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Hi everyone!I run a small agency and we are trying to set up an Airtable base to track all of our company's legal compliance documents, FBR tax filings, and incorporation certificates across different regions (specifically South Asia / Pakistan).Right now, we are using a free portal we built for our local market secp portal   to actually calculate our local taxes and generate the required SECP (company registration) documents. But I want to organize all that data and the generated PDFs into an Airtable base to keep a timeline of all our renewals and tax deadlines.Does anyone have a good template or base structure for tracking recurring legal/tax deadlines? How do you guys manage uploading and organizing official incorporation documents in Airtable?Thanks in advance for any tips!

Hi everyone,I'm trying to build an employee shift schedule in Airtable where the schedule repeats every week. I don't need specific calendar dates—only the day of the week and the start/end times for each shift.I initially thought about using Date fields, but they always seem to require an actual date. I also looked at Duration fields, but those appear to represent elapsed time rather than a time of day.I'm wondering:What is the recommended way to model recurring weekly shifts in Airtable? Is it best to use Date fields with an arbitrary date and simply ignore the date portion? Are there better alternatives, such as text fields or another field type? How do you handle sorting by time and calculating shift lengths in a setup like this?I'd appreciate hearing how others have structured similar recurring schedules. Thanks!

I am trying to create an automation that upon clicking a button, it takes all the records from the table, creates a PDF and sends it to the recipients.  Is that possible?

I built a questionnaire that includes conditional logic, where additional questions are revealed based on previous responses. I'd like to save the form as an Excel file for backup and documentation purposes, but from what I've researched so far, it appears I may have to recreate it manually.Is there a way to export the form structure—including all questions, conditional logic, and the available options for dropdown, single-select, and multi-select fields—into Excel?I understand that I can export the form responses or underlying data to Excel/CSV, but that export only contains submitted values and does not include the field configuration, selectable options, or conditional question logic. My goal is to create a complete backup of the form itself, not just the submitted data.Has anyone found an efficient way to do this, or is manual recreation currently the only option?​

Anyone else finding the base ‘find in view ‘function frustrating to use lately? As soon as I start typing it immediately starts searching so pauses the ability to continue typing resulting in letters being missed. The only way to use it effectively is to type r e a l l y  s l o w l y or paste the word(s). It never used to have this issue and, since I use the find function regularly, it’s having a severe impact on my workflow. Advice welcome.

Hi. I think there must be a simple solution to this, but I can’t quite get my head around it!I have a make scenario that looks like this. The formula inside the Airtable ‘search records’ module is:IF(OR({AssessorEmail} = '{{6.sender.emailAddress.address}}', {AssessorEmail} = '{{6.from.emailAddress.address}}'), 1, 0)But every ‘search records’ run uses loads of credits (one for each record, - and I have over 300, as things stand).I THINK I need to create a single text field somewhere, that lists all the email addresses in the email column so that I can search the text in that field for a match, using only one credit. Is there a recommended or elegant way to do this, please? 😊

Hi, I’m currently trying to set up an automation where a record will be updated, but I’m having a hard time with it. I’m attaching pictures of the current setup I have for it. In the data we have a ‘Start Date’ that will be entered manually. We have a 45 day deadline to turn paperwork in and we would enter it manually under the ‘Completed Date’ once its turned in. If no paperwork is turned in those initial 45 days, we want the automation to flag it and update the status under ‘45-Day Due’ as ‘Expired’. We have another automation (that is working perfectly fine) set up that changes the status of ‘45-Day Due’ to ‘Completed’ once a date is entered into ‘Completed Date’. Any help with the automation is greatly appreciated! :)  

 Hi there Is it possible to automatically list records like this on an interface please? Thanks,Kieran 

Hi everyone,I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.This is my current automation trigger for sending off an SMS to participants linked to a session.My concern is that I often have multiple sessions scheduled for delivery on the same day. I need the automation to trigger separately for each individual session, rather than just once for the date.Has anyone found a reliable workaround for this? If so, I'd really appreciate any suggestions or examples of how you've approached it.Thanks so much!Kieran

I’m trying to figure out a way to create an automation that will trigger a script when I create a new record from within a filtered view. We have one airtable base that manages all content type for our website, and I handle a subsection (the blog). I have a filtered view that shows the publication pipeline for just blog posts. When a new item is created in our AirTable, we have automations set up so that if you check a box, it will create a Google Doc that is affiliated with that record. I’ve been trying to set it up so that if I create a new record from within a filtered view (i.e. I create a new record under “proposed story”), which has already been filtered to only show blog posts, I’d like it to run the script to create the Google Doc.It seems as if everything I try requires an additional manual step (either change the content type to blank and then change back again to blog post OR uncheck and then recheck the box to create a Google Doc). Is there any way that if a record is CREAT

This morning, I went into my company’s AirTable account to pay for an upgrade to a Team’s Plan. Within five seconds of making the purchase, I realized it had charged my personal debit credit card and not the company card.I searched for 30 minutes on how to contact customer support. The AI bot was a nightmare. There is literally not a single phone number. There is no way to contact anyone with any urgency.So the charge went through, and now I’m broke. Now I have no way to buy groceries. I won’t see the money for 5-10 business days. But, my rent is due before then. All of this happened because I made a mistake and there is no way to contact billing at all. I am in a financial nightmare in large part because of AirTable’s horrific customer service.When I finally heard back, I got one email where they said I had to pay for a better plan to get a phone call… um sorry we are a non-profit? So, we don’t deserve immediate billing help? I asked to speak to a manager after sobbing for two hours.

Hi everyone,A table in one of my bases (ΣΥΝΟΙΚΙΕΣ) disappeared today, July 23, 2026, sometime after 19:00 GMT+3. It's not in the base trash, and it doesn't appear in the revision history available on the Free plan (2 weeks).I've already emailed Airtable support, but wanted to check here too:Has anyone experienced a table just vanishing without an explicit delete action? Is there any way for a Free plan user to recover a deleted table, or does this require contacting support directly? Does anyone know if Airtable keeps backend snapshots beyond what's shown in revision history?This was manually entered research data for my PhD dissertation, so any pointers would be hugely appreciated.Thanks in advance!Σοφία

Hi all,Working on creating a daily digest email to summarize changes made in the past 24 hours. I’ve been able to set the scheduled time, find records to grab only those modified yesterday, and sort the list by our event date, but then I’m hitting a wall.I want the email to show what the changes are, not just that that record has been updated. Is there a way to run a script to specifically flag which column has been updated or would I need a whole series of “last modified” columns to catch it? Or is there another workaround here, such as through DocsAutomator or another add-on?

Hi everyone,I’m reaching out to see if anyone else has experienced a sudden and unexplained drain on their Airtable AI credits recently.I just realized that 100% of my AI budget has been completely consumed. What’s truly baffling is that there have been no specific high-volume actions, massive bulk runs, or manifest user errors on our end. No new complex workflows were deployed, and we’ve verified that no automation loops were triggered.The biggest issue right now is the complete lack of visibility. As far as I know, there isn't a granular usage log or credit breakdown showing which base, table, field, or automation actually ate up the budget. We are left entirely in the dark as to what caused this spike.A few questions for the group: Has anyone else witnessed a sudden, unexpected depletion of their AI credits without a clear cause? Are there any "hidden culprits" we should look out for? (e.g., background syncs, lookup fields inadvertently forcing mass AI recalculations, etc.) Is t

I have a business account but not enterprise level (I’m a sole trader).I have two tables, each with dates (one was made using a Make connector to Outlook up to this month and the other a direction connection to Outlook going forwards) and a name as a unique identifier.I’ve tried pulling both sets of data into a unifier table but I then lose the date format and just have text. The date is key so I can then create a field with a specific timeline reminder for the unique name.I am VERY new to this and can only find moving to enterprise an option to then use synced tables but this is costly.I could backtrack so that I connect Outlook from an earlier date but I’ve spent a lot of time removing old data I wouldn’t want in my database.I’m finding I’m going through AI credits very quickly and not achieving my goal. If I need to start again, it’s an option :-)Anyone have any ideas? Thank you for any time you have to spare.

Hi there, I’ve set-up a Airtable to Google Calendar sync. The event (record from Airtable) on Google shows the start date/time and end date/time. However I’d like to add the address to the Google event from my Airtable data. Is there an option to bring this data from Airtable to the Google Calendar event please? Any support would be great! Thanks 😀

Hello, I would like to know if anyone else has experienced editor mode not saving your work. I have two interfaces I am testing out. One is on my personal account, and the other interface is accessed from my work account. Unfortunately, both are having the same problem. In published mode, you can see everything perfectly and all of the functions I’ve added. However, in editor mode some of the work has not been saved. This has happened on both interfaces from my personal and work account. I used the overview template and added another interface page to connect to a list. The bad thing is that when I go to edit the interface it has reset the main page completely causing me to lose the progress on my work. I really implemented a lot of features and some new features. I am new to Air Table, so it takes a long time to build. It seems that the work that is not saving is only specific to page view, which is known as the main page in list view. I really like how list view looks but in edit mod

my table contains several dozen fields that are checkboxes.  at the end of each record i want a formula that calculates the percentage of the checkboxes that are checked (true).  In excel i did it this way:  =COUNTIF(E2:DA2, TRUE) / COUNTA(E2:DA2).  

Hi All- Anyone know if there is a way to save questions in this chat?  Ive found a couple that I know will be helpful to something I have planned to work on in the future and would love to reference them later. thanks! 

Hi all. I’m trying to edit the displayed fields inside the Record Picker when inside of a List View, inside of an Interface. I found information saying that these fields will be ordered the same as the “View” selected when limiting the record selection in the field, but this has not been the case for me. If I disable the “Limit record selection to a View”, nothing changes either (I read it’s supposed to take the fields from the top grid view, but this didn’t happen). Furthermore, the “Primary” field being displayed is not even the primary field for the table (I checked that I’m not using the option to use a different display field). Is this a bug?  

Hi I’m going to try my best to explain our existing set up - if anyone can support with an idea or workaround to achieve this please let me know! Main table has our Programme Deliveries listed.On the interface I’ve got our Programme Deliveries listed under the Record View. On a Programme Delivery I have created the option to add Sessions, which include the session topic, date etc. On the Programme Delivery record you can add participants also. What I’m looking at doing is clicking on a Session then marking a Participant’s attendance. I want to mark their attendance against that same session record I’ve opened. Hope this makes sense.Thanks!

I have been experiencing a problem with the project management template base not pulling projects and tasks into the my task page. When I update the project and tasks page, it does update timeline, kanban, management view, etc but for some reason that one tab does not work. I checked all conditions and it is the same as other boards I have used under this template and has not deviated. I took it a step further and tried a new project management template base and the same issue is happening where tasks do not map to that page. Is there a fix for this problem as our PMO manager liked the rolled up project view v granular details?Thanks in advance.

• Linked Record on-screen appearance has changed for the worse very recently specifically in Airtable’s app on i(Pad)OS (v26.5.2) with in my case a 6th-Gen iPad mini (2021) and  iPhone SE (2020). Normally we get 3 content lines on screen for each linked record ::: #1: primary key ; #2: a few additional field names ; #3: their content ; Now on my iPad/iPhone since a few days that third line is empty all over the place, in whichever base I check. I have Airtable support case 01231446 about this, with current status "Attention Required". • Subject :: Linked record details missing content line in Airtable iPad app (v11.3 on iPadOS 26.5.2)• Priority :: 2: Degraded Service ; • Created :: 2026-07-09.Th.17:44 UTC ; Hopefully swift action will be taken to fix this darn problem. 

• the Real issue, kind of reposted better or properly titled here ;• Instead of as "Other Question", I'd rather post this into an "i(Pad)OS / iPhone & iPad" section but I couldn't find any such, is there ?• in view of other concerns, likewise thus far I couldn't find an "Android" section to post into – is there ? ( it should be, shouldn't it ? )• Anyhow, since/because I couldn't adjust the original titling of my 2026.07.13.Md. posting ( or can I ? and/or shouldn't I be able to ? ) :::With some extra info here :::• For this whole “Linked Record field content appearance” case, no "interface" is involved.• I specifically experience this problem in Record Details, rather than immediately at grid level.• Even fully rebooting my iPad doesn't resolve the issue.:::See :::https://community.airtable.com/other-questions-13/linked-record-field-appearance-in-airtable-app-v11-3-on-i-pad-os-48409

Hello, I work in a conservation lab, and we take items in for repair. We have student workers, and each of the students have a view of the air table that is essentially items assigned to them.In the main airtable I have a multi-select “status” field. This defaults to unassigned, but I can also assign things to myself or the students. We also have a “done/completed” in this multi-select that has an automation to date stamp another column when that is selected. The students view is based on an “assigned to” column that has everyone’s name who work in the lab in a drop down multi-select.I want to set up automations that if I select status “Conservator Workbench” in the first multi-select, it will automatically change to my name in the “Assigned to” multi-select column. If I change the status to “Student name” I want it to automatically change to the students name in the multi-select “Assigned to” column. I assume I will need to make an automation for myself and each of the student workers