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This is a question that has been asked a few years ago but not sure if this has been revisited recently.I am using Airtable interfaces. I am on top level plan and prepared to pay to remove the Airtable branding. There is a simple reason why.Our portal goes out to our key stakeholders and partners. As soon as they see the Airtable logo they start to try and work out how we build the platform, then instead of seeing the great outcomes that we are delivering, they start to try and build their own or they deconstruct the environment. It is very disheartening when you have spent a month making a great interface, and the first and last thing the partner mentions is "Oh thats Airtable, can you show me how you did that I need to do that for that thing that I was going to get you to do for me . . . . . so I will now go try to make it myself, I mean, it's just Airtable"The solution shouldnt be to go use Softr/Noloco etc and  money for

Issue with Embedded Public Sharing Interface on MobileI created an interface and set it to public sharing. After embedding the code into my website, I noticed the following behavior:On desktop: Everything works perfectly. When I enter the password in the pop-up window, the main page refreshes and displays the correct content.On mobile: After entering the password, the content loads inside the pop-up window instead of refreshing the main page to display it.Has anyone else experienced this issue? Could this be an Airtable system error, or might it be related to my website settings?

I am wondering what Record comments can be used for. It looks like Record comments aren't accessible by formulas, automations interfaces, etc. That is, I can't create a formula that tells me if there are comments, that returns, the comments, etc. I can't rollup all comments of a record. I can't write an automation that emails me when a comment is made in a record.Is that all true — are comments really this isolated? If so, I wonder why the heck they exist — nothing in airtable seems this isolated. 

Hi all - I've got a couple different interfaces (one kanban, one list) where I want the info to be visible only to the assignee and their manager. I know how to make it only visible to the assignee (filter by Assignee is Current User) but where I'm getting stuck is allowing the manager to see all tasks regardless of who they're assigned to.For example - Jordyn is the boss of Michael & Isaac. I want Michael and Isaac to each only see tasks assigned to themselves, but I want Jordyn to see all tasks assigned to either Michael or Isaac.This feels like it should be simple but I can't figure it out. Again, I'm having this issue on multiple different interface elements across different bases.Thanks!Kelsey

I have a single select drop down field, and use an automation to copy that dropdown field into a linked record field anytime it is updated (see below). I have the system to clients can use the dropdown in forms, but I use the linked record in the backend for my own uses.There are actually two of these, one for Federal and one for State electorates. Each have their own single dropdown field, that automates over to their own linked record field. Both linked records link to the same table, but obviously different columns.However, in the table where the linked records resides that are multiple cases of records with the same name. For instance, there is a Federal electorate called Adelaide AND a state electorate called Adelaide. Each record has a number of other fields (such as state, level of government, etc) and I use the Group function, so that it's clear and easy t

Hi,I am running network managing research participants for my organization. They have two options for signing up, which are in separate tables. One is the 'Full Sign Up', which is in my main participant table, where I am linking other information not related to the form. The other is a 'Sign Up Later' form, used when recruiting partipants who don't have time for the full form (fx in person at a conference). They sign up with their name and email and I have created an automation to send out a link with full form. I'd like to create an automation that sends out a reminder email those who have completed the 'Sign Up Later' form, but not completed the 'Full Sign Up' form, to do so. This means I need an automation that removes those who have completed the 'Full Sign Up' form, from the 'Sign Up Later' table, but I am unsure how to do that, since the tables are not linked.  Any help is appreciated 🙂

Hi there, New to AirTable and was wondering if there is a quick way to convert rich tex to html in AirTable. Is there a script that will do that? Or any other solutions? Thanks.

Hello AirTable Community!Hoping someone can help me with a solution here.  I have a conditional form that depending on the department you choose, you get different prompts - most of this works great.  Here's the problem:I have a Lookup field that provides instructions by the department that I would like to appear once someone selects the specific department.  i.e.: Person selects Finance request time - they get a block of text that talks about what finance needs and SLAs.I have tried doing this via a Lookup Field (apparently, you cannot use those in forms), and then I tried a really long formula, but I cannot use formulas in forms either.Looking for a native solution, not a 3rd party plug in because we would not be able to clear that with our IT team.

I was trying to make a form that was sort of an order form and my formula field with the total cost of the items wasn’t on my form. I had no way to add it. I tried on a form for another table that was similar and it didn’t work there either. Is this not currently supported?

Is there a way to use HTML tags in a Form? Also can a form be configured so it is viewable in full screen. I’m planning on creating a form that contains LOTS of verbiage and several input boxes. The data from the input boxes is emailed/saved when the form is submitted but the verbiage does not get saved.

Hi All,somehow one of my forms, accessed through a QR is asking for an email address to access it.all the other ones aren't, but this is. It has been working ok for at least a year.has someone changed the settings, if so how do I fix? thanks 

I have a basic CRM with 2 tables: 1) "Contacts" (persons) and 2) "Firms". Each Firm can be associated with one or multiple Contacts (linked records).In the Firms table, I have a "Firm Type" column that is multi-select from a predefined list of values. This predefined list can never be exhaustive enough to capture all types of firms. In the table view, luckily I am able to type new values and Airtable saves it as a predefined value for later use.I am creating a "Record view" interface for Firms. I want to allow users to create new firms on the interface.  When I allow users to do so, airtable's standard form loads up. Unlike the interface, the form is not allowing users to "add new options" to the "Firm Type". However, if users wanted to edit an existing record in the interface, I see an option to "allow users to add new options". How I can access this option in the form? 

I am trying to add a new option to a certain column. I use my airtable as a form to collect applications from users, but I need to update the “Session” of what they are applying for. I can’t see to add a new session that would indicate that they are applying for the next era. The only possible data that can go in this column are “Session 1” and Session 2," while I want there to be “Session 3.” The “Customizing the field type” (can’t post links here) guide might help me, but it shows menu functionality that I don’t see to have. Any ideas?

Hello Everyone,I was wondering if you can help me with something I have been working on. I currently have 3 tables in one base. One table has different names of clients (Table 1). The other table has the names of projects they are attached to with a record ID through a formula (Table 2). In Table 1, I have a linked record column to link each client to a project and there is a lookup column as well that shows the record ID of the project. Finally the 3rd table is used to store data from a form. In the form, I want to be able to have a linked record (select a client from Table 1), but I want to filter the options in the form under the linked record, so when filling out the form for one project, only clients linked to the project will show up as an option, so this could be a filter by the recordID of the project if that makes sense. Views will not work for my use because Airtable does not have a way to dynamically filter the view by different record ID's without creating a new f

I have a base with a field "Company" that is a linked record.Ultimately, I want to pre-fill my form with all values inc Company.First, how can one pre-fill a Linked record field? Seems like it isn't possible.Second, even if it is possible, how can I allow the creation of a new such Linked record from the form?

Hi, I have a field that references the customer table. When I work in grid mode, it gives me the opportunity to add a new record in this field, however if I create a form and enter this field does not give me the option to add records.How can I enable this option to add records in a link to another record field in a form?Many thanks for your help 

Is there a way to have the Google Doc automation create documents from a pre-existing template? I want to set up the new automation to generate letters, however, I need them to have a specific header and footer. If there was a functionality to select a template that would be great. But if anyone knows of a way to generate that on Google’s App Script end that would be super helpful!

Would it be possible to add the “updated time” to the API response for each row returned? This is quite necessary specially when building synchronization applications. By knowing the last time a row was updated, we can either trigger a call to synchronize it or skip it completely. This would decrease the load on Airtable’s side by a lot. Currently developers are forced to just update every single record on Airtable every x hours because there is no way to know whether a record was updated or not. I can force updates on specific records by adding my own timestamp every time I synchronize but that still requires a manual process. Thanks

I would like to send a single record to an external email address. In that single record there is a field where you can attach a document. However, when I send the single record to the external email, the user cannot open the attached pdf because it is in a weird format. Also, when you view it in email it is super blurry and bad quality. The only option I have is to upload that attachment from gmail to my drive and see it as a png (meaning, if the PDF has multiple pages you can only see the first one). The goal is for the external email user to be able to download the PDF I attached to the airtable record.Thoughts? Thanks! 

I've got a weird issue I can't find a solution for: using a list view for linked records in interface designer. I have a record list to choose from Table A, with a linked record to table B. I can display that linked record field to show a list of items from Table B, that works great! But if I try to use that list view as a two level view to group those items, it gives me the error:"Unable to use non-table source in this context" and shows nothing. I think this is saying that the interface essentially doesn't have the data I'm trying to use, but I have no way to resolve it sadly, and changing which levels are used doesn't make any difference

hi we run printshop business and use airtable for collecting orders. we would like to allow client to build their own designs and create mockups for tshirt. I wonder if anyone has an Idea for some third party tool that can be integrated with airtable.

Hey everybody,I am trying to match 2 columns to see if a name from column 2 appears in column 1 (list of names). The answer I need is simply true or false.Column 1 is a lookup field with a name.Example: “Smith, Jack”.And column 2 is a list of names. Example:“Green, Mike”, “Smith, Jack”.But neither with Find nor Search do I get a match. My formulas are:Column 1:Column 2:Formula:FIND({Mitarbeiter (from Urlaub bestätigt 3)},{Kolonnen Zusammensetzung}) Maybe you have an idea, whats wrong here. Best greetings

I've got an Interface that an employee 'Sam' has Editor access to.I have creator access.When  I @ mention Sam, he doesn't get a notification and I receive a message saying "Some users weren't notified because they don't have access to this task."The record being commented on is in a table with add/delete permissions set to 'Editors and above'.Is this a bug? 

Hi everyone! I am trying to automate a repetitive task to save time for my team, and I'm stuck.Here is what I need this process to look like:Student completes post-course survey (via Airtable form)Data from form populates in Airtable baseData in base is used to create a PDF certificate using Page Designer (native Airtable extension)Automation emails PDF to student to email provided in form.i have figured out how to do everyting above EXCEPT the last step, and I just don't know how to program an automation to send an email with an attachment from page designer based on a record.Please note that I am using an enterprise version of Airtable and ALL third party extensions are disabled. That is non-negotiable, unfortunately.Is there anyone who can help me figure out how to do that last step?Thanks in advance!Jennifer 

Hello,I've created an app to record deliveries when they arrive at construction sites. The app is designed to handle multiple projects, and the person in charge can use the search bar to find the relevant delivery.The app is based on a two-level hierarchy:Delivery information (visible in the main list).Detailed product list (accessible when clicking on a specific delivery).The project name is always included in the delivery title, and users typically search for deliveries using this title.The search functionality works perfectly on all devices except Android.If anyone can help resolve this bug, I would greatly appreciate it.Thank you!