Ask the Community

I have a few currency fields that I am adding up in a simple formula field. I am then trying to display the output of that formula field within a text string I am building with another formula. However, I’m getting some strange decimals when showing the numbers.In an effort to troubleshoot this, I create a new blank Airtable base for testing and I’m getting the same result. For no apparent reason (to me), when I reference the total field in the string, it will sometimes add a ton of decimal spaces, like this: Here’s a link to my sample/testing base that is showing this issue: https://airtable.com/appqBYuTjL8QbhmF4/shrM4rk6GDRaJQ4QNMy formulas are pretty simple:Total of Amounts 1 & 2: {Amount 1} + {Amount 2}Display Total in a String: "The total of both amounts is $" & {Total of Amounts 1 & 2} & "." I can’t figure out what might be causing this, especially when I manipulate the Amount 1 and Amount 2 values to reach the same sum, the decimals somet

Hi all, New to Airtable and trying to find a way to do the following:We have an existing base with all projects as a furniture staging company. These projects are based on addressesEach project has inventory associated with it in a separate Excel doc at the momentWe want to now add the inventory associated with each project in Airtable without having to manually add each item one by one to each projectThe excel would have the project title + associated inventory in individual rows. Is there an easy way for the import to recognize the project title (address) and then easily "assign" the inventory name and QTY to that project title?  

Trying to figure out how to do a search to see if a number falls within 2 fields.For example a field with Start year and a field with End year.  Lets say on one record my start year was 1978 and my end year was 1986.  I would like to do a search for 1983 and have it retrieve that record.  Can someone point me in the correct direction??

Hey all, just trying anything at this point, I have an airtable Team account that was made forever ago, and was grandfathered into the $10/mo plan. I accidentally aded a billable user but then removed them, but the system kept trying to bill for it, and not my account is cancelled, along with the money I have already paid, and the $10/mo plan I had.I have emailed half a dozen times now over a month and no response, and my account is going to get shut down.Anyone here that can help?

Hi, I’m trying to share a developped interface with other users in my organization, they receive the link by email by they are invited to login. For information i’m in the Pro panel with only one user. Can someone help me please. Regard’s Amine

HI folks, trying to create a record review and dash board in interfaces. I am in editable mode. However I cannot add, change, move or colour elements. The '+' sign at the bottom left corner of the screen does not appear so I cannot even create new elements.  I am an 'owner' of the base so I should be able design and edit interfaces. Any signposts or advice would be greatly appreciated. 

Hi, to be honest I’m not sure if it actually is a bug, but this function does not follow the ISO standard of numbering weeks. For example, today (2016-10-13) should be week 41, but the function returns 42. Probably because the first week of this year was week 53 according to the international standards.

Hello!I was recently helped on another post to create parameters for the dateadd function. However, it is not calculating dates correctly. Why? How do I fix this?Here is my function:SWITCH(  Task,  'Email for photo, new hire survey, and short bio of new hire', DATEADD({Hire Date}, -7, 'days'),  'Assign desk space for new hire', DATEADD({Hire Date}, -3, 'days'),  'Give Uniform', {Hire Date},  'Collect how to contact employee while OOO', DATEADD({Hire Date}, 1, 'days')) The complete by dates should be: 12/24, 12/31, 12/28, and 1/1 

Hi,I have a base where I keep my business's time entries for each of the employees.  However, they may be in a different state based on the day, so I'm looking for a way to populate a field for each time entry showing their location.The time entries have a date, a person who performed it (currently as a linked record), and the the number of hours.I currently have a sheet with a separate record for each date and single select field for each employee showing the state that they were in.  Note I can change the organization of this table if needed (for example to entries with a date, a single employee and a location).  Any thoughts on how to best set this up?  I currently have lookup fields for each individual employee in the time entries table, looking up their location on the given date, and then a formula field that uses a switch that selects which lookup field based on the user who performed the time entry.  However, it requires a new lookup field and an u

I need to calculate different due dates for tasks based on Workday instead of dateadd. Here is my original formula: SWITCH(  Task,  'Email for photo, new hire survey, and short bio of new hire', DATEADD({Hire Date}, -7, 'days'),  'Assign desk space for new hire', DATEADD({Hire Date}, -3, 'days'),  'Give Uniform', {Hire Date},  'Collect how to contact employee while OOO', DATEADD({Hire Date}, 1, 'days'),  'Verify that background check has been completed', DATEADD({Hire Date}, -7, 'days'), 'Hiring Manager select starting date', DATEADD({Hire Date}, -21, 'days')) When i change DATEADD to WORKDAY it gives me an error message. What else do I need

Hello friends, how are you?I'm really sure I'm missing something! Something so simple and easy can't be that complicated!I have one table of leadsAnother table of Ad costI want the Ad cost table to sum the number of leads I have on the same date from the leads table and then actually make a formula that will divide the advertising cost by the total leads.I made a Linked record for the leads table and made a filter that will show me only the leads whose "registration date" is the same as the date that appears in the date column.It does show me all of these leads (except for the ones whose date is the day after for some reason) but I don't understand how I can just automatically pull them into my list without using any automation that would make everything complicated!It really seems super simple and super easy to me but I've been wasting too much time on this!!I would really appreciate some help on this topic!Thank you very much! 

I want to filter to the infinity values but am unsure how to do this. I don't want to remove them using an IF statement or the other tricks you can use to have them become zero or empty values. The first screenshot shows the data and that there is one value with Infinity. When I try to use the filter condition to equal the infinity value I am unable to enter the word infinity because it only allows numbers. Next I tried to filter to a value greater then the highest value other then infinity and this filters out everything including the infinity value. How can you filter to the infinity values?    

Hi , allI have a problem that I can't solve, I have a script that updates the prices and countries of my products based on a code for exampleThe problem is the following if two products have the same code then it modifies both. To solve this I thought in the following way each product is linked to a unique supplier so I just need to retrieve all the suppliers displayed to my user so that he chooses the right one and I would only update the products from this supplier while always comparing if the code is the same.I manage to retrieve the suppliers but I cannot update the products afterwardsWould anyone have an idea?

Hi,I want to create a formula to create a name for a field that consists of "FIELDA" or "FIELDB" If "FIELDA" has no value i would like to show "FIELDB" in the name instead. If "FIELDA" and "FIELDB" both have a value, I would only like to have "FIELDA" filled in the name of that field. If both have no value, no value should be shown. Thanks for helping out! Mark 

I'm stuck. I need a field type and formula to display the cumulative annual profit or loss (P/L) displayed as a percentage (%) and based on a Q1 starting amount and subsequent amounts entered in Q2, Q3, & Q4 fields.This seemed easy until I got started. Now I'm digging a mental hole I can't climb out of :-). Help... thank you.

I have a table with a count field that is supposed to count the number of linked records in another field that meet certain conditions. For some reason, the count field is not properly filtering the conditions and is counting ALL linked fields. I am not sure why this is happening as I have set this up properly. I have checked off "Only include linked records from X table that meet the following conditions" where "Status" has any of "X, Y." It is still counting fields where the status is not X or Y.Does anyone know why this might be happening and how to fix it?

Hello! On the grid view, users are normally able to add new options to a multiple select field. However, when I try to do this on a form, I can only select from existing options. Is there any way to get around this?  

Looking to create some kind of form / interface that allows the user to submit multiple records. For context, here is the use case:I'm creating an Ordering/Receiving Inventory Management base to use across staff at a Restaurant for order management. Person 1 does the ordering, they submit what they ordered. (ideally they'd be able to do it by distributor, so for Distributor 1 we ordered 7 cases of X, 2 cases of Y, etc.) This populates to a new table of sorts that Person 2 can reference when they do the receiving of said order. They'll see the 'Qty ordered', the 'Item Ordered', and the 'Distributor'. They theoretically can denote what was received (1 case of Y instead of 2 cases, etc.), as well as attach invoices for easy reference. Not necessarily set on the set up being a 'form' per se, although that makes the most sense to me. However I am getting stuck as I can't find anything about adding multiple records through a form, it seems the form set up is more specifically for fillin

Hi all, I do property inspections and wanted to create a template where I can fill out every time I do an inspection but it can create multiple records. For example, here are the main items I inspect (doors, walls, drains, landscaping, etc) And I would like to fill out a form that can create a different record for each of those items. Is that possible at all? Thanks in advance!

Hello! I work for a manufacturer that deals with many SKUs of products. We have a form to let designers know when new products are being ordered so they can check and make sure if any packaging needs to be updated. When we place an order, we typically order multiple SKUs at a time. Currently the form has a field where the submitter has to place the SKU numbers separated by a comma (10001, 10002, 10003, etc). Ideally I would love for the data to separate the single record into multiple records by those SKU numbers. So 10001 would have its own record, 10002 the same, so on and so forth. All of the other information on the form would be the same in the record, it would just be easier for us to track and update everything if they records were separated. I saw some other posts on here doing similar things, but not exactly what I'm looking for. Also open to doing this a completely different way if that would be easier. I'm guessing this would take some coding to make happen an

I cant figure out how to get the text to wrap here.

Hi there!I work for a nonprofit that sends frozen meals to families with children with cancer in British Columbia.We've leveraged Airtable to run our inventory and order management, but we've gotten some feedback that families are having a hard time with seeing the dietary restrictions for a specific item on our order form.The order form is set up so that it pulls products from a specific view that categorizes the product into a main, side, etc.Does anyone know of any way to make it so that the families could see the whole text?A workaround is that when they actually add the product it shows all of the information - if they saw something concerning and wanted to remove the product they would just have to remove it and then add another, but this is counter-intuitive and confusing to many people.You can see a video of the cut off text at the following link:https://www.loom.com/share/0e8339922c2043938cf0be2cb86e8732?sid=514be784-1b55-4290-b40a-be013a01027bThis view is on a desktop, but mo

Hi there, I'm on a business plan using interfaces as a ticketing system with multiple external parties. Each external party has an interface with a unique filter condition and are given read-only access. I want them to be able to view the comments too - is there any way I can do this? I've enabled record-level details such that when they click on each row, the individual record shows. however, it doesnt allow me to configure this record-level view with Comments/Activity feed element. All I'm seeing are the Fields, and two other options: Chart and Number. 

Hello,to simplfy my struggle with reporting in Airtable lets imagine this workflow:I have Employee, Projects, and Timelog tables where employees track the time spent on specific projects. Each employee has their own hourly rate.What I need to achieve is a monthly report for each employee that includes:All projects they worked on in the previous month (show them only if they worked on specific project at least for one hour)The total time spent on each projectThe total cost (calculated based on their hourly rate)apologize if this has been discussed before, but I couldn’t find a solution.I am could achieve this by Pivot table in the dashboard section, but I need to make automations based on this results (adding Payments and so...) Thank you

I can do so much...but this one just has me stumped. (I have "Business" tier, Zapier, Make, etc. fwiw. I prefer to use Zapier over Make, but will do whatever I need to.)I get an email sent to me each day that has an attachment. It's an XLSX file that has the day's clock-ins on the first tab, and then each employee has a tab after that with each day's hours. I used Zapier to get it to automatically upload into a folder in my Google Drive called "clockins".I want to automatically upload that new file. -When i sync with Google Drive, it just wants to pull in the name of that file, basically. I'd still have to do the actual importing. I want the file (and all the data) to be imported.-I can't alter how the Google Sheet is formatted. Some employees have the same first or last name, so I don't have unique values in any field (and i can't add one, at least before it lands in my Google Drive.)-Ideally, I'd like all of the tabs to be imported. The Google Sheet has them automatically n