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Hello all,We have an automation set up through Zapier that searches for a record and updates the record if it finds it and creates a new one if it doesn't. The problem I am having is that duplicate records are being created that match the search criteria. I am unsure why and where to look for the issue (Work Flow: Jot Form to Zapier to Airtable).Additionally, if anyone has a fix for a dupe record created because there is an extra space in the field (where and how can I strip it out or make it part of the search criteria)Attached are my search criteria (with a fictional test person) in Zapier and the ID in Airtable.Thanks for any suggestions. 

I'm new and have watched a lot of excellent tutorials that seems to indicate that I should be able to do what I want, but I wanted to ask the user-base to confirm, and perhaps to add any "to do that, do this" comments. I'm on the free plan, but if i can get this to work, I definitely want to upgrade to the paid plan and support the service, but I've been so bad about getting started on projects and then get distracted by some other shiny object and abandon it.  But this time I'm hoping it's different, as the product seems pretty simple to use.I help run a local makerspace, and we have members that pay dues to get access to our space that has tools and stuff.  People apply for membership, and our rotating board of directors (elected by the membership) approve the members.Currently, our process is:member sends google form to apply.the board members get an email, and they reply all with "aye" or "nay".If we get 2 "aye's",  I manually send an email to the prospect to tell th

looking to create a simple automation to match people up based on age and interest(s). Brand new to AirTable. I built a table for "users" and "matches"My use case is to match people up based on age range, gender, and interest.Any suggestions on how to build out the logic? I want to have a drop down of gender/age/interests. So would need to find matching people in the "users" table and email them the matches full profile.  Thank you! 

I have a cell containing multiple dates.I want to have a column retrieving the most recent date from this cell.Which formula can I use? Tried with Max, or even last time modified but didn't do the trick...

I have uploaded images as attachments to about 250 records in a base. Each one uploads without issue and I’m able to see the preview in grid view and the full image in gallery view. I checked each attachment as it was uploaded. The problem is after the fact: now, about 25% of them are coming up as empty jpg icons in both views. When I attempt to open the image within an individual record, the same thing happens - a white box with the jpg icon and the file name. Any insight? I’ve tried refreshing the base, but to no avail…

TLDR: Is dokuwiki a reasonable solution for non-airtable user account management? Or is there something better?As I'm trying to build my application for a social maker related nonprofit organization  that has about 105 members that cycle in and out, some are leaders in the group (9 board members, 4 officers, 6 area leads, etc), I want to have airtable data available to all registered members such as read only the member list and their contact information, and other people that can have access to member maintenance.  And each member would be able to update their own information (self help).  But with 100+ members, giving each an airtable account would be difficult to manage.But then I realized we have a wiki page that supports user management, and I might be able to embed forms and views in certain pages that require different access. I'm curious if any of you see a flaw with this idea, or if there's a better solution.Background: There's a free open source wiki product ca

Hello,  My facebook automation dont't work.I need to reconnect all the time. When I relogin to account it work idk for 5min ? and  then i need to connect one more time...;/How to solve that issue? 

Hello guys, I hope you are doing well. I was wondering if you also have this error? The letters are superimposed on the gallery cards. Could you tell me if it's a bug or if it's me?Greetings!

Hi folks!I recently received an Airtable email that allowed me to download a calendar invite using a button inside the email. I was wondering if there was any way to do this using email automations? I've included the email I'm talking about as an attachment. 🙂 Thanks a lot!

The public api returns a very limited set of attributes in the list and get endpoints for bases and records, such as who to attribute creates and updates to. This would be very useful information to include in the api response so that third party apps can attribute Airtable records / bases to their authors. Currently record comments are the only thing to reference a user.Even at the enterprise level, the audit logs have some limited user information on creates and updates to bases, but nothing around records.

Hi! I noticed the following bug in airtable. The formula that I actually paste in a formula field is not getting saved . Here is a proof of this.:https://app.screencast.com/8pYl20QKMc0fM?conversation=yInYcEQeuFQHhsuAgeFxWNIf you have a solution for this please let me know. 

Hey there, I'm new here and I'm trying to access Airtable Academy (yes, we do have a Business plan), but the page doesn't open at all. Am I doing something wrong or is Airtable having issues with Airtable Academy today?Thanks,Carina.

I have been staring at this too long and thinking myself into circles, need some fresh eyes! I have a base set up with 4 linked tables: schools, which are then linked to 3 program tables for SFS registrations, YF events, and Grants (2 sub-programs, AP grants and YF grants). The overall structure:  Each time a school participates in a program, a new record is created in the program table and linked to that school. A unique record name is generated indicating the program, year, and a unique id # (e.g. SFS-23-24-001). All of this is working great - in my schools table I have nice linked fields for each program where I can see what a school is up to. Awesome! Love it! Where I'm getting myself confused is zooming out a bit on tracking the programs across years. Right now in each program table I have fields for program (SFS, AP, YF) and for year (23-24, 24-25). But these fields aren't linked to each other, they're just separate fields with the same options. I wa

Hi everyone. I am trying to set up an automation where when a diagnosis field for a trip in one table is updated it finds the corresponding person (that is connected) in another table and updates a diagnosis field in that table where only different diagnosis is entered. Attached is what I have started. It doesn't run. I tried adding a find records step but couldn't configure the condition (screen grab also attached). Suggestions please!

Hi Airtable Fans, what I am going to ask will sound crazy, but bare with me :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: Sofar, Airtable has been a fantastic ace in my sleeve to build prototype and MVP (minimum viable product) applications faster than any of my colleagues can spin off a Java Virtual Machine. Saving, malaxing and serving data with Zapier and co. is absolutely fantastic. Some of those prototypes even landed “in production” and are still in use today because rewriting them “for real” wouldn’t have a high enough return on investment. Big THANKS to the Airtable team for that! Right now, I am facing the next challenge. The next prototype I’d need to validate a business application idea with, would require some kind of user- and user-specific-data management. And I have no idea if and how I could do with with Airtable. To make it easier to understand, let’s take the idea of a todo list. How could I create a distributed, mutli-user todo-list application with Airtable? Many users can add t

Hoping someone here has the missing piece. Goal: In an Airtable form when selecting the Other option to a pre-defined list of options, and entering a single line text for that option, that text then presents in the original table with the other pre-defined options for future selecting. I have:Table 1 that populates via a form built in Form View. The form asks for the submitters State.Multiple tables that are predefined lists of Group names based on State. For example one table is all CA group names, another all MA group names, etc. Each table has an Other option.In the form when someone selects a state, the respective table of their state's Group options presents. If they select Other a single line text field presents to add in their required response. That  is working correctly. What is not working correctly is the automation that adds this Other single line text field entry to that State's Group list of options moving forward. I

Very new to AirTable and I'm working in a file created by someone else. Right now, I need to know how to move a row. (The data is in Alphabetical order, and one entry name has changed. I need to re-order it. I just want to drag the row to a different place but it doesn't work)Also, I have grouped the data but can't seem to UNgroup it! The chat bot said to unselect the grouping criteria, but there is no way to do that. Help!

The List interface allows for Grouping of fields within records - which makes it visually much easier for users when records have many fields.Is this available for other types?  I would like it on Record detail but cant make it work.Margaret  

Hi,Our process includes creating hundreds of Google Drive folders for client sharing during a year. This is now done manually, and I am looking at automating it if possible. Ideally a trigger in Airtable would the use some information identifying the client, create a Google Drive folder, make the access "Anyone with the link", fetch that link back to Airtable, and send out an email to the client.Alternatively, Airtable would be watching a specified Google Drive directory for creation of new directories, then initiate the process of changing access and pushing the link to Airtable.Any ideas?Rgds,BjörnPS. We use Zapier, so that is a viable option for us. For cost and maintenance reasons I'd like to avoid other 3rd party systems.

Hi,We need to collect longer testimonials (round one A4) from hundreds of clients during a year, process them (re-write and polish before publishing) and have the clients approve the edits.Ideally I would just create fields for this in Airtable (draft -> approve button -> final -> published), but to my understanding Airtable doesn't allow free user to edit anything sent out form the base. And forms are made to be one-to-many, not enabling a form per client to be sent out, non?We use Google Sheets so I somehow vaguely think this should be doable with some creative Sheets integrations, but I can't envision it concretely.Anybody out there who could see this clearly, what would be the elegant and robust way to do it?BjörnPS. We use Zapier also, so that is a viable option. For cost and maintenance reason I'd prefer not to use other third party systems.

Hello, I'm trying to compare "name" field between two different tables and trying to fetch records that matches both.Table 1 - Name, Table 2 - Legal nameWhat's the best method to achieve this? (New to Airtable)

I've built a scheduling app on the Airtable interface. While the interface is ready I realised I cannot give open access to users to use my app as they all have to be on my paid plan from my understanding. Can someone guide me on how I should make it accessible to all. I thought of setting up authentication in bubble and embedding the interface there with forms so that the user can update the info but I cannot find embedding code for interface without making it public. this is urgent please

Hi all,I have met an issue where i've created an interface page that can be drilled down to a record detail. However, although i can see the fields perfectly fine, my team mate who has editor permissions only sees the fields as 'deleted' and I'm not sure what the issue is.  This is what my team mate sees. This is what i see.I have re-shared the interface with her, edited her permissions, created a new record detail page but none of it worked so far. Did anyone else encounter this issue? How did you resolve it? Thanks in advance! 

My colleague and I are trying to build a base where we can compare the payroll data from a csv. file (outsourced data) with data we have already stored in Airtable. We would like to compare the expected payrate we have stored in Airtable to the actual pay in the payroll report csv. file. We are having a difficult time figured out a way to compare two tables within the same base. We are importing a new csv. file into a table every 2 weeks and then we have a second table where our stationary data from Airtable lives and we hope to cross check both of these tables to make sure everyone is receiving the correct anticipated pay and if that is anticipated pay is not aligned with the expected pay then creating formula that would indicate to us that the amounts do not match. We were wondering if there is anyone out there who has any advice for comparing two sets that are on two separate tables but within the same base and creating a way to indicate to us the mismatches? We thought ab

Hello, I'm trying to import csv files into existing tables and wanted to perform upsert/insertion of only new records by comparing it with the records in the existing table.I'm using import csv extension to accomplish this, but ended in duplicate records for some rows. The merge operation is not accomplishing the task of avoid insertion of duplicate rows if its already present in the existing table.Message: Detected records with merge field value "". All matching records will be overridden to match the first matching row.In this case, its neither overriding nor avoiding the row and inserting both two rows with the same value resulting in duplication. The Merge column chosen is unique.Can someone assist with this issue.