error Microsoft reported an error while processing this action: An unknown error occurred. I appreciate how descriptive this is 🤪I’m

I have created a “Release Planner” base in Airtable for coordinating all the steps we have to complete for a software release. I created one table called ‘Template”, and I copy that template to a new table for each release.Now, I want to set up automations to notify me and the assigned to person daily while any task is open, across all tables. I seem only to have been able to set it up on one, but then it doesn’t copy over when I copy the template to a new table. And I can’t seem to set it up the right way every time, plus it’s time consuming. Does anyone have a hack for creating a base-wide notification? Or a way to copy automations across tables?Happy to do scripting, but I would need detailed instructions, as I haven’t done that in Airtable before.Thank you!

It’s been quite a while since major AI labs released new models, yet we still don’t see them available in the selectors. Models like Nano Banana 2, Opus 4.7, GPT Images 2.0, GPT 5.5 and others are already out there, but not accessible here. I’m not sure how to tag the developers directly, but hopefully this can get some visibility and we can receive some clarification on upcoming updates.