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I am trying to set up a basic template for managing about 20 small construction projects. I have a table with records for each project and a separate table for all the various tasks that could apply to each project. I can't figure out how to link the various tasks to MULTIPLE projects while also tracking the status of the task within each separate project. Below is a simple example (in reality I have a list of ~50 tasks) of the way I'd like to be able to track tasks in EACH project. Project A tasks:-solicit bids (complete)-draft contract (in process)-hire sub (on hold)Project B tasks: -solicit bids (in process)-draft contract (on hold)-hire sub (on hold)Thanks in advance!

Hi there,So interfaces seem really helpful, but I essentially can't use *any* of them, because it appears they consume from the 5 request/second per base rate limit that currently causes *all* interfaces to fail.  This is because we have many automations already accessing the base, accordingly.Can someone from the Airtable team comment on whether this is intentional?  I was hoping the interface designer used a different API rate limit quota than for my backend automations, but it seems that's not the case.Thanks!

I have a form for inputting contact and basic account information for new sales (form 1) - when the form is submitted, it sends a survey that the customer needs to fill out (form 2).Depending on one of the fields from form 1, form 2 can be one of five different form views (specific questions and information are pertinent to specific account types).I currently have a nested IF function and hardcoded URLs for the five different forms - is there a way to make this connection dynamic instead?  Concern would be something like, if a sixth account type was created it breaks the workflow.

We track inventory and want to be able to show our inventory based on where it is located geographically. 

I have a problem, everytime when I creating new base, I need to manually set up all tables. I have the main base that I would like copy(tables, extensions, automations) to others, can I archive that by API or code ?

Full HTML support in automationForm/application in scripting both in extension and in automationNative Plecto integration for tables to be used as database for Plecto.Pandadoc support, with creation of contracts with info from records, and then backwards updating on changes like signing. (In generel programs for contract creation)Typeform extended features to update records in Airtable also instead of only creating records.Many of these features would make a. Zapier cheaper because less tasks would be used, and more could be done within the Airtable environment. If I'm requesting something that can already be done within Airtable, or you have any hacks to these, please give me feedback 🙏 I have already made som sneaky tricks myself to create time feelers by using formulas, automations and scripting to overcome things I couldn't do natively to handle Information and creating flows and

Hey everyone!I'm new to this and need some help. I have a list of client details that include two attachments: a price list and a software update list. These attachments are used in automated emails. Periodically, I need to update these attachments with the latest versions.I've tried two methods:1. Linked records: I created a second table with the attachments linked to the client list. However, I'm having trouble getting the attachments to appear in the client list.2. Update record automation: My understanding is that I need to first find the relevant records and then run a repeating group to update them. However, I'm facing two challenges here. First, it seems to only find up to 100 records, but our list is much larger. Second, I'm struggling to get the automation to work smoothly.Has anyone encountered a similar situation and found a solution? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Hello, How can I have only the last number entered in the data without needing to put a filter in place with the month indicated ?Thank you so much 

Hello,To manage a catalog of goodies for a company, I've started building a database, forms and an interface.The goodies catalog has about 30 items in 3 categories. Some items are textiles with 7 different sizes.The 30 items are common to different entities of the company, but the stocks are different from one entity to another. (1 entity by city)I built the following tables:Entitie,Sizes,Categories,Objects,Received items,Distributed items.The last two have a form for entering what has been received or distributed.Finally, the interface displays the catalog with all the items and quantities for an agency.After this long intro, I share you my problem:To display the stock by size for a given item (textile) and for an agency, I can't find any other solution than to calculate stock for each agency by creating a column per item per size per agency.For each size, I calculate quantity r

Hello there, I’ve created a pretty nice base that tracks almost everything necessary about thousands of trees planted on a farm. The base has lots of info from the date of acquisition to genus, species, notes, tons of photos, etc. But the one thing I’m stuck on is this: Since they’re 1000s of trees spread across 20 acres, I need to figure out how to Geo locate each tree or auto tag the geolocation of each tree so I know where it is on the farm. I would like this to be automatically created on a map, something like Google maps with a pin drop that shows me where I can find a plant. Spent some time googling and everything seems to be over my head in understanding how to do this. I’ve read many opinions including having to purchase some map tool from Google clouds and I’m just like “I thought this would be simple but maybe it’s not?” And this is a personal project so not any $ to spend. Does anyone have some help where they can guide me just add that one field so we can have it pin dro

Hello,I have a Database that includes a table of Users and a Table of inventory (Computers , Monitors, Docking stations and so on).All of our inventory is mapped by serial number.When I give the user a device I assign it to the Air table.I want to have the option to see the assigned history by user or by device.That means if I have a user name Tom, and I gave him on 01/12/2023 a laptop: Lenovo Thinkpad , S/N:ABCD123, and I took it back on 15/01/2024.Let's say I have the record of this computer.Through that record I want to be able to view the computer assigned History- that means when it was assigned and when it was unassigned.  I couldnt find any automatic way to do so, so i want to check how can i develop this module myself.The main result shoul

Hi,I am creating a formula for my fixed field for a sponsor base. Not all sponsors have business names; therefore I am looking for a formula that will be something along the lines of:IF({Business Name (from Contacts)}, {Business Name (from Contacts)}, "{Contacts}"). However, the " " shows up as the physical text rather than what is in the Contacts field.  What should I be doing instead? P

Are empty record fields counted as 'Unique' in the Unique total number? I expect not, but just checking.

Hello! I'm using the Airtable API and I'm encountering an error.I'm making API requests in Node.js with OAuth authentication to retrieve records with applied filters. However, I'm receiving an error message that says 'You should provide a valid API key to perform this operation,' and I couldn't find any information about this error no matter how hard I looked. Is there any way to resolve this?I was able to successfully retrieve the list of bases and tables with the same access token.Thank you.Scope: data.records:read data.records:write data.recordComments:read data.recordComments:write schema.bases:read schema.bases:write webhook:manage

I have a single table where I have different columns for Town, County, Region etc. I then have a Description field with some generic copy but at the end I want to automatically add the Town name within its row (see image).E.g. Town: Aaron's HillDescription:  Welcome to the beautiful town of {Town}Seems like a fairly basic requirement but I've done a lot of Google searching and I can't find the answer. Any help very much appreciated  🙏  

Hello. I have used the script extension to get the URL stored in the URL field of the currently selected record. I am using the button field to send the URL to the script but ideally, I would want to just click on a record and the extension identifies the currently selected record. However, when I try to output the URL from the record in an iFrame, I simply get the HTML code for the iFrame in my output. How can I display the actual website? I know it is possible because the "URL Preview" extension built by Airtable is able to display some webpages.Here's a screenshot of what my output looks like:And here is my code:    let MyTable = base.getTable("Shopping List"); let field = MyTable.getField('URL'); // When run from a button field, the script skips the p

I am trying to bar chart comparison of 2 fields in a table Project Name Pod Name Planned Duration Actual duration project 1pod 134project 2pod 21011project 3pod 31214project 4pod 11112project 5pod 21210project 6pod 3119project 7pod 1119project 8pod 2119Row LabelsSum of Planned Duration Sum of Actual duration Grand Total8178pod 12525pod 23330pod 3

I may be going the wrong way around this. I am trying to send records from one table to another as a group of linked records. There are two condition groups for creating two linked records each time the automation is triggered.Condition 1 is:Farm contains "Ahoaho"Status is "Sales"Sales Summary (Linked Record) is EmptyCondition 2 is:Farm contains "Ahoaho"Status is "Sales"Sales Summary (Linked Record) is EmptyI would like to be able to further group these by "like dates," so that stocktake records from different dates don't get linked to the same Sales Summary record.My first approach was to attempt creating a repeating group based on unique instances of "stocktake date," however the repeating group fu

This automation has brought me to my knees, please help.I'm trying to create a google calendar event for a session booked from a start time to end time. The automation fails because it's unable to parse datetime: " "This is my flow:1. I enter the date and time in text format (Text date)- 3 April, 2024 at 17:002. Then convert the above to date format using Datetime parse formula - 4/3/2024 17:00(formula - DATETIME_PARSE({Text date},'D MMM YYYY at HH:mm') 3. Then I convert this to ISO format using Datetime formula - 2024-04-03 17:00:00.000(formula - DATETIME_FORMAT({parsed and formatted date},"YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.SSS") What i get in step 3 is what is entered as start time in the automation. Similarly the end time is calculated using three steps. 

i have a linked record field that links to another table. the linked field in Table A does NOT have the "allow linking to multiple records" toggled on. The corresponding field in Table B also does NOT have the "allow linking to multiple records" toggled on. and yet, i can link to multiple records. In Table B, i can select a record in Table A that already has a different record linked from Table B. Then when i go over to Table A, i have two records linked in a field that is clearly not supposed to allow this. is this a known issue? is there a way to prevent it? if it is a known bug/"feature", are there standard suggestions for ways to work around it? i don't want to try and work around it, if i can just prevent it. but if it can't be prevented, what is the point of offering that toggle option at all?!

Hi, I have a formula that averages 2 ratings fields. I wish the formula field would show stars instead of numbers. Is there a way to do this with the rating field? Or with a more complex formula? See my current screenshot below.

While i do see lots of posting and tags saying “looking for a certified airtable consultant” but I am not able to find a accredited program or a pathway to become a certified consultant?

Primary field 'Total' pick list choices at the bottom is blocked by the '+' sign for add records.When I hover over the area to the right of the total 312 records number in this base an area behind the '+' sign is also displayed or highlighted, but I can't see what is there. Any suggestions?Thank you. 

I have an inventory tracking challenge that I’m having difficulty with In my line of work clients order resources. Each resource contains a number of items from my stock room. I want to track inventory of items automatically based on resource orders that clients make. I think I need a formula that says "hey! a resource has been ordered.That resource contains items A,B,C…Let’s subtract “quantity items used” from “item inventory level.” Note: The quantity of items used will vary based on the number of participant the client wants to use the resource for. I haven’t gotten very far with this but the image below gives you the idea. I want to subtract 40 from the stock levels contained within records 114, 110, 107, 105, 104 and 112. I’ve learned a lookup isn’t the way to go but now I’m stuck.

(i edited this to make more sense hopefully🤪)I want to create a new date and time, by stripping the time from a date, add a certain number of days, then add a duration field back as a new time to the date such as :1/3/24 11:00 am   to   1/3/24    add 126 days becomes   5/8/24  then add 15 hours to get the result of 5/8/24 3:00 pmhere is my formula:DATEADD(DATETIME_FORMAT(DATESTR(DATEADD(DATESTR({Initial Date}),{Days to Add},'d')),'MM-DD-YYYY'),{Duration},'s')  However when I use DATEADD to add the duration as a time, it assumes the starting time of 18:00 / 6pm  AND cuts the days short by 1 so when I add the d