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Hello community! I have 15 separate single select fields with the possible answers of: 1. Firsts2. Second3. Third4. No Preference 5. I do not select this UWC I would like to create the individual columns "First" "Second" "Third" "No preference" and have the answers filter into these columns (rather than having all 15 individual columns open). Does anyone have any script suggestions to make this possible? The 15 single select column titles are: - Atlantic, Changshu, Costa Rica, Dilijan, East Africa, ISAK, LPC, Maastricht, Mahindra, Mostar, Pearson, RCN, Thailand, USA, Waterford Kamhlaba  Esentially, if someone selects:- First: Atlantic- Second: Dilijan- Third: Costa Rica- I do not select this UWC: all other columns I want to be able to see the Atlantic in column "first", Dilijan in column "second" a

Hi all! I am attempting to utilize data from "Sheet A" (specifically item names and quantities) and SUM the "Quantity" in "Sheet B" when the "item name" from Sheet A matches the "item name" from Sheet B. Is this possible in Airtable? I've played around with a few different formulas and field types but none have successfully produced what I'm looking for. I've also created a grouped view in Sheet A that groups by Item Name and it shows the Sum in that view if that helps.If possible, I would prefer for it to be a clean formula/rollup/link/or just about any other method than manually looking up the info from one sheet and keying it into another. To clarify - all of this information is housed in one Base just multiple sheets.Any assistance is appreciated!  

Does anyone know of a way to duplicate a base while keeping the record ids the same?We are trying to set up a "staging" instance of our Airtable tables but we have references to the record ids outside of Airtable. This causes all of the references break because new records ids are generated when we duplicate the base.Is there any way around this?Thanks,Chris

I've given my office manager shared access to a base as an editor. We both work from this same base throughout the day. I like to sort some of the tables in the base a certain way depending on what I'm working on, but she doesn't need them sorted that way and I don't want the table to suddenly look different on her end if she needs the table to be sorted the way it normally is. If I sort a table, will she see it sorted that way on her end too?

I created a form in Fillout to update fields but now when I share the unique URLs with those who want to update their information, it says that they do not have access to this base.  I'm not seeing how I can update settings without giving each person access to the entire base.  Thanks in advance!

Problem:Using a "website" type tab in Microsoft Teams to embed an Airtable via URL, gives a nasty cookies popup that won't go away. Solution:Use the URL from the embed-code instead of the normal share URL. 

I'm using the Airtable Node SDK and the type for `offset` is `number` but it throws an error of "INVALID_OFFSET_VALUE". Passing a `string` also throws an error "Error: Airtable: invalid parameters for `select`".Also, I don't get the `offset` string from the response when using the SDK.Is it possible to do pagination with the SDK? I see there's a function for `.select().eachPage()` but I'm not sure how to use it to implement pagination.If requesting via Fetch, I get the `offset` string from the response and I'm able to send it to the next request and get the next page, but how do I navigate backwards? I would need to store in a hash map ( { 0: null, 1: 'first_page/offset_string', ... } ) ?Another question is: Is it possible to implement a "normal" pagination? Like, navigate to an specific page, navigate backwards, etc.?

I am looping through a list of people in a table and adding them to a multiselect linked field in another. I have found andimplemented the following code to update multiselects without deleting the records existing values.I have found that this only works IF the record contains a value. I get the following error:TypeError: record.getCellValue(...) is nullOnce I push a value into the record manually and then run the script it works great.I need to be able to push the FIRST instance into that field and then also add on top of that.Thanks in advance.// This script only works if there is already a value in People Link. In my loop I might need to updateadd up to 3 people into this record. How can I push the first one in and then run this after?What would my if look like? // table.updateRecordAsync(

in a form I have a record selection field. where employees are selected, I want only 1 name to be selected and not 2 or 3. But I don't know how to do it. have under:Minimum and Maximum set the value at Maximum to 1. but doesn't work.

I have been attempting to catch a hook in Zapier from a scripting app that I run daily. The content of the request is designed to capture some metrics from the actual running of the script. I have previously run caught a webhook from a scripting automation to Zapier with no issues. For some reason though, when trying to send a similar request through a scripting app I encounter a failed to fetch issue with some writing on CORS. My code is below, I removed the link within the fetch but it was just the link that Zapier provides within their catch hook step. var bodyContent = { "scriptName": script, "numOfRecs": numRecs, "elapsedTime": et, "recsPerSec": recsPerSecs } let request = await fetch('', { method: 'post', body: JSON.stringify(bodyContent), headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, }); This is the error that is happening when I attempt to perform this part of the script.

I would like to create an automation that reminds me by email 1 month before a date from a formula field. Unfortunately I can't change the value of a formula field to dynamic or say the date is within 1 month like I can with a real date field. that doesn't work.

I'm hoping some can provide some advice on which direction I should research on what I'm trying to do.I help run a makerspace, and we don't have employees.  We have members, and some volunteer to be board members, but they cycle out quite frequently, making it difficult to manage any SAS solution that requires us to pay per team member. Plus, our revenue stream only comes from member dues so we don't have deep pockets, also since we're all volunteer and we all have day jobs so we have limited time to dedicate to development.I've been able to do a lot of things so far on my path of learning airtable and fillout, and I think those will be great solutions. Once (and if) we get our nonprofit status accepted by airtable we'll be buying a discounted Team account.Things we track are member applications, member maintenance, assets (equipment tracking), and board meetings. So far, the airtable and fillout automations have been awesome, and I'm looking forward to lea

Is it true that Airtable is fairly limited in its ability to allow you to use HTML formatting for send email? Is the solution then to have to use SendGrid or another service that could help out with email automation?

Hi Guys, I'd like to use Airtable to build a utility settlement tool with the tenants. My tenants pay an advance for utility every 6 months; after 6 months (this period might differ), I record the meter reading and fixed and variable utility prices (the utility prices might differ between months, it's not common, though) calculate how much they should pay vs. how much they paid in an advance. I have 6 tenants. I use it for the following utilities: electricity, heating, and water. I've been doing it in Google Sheets so far, but AirTable interfaces would be useful for me. I'm trying to figure out the tool's structure: if I should put the dates of the readings in rows and the utility kind in columns or the other way around. Do you think it makes sense to use Airtable for this purpose?  Thanks for your help.

Hello All,I've been attempting to create a more efficient way for my organization to sort through volunteers and create a matching system to the elderly. So far, I've created two main tables: Volunteers and Old Friends that are populated by a use of forms. There are certain columns that are referenced in the forms controlled by other tables i.e. hobbies. Using Scripting in an attempt to create a system that can sort through the Volunteers table and Old Friends table to match based on the hobbies (to start, I plan on using other variables once I get this part working). Any help would be greatly appreciated!Here are the links to the two tables:Volunteers - https://airtable.com/app63KIAsdReM2VbZ/shrsqIBAQVIhCcfEAOld Friends - https://airtable.com/app63KIAsd

UPDATE: found out this was due to a formula error, which left the deadline date field in #ERROR for the affected records. SORRY not to have noticed it before posting.rgds,Björn---------------------------------------------------------------------Hi,Sending out personalised e-mails with repeating group automation. Out of a bunch of 96, some 5 just failed with a quite unhelpful ""Subject" could not be converted to a string" message.The e-mail subject field uses a variable to fetch a deadline date. For 95% of the e-mails it works like when tested, for 5% it doesn't.Any ideas how to troubleshoot? How on earth does it work for some, but not for others? It's the same data that is retrieved for all.Rgds,Björn

Why does my primary field total display xxx Stories on some dBases and xxx Records on others. OK, dumb question, but I had to ask... and it's not in the AT Glossary of Terms.

I have 3 records:MembersSkillsMember Skills Xref (a linked table that joins members to skillsI have seen the tutorial on how I can edit a member record and add skills to the member using fillout.com, but is there a way to display the skills associated with a member when editing a member record?  In other words, I want to have the parent record and show all the detail records (skills).Thanks.

Hi,I created a script which takes data  in a project financial table and updates special table with payments report.I'm going to setup it to run daily or weekly automation, and add it to many projects in different bases.Problem with updating a single-select field 'Type' (of operation), when new Types appear.here is the issue, automation can't do that (script extension works ok):thinking about workaround - use preparation script, compare and check whether new types available, output them in variable 'newtypes', find any random record in destination, loop Update it's 'Type' through the list of 'newtypes', then return the old value.Then run main script.More clean solution, to avoid affecting Modified Date of existing record could be - Create new record, Loop update it with all new types, then delete it (by script).

Is there any way to use formulas and linked at the same time? I want a column to add data from the columns A + B + C to = ABC and then have ABC show up on a different tab. Is that possible? 

I'm using a public airtable view with a button that passes data to a web form. Works on desktop but not on mobile.looks like this: "https://myurl.com/bid?bid=" & ENCODE_URL_COMPONENT({Deal Name}) & "&new=" & ENCODE_URL_COMPONENT({Current Bid Value}) & "&id=" & ENCODE_URL_COMPONENT(DealID) I had to flatten a lookup cell and turn it into {Current Bid Value}, which works. But for some reason on mobile it clears the query string. It should pass something like this:

I'm running into issues duplicating tables because of field counts.I can create a new table and copy a record over and it pastes all the correct fields but all the links and lookups are broken.My newest method is to link the record back to a main table and bring in all the fields as lookups but that as a (from {Table}) to the end of each field. A) is there a way to prevent that addendum to the field name OR a way to bulk remove it? Like with an script and via API calls?

Hello! Here is my situation and what I would like to get accomplished: I have three tables, 1,2,3. T1 has a list of candidates, who will either pass or fail (based on my selction of a single select value). For those who pass, I want to add their data to T2. Now this is simple using a Linked record in T2 that points to the record in T1. I am using T3 to host values. I consume these values in T2 as lookups in order to make some calculations. (eg. if score<T3 score then “expert”) My question is, when I add a new person from T1 to T2, such that they appear in t2 thanks to the linked reorc functionality, how do i also call the records from t3 in order to keep doing the calculations? It seems every time there is a new record in t2 i have to also copy paste the linked records from t3 for them to show up in their respective lookup columns for the calculations to make sense. I tried filtering by those t3 linked record values thinking that any new record will auto-populate th

Im trying to write the same formula I have in excel in to Airtable and Airtable erases everything but the first if(and()) statement. IF({Statement} = 1, "3",     IF(AND({Statement2}<=50, {Statement2>0),1),     IF(AND({Statement2}>50, {Statement2}<=100, 1.5)),     IF(AND({Statement2}>100, 2))) I don't get a