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I have 3 tables - meals, dishes and ingredients.use case: Users should be able to add new dishes and meals through a form. A meal is a combination of 1 or more dishes. Each dish comprises of many ingredients (note ingredients is a separate table)So in a form submission, the user should be able to do two things:1. Add a new dish including its ingredients (note ingredients is a separate table so should be stored appropriately)2. Add a new meal and map dishes to it (a meal is a combination of one or more dishes)Many thanks in advanceHimanshu 

I have created a number of gallery views to which I've shared links & saved as bookmarks on my ipad home screen. The purpose is to have quick access to information in various categories. I prefer gallery view to grid view because it is less cluttered, less fiddely and neater, especially on a smaller screen. It works fine except for the following problems:1. The views open very slowly from the bookmarks - it may take 10-30 seconds for a view to open 2. Even though I'm logged into Airtable on my ipad, when I access the gallery views via the bookmarks I'm not3. I can't edit the records in the views (I can if I enter the airtable app and navigate around in it to each view, but it's very nitty gritty and a bit of a hassle. The whole point of doing the bookmark views was to get easy, direct access to each category of informationI've looked into settings for the links, but there were only 2 options and none were about editing. I also don't know how to fix the slowness to open. Forms

Hi,Is there a way to insert css designs to the interface? if it can be done, How do I do it?Thanks 

Hi all, I'm trying to build an interface with the recipe and the instructions side by side.I managed to pull all the data i need but my instructions is only showing the first line. The full list only appears when i double click in it.I am not sure if i've missed any settings. For the instructions, I've set it to a dedicated table with one line of rich text formatted in bullet points. I am trying to post all this in one page so we can have them printed.Thanks!

Hey there, I'm trying to gain access to the Download Attachment URL (without using the API) so I can upload images from the Attachment of a record to a social media platform. I've tried using a workflow of AirTable --> Zapier --> Social Media Platform, but I can't find a way to get the image in my AirTable's attachment field to the social media platform. Let me know if you know how to help! PS -- The reason I don't want to use the API is that I saw AirTable's recent notice that they are disabling API access at the end of this year. 

Hello everyone,I would like to track commercial and private flights using airtable. Ideally a flight number or tail number will be entered into a column and in two other columns the flights status and ETA will be displayed.So far there doesn't seem to be any native extensions and I have been investigate third party APIs and have yet to find a suitable match. Any recommendations or suggestions?Thank youTom

Hi Everyone, I currently have 2 tables ("Lesson Tracker" & Student Record").What the lesson tracker does is that each new entry is basically a record of the student's name and the date of the lesson they attended.The student record table is essentially a database of the students, with their name, contact info, as well as a column counting how many lessons they have attended in total.What I would like is:1. Every time there is a new entry on the lesson tracker, an automation runs which first matches the student name on the new entry to the corresponding student row on the student record table.3. Once this matches, a lesson is added to the number of lessons column. Eg. If the student already attended 3 lessons, then this new entry would turn 3 into 4.The ideal scenario is this: "Sam Smith" attends a lesson on 10/1/2024, so a new entry is made on the lesson tracker. When this happens, an automation runs so that this entry matches with the "Sam Smith" row on the student recor

In a long text field is there a way to create a global entry text for some headings so that whenever I want to enter new content i don't have to enter the headings as well?  For example, the headings I use are:VOA ITZAVOA Total sqftML ITZAML Total sqftLA ITZATA ITZA   

I am using Airtable as the backend for my app. I have a Table A for registering users and a Table B for registering restaurants. Through the Google Matrix Distance API, I am using longitude and latitude data to calculate the distance between registered restaurants and user data, obtaining the results in the "distance" column of Table B where the restaurants are registered.However, each automation I run through the script only updates for new users registering, causing interference with the distance results for users already registered. I would like each user to have their own distance calculation without interfering with others. I have no idea how to do this! I believe it might involve a filter or something like user ID .

hi all, i am new to airtable, and i am looking for a training or certification program to learn it all and pass a certification. Have not seen where to go yet.anyone knows of a clear and well structured training i can subscribe and follow? Any feedback on the Gap Consulting training? or an equivalent??thanks

Hello,I'm building an app and would like help solving an issue. I have a Table A where I register my users. Table B contains the restaurants in my app. I use a Google Maps API to calculate the distance between my users and the restaurants. I'm running an automation script block to update the distance calculation each time a new user enters. However, I want an automation where each user has their own calculation from their location to the restaurant. Any ideas on how to achieve this?

I have a table with work months like here: I'm trying to calculate the start and end datetimes of the month but the formula is giving inconsistent answers. It's correct for some months but there's an error in End Dates for March, May, July, October and December.Here is the formula I'm using for Start and End dates:Start Date:DATEADD(DATETIME_PARSE(YEAR({Work Month}) & "-" & MONTH({Work Month}) & "-01", 'YYYY-MM-DD'),-7,'hour') End Date:DATEADD(DATEADD({Start Date},1,'month'),-1,'second')What am I doing wrong?

Hi, I’m tracking inventory coming in and out of my warehouse.   I have a shipment table where i enter a record in each time something gets received OR shipped out of the warehouse.   When the material is received i have a field to enter the bin location that the product gets put away to.   That field is a lookup to a linked table where I’ve entered all of the available bin locations that can be chosen.   In the bin location table I’m tracking the project name in a field next to the bin location.  That way i can look at all my bin locations and see which projects are in which locations.  We need to know how many bin locations a project are taking up at a given time.   My dilemma is when material is being shipped out of my warehouse I’d like to be able to re-enter the bin locations the material is leaving and then update the bin location table showing that that bin location is now empty.   Is there a way to do that?  The shipment table has a f

Hi I really need help for this and I have a deadline. So basically, I was wondering if there's a way that I can create a formula that add's up the number of time "" is used across all fields and shows the result as a number in the "s Used" field.. For example for the highlighted square, since "" was only used once, it would appear as 1. But for the cell above, because "" was used twice across all fields it would be entered as 2. thanks so much! 🙂

I'm trying to build a database comparing similar products and their features. I have a Product table and a Feature table. On the product record I can select the features that particular product has (link to external record, allow linking to multiple records). How would I create a grid-type view that looks something like what's below? I can only seem to get it to show as a single field with a list of linked records. 

On the iPhone I have a table where each record represents a calendar event (gigs for my musical duo).  It used to be that I could an individual record, go to the Date field, and click Create Event and Airtable would create a calendar event in my iPhone's Calendar.  Now, clicking Create Event does nothing.  Is this a known problem?  Will it be fixed?  Is there a workaround?  Thanks for any help.Carl

Hi ,I am creating an airtable automation for recurring task for weekly, daily, monthly, 3 times per week and twice a month  In the next to perform date i used this formula DATEADD({Due Date},SWITCH(Frequency,'DAILY',1,'WEEKLY',7,'MONTHLY',30,'TWICE A MONTH',15,'3 TIMES PER WEEK',3),'days') It works perfectly well for daily, weekly and monthly, twice a month but it doesn't work for  3 times per week i need (Monday, Thursday and Sunday)can you please help me with the formula?

Hello Airtable Friends!I really need some help with my automation.I created an automation for when a record is updated for our team. Basically what I did is when an assignee is changed to another assignee, that new assignee would get an Outlook email saying that the record was reassigned to them.When I go to test it, I get an alert from Airtable saying something went wrong with the automation but it doesn't show me what the exact issue is. I am wondering if its Outlook but I am not sure.Can someone help me out? 

Hi,Ive created a project management workflow where we have a project board that filters into a task board, and tasks are assigned to individuals who check a "complete" box when done. We have a dashboard for each individual where their tasks appear. Because the tasks need to be completed in a certain order (ie "edits" need to happen before "production") and we have different people executing on different parts of the project, it can be hard to know when its your turn with the project. The project manager typically assigns all the tasks out at once so all tasks associated with the project appear on the individuals dashboard simultaneously. Ideally we would only want the project to appear on the persons dash if it was their turn with the project. The tasks are already numbered for order so hypothetically it would be easy to automate one following another. Im wondering if theres a way to set automation so the tasks only appear if the previous tasks have already been completed, so the proje

This is my first post to the Airtable community.  I have searched through lots of posts about linking records and tables, but I can't seem to find an answer to this...I have two imported tables that have a StudentID field in each.  When I edit the StudentID field in one Table to change the field type to "link to another record", Airtable deletes all the StudentIDs in the table I am working in.  I am attempting to create a linkage between these tables because I want to know if a student in Table 1 is also in Table 2 (and the student may be in Table 2 multiple times, however I just want to know if the student is in the table...I don't care how many times).   Can someone help me figure out what I am missing?  Many thanks, in advance, for your assistance with this issue!My apologies if this problem has already been solved elsewhere, I just couldn't find it.

Hello All,I have a general question for the community.How are you all managing code updates and version control for your custom scripts?It seems very easy to overwrite custom automation scripts.Does Airtable have a way to view/restore a previous version?I am currently storing some of my automations scripts in GitHub Gists but I don't have a great workflow for keeping everything up to date.What processes have worked for you?Thanks!Matt

Hi all, I use an airtable formula to calculate product prices. I want to use Zapier to automate the process of updating prices on my website when changes are made to prices.As I understand, Zapier wants to use the a "Last Modified Time" field as the reference to know when to trigger the action. The problem I'm having is that I'm not finding a way to point the "Last Modified Time" field at the calculated price field because AFAIK that field cannot monitor computed fields. The airtable documentation recommends pointing the "Last Modified Time" field at one of the editable fields used in the computed fields. This doesn't resolve my issue because Zapier seems to want to pull the value from the field being watched by the "Last Modified Time" field, not the computed field that I need it to. After consulting the airtable documentation I'm starting to be convinced that the workflow I have in mind is not possible (I would be happy to be wrong about that). So I'm wondering if anyone ha

Hi everyone!I am currently working with two tables (let's refer to them as A and B), wherein table B is synced to table A.My objective is to deduplicate table A, but before doing so, I need to merge the information that is not synced in table B to prevent any data loss (essentially deduping without the deletion part).Is there a method to achieve this?I was contemplating using a script to handle the merge process, but I'm unsure if there's a way to identify whether a field in table B is synced or not.Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!Thank you in advance.

Tracking nurse staff schedules with doctors.Column 1 lists nurse staffs, column 2 the doctor engaged with that staff, column 3 = # of patientsFor example, column 1 may have the following fields:A1 = Betty, Joel, CindyA2 = Suzanne, Betty, MikeA3 = Cindy, Beatrice, RosariaB1 = Dr RodriguezB2 = Dr BlakeB3 = Dr BakerThe goal is to be able to add up patients between a single nurse w doctor combination, i.e. Betty with Dr Rodrigueza normal CONCATENATE of A1 and B1 will say Betty, Joel, Cindy with Dr Rodriguezanyway to be able to recognize all 3 combinations?I have a junction table with a CONCATENATE of Betty with Dr Rodriguez but I don't know how to then go grab and sum the # of patients anytime where Betty is true in column A and Dr Rodriguez is true in column B.

Hi,I am trying to write a formula to write the wider region that the project is related to, e.g. if it's in Germany, it's in EMEA. This formula works; however, I now want it to be able to list multiple regions for projects that are taking place in two different countries that aren't in the same region.e.g. a project that is in Germany and in Canada should show 'EMEA, CAN'. Currently it just shows 'EMEA', not both. Please could someone suggest how to change this formula to print all that apply? (Tagging @Databaser who helped with my previous question in case they can help, "Complex Nested IF AND statement (dates and regions)")Thanks,  IF( REGEX_MATCH({Division}, "UK|ROI|France|Spain|Italy|Greece|Poland|Germany|Portugal|Belgium|Netherlands|Denmark"), "EMEA", IF( REGEX_MATCH({Division}, "Thailand|Indonesia|Malaysia"), "SEA", IF( REGEX_MATCH({Division}, "New Zealand|Australia"), "AUS/NZ", IF( REGEX_MATCH({Division}, "USA"), "NAM", IF( REGEX_MATCH