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Here's a weird one. So I had am automation set up using the airtable "Slack: Send a message" action and it always worked great. I add the slack workspace account, authorize, then it shows a chanel list of all chans, I pick my chan in the workspace. Good. We created a completely new slack workspace since our product got split to another business and now I need to make this message get sent to the NEW Slack workspace. Simple. Go into the automation, remove the old Slack workspace integration, add the new one with the NEW slack URL and new user/pass, and then... wait... It is showing the OLD slack channel list from the old workspace. The channels are totally different so I must have made a mistake. I remove the "Slack: Send a message" action completely, then to Account -> Integrations section to remove the integration from my entire airtable profile. I notice that this integration DOES show the name of the NEW company, which isn't looking promising (since that means I did log into

Hi all,I'm here again with my automation not working correctly. The last time I was having this problem, it was because the automation was set to trigger on "Create new record." Having learned from that, I created this automation using a checkbox field update as the trigger. I just cannot see what I'm doing wrong.I'll admit there's a problem with my trigger table - the Primary field is not being used properly. It was set up by my designer and I can't change it mid-season. Is that the problem? Is there any workaround?It's just creating blank records.

I'm getting a redundant record when using the For Each [multi-select] create record on a Form is created trigger. Simply delete or is there a better way?Fee Table, 'Add Fee' Form has a multi-select 'Fee Type' field (advance on signature, advance on delivery, advance on publication, royalty)Automation trigger 'When a form is created', with a  For Each [Fee Type] create record. Works beautifully apart from the initial record which has all of the multi-select options. I used Kuovonne's delete record script to delete this redundant record which is clean and fast.But feels like a workaround - like I missed a lesson at school. Any pointers?  

Hi folks,We've been linking records with a barcode scanner for several years and it abruptly stopped working as of last week. I haven't checked the scanner settings in a long time, but my recollection is that in essence the scanner reads out a string and does a carriage return to simulate hitting enter. We scan into linked fields, which have records matching the string names. If I copy a failed scan result out into a text file I can paste it back in and the same thing happens. If I open the "search" option in the link field and paste the result, it does pull up a matching link that I can select and then it works correctly. I suspect something changed about Airtable's behavior, as we had no problem with this before. Anybody have advice on how to address this? I will try to change the barcode scanner to not do the carriage return, as hopefully that will let us do the link match manually. That will certainly slow down our workflow though. Regards,Scott

Hi!I'd like to view at a glance the date a base last updated. It's impractical to create a "modified time" for every single field on every single table, since I don't know which field would last have been touched in a given base. Is there somewhere I can see that information?Use case? I'm new to the org and trying to clean up a bunch of data sources. I don't always know which team created the base and whether or not it is actively being used.Thanks!

Hi! very new to using Airtable. I am trying to find out if it’s possible to use Airtable to populate users profiles for a small 30 members community. I am trying to display name, title, image, etc.. or would I be better using something I am more familiar with like Supabase. any thoughts or advice would be appreciated. Steve 

I have an automation triggered by a record matches condition which is linked to a formula field. The automation executes a Script step after which updates fields that in turn reset the trigger field to "0". However  once the trigger condition is TRUE i get multiple executions of the automation in my automation log. Why?I have async operations in my script...could that be the cause for airtable triggering the automation multiple times before the first automation run finished?

Hello therei have an automation that was working fine, now when i try to test it, i can't get past the trigger. the trigger works, but when i try to evaluate the conditions for the first action group (or any other action group) i get an error instead of an "yes, matches conditions" or "no, doesn't match conditions". strangely, this automation worked until now. is the error possible related to airtable general maintenance or issues and not to my automation at all. or do you guys know what kind of conditions throw such an error instead of getting evaluated. very strange 😞

New to Airtable, hoping someone can point me the right direction.I am building a database of Aus Music Chart history. I have an Excel sheet that has columns like Song, Artist, Year, Position, etc. As a test, I've copied and pasted some 3000 rows/records into an Airtable table. (Yes, overquota on the free plan for now.)What I want to do now is create another table for Genre that will automatically update the 'master' table (as describe above) based on an Artist's name. So, for instance, if I enter The Beatles > Pop in the Genre table, it will automatically assign the value 'Pop' into the master table wherever Artist = 'The Beatles'. Does that make sense? I've played around with relationship/linked Lookup fields, but the best result I've had is having to re-input the Artist name in a separate field -- i.e. it's not automatic. As I said at the start, there are already 3000-odd records as a test -- my master Excel sheet is well over 25,000, so entering each again manually is out of

Hi y’all. I’m breaking my head over the next automation.I want to copy records from one table (A) to another (B) or update existing records in table B (Input table=A ; Copy table=B)Input Table A is using the import excel possibility. This is raw data from another source. In order to import correctly i’ll have to empty table A every time before importing the new data. Not using this function is out of the option because certain data fields disappear when trying to copy paste. My solution so far:Automation 1: when imported i create linked field to table B and let the automation update this field with the filenumber (unique) from table A. Thus A&B are linked. after deleting the data in A, with the next import this wil link A back to B no matter it’s position. Automation 2: via lookup fields from table A in table B i copy then to the fields in table B. So when the data in Table A is deleted, this wil not delete the data in table B. I tried setting up an update recor

Hey Team,Whilst i"m no stranger to formulas I am new to Airtable and would love some help with a project. First an automation where I can enter a number in one table and it will create that number in records in another table. To put it into context, I am a Dog Breeder, I have created a table for my Studs & Dams and also for their Litters (Projects). I have a column in the Projects referring to number of puppies and I want the automation to create Puppy Profiles for each puppy. So if they have four, I want four Puppy Profiles created. The automation I have used so far is "When a record matches condition" in which I have used 'if project name is not empty', and 'if DOB is not empty' then create Puppy Profile but i want to add script so it adds for example '4' records because their are 4 puppies.  Could anyone help me to write my first script? 🙏In my second screenshot I would ideally love for the Project name and DOB to populate as well, I'm still looking into m

I am new in Airtable and i need hepl with the following:I have 3 original  tables ("Contact", "Structure" and "Management") in my base. I need a table showing all fields of each table as a summary. The base is still developing so I might add fields in the original tables (for example "Email Adress" in "Contact").I created a new table called "complete database", linked it to the three original tables and added lookup fields for all the fields from the original tables. Now I realized that, if I add a new field in an original table it is not automatically added to the "complete database".Is there another option? If i summarize the tables in a new synchronized base ... how do can I put them all into one table?thank you for helping!Julia

Hi,I have a date column (contract end date), two months before this date there is an automation that sends an email to the tenant. The problem is that I'm afraid the automation will send an email at midnight. Is there a possibility that the email will be sent 60 days before the end of the contract at 9 am?Thanks.

Hi,I have two tables, one of tasks and one of tenants.In the table of the tenants I have a column of the end date of the tenant's contract.I want to automate that at the beginning of each month (on the 1st of each month) I will create a RECORD in the table of tasks with the task of renewing the tenant's contract only if the date of the end of the tenant's contract is a month later.For example, if today's date is October 1st, I want to create tasks for each tenant whose contract ends in November.Is it possible?

I tried many workarounds, but none did actually work. What I am trying to achieve: cell one has orders (700, 1000, 3000, 400)cell two has sizes (M, XL, L, S)cell three "Joint" should display 700M, 1000XL, 3000L 450SI tried many formulas and scripts, the closed I came to was: ARRAYJOIN(size & orders)but this only displays MXLLS700;1000;3000;400 Maybe somebody has an idea - thank you very much!

Hi Communauty.I have a lot of trouble with Airtable's restrictions and business logic. I have a paid Teams space in which I build my clients' projects. Once finished, I want to transfer ownership of a database and its related automations to my client. 2 questions :1- Obviously, I cannot transfer ownership of a base. Should I transfer my entire workspace where I have my personal bases and those of other clients? ! Is it correct ?2- To transfer ownership of a workspace, I think I have to create an "Owner" user who will be billed to me? But if the new owner makes a paid subscription, what should I do to avoid paying on my end?Thanks for your help. Airtable's sales department must have really racked their brains. With such difficult to understand operation, I am seriously considering switching to Baserow which is more readable.

But I can't figure it out to make this happenIt's a registration form.  We use it for a specific location, every other month.  I'm trying to reduce some of the manual overhead by trying to auto populate each record as it is submitted with the current event - which is a linked field = from a sync table.Problem is - the automation doesn't seem to support this - like it does for select fields.How I am setting it in the form is kludgy Any suggestions - I'm open to hearing them

Hi everyone!I have a form for a warranty claim. Once customer submit it, the data is visible in table "RMA" for approval. I have another table named "customers" ("Stranke" in my language) which is linked to the table RMA and where I have a list of all customers (so that I can quickly see how many request or warranty cases specific customer have). I managed to automate that once the form is submited, it automatically create that customer in the table customer and link it to the RMA table. Now I stumbled upon one problem. If I have the same customer submitting the form multiple times, it always create a new one. So I have duplicated customers. Does anyone know how can I fix this? Thank you!

Hello Airtable family, I’ve previously explored how to sort the linked records, finding the best approach was a manual sort using the ‘Batch Update Block.’ The purpose was so that when using our Airtable-based ordering system, when we clicked a customer record in the customer table, it would show linked orders sorted with the most recent orders at the top. As I’m not the only one entering orders, it’s become a bit tedious and/or unreliable to use this method. I’m looking for a way to do it programmatically, either with an automation, scripting, or using even using Integromat. In theory, I’m thinking the best approach might be an automation script that only triggers when a customers ‘linked orders’ array changes, though not sure how to set that up with views, triggers, ect. I can likely figure out the script part from pseudo code. Any suggestions or ideas to try, I’m all ears! (Or, eyes…?) Kris

If you’re using a rollup field to summarize linked records with ARRAYJOIN(), the array’s order is determined by the order of the linked records. I created this script to automatically sort linked records in a cell. My use-case is to summarize interactions with companies. I sort by descending order to show the latest summary on top. Enjoy! // Set a trigger: when a record is updated -> watch the linked records field // Set an action: run a script // You should set the record ID of the triggering record as an input variable // Grab the triggering record's ID let inputConfig = input.config(); let recordID = inputConfig.recordID; let table = base.getTable("tableName"); // Load table let queryResult = await table.selectRecordsAsync(); // Get all records in the table let record = queryResult.getRecord(`${inputConfig.recordID}`) // Find the one with the ID from the input // Get the linked records array let linkedRecordsArray = record.getCellValue("linkedRecordsField"); // Sort the link

Hi all,I'm building a List InterfaceIn that list, I have enabled the "Edit records inline" setting. Now, all fields, even the ones that have been locked in the underlying Base, are editable from the interface. How do I keep the locked fields locked in the interface?

Hi, I have managed to set up an email automation. But after the email is sent, I want to update the AirTable record with the date and time the email was sent. How do we do this? I did see Kuovonne do this with a custom script in another example. But not sure how to do this for us. @kuovonne Thank you. 

I have a database of people and one of the columns contains links to other records in that "People" database and is meant to showcase which other people this record has a relationship with. I was wondering if there is a way to update two records simultaneusly, so that when I add Person B as a relation to Person A, that relationship is reflected in both records.

Hi! I’m working on two separate base for my organization: the first manages the order, and the second the tracking and payment process. With the sync tables I’m able to get the tables from the order in the second base for the planning and processing of the shipment and payments . But I’m encountering a problem: there are some lookup fields about quantities that I need to process as number on the second base. The synced table show them as text, so the lookup on the tracking table it is also showing them as text, but I can’t modify the format to a number. I’ve also already tried to add another field with a VALUE() formula, but it gives an #ERROR! and doesn’t evaluate the text into a number. Any idea how to proceed? Many thanks, Claudio

Can we generate a sharable link to a List View the same way we share Grid View? I don't see the "Share View" button on my list view.