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I have a base with information about students in a music program, including their birthdates (MM/DD/YYYY). I have a formula that calculates their age as of today:DATETIME_DIFF(TODAY(), {Birthdate}, 'years') and a formula that calculates the number of days to their next birthday:IF({Days from today} < 0, {Days from today} + 365, {Days from today}) I want to create a field that will tell me how old they will be on their next birthday. Is it as simple as adding 1 to the formula that calculates their age as of today? Thanks-Jen&nb

How can Sort list of Records by the order they were created in both. Would like to know how I can do them both ascending and descendingI also don't have any created time field I can't create that since I'm using the API And as far as I know it does not support creating formulas with the API So is there any other way to do this without using fields

I want to use AirTable so that users can login and access their test results and marks. You could call it a dashboard or customer portal site. So, one user’s results can’t be seen by another, this is why I need login or user accounts. I will be using AirTable forms (maybe Typeform) and AirTable sheets to enter the user’s test results. I have looked at various third party sites that build websites using AirTable data. However, I am not sure if they will be able to do what I need to do. I found one that looks like it could softr.io - but it is very expensive in my opinion. I know I could use a dedicated Dashboard or portal software like SuiteDash, but I am trying to automate as much as possible. I already have a SuiteDash account. I am happy to spend some money on a paid SaaS product. Does anyone have any suggestions or possible solutions? Thank you.

I’m really excited about the new interface designer features. Airtable has given us the tools to build functional apps without getting people too deep into the database side. Unfortunately I can’t quite fully embrace it yet – it seems like the interfaces don’t work at all on iPhones. Moreover the degradation is pretty un-graceful, users just get a message to login or use the app with little or no explanation of what went wrong and how they could fix it. Our folks – especially some key stakeholders – are on iPhones more than any other platform, making this an important thing to solve for here. Does anyone have any ideas about how to deal with this? Does anyone know what Airtable’s roadmap is? Would love to leverage the features if I can figure out how to manage this challenge.

Hi everyone. I am currently trying to create a checklist for a theatre production so we always remember to load everything in the van. However, although this works perfectly when I am on the computer version, I can tick the items as they are loaded, when I transfer to the mobile app it seems to become a laborious task because when I tick on the items, rather than check the item it takes me to the individual record. Does any one know if it is possible to just check and uncheck items in the mobile version? Thanks

Hello, I designed an interface with some nice stats and graphs only to discover that I can only share it with Airtable registered users. This is very annoying as I cannot ask clients or occasional collaborators, which often aren't even that tech-smart, to sign up to a dedicated service, even if it's free.Can you please allow us the possibility to share an interface in read-only mode with anyone who is provided with the link, just as google docs does?

I have a base for tracking orders. My base has the following tables, Customer, Products, Vendors, Orders, and Order items.This is a form I created in the order table. Look at the ‘add product’ section. I want to be able to add quantity for every product selected. Is this possible? If yes, how can I achieve that? 

Apologies for the confusing title. To not confuse things further, I'll minimise the story/context. I'm developing a crop planning and record keeping system for our farm.For this issue, I have 3 tables in question. 1) Crops (basic info about all our crops)2) Crop Plan (for planning)3) Field (what actually happens in the field, as plans are never followed 100%).More than one Crop is added to the crop plan via a linked record. An automation creates a record for each crop with a "planned" status in Field. The planning info and dates are dynamically updated between tables. So there are two linked records in the Crop Plan table - Crop and Field. The Field table also have a linked record to Crops. Th

Hi everyone,I have an automation that runs a script which sends a recordID to a Make webhook.Every now and then the automation fails because Airtable sets the script execution limit to 30 seconds. That makes me think that the problem is because of Make, in that the processing in Make takes longer so in return Airtable exceeds the execution time.Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is there a way for us to resolve this or perhaps a workaround?Here's my simple script: let inputConfig = input.config(); let webhook = 'https://hook.us1.make.com/jflrewqrewmnmnnqsdfsqsgtewvs' let queryParams = `/?record=${inputConfig.record}` fetch(`${webhook}${queryParams}`); 

In Airtable, a normal one-to-many relationship between two tables is bi-directional. When I create a link-to-record field in the parent table, Airtable automatically creates a mirroring link-to-record field in the child table. But if I create a link-to-record field that links to the same table – a self-join – that mirroring field does not get created. I was trying (as an experiment) to create a one-table to-do list, but I wanted a task to be able to have sub-tasks. So I defined the link-to-record field linking the Tasks table to itself, and called that field (that relationship) “Subtasks”. I created a task like “Prepare for vacation” and then added subtasks to it by clicking into the “Subtasks” column’s + button. And then Prepare for vacation [Subtasks: Get gas in car, Pack, File vacation form…] Get gas in car Pack File vacation form at post office etc. That works fine. But now what I’d like to

What’s the best way for someone to use my base? Lots of people will need to use it and add/edit records but they should not see each other’s information. They are individuals and not in the same company or organization. Can they copy my base and then use it freely? What is the best way to share so they’ll have the base to be able to add, edit, update and delete records?

When using the get request to get list of all the records is there anyway we can get list of all the records but the data only returns specific fields?

I have tried to URL encode my URL. In Power Automate Desktop The URL value is presently evaluated as:https://api.airtable.com/v0/appKJvw9LuKiqGcRt/tbl7MUhoqb9r5hk6V?filterByFormula={Root}=Can't Process: Missing Acct #where Root is the name of a field.In Power Automate Desktop, I am am getting an invalid filter by formula error.Am I missing quotation marks?

I'm building a CRM for my friend running a coaching business. There are two tables I would like to surface at the same time in a single interface "Sessions" & "Client"I want to create a user friendly view where she can see today's sessions - she can take notes etc for each session, and also have relevant client details up. (I've done a little mockup to explain)I know I can use Lookup fields to surface this information, but is there a cleaner way so I can simply open the Client details when a Session is selected (I'm using Record View but there might be another option)Any advice appreciated! 🤗

Hi all,Currently, I'm using a free plan, I have ownership of the account and have around 11 workspaces. Someone else invited a user to join and now he is a collaborator. I'm traying to change is access to Owner but it doesn't appear as an option anywere. I have tried :- share the base- create new workspace , trasfer all bases there and invite  Could you please help and advice? As mentioned I have quite a lot workspaces to would want the easiest way. Thank you. 

I am trying out the new Record Template feature, and I'm struggling when I want to create a same-table linekd record. I have a field that is a linked field to the same table. It gives me the below option to "choose templates" with which to populate this field:However, when I open this up, even though I have another template within this same table, I'm given no options for my template selection:You can see two templates clearly visible behind the dropdown menu; one is the template I'm currently editing, the other is the template I would like to select from the dropdown, but which isn't visible. Is this a bug, or is there some feature I'm missing in being able to select a record template for same-table linked records?

I have an interface form set up as an intake form for employee changes.  There is logic built where different fields show up to be filled in depending on what is selected.  It works well for individual employee change but I would like to enable a requester to submit more than 1 change without filling out a new form. For example, I have 2 employees I would like to promote and want to select different reasons for each and for employee 1 there would be a position number change while employee 2 does not.  Ideally, the same fields/logic already built can show up for employee 2, 3, etc so they can run through the same questions.  Also, is it possible for form / base to have an embedded table (similar to google sheet) where they can fill in for multiple employees at once.  

Hey. My pictures’ links get expired while I have a paid business plan. So whenever I export a CSV file for any of my data, the links for the picture tabs get expired and I don’t get to use those expired links. Need some serious help!! 

I'm working with a relatively simple table with columns for room number, name, and dietary restrictions. Dietary restrictions will be a dropdown multi-select column.RoomNameRestrictions1JohnHalal, Diabetic2SallyHalal3JaneHalal, Diabetic4

How can I do a negative filter? Let's say I have a multiple select field with letters A-E. I can easily filter to show all records that contain all of D, E, and F. But I want to filter OUT all records that contain all of D, E, and F. Just D is fine, D and E is fine, etc. Thanks for your help!

I have a "Send an email" automation set up with the trigger "when {{Date field}} is one week from now."It's working great, except the emails are going out just after midnight. I'd prefer them to go around 9am. I have added a time to my date field, but that does not seem to work. Any advice?    

Hello everyone, I use airtable to manage shopify orders, and i need to print a delivery order that contains all the details (each record has one item from the order, if i have one order with 3 deferent items I will have 3 records), I already designed one with airtable page designer but i cant do deferent records in one page

I have a simple base that shows transactions each month and allows me to track date of the transaction.I want to add a formula field that will compare Entered date (year & month) to the current year and month: IF(  AND(    IS_SAME({Entered},TODAY(),'year'),    IS_SAME({Entered},TODAY(),'month'),1,0      )  )   This isn't returning any values in the formula fie

Hi Everyone.Quick question.. I think I already know the answer, but just double checking to make sure..I work for a company that is starting a marketing campaign, I wanted this to include an Airtable form that customers can fill out a form for an appointment.We have two divisions in the company and what I am looking for is to have a limit for appointments per day. So three appointment each day per division. I think this may be too complicated for Airtable, especially for a simple form.  Either way let me know if there is a solution to this! Thanks

Hello!Does anyone know how to delete records from a List View? When I select a record and right click I do not have the option to delete like I would from the Grid View.Is anyone else having the same experience?