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Hi. I've got a base in AirTable which I need to be able others to update through a form in fillout. I only want specific fields to be updated by the form. In the case as shown in the screenshot I only want people to change the status and no other fields. When I chose to limit who can edit fields such as name, email etc to nobody but leave the status field as editable by anyone the form doesn't update that field. I only manage to update the status field when all other fields are editable but then it will obviously create an issue that will allow people to edit the base. The idea is that people would report status updates by the form and they would need to see certain fields of the form.  Could anyone point me to some resources on how to accomplish that? Thank you.

I have a base with different tables, each one linked to other bases. Is is possible to edit an attachment field? I am able to edit other type of fields, as for example, checkboxes, but not the attachment ones... 

Hi. I've searched for a solution for this, but no luck (yet). I tried THIS but it didn't do what I needed. In the referenced example it had a single action for each task, which assumed a fixed list, and my source will vary.I have 3 tables:Application (record trigger)Board Members (grid view of filtered table "Members") currently 9 records in view.Member Approvals (goal is to create 9 records, 1 for each board member and has application data.When an application record is created, it should trigger the "find records" on the board member view and create a record for each board member and include all the application data in it.  However, when I do this, it wants to create a single record and a comma delimited list of the board member data.  Do I need to do a different approach?

Hey Airtable community,Been hitting my head against the wall for the last hour with this. I'm trying to write a formula for:If {Donor First Name} is not empty, then the field would read: {Donor First Name}&" "&{Donor Last Name}And if {Donor First Name} is empty, then the field would read: {Name}And if {Name} is empty, then the field would just remain blank.Here is my stab at the formula, which I am getting an error message for: Any ideas how to make it work? 

Hi there, I've started to play with AI features (love it!) but I'm experiencing issues with the AI field allowing to generate text.I want the AI to analyse text within attachments and return structured data. It works pretty well when analysing PDFs but it doesn't seem to work with HTML or TXT files. While field HTML is properly filled with a document (HTML in that case), the AI keeps asking to fill out the field.This also occurs when using TXT files but it works with PDF. Are you aware of such limitation or can it be considered as a bug? If that's a limitation, can someone think about a convenient way to store HTML data as plain text? When converting my HTML to PDF before upload, I'm losing the HTML as text since it's rendered as webpage within my PDF. I'm using Make (ex-Integromat) for that purpose.Thanks a lot for you help!

ciao,i'm having an issue which seems rather crude to me but i can neither work it out, nor find exactly relatable posts on here:i'm having a sales base for artworks, in which there is a field that links to a client-record from another base (contacts base which includes clients as well as artists). this i add manually when i set up a new sales-record. there is a second field which links to the artist of the sold work, which i of course also add manually.now i'd like for the link to go both ways, so that in the contacts base there is a field that automatically shows all the artists of who they've bought works in a clients record drawn from the sales base as well as a field that shows in an artists record, which clients have bought works by them.i hope i'm not being super redundant here, thanks heaps!

Hello Airtable Community, We have an Airtable list with our internal communications.Now we have some communications that take place at regular intervals (X weeks).I just can't manage to build an automation that creates a new record for each of them.For example, every 14 days for the next year a record with start, end date & name. Any ideas on how to do this? Many thanks and best regardsMirko

In Langchain, it can use chains like SQLDatabaseChain to utilise the power of NLP and convert the user input into SQL query code (JS or Python) then execute the code to retrieve what is needed from SQL database such as PostgreSQL.Does airtable support such query and would possibly be supported by Langchain in the near future?I guess if the script can be made and executed at the back end for each customised query, that would also work, is that feasible? Thanks.

Hi Airtable community, I am looking for AI tools with which I can query our team's Airtable database with. It's a massive database with about 5000 entries, and each record contains a vast amount of information. The idea is that we can query the Airtable with questions regarding the data.I worry that existing AI add-ons will not be able to handle that amount of information. Does anyone have thoughts or recommendations on what an appropriate tech setup would be for this?

Hi everyone,I’m looking for some guidance on creating conditional forms in Airtable. Let me explain:I’ve set up a base for project management where each project has different tasks based on the program type (and there are multiple programs). Ideally, I want to create a form with a predefined task list, allowing Project Managers to fill in details such as start date, assignee, end date, status, etc., without having to manually enter each task name.Is this possible with Airtable’s Teams plan? Any insights or workarounds would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance!

Hi. Trying to find a calendar integration that will populate film and schedule info from Airtable for our film festivals. Basically, we schedule films in venues throughout a week and need them to be organized consistently and show info like start time, run time, end time, etc so we can share with staff and our cinemas. We're using Google sheets to create our SCREENING OVERVIEW because it doesn't work in Airtable to use the calendar. So need something that looks similar to this in the end, with the full screening schedule per day in separate tabs:Any help or ideas are appreciated. Thanks!John

I have 2 datafields, room type (single room & double room) and guests (1 to 2 names)if in singleroom and the guest (the volume is 1) should say "occupied" in the formulafield andif in room type (double room) it says and guest (the volume 2) then “Occupied” should also appear in the formula fieldMyCode:   IF(AND(room type = "double room", {client overview} = VALUE(2), room type = "single room", {client overview} = VALUE(1)), "occupied")   

Hello, I am trying to just multiply Roll Ft Size x Lin Ft. But I keep getting an error. What am I doing wrong here?Thank you for any help here.  

Hello, I'm creating a fairly simple base to track all of the violations for an HOA board. I'm trying to create a field to calculate the total number of times a house has gotten the same violation in the past year.The Base has 3 tables, "Homes" with address and owner, "CCRs" using 'CCR ID' as the name of the violation, and "Violations" that collects the date of the violation, the 'Home', and the 'Violation'So, I basically need to have another field that counts how many times the same 'Home' and 'Violation' are both in the same row over the past 365 days.I got this to work by using grouping. In the attached picture, the highlighted number is the number I need to get to populate in its own field. Thanks in advance for any help! 

 If a record created in Openings Tracker (table A) is created, then I want to add that record to the linked record field in Summary Tracker based on the fields Opening Distinction and Req Status. The linked record field is pulling the openings record from Table A based on manual addition right now. If the record is created in Openings Tracker, I want it to automatically add to the total number of openings for that Opening Type in the Summary Tracker (table B).

I am using a summary of data connected to a linked record to populate the dashboard. The Youth Care Professional 3rd shift seems to be filtering as two numbers separated by a Comma. I am not sure why this is happening there and not with the others. The fields have the same conditional formatting for all the fields to the right of linked record. Only this one seems to be noting as 2 numbers. 

Hi everyone!I'm trying to set up an automation which is triggered every time I receive an email with a particular subject line. I want it to follow a workflow where Airtable parses through an excel report in the email, extracts the data from the file, and appends it to a pre existing table.Attached below is a screenshot of what I was trying to do, but I don't see any options to extract data from an attachment.Can someone please advise on how I can do this?TIA!

I have a column that fills in the State Abbreviation from Jot Form. The form is a drop-down selection that is the same as my single select column in Airtable. Somewhere new duplicate selections are being generated with new submissions. I am trying to figure out where to even look for how this could be happening. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi there, Is there any way I am able to sync my Airtable contacts with my iCloud contacts so all of the contacts on my Airtable will also be on my iPhone? And vice versa. Without having to do it manually of course. Let me know, thank you.

Hello fine people!Here's what I have and am trying to do... any help would be greatly appreciated!!Customers order a product from us and can choose a recurring subscription - either once a month, three months, bi-annual, or annual.What I'd like to do is have an automation of some sort that would recreate this record so I can add a calendar and have those records show up in the calendar based on the next shipment, creating a new record in my "New Orders" table.Thoughts?

3 dias atrás meu formulário e passou a aparecer essa mensagem de erro cada vez que tento abrir uma landingpage do formulário.Formulário indisponívelEste formulário atualmente não pode aceitar novos envios.Erro: pgl6Y04zOhM7uVuI5 / Erro: pglP0mXbLsfF4KZJn

Hi everyone, I have some set of records that need to be duplicated. At my surprise, there’s no option to “Duplicate” when more than two records are selected. I cannot duplicate by hand because the base is quite heavy, there’s too many records to duplicate and it could cause a lot of errors. Is there a way to do that (a block, a script, an integromat scenario…) ? Thank you

I have the following tables within a base:ProjectsTimesheets, with each record linked to a single project and a single task type (single select field)Estimates, each linked to a single project and a single task type (single select field)I'd like to be able to compare, ideally in a table and chart (multi series line chart?) in an interface, the amount of hours spent on a particular task type versus the amount estimated for that task type. There may be time spent on a task type that did not have any hours estimated for that task type.What is the most efficient way to do that?I could create conditional rollup fields in the Projects table for each task type, but then I'd be on the hook for creating new conditional rollup fields if I ever create new task types. This is the kind of scaling limitation I'd like to avoid, if it is even possible to avoid it. Any ideas?Thank you!

Hi thereI'm trying to set up a base to record relationships between several data sets, specifically: Segment (eg academia, corporate)Sub-segments (eg lecturers, library, researchers) Use cases (eg data management, author screening)Use case groups (eg planning research, managing research)Products (eg Pear Software, Banana Software)I'm not sure how best to set up the base to show their interconnected relationships. For instance the sub-segment of Lecturers, which is part of the Academia segment, uses Pear Software and Banana Software when they have use case of Author Screening, which is part of the use case group Planning Research. Another sub-segment might use Pear Software and Banana Software for different use cases, or they might have the same use case but Peach Software and Grape Software are better for them. Each segment and sub-segment will only have certain use cases and products that apply to them from the overall list.Once I've set up the base, the next step is to get someone to

I wish to use a series of icons to represent the status of a record in a base. How best to do this? If I add a small image in an attachments field it works, but the image becomes a clickable link and opens the image file - not what I want. The icon must be a static element. If I use a "Single Select" field I cannot import my icons.I would appreciate any guidance.