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Hey everyone, I’ve been using Airtable for a bit now and I love how flexible it is, but I keep running into issues when it comes to forms. Whenever I need a form with conditional formatting, multi-step process, or really anything that goes beyond a “submit once” form. Are there any good tools/workarounds that could achieve this?

Hello Airtable Friends!! I am trying to send automations to emails, but my automation field is not loving any of the formats I am using to store the email. I’ve got a lookup field, I’ve got a rollup field, I’ve got a formula field to put the lookup field into, and nothing!!! Can someone please point to where I’m going wrong?For some (maybe?) useful background: these fields are connected to one that is “limited to last 1”, so I only see who checked out a piece of equipment most recently, the original emails are synced from another base, and I select the field name in the drop down list so the “Field ID” keeps coming up, regardless of which field I select (the ID’s vary, though). 

Hi Airtable builders!In previous topics, I shared how you can sync your Shopify metaobjects, metafields, and even Products & Variants with Airtable in real time.The good news: you can now sync your Shopify translations with Airtable too (thanks to SyncBase).How does it work? During onboarding, you can choose which languages you want to sync. The app creates dedicated fields per language (e.g. Title (EN), Description (FR) …) inside a new Airtable base — or an existing one if you prefer. Each record represents a Shopify object (Product, Variant, Metaobject entry…), and each locale is editable directly from Airtable. Any update you make in Airtable is instantly synced back to Shopify — and vice-versa ⚡ It works for all suppor

After someone submits my form, I want it to go directly to my designated redirect page. Instead, I’m getting this screen:How can I get rid of this screen so it goes directly to the page I set as the redirect? I have a lot of people filling out forms who are… let’s just say this is too much opportunity for them to click the wrong button or get confused. I need this screen to go away.

Buenas tardes, soy nuevo en esta comunidad y también en la aplicación Airtable. Me gustaría crear una aplicación para el seguimiento del tiempo de los empleados en una empresa. ¿ Alguien podría orientarme? Gracias

Is it my impression or the latest version of the SDK removed support for defining a table as a custom parameter? My extension reads data from another table as support for that has been recently added. In order to avoid hardcoding things, I was allowing users to select a table. This was supported  (see link below). However, the latest version of the SDK does not seem to support that. (^0.0.0-experimental-e7419444f-20251120). I’ve updated my code so the parameter is now just a string. It seems to be working. Could you please confirm this makes sense?https://airtable.com/developers/interface-extensions/api/BlockPageElementCustomPropertyThe signature of the type BlockPageElementCustomProperty I’m getting does not include that type anymore (see below) and I also get a run time error.type BlockPa

Our team currently uses a legacy spreadsheet in Excel that is connected to Power Automate. This is visible by many teams and transitioning this workflow from Spreadsheet to Airtable would cause more issues than concerns. I’m wonder if its possible to connect excel to Airtable and make it live so everything is in real-time so that I can use Airtable dashboards to showcase the data we get in the spreadsheet. Is a 3rd party application needed? 

Hi everyone,we’re already using Airtable (initial tables exist) and we’re looking for help to properly structure the base and build a lightweight internal frontend / possibly an app to track and analyze our networking activities.Use case: Manage contacts (not customers) and log interactions/meetings per contact (date/location/type), discussion topics, resulting projects/leads/outcomes, follow-ups + reporting (activity over time, last interaction, topic/outcome breakdowns).Key requirement: A mobile-friendly workflow to take photos of meal/entertainment receipts and attach them to the related interaction/contact, including basic fields (purpose/occasion, attendees, amount, etc.) — with the goal of providing documentation for our tax advisor / authorities if needed.Usage is internal only (1–2 users, no external access).If you’ve built something similar

Hello everybodyI have 2 connected tables : Contact and Contact BehaviorIn Contact Behavior, I want to follow the way my contacts interact with my posts, my communities.In Contact, I have the general information about my Contact with a formularI connected Contact with Contact Behavior in 1 to 1 relashionship.All I want is, when I create a new contact in Contact Table, it creates automatically the contact in Contact BehaviorIn Contact, I have the forname, lastname, mail, phone and I generate by a formula the Complete Name (Lastname&” “&forname)In Contact Behavior, the first field is the Complete Name.My automation is :Trigger : when a contact is created in Contact tableUpdate the entry in Contact Behavior with this argument. Origin table : Contact. Id of the entry : Airtable record IDField in Contact Behavior : CompleteNameWhen I run the test, everythin

No mention of this in the docs.Is it possible to limit the number of found records by setting the maximum limit to “1”?

I have setup an automation so when someone emails a purchase request, it makes a record and notifies me in Airtable, however it doesn’t look like there is away to email an attachment and have it populate the attachment field. Is this possible?

Can anyone help me with my weekly automation to make sure all of my products from my latest product list are listed in all tables? I need a code for this: I want to check on airtable that my “inventory live”, “stock evaluation”, and “cost evaluation” bases, all include the latest products from my table: “latest product info”.

For context - I’m a literary agent and I’m trying to create a way to have a ‘live’ brochure of clients who are available for writer for hire gigs that I can share with editors. I’ve created a form which the clients can use to add and edit their details whenever they want and at the moment I have this set up to feed to a gallery interface just through the airtable interface section. It works reasonably well, but the long text field doesn’t seem to have a space big enough assigned to it in the display so a lot of the text is being cut off and I don’t want editors to be able to open the record because there’s other information there that I don’t want them to see. It’s also cutting off if the authors select more than 4 genres which is a bit frustrating.  Is there a way to adjust how the gallery interface deals with data display? Or is there another option within airtable I could look at that would enable me to customise more? I’m not very familiar with interf

Hey Airtable community, while building user-facing tools with platforms like Framer and WeWeb, I’ve noticed how much visual polish and UI flexibility matter for acquiring and retaining users. Small details increasingly shape how “premium” and trustworthy a product feels.This made me reflect on Airtable’s UI, especially as it’s moving more into the app and interface builder space: Many interactions (hover states, focus changes, view switches) happen instantly and without transition effects or micro-interactions. That looks less premium and more “beginner forgot the transition effect”. UI customization is still very limited. Things like border radius, colors, backgrounds, or basic theming aren’t adjustable, which makes it hard to align Interfaces with a brand or use them confidently in customer-facing scenarios. I’m curious: Would yo

I set up a Teams account for our nonprofit and got a discounted rate. Later, I found out that one of our volunteers had already created a Teams account and was paying for it. I asked AT Sales how to merge the volunteer’s account with ours, but I got a canned, unhelpful response. Can someone help with the merge?

I need to import the “Resolution” field from Jira Cloud  (Resolved, Won’t Do, Cancelled, etc) -- this is not showing up in the Standard fields, and is not listed on the Help page (https://support.airtable.com/docs/airtable-sync-integration-jira-cloud)Also wondering if there is support yet for custom fields?

Previously, PDF files stored in Attachment fields would open with an inline preview inside Airtable.Recently, clicking the same PDF files now forces a direct download ("Save as" dialog) instead of showing the preview.This happens even though:- The field is still an Attachment field- The file type is PDF- The file opens correctly if re-uploaded manuallyThis behavior worked correctly before and appears to have changed recently.Is this an intentional change in Airtable’s attachment preview behavior, or a regression?If intentional, what is the recommended way to maintain inline previews for PDFs generated via automations or external sources?

One thing I keep seeing with Airtable setups is how quickly costs jump once you involve external users.The moment you need vendors, clients, or partners to log in and update anything — even a single field — Airtable treats them as paid seats. It doesn’t really matter whether they’re full editors or just touching a tiny part of the workflow.People usually try a few workarounds:Shared views (which break as soon as you need write access) Forms (which don’t work well for ongoing updates) Interfaces (which still run into permission and billing limits)It works for small setups, but once you cross a certain scale,

we are having a problem on some orders where the attachments are downloading when we click on the opposed to opening 

Hi all, I’ve got a company that works with lots of freelancers and I decided that instead of a service like Calendly, I’d build an interface on Airtable, in a base where they all sync their calendars so I can see their appointments overlapping, and find the “holes” where people are available to meet. It’s worked really well (using filters in the interface, so I find the exact team members I need for each meeting). The one thing is, I’m trying to protect our contractors’ privacy, and don’t want to sync any information that’s extraneous to checking their availability (I don’t want any event details other than whose calendar it’s coming from, start and end time). I’ve successfully toggled off all details EXCEPT the event title, which, it seems, cannot be toggled off.My workaround has been to create a formula field where I change the event name to “Person Busy,” so they don’t show up in my interface, which works fine, but I wanted to see if anyone knows of a way to

Hi,Has anyone tried integrating Culture Amp survey data with Airtable for analysis and visualization? I'm considering whether integrating the Culture Amp data would produce better data analysis and visualization results, while also saving a lot of manual work. Thanks!

I’m using the utility function getHexForColor to get the color the user defined in a single select field and use it in my interface.  However, the hex colors I’m getting do not match the colors used on the AirTable UI.For example for a selection I have, the Airtable Color is blueBright and when I call getHexForColor  I get #2d7ff9, however, the AirTable UI uses #166ee1.I also noticed shouldUseLightTextOnColor doesn’t seem to work well on dark mode but I think that’s expected as I think dark mode is still experimental, right?

Hi Airtable Community!We're Query Streams, and we built a tool to automatically keep your Airtable bases updated with data from your databases and APIs.What it does:Connect your database or API to Airtable and set a schedule. Your bases stay updated automatically - no more manual imports or copy-pasting.New records get addedChanged records get updatedDeleted records get removed (if you want)Works with:Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and many moreAPIs: Google Analytics, HubSpot, Shopify, Stripe, ShipStation, and more comingSchedule options:Every few minutes, hourly, daily - whatever fits your workflowCommon uses:Project data from ERP systemsSales numbers from your CRMLive invento

Submitting our form causes buffering. The device used to fill out the form is a cell phone.I am not sure if it’s a data issue or maybe the size of the logo used in the form.Can anyone advise about this issue? Thank you

can someone help with this formula, when there are no dates in the fields it returns 12/31/1969, i’d like it to return a blank or “none”  DATETIME_PARSE(  MAX(    IF({Last Entered Patrol Start Date (from Patrol Reports Section 1)}, VALUE(DATETIME_FORMAT({Last Entered Patrol Start Date (from Patrol Reports Section 1)}, 'x')), 0),    IF({Last Entered Patrol Start Date (from Patrol Reports Section 2)}, VALUE(DATETIME_FORMAT({Last Entered Patrol Start Date (from Patrol Reports Section 2)}, 'x')), 0),    IF({Last Entered Patrol Start Date (from Patrol Reports Section 3)}, VALUE(DATETIME_FORMAT({Last Entered Patrol Start Date (from Patrol Reports Section 3)}, 'x')), 0),    IF({Last Entered Patrol Start Date (from Patrol Reports Section 4)}, VALUE(DATETIME_FORMAT({Last Entered Patrol Start Date (from Patrol Reports Section 4)}, 'x')), 0),    IF({Last Entered Patrol Start Date (from Patrol Reports Section 5)}, VALUE(DATETIME_FORMAT({La