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Hello everyone,I'm looking for some advice/best practices for my situation.My company has a weekly report that they dump into an excel but it's just screaming to be formatted as a database. I've started importing the data but there are some glaring issues once it's within Airtable.Currently there is a {Name Field} formatted as "LastName, FirstName", but this field can vary as it relies on human input. I'm struggling with getting these individuals into their own table while also having Airtable recognize these names during the next import without creating fuzzy duplicates.One saving grace is that each name has a unique ID number, and using this as the primary field makes this step very easy, but when we want to link that record in another table, we're unable to search by name and there are over 100 ID numbers to look through.Is there any elegant solution to normalizing data such as this? If this was a one off import it would be a non issue, but this data will have to be imported each we

Dear Airtable lovers, could you suggest me how to create a simple Alfred App search workflow for simple searching of defined base? More about Alfred workflows: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/. Thanks!

Hi there, someone has already asked this question on this thread: https://community.airtable.com/t5/other-questions/select-multiple-records-and-update/m-p/115586/highlight/true#M36767But I don't think it is active any more. I have duplicated the base to get the automation but I don't have the permissions to do so. Would anybody be able to help me on how to create this automation please?  

I have a table of sales orders keyed by sales order number. I often get sent spreadsheets with lists of sales orders with the question "What is the state of these?" I'd like to be able to take that list, enter it, and get the lines back for the matches. I'm struggling with a solution and could use some ideas ... 

Is there a way to tracking engagement within an interface at the record level?I'm building a technology repository of tiles for a team, and we want to be able to see which tools are being clicked on, or which use case is searched the most. The Insights (https://support.airtable.com/docs/using-insights) didn't give the granularity we're looking for on the interface. (We need the distinction between the interface versus the data in the base because Admins will be regularly updating records whereas users will be only leveraging the interface for information.)

One of my fields is linked to another record in the same base. In the form view, is there a way that someone can add a new record, instead of selecting one that already exists? I see this capability for normal fields, but it doesn’t appear when the field is linked to another record.

Hi there, apologies if this is written about elsewhere, I searched and didn’t find many relevant posts. We have two duplicate records created from Acuity via Zapier. One Randall H. and one Randy H. Same person. I changed the name of the Randy in airtable to Randall, but they’re still different records and I’d like to merge all this student’s lessons to be under the same single student. Can this be done? Thanks!

The deduplication extension isn't efficient due to the large number of duplicates we have—thousands in total. Therefore, I’ve created a script to merge and remove duplicate records based on identifying fields.The script runs successfully when I don't merge linked record data, but this approach results in valuable information being lost. When I include the merging logic, the script works on smaller datasets (Although, take some time), but it crashes when processing larger datasets.This is the error I get: This is my script: // Hard-coded configuration let tableName = 'Contacts copy 3'; // Replace with your table name let idFieldName = 'Contact'; // Replace with your identifying field name let emailFieldName = 'Email Address 1'; // Field name for Email Address 1 let mobileFieldName = 'Mobile'; // Field name for Mobile let viewName = 'test 2'; // Replace with the name of the view you want to use // Retrieve the table let table = base.getTable(tableName); // Airtable limit

Is there a UI to build a formula and get the resulting formula? The formula builder for creating views is useful, but I can't seem to find a way to get the formula out of it.Context: I'm trying to build a formula that filters records by 2 fields, an email field and a date field. What I have so far is: `AND({Notary 1 email (email)} = '${email}', IS_AFTER({Appt Date/Time (date)}, TODAY())` but the Airtable API request fails with a cryptic error: "The formula for filtering records is invalid: Invalid formula. Please check your formula text."

Hi. I'm working on creating an AirTable base with complaints. The form is made with Fillout.I wanted to know if it's possible to restrict access to a record if the user selects a certain option in a single select field. We'll have several people having access to the base and I wonder if I can hide certain records for an user A when a single select field has a specific option chosen.Thank you.

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I want to create a form that users can fill out to enter an awards. When they fill out the form, if their company or contact details already exist on the 'companies' or 'contacts' tables, I want them to be able to select this when they search. If their company or contact details do not exist, I want them to be able to enter their details so their company and contact details are entered on to the 'companies' and 'contacts' tables. This I can do. However, on the 'contacts' tables, all contact names are linked to a company on the 'companies' table, and vice versa. On the '2024 entries' table, if you enter a new 'contact name' this gets added to the 'contacts table'. If you enter a new 'company' this gets added to the 'companies' table. However, the contact name is then not associated with the company name on the 'companies' table, and the company is not associated with the contact name on the 'contacts' table. Is there a way to have it so when using the form to en

Hi there,I have been asked to look into if Airtable and Smartsheet can integrate with another. I am looking to create a report from Smartsheet and for it to be integrated into Airtable's calendar view so people know when milestones are due on projects. Is this possible?Thanks

Hello Community,I am new to airtable. I have already created different tables in airtable database. Now I want to add data in airtable from outside using python script and later I want to update certain airtable data. So is there any way we can do it ? I am new so any blogs or threads which provides answer to this will be helpful. Regards,Viraj 

HelloWe have 2 phases of work:Phase 1 is working on what we call "First Pages." Job sub-status = NEWPhase 2 is everything after that. Once marketing returns the job to the designer, Job sub-status = CORRECTIONSI'm looking for a way to automate the change of the sub-status field from NEW to CORRECTIONS.My thought is to have a field called "FIRST PAGES COMPLETE?" and an automation runs to fill that field with "yes" when the conditions are met. Then, if field = "yes" change sub-status accordingly.I'm having trouble figuring out how to track the proper conditions because I'm looking to track a change between very specific options in the "Status" field. Not just when the record is updated in general.I need the automation to look at the "Status" field and analyze when it changes from "In Progress - Design" to either "In Progress - Marketing" or "with Client"Best way to do that?

Hello to the community,I have a form dedicated to archiving interactions with prospects. In this form, I select a "company" (which calls the company table) and I select a "contact" (which calls the contacts table).My wish is as follows: when a company is selected, I want the results displayed in the "contact" field to be only the contacts who work there. Currently, all contacts are displayed and appear in the drop-down menu, which wastes time.The contact/company association is well performed in my tables, but I don't see an option that allows me to limit the fields to be displayed according to a selection in the airtable form creation tool.Any ideas?Thanks in advance,Damien

Hi there! I am trying to find a formula to bring a drop down option for KPIs I.E. IF Goals = "Gross Sales", THEN DROPDOWN, "KPI OPTION 1", "KPI OPTION 2", "KPI OPTION 3" 

I have two tables I want to update when adding a new productTable A - Inventory Table B - Received ( Products received )Table C - New Item Table : Junction Table I have created a junction table so I can multiple "New" products quickly and that do not exist in Inventory.So in the automation I am doing the following 1. Trigger - If Done Checkbox is True1. Create new record : Inventory - Add all parts of information needed here.2. Copy New Inventory ID ( Run Script)- Paste onto : New Item Table : Field : Inventory ID ( Because of permissions I create an extra field also - New ID) - Took a while but working 3. Create new record : Received Table : Add quanity received / cost etc.. I tried to directly update Inventory ID field ( Linked relationship Field ) Linking Inventory & Received Tables - However worked only 50% of time then stopped altogether : Feel it was a time lag in the software So I created a new second Automation - Update Record 1. Trigger -

Hi everyone !I've encountered difficulties in validating the search for an ID. I believe there must be an error in my formula because, after integrating logs to ensure that I was correctly comparing the searched ID with the ID present in the table and the relevant column, I noticed that we have a match, but the formula generates a 'false' instead of a 'true'. Does anyone see my mistake?Thank you

Issue with Linking Payments to Attendance in AirtableHi!I’m transitioning from managing a dance school in Google Sheets to Airtable and have encountered an issue when trying to link student payments with their attendance. I need the administrative staff to be able to see if a student has paid for a specific class in the corresponding period (month) when recording attendance, or if they owe for that month. In Sheets, this is incredibly easy, but in Airtable, it’s NOT (or perhaps I’m missing something, which is why I’m reaching out with the hope that’s the case).Table Structure (simplified for this example):Students Table:Fields: Name, Contact Information, Attendance (Linked Records), Payments (Linked Records), etc.Classes Table:Fields: Class Name, Days, Schedules, Attendance (Linked Records), Payments (Linked Records), etc.Payments Table:Fields: Student (Link Record), Class (Link Record), Paid Period, Amount Paid, Pay

I am using Make.com - Airtable - Update records. I have 5 different modules all returning the same 404 response,  using the outh accessIt locates the base and the table, searching for the primary IDContacted support, sent links and images. No response yet.After some search, 404 errors apparently show up. Airtable did an update in make.comAnyone else having this problem? How do I base my business on this happing?Thanks in advance   

Airtable Newbie here!  I have an email automation that sends me a reminder when an item in my airtable is approaching the due date.  I want to have a field (due date) appear in the email to be in red, so that it i see it clearly.  Can I do that in Airtable?  If so, how do I write it or where do I write that? Is it surrounding the field name in the body of the email?It should look like this:The records are due to the requester on August 5, 2024.

Hello, I am working on integrating my google calendar with my airtable base so that I can include all of the meetings that I have with members of my contact list on their contact profile as a linked record to the calendar table. I created an automation to do this for me (see below). The issue that I have found is that when more than 1 of the contacts that are added to the calendar invite for the meeting is found within my big "Contacts" table, it will grab the unique IDs for both of the contacts and it goes to add my calculated field (the first one in the image below, my primary field, and the only field that I want to add), to my synced calendar "Contacts" field within my calendar table. The problem is the automation tries to update the linked contacts (eg. "Arjin Claire, Evolution") in this "Contacts" tab, but it throws an error when more than 1 are being added. I believe it reads each of these contacts as being concatenated together and since the value is calculated v

Why I cant reply to actionable messages on Slack?  When clicking in slack I always keep receiving the same reply."You do not have access to this Airtable record, or it has been deleted" Thats impossible as Im the owner of the base and workspace. How may I fix this? Thanks

I’m trying to auto-create a record when an interface button is clicked. This can be done by linking a button to an automation. In the new record I want to store the user who clicked the button. Is this possible?