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I have been using Airtable for a little while and can get the basics of what I need.  However, I'm now getting much more complex with multiple bases linked together and I'm having a hard time figuring out the best way to link my tables together.   In a perfect world I will have a table called Customers which has the name of each customer as the primary field.     What are best practices for keeping this up to date?  If I add a new record (customer) to Customers table, how do I ensure that it will add that customer to all the linked tables?  Do I use a formula for the primary key in additional tables and then an automation that runs a script once a day to sync?  It seems like there has to be another way.  Any help is appreciated! 

Good morning!I am trying to determine how much I am making per hour at various markets that I vend.I input my markets with a start date+time field and an end date time field and have that calculate out to a duration field.       I also have my earnings field (which is what I made minus event fees, also calculated

I have two tables in my base - Organisation (Fields: Name, Company Tag, Industry tag, location, Okay to fund) Funder (Fields: Name, Company tag, Industry tag) My interface needs to do the following: Select a funder from the investor table.Select the location country from the organisation table. I want to provide the user the flexibility to choose a location.Match the company tag from the funder table to the company tag in the organisation table.Match the industry tag from the funder table to the industry tag in the organisation table.Show me a list of organisations for the above selected criteria sorted by okay to fund as yes.I have tried building an interface w

Hello everyone,I am currently working on a database in Airtable where I need to automatically generate a random number from a specific list of numbers for each new entry in my table named "Article". The list of possible numbers is as follows: [1448, 800, 140, 105, 106]. I want each time a new record is created, one of these numbers is randomly selected and inserted into a column named "Nombre".I tried using built-in formulas in Airtable, but they don't seem to work as I wish. I also tried writing a script in Airtable's Scripting app, but I haven't been able to get the desired behavior.I wonder if anyone has encountered a similar issue or if anyone knows how I could achieve this, either with formulas or with a script.

I am trying to use the find formula to identify one or many issues in a URLFor example in the field Link URL I have two urls; one with one issue and one with multiple issueshttps://www.google.com/workin'-late.htmlorhttp://www.google.com/workin'-late.htmlAny help would be appreciated. Here was my first go at it:IF({Link URL},IF(FIND("http://", {Link URL}), 'missing https',IF(FIND("'", {Link URL}), 'remove apostrophe',IF(FIND("http://", {Link URL}),FIND("'", {Link URL}), 'missing https and remove apostrophe'))))

Im using Retool with Sequin to link my airtable database to Retool and im trying to insert into a link field some data but i cant do it like how i would normally insert a field with a sql query

Hello, I'm not sure which category this would fall under. I'm working on generating an automated report based on our data. I don't want it to be too long, so under one filtered category, I only want the report to pull information tied to a checked-off box that was only checked off in the last 7-14 days. (I'd like to be able to change the date as needed) The checkboxes live in our subtasks field and are rich text. Is there a way to sort when these boxes where checked based on date? For example, in the screenshot below, I only want to pull the checked boxes with green, not the ones with red: Is this possible? Thanks a bunch! Thank you,Lindsay 

I would like to use airtable Forms to track Requests for Interpretation with my Architect. Here’s what I’m struggling with… I want to fill out each RFI with the information I’m requesting comments on. Each form will be a different request. Once I’ve filled out the Question, I want to share the form for the Architect’s Response. I only see ways to share the same blank form every time.

I have developed an interface and published to regular users, having two different tables. However, currently, it only permits users to search within a single table. Is there a way to enable users to conduct searches across both tables from this interface? 

I have a table of events that all have a start and end time/date.  The start field is "Start Datetime"For example, I have event that has a start datetime of 1/1/2019 at 11:00am.  All in a date field.  1/1/2019 specificially we use as a generic fallback for old events that didn't have a date.  So we pasted in 1/1/2019 at 11:00amThese events are linked to those who participated in them.  And they have a payment amount noted.So I created a rollup field with the intention of knowing how much we paid out to those in the last year.The rollup seems to be capturing linked events which are clearly older than a year, however, and I'm not sure why.My rollup filter has the "only include linked records from the Events table that meet certain conditions", and then a filter set to only include Where Start Datetime is Within the past year.Then it aggregates by SUM(values).None the less, it

I want to calculate the difference between 2 dates. One is the purchase date of a condo and one is the sale date of that condo. I need the number of years and months to figure out refunded common charges at closing. I have the formula working for years or months. But can it be both? If not, anyone have experience in this scenario and their solution? And in the same formula, the field shows NaN if there is no data in one of the fields. For current owners the buy date will be populated, but the sell date will be blank. How do I tell the formula to leave the field blank if one field is blank? Thanks in advance for any help on this. Best, Scott

Hello! I would like to set-up an automation using "Run a script" that checks the text in the primary field [Name] for a matching value in a multi-select field [Topic] and then populates the field with the matching value. Would greatly appreciate any help with creating a script and automation that can accomplish this as I am unfamiliar with scripting. Included sample data screenshot for visual. The real dataset has ~ 20 selection options.The process should look something like this:1) Record is created2) Script runs3) Record UpdatedThank you!

I am trying to solve the problem that I have illustrated in the image below. I am trying to create/calculate (see image) {Rate} and {Day Total}. In the below example, the first record for "Old Cypress - Weaned Calves," if the "Weaned Calves" == "Pasture" then pull in the value .70, and then multiply that value with the "Inventory" of 450. This will result in a "Day Rate" of $350. Any help will be appreciated! Thank you! 

I'm trying to get two conditons from two fields that contain certain text that if True produces a duration value.  I can get it to work work one condition but when I add the second it will not work.  Can someone see what I'm doing wrong? This Formula works: IF(FIND("ABC",Origin),3600,0) But when I add the second condition it shows all 0's on the fields that contain "ABC" and the fields the doesn't contain"ABC" gets the 3600: IF(AND(FIND("ABC",Origin)),AND(FIND("New",{L

What's a good way to copy data from one field to another in the same table?Currently, I have data in Field A that I want to copy to Field B because I want to deactivate Field A (probably hide it.) Then, going forward current processes where data was entered via a form to Field A would instead be entered into Field B.So, this is a one-time need but there may be other changes in the data structure where having an automation in place that performs this task would be handy.If this is an automation, I'm not sure what to use as a trigger.Any ideas are welcome.

Dear Community,I do have a table with a formula field, which tells you how many times a row has to be copied.I did set up an automation which tells you to copy the row, when formula field is bigger than 0.What I can't figure out is how to tell the automation to stop copying once the desired number is reached. Is there a way to achieve this?Thank you.

Hi guys,Simple question really:If I change the name of a field that has been referenced by a script in an automation, will the script break or will it update automatically?I daren't test it and unfortunately I don't know how to script to create a test one.Thanks

Hi! I think this is simple, but can't figure it out...I have a base where I have a “Sales“ tab, here I have the date, client, and price sold. This tab has all the sales for the entire month. I can make a new “Daily view“ and filter by date, so now I can see only the current date. I can see totals here...I need to have an automation send me the total sales for the DAY. I can get(find records) the “Daily View“ from the sales tab, but I can only see a list/grid with numbers for each sale... i want to see a TOTAL DAILY SALES.Help! 

Anyone else having issues with the Interface Designer? Mine is so laggy I can't even use it. 

Hello All,I have an automation that uses a for loop to create a new record based on input from a form. When the automation is tested in "run as configured" mode the new records are created as expected. However, when testing live the automation fails to create the record. However other aspects of the automation completed correctly so I know the automation is triggering as it should. The fact that the tests are working correctly makes me think that the issue lies with something on the Airtable side and not the automation side. Could this be the case? Thanks!

What is wrong with this IF statement?  IF({Sonrise Home} = "CH", "Sonrise Children's Home"), IF({Sonrise Home} = "MIR", "Mirembe Cottage for Girls"))"Sorry, there was a problem saving this field. Invalid formula. Please check your formula text."  

While working in a Timeline view, is there a way to select a record and alt-click-shift drag to duplicate? Moving a record between swimlanes is a convenient action. Duplicating a record by clicking the three dots to the right of "expand" and choosing duplicate is convenient action. It would be really handy to just alt-click-shift-drag a record or records to duplicate it in the same swimlane or another swimlane.Certainly, I'm not the only user who might find this helpful.Thanks!

Hi everyone,I have an issue with the color formatting for Formula Feilds displayed as progress bars, it seems buggy:With decimal percentages the conditions are not recognized properly, I have the following conditions on a fieldbut the results are unfortunately wrong for values that are near the "breakpoints".Any suggestions?Thanks

Hello! I am creating a form for a table (let’s call it Table A) which has fields linking to another table (table B) in the same base. When filling out the field on the form on Table A, the user can only see the data in the primary field of Table B. However many of the records in Table B have similar primary field data making them difficult to distinguish. Being able to see one (or multiple) of the other fields would be really helpful. For the time being, I’ve made the primary field on Table B a formula that merges the most helpful relevant fields from that table, but it makes all my Table B views very messy/ugly. I wish this formula could be in a non-primary field so I could hide it, but then my Table A form wouldn’t show it. Please tell me there’s something stupidly easy I’m missing! Is there a way for a form to reference/show any thing BUT the primary data? Or is there a workaround I can use with another table? Cheers, Nathan

Hi fellow Airtablers!Could anyone suggest how can I make the ''Next charge'' date field recurring on a yearly basis every year if the toggle in ''Frequency'' is set to ''Yearly''? This dilemma is driving me nuts 😞 Right now, I just have a formula in that field:DATEADD({Latest charge}, 1, 'years')But it's not ideal because I would need to manually update ''Latest Charge'' field with the previous year every year.Ideally, I'd love to solve this with a formula because I'd have lots of entries, and it may be a bit cumbersome to create automation for each and every entry.But if automation to update the latest charge is absolutely needed, what is the best way to go about it/set it up?