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Hello! I need some help with an automation setup.I’ve created an automation that ends with a loop step, and I would like to add one final action after the loop completes — for example, sending a notification once the last record in the loop has been processed.However, Airtable doesn’t allow adding steps after a loop, so I’m not sure how to handle this.What is the best practice to be notified when the entire automation (including the loop) has finished running?Is there a recommended workaround or pattern for this?Any advice would be very helpful, thank you!!

Are there any airtable builders based in the UK.  I need to find someone registered here to qualify for funding for my project which is a client facing portal.  Thanks 

Hi Guys, Has anyone found a way to schedule an export of a view and send it as an email attachment as a csv natively in Airtable (possibly with a script)? Thanks

Automation in AirtableI have a Donations table with the field Donor that contains a Single Line Text field with the donor name in it. I have a Summary table that is linked back to the Donations table using the Link Another Record filed with Allow Linking to Multiple Records to be selected. The linked field in the Summary table has a list of Donors from the Donations table. I want to automate the insertion of a new Donor name into the linked field in the summary table when I create a new record in the Donations table.It seems it should be straight froward but I keep running into a problem with figuring out what to select in the Actions section.Trigger = When a record is createdIn Actions:I choose Update Record I Put in a description so I don’t forget whY I did this. Action will run Always Under Table I choose summary table Under Record ID I copied the record id from the t

I have an interface - created as a blank interface, and I am using  an existing table to enter the info. How do I go about printing this?What I really need is a clear place for me to click into a record and see all the info at once - like a PDF (I should be able to design it, very specifically), I should be able to switch between records very easily, and print easily and neatly. Any ideas? 

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 SIGN-UP USING THIS LINK 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨Hey!!For the last few months the idea of running a Community Led Airtable Hackathon has been lingering in my head. When, how, and what is not clear at all to me yet, so I wanted to open up the discussion early on to make sure this is really community led.Brainstorming:Format: Virtual (for sure). Synchronous (everyone builds during a given time frame) or asynchronous (projects submitted over a few weeks). Themes: Specific theme (e.g. procurement, marketing ops, nonprofits, etc.), or leave it totally open to “build w

Hello,We are using Airtable to replace ClickUp and we started to play around with the interface.As we use it as a task management, how we can enable the bulk edit to change multiple tasks dates in the interface view ? thanks

Hi Airtable Community,I have a single-select (dropdown) field in my Airtable base, and I need to reorder the options in the dropdown list.Currently, the options appear in the order they were created, but I want to:Change the order manually (e.g., move certain options to the top).Questions:Is there a way to reorder dropdown options without deleting and recreating them? Can this be automated (e.g., via scripting or an integration)? Any best practices for managing dropdown option order in large bases?Thanks for your help!

I’m wondering how or if a Make or Zapier sync model can detect changes on field types that can’t trigger the ‘last modified’ field that the sync is based on. If no editable fields on the record are ever changed, would the sync detect changes on a rollup field?What’s a best practice way to achieve this?

Hello, I want to create a food menu, such that customers can view the food items and other details in the gallery view and can order multiple food items at once by submitting. This will streamline process and give a better customer experience. I will provide a tablet or a link to them to make an order; At present, I have the option to give them a form which is not graphical and they have to make any submissions from their table. The data goes into the grid view and is accessed in the kitchen for processing. Thanks

buongiorno, sono nuova di airtable e sto iniziando a lavorarci, chiedo consiglio a voi. cerco di spiegarmi: ho creato una griglia nella quale sono presenti tutti i miei clienti con gli ordini di acquisto. all’interno ho inserito anche le aziende fornitrici.ora mi piacerebbe creare una griglia (o vista o altro che mi consigliate) nella quale vado ad indicare il documento di riferimento del fornitore e la data grazie per la vostra collaborazione

Hello all, I'm looking for some help with a dynamic date filtering challenge in automations.I have a Social Media Metrics table where each record needs to link to all previous records for the same Contact/Platform combination, but only where Date Recorded is before the current record's date.The challenge: Airtable's Find Records action in automations doesn't support dynamic date comparisons (e.g., "Date Recorded < trigger record's Date Recorded"). This means I can't filter to only link previous records—it would link to all records including future ones.I've considered:Manual linking (works but not scalable) MIN/MAX rollup pattern with formula logic (works but still requires the linking step first) External tools like Make.com or scripting (viable but checking if there's a native solution first)Has anyone solved this elegantly within Airtable? Any creative workarounds I'm missing?Thanks in advance!

I was having a problem to share record view for just one record in my airtable. Then I just shared all recordview to my external users. Now because they are opening my shareable view from mobile apps they can not see the right side of the recordview. How can I solve my problem ? I am open to any suggestions. Recrod View is not necessary but I just need to be able to share my record to external users to fill some places in my record (Not creating record, updateing record)  

Hi everyone, I have a question about automations and what the best practices are when dealing with external API calls.We have an automation that enriches records by pulling data from Google Maps. Every time a new record is added to the table, a second automation is triggered: it uses an enrichment API to find an email address from the website, verify it, and then update the record.The issue is that this enrichment step takes a few seconds for each record. Because Airtable runs automations one-by-one and queues them, this causes huge backlogs of pending automations, which slows everything down and sometimes causes the system to get stuck or bug out.My question is:What’s the recommended best practice to avoid infinite queues or stuck automations when using external APIs that take a few seconds to respond?Should we batch records? Or is there a better architectural approach?Any guidance or suggestions would be g

Hey all - I need your helpBasically - am trying to create an expense reimbursement form that will then create an automated email to trigger approval/payment.I have created a form in Fillout that has a form and a sub-form. Users can use the sub-form to input 1 or more items to their submission. Once filled out and submitted it gets ported over to Airtable. (all good - this works)What I originally wanted to do was to have it take all the records that are created in Airtable from Fillout consolidate into a different table with a roll-up field to get the total payment needed. (for example, if you have 3 items for reimbursement, fillout creates 4 records in Airtable - 1 for each item and 1 for the overall form info). However, I had to create a workaround because the info for each item for reimbursement was being ported over to Airtable from Fillout immediately upon creation. The workaround I created was to add a trigger at a t

Hello all,I’d like to configure my Airtable so that when the category for a record is labeled ‘Uncategorized’ it automatically triggers a certain ‘Status’ label. I’ve been following this tutorial: https://support.airtable.com/docs/repeating-groups-of-automation-actionsBut I get stuck when I reach the last step for the action as I’m not sure what to put in ‘record ID.’ Every time I run it, it updates the same record, but I want it to search for all records that have been labeled ‘Uncategorized’ and update their status. How do I do this? Thank you! 

I have over 30 Google Forms to Airtable automations setup which have been running very smoothly until this week when suddenly none of them are running anymore. I’ve tried resetting the connection but none of them want to trigger when a new form is completed. They only seem to work when I “run as configured” but that’s not really automated. 

Hi all, We use Airtable for project management and one challenge we often have is searching for something via a keyword or name--something that would help us find a project without knowing the exact title of the record. Is there any sort of add-on that would help with this? Or is there something we can do to make fields show up in search results? Thanks.

Hi everyone, I’m looking for some advice regarding Map View in Airtable.We have one table with all the businesses we work with, and another table with all our points of interest. What we’d really like is a single Map View where both datasets appear together, each in a different color (for example: businesses in one color, POIs in another).Right now, Map View only accepts data from one table. To work around this, we had to create a combined table that contains both businesses and points of interest, with a “Category” field that marks each record so they appear in different colors. This works, but it’s messy and difficult to maintain.My main questions are: Is there any way to use another mapping solution inside Airtable Interfaces, something faster or more flexible than the current Map View? Is it possible for Map View to show records from

Now that Airtable has deprecated static URLs for image attachments (or at least will some time in March or whatever), server side generated apps that use Airtable as a CMS backend can't use Airtable for image hosting anymore. Instead, combination solutions such as hosting images on aws s3 and putting image URLs in Airtable is necessary. This is because the URL provided by Airtable for an image attachment "expires" after a few hours, and a sever side generated app is "hardcoded" with the expired URL.I have a client that's not interested in two part solutions like this, and wants their CMS backend in one place. Is there a paid feature to switch back on static image attachment URLs permanently? This was a really easy, user-friendly way (especially for non devs) to have a CMS backend.  If not, I'll need to investigate another CMS backend solution for my client. 

As of today, our airtable automations that react to action triggers of certain fields in not really large tables are incredibly slow and sometimes freeze, so we have to disable and re-enable the automation.In addition, navigation in the backend is tedious and slow.Our tables have a very manageable size, the largest tables have around 1500 rows.Since we also use Softr as a UI, we also notice very poor performance here.What can we do?Edit: To make the severity a little bit clearer: Action Trigger was set at 2:54 pm and the automation was finished on 3:49pm! It simple copies a row from Table A to Table B! 

Hi Airtable team,I’m writing because I noticed a recent change in the way linked-record fields behave inside Interfaces, specifically in grid/table components.Until this week, it was possible to enter data extremely efficiently by simply clicking on the empty row and typing the first letters of a linked record. The matching record would appear instantly, without having to open the dropdown first. This made data entry much faster, especially when pasting or entering multiple records in a row.Since the latest update, it is no longer possible to type directly into the cell to trigger autocomplete. We now must click to open the dropdown and then manually search inside it. This significantly slows down workflows for users who rely on Interfaces for rapid data entry.For many of us who use Interfaces as our primary workspace — especially those handling large volumes of records daily — this change has a major negative impact on productivity.Could you pleas

New to airtable. I’m looking to have Airtable create a record when someone submits a Google Form. See image below. Action Type > Google form/create response Connect Google Account + Select Google Form Spreadsheet: select spreadsheet. Worksheet: select worksheet Help: 5) Row data… I select the relevant rows from the spreadsheet, but then within each of the “Columns” I don’t see any data to pull on. Confused as to what I need to do next.

Hi All, I am looking for some guidance on how to structure my Airtable (whether on a single base or multiple) best program management. Currently, I am managing 6+ programs with multiple projects within them which I will breakdown for understanding Before I outline the structure of the programs - the key goals I'm hoping to achieve are the following: Primary goalsCentralised source of truth for all programsDashboards to show the progress of current programs (likely based on milestones)Show all tasks outstanding for each stakeholderCritical paths with date dependencies.  Secondary goalsTrack capacity of key stakeholders across all programsLink records to external bases e.g. P

I have a few solutions on another platform that allow free users to vote on records.  Is this possible in Airtable?  I’m willing to pay for myself and my team, but asking people who will only use the solutions once or twice a year to vote is a non-starter.