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The aim is to use a form to book seating for film screenings, however, the issue is that the form must show how many seats are available. I was thinking of possibly using a rollup to connect fields with the maximum capacity, the number of previously reserved seats, and thus a field in the form which would show how many seats remain available. I'm not entirely sure this could work, but I would appreciate any and all ideas to solve this!

Hey all!I'm trying to embed some search functionality on my personal training website, so that users can search for trainers in our team by postcode or specialisms, and then click through to the URL of that trainer once they've found them.My understanding is you can't currently embed interfaces using Airtable.I've started using Glide recently, and it offers this functionality but unfortunately it looks like you have to pay for the whopping £250/month business plan for the privilege. Eek.Does anyone know of any other platforms that offer this functionality, e.g. Softr etc? It may be worth a small subscription fee if I can find the right platform.Thanks in advance! 

I have successfully gotten airtable to upload a PNG and a PDF from Dropbox. But when airtable processes the file, the type is listed as text/html If I include a type field, I get an error: { "fields": { "Type": "Test", "Comment": "", "Attachments": [ { "url": "https://www.dropbox.com/s/XXXXXXX/robots.png?dl=1", "type": "image/png" } ], "User": "", "Part": [ "recFI6JhdkwTCeB9q" ] } } And I receive this: { "error": { "type": "INVALID_ATTACHMENT_OBJECT", "message": "Invalid attachment object for field Attachments: {\n \\"url\\": \\"https://www.dropbox.com/s/XXXXXXXX/robots.png?dl=1\\",\n \\"type\\": \\"image/png\\"\n}" } } But if i just strio out the “type” there is no error, just the type is wrong.

Hi, I've been struggling with this for an hour and I'm hoping someone might be able to help.I have a Timeline Interface that displays a series of tasks, and I want my users to be able to edit the task fields - changing the assignee or the status for instance. I would either like to be able to add additional fields here to the initial small modal that appears when you click a task:Or, I would like to make the fields in the sidesheet editable. Based on what it says on this documentation page that should be possible, i.e. Click into record details - This setting allows end users to expand a record to see more details. You can choose to show the details as a Sidesheet or a Full-screen. Once enabled, creators can design record detail pages showing specific fields — in any orientation to their end users. Additionally, individual fields can be set to be View-only or Editable.  

Hi, Is there a way for me to automate the following:1. a team member is @mentioned2. The @mention would automatically be placed into the "Mentions/Comments" TableThe reason I am trying to do this, is because I am trying to build an interface/dashboard for each team member where they will see their daily calendar; tasks assigned to them and any comments in which they were @mentioned. Hope this makes sense.

I have a field which contains product names with measurement unit in the same field."Product Name 100grams" or "Product Name 500ml"I want to create a formula to extract 100grams or 500ml (these measurement units need not to be in the last place of the field.Is there any way to grab these units?

So I have two tables the "products" table and the "Wholesale Products Sync", the trigger of this automation is when a field is unchecked in the "products" table I would run this find records action: then I would run this script to delete the record in "wholesale products sync" but I get an error:  

Hi! Does anyone know or have resources on how to setup the task view with "all tasks / my tasks" as show in the screenshot below and in this video (at 15:05)? Thanks so much!  

I have three tables in one base - Schools, Teachers (teachers are linked to a school) and Bookings (bookings are linked to a school and a teacher).  I would like to create a one linked text field that I can update in any of these tables.  How do I do that?  I don't want to swap to a different table or click into a linked record to update the text.

Hello everyone! Relatively new to scripts, but I think I am starting to get the hang of it.Basically, I am trying to convert a currently overloaded automation into a script for easier maintenance and better customization. Overly simplified automation process:If record is updated > set [Ticket Status] = [Status] for that recordThe script so far: let table = base.getTable("Quick Adds"); let inputConfig = input.config(); await table.updateRecordAsync(inputConfig.RecordId,{ "Ticket Status" : inputConfig.Status }) console.log(`The value of Status is ${inputConfig.Status}`); If I remove the "await" line, everything runs and it outputs the status value. When I run the script with the addition of updating the second field, I get a "Error: Field "fldjRCz6y0ku2XxIY" cannot accept the provided value." for line 3.inputConfig.RecordID is the @ Airtable record ID fieldinputConfig.Status is the Status field

There are a few options to fill in external forms by filling them with the data coming from Airtable. I mentioned earlier Selenium https://www.selenium.dev/ but it has a high learning curve and working with code.There is another more user friendly app Katalon based on Selenium https://katalon.com/ , but still requires working with code and this requires manual loading of CSV.There is Axiom https://axiom.ai/ which is quite good but pricing is quite high to get Make or Zapier integration, although the lower tear works with Google Sheets.And then there is https://browserflow.app/ which works via Google Sheets The main issue I have is how to upload attachment images from Airtable to the web form. I have pictures I want to load to a web-form and that is not easy.Anybody doing something like this? What do you use?

Hi Everyone, I want to create multiple forms to gather contacts for different reasons - Subscribers who want our newsletter Those who want to download our resource Those who fill out our profile form All of the forms capture Name, Email and then they have different fields. I want to keep all these contacts in the same table. I was hoping to have one table with 3 different form views. The issue is, I want to track how each contact came in, and I can’t figure out how to tag the submitted responses by the form they submitted. Instead, I have these split across different tables and I manually tag each, then copy/paste new responses into a master list. Am I missing something obvious here? I keep all the tables structured the same so the copy/paste to master is easy.

I am in search of a roadmap to becoming a certified expert on Airtable. Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction?Would be greatly appreciated. 

I am currently developing a restaurant app in Bravo connected to Airtable, and I could use some assistance. I've created a script on Airtable that selects a random record from my database of restaurants. The objective is to display the image of a randomly chosen restaurant from Airtable when a specific button is clicked within my Bravo app.I'm facing two challenges:I need to make an API call to my Airtable script, but I'm unsure how to obtain the API URL for the script. In the image enclosed it's said "your script code (including any sensitive data or API keys) will be visible in shared base links" but I don't see the result of the Airtable script in Bravo. Is it due to my billing plan?I'm struggling with data binding to trigger the event in Bravo and execute the script.Your guidance on these matters would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your assistance!

We have a table called Documents and I want to use a formula that pulls the name of the file in the {Attachment} field in order to provide the Name of the record. I've been using the LEFT({Attachments},FIND("(",{Attachments})-1) for this purpose and it works great, but I've now found that if the name of the attached file contains a comma, then the formula name adds a quotation mark at the beginning of the name. So now I'm trying to combine the SUBSTITUTE and FIND formulas to:1. Look at the name of the attached file, and if it contains a comma then replace it with a hyphen (eg. 'Ocala, FL' becomes 'Ocala-FL' )  2. Then use the name of the attached file as the name of the record without the URL at the end (using the FIND formula). Another acceptable option would be to just remove the comma from any file name in the {Attachments} field and then allow the original LEFT formula to do its work, but I think that might require an additional field. It's less elegant, but I'm

Is there any way to be notified when a base has no new records in a period of time.I'm creating a base where managers need to leave a new record at least once every 30 days.  I want to be alerted when they have NOT left a new record since the last one was posted.Anyone know of a way to do this?

Hi there,In the last few months we been happy with getting an email on each new lead being created in one of our tables. The email contains all the needed data relevant for our sales team. BUT i'd really want that email to contain an attachment which is a .eml file (email) which is populated specifically with the records data. How can i accomplish this?Goal is to minimize errors when our sales rep copy/paste the data from the email. 

Hello,Looking at the current Airtable fields API, there doesn't seem a way to view or modify the filters for count and rollup fields. If I look at the field options for either of these field types, this does not seem to be supported. Is there a possibility to create a rollup field with a filter programmatically, and/or to see which filters are applied on an existing rollup field?If this is currently not feasible, do we know if there are any plans to implement this in the future?Thank you in advance.

I have embedded a “grid view with grouping by date” into a page on my website. When I view it in a browser on my desktop it looks fine. But when I view it in a browser on my Android phone (mobile), the grouping does not show and there is no menu bar at the top of the grid view. Menu Should be: Hidden Fields, Filter, Grouping, Sort, row height, print (this menu does not show on mobile) What am I doing wrong? https://lircal.com/airtable-browse-view

I saw elsewhere that Airtable-limited markdown is available for Automations (possibly only for emails? - not clear), but I can’t seem to get the markdown to work for Slack message automations. :loudspeaker: : The Accounting base in :airtable: has been updated by  [Record (Step 1: Trigger) | Field values | By | Name] with the following release notes: ‏‎[Record (Step 1: Trigger) | Field values | Description ] So that the message in Slack looks like this: :loudspeaker: : The Accounting base in :airtable: has been updated by frozenforum with the following release notes: Created a new Client Companies table Converted Client Company field to be a link to Client Companies Moved company groups to Client Companies table But instead, the Slack message looks like this: :loudspeaker: : The Accounting base in :airtable: has been updated by frozenforumwith the following release notes: 1. Created a new Client Companies table 2. Converted Client Company field to be a link to Client Companies

Hello Airtable Community! I am relatively new to the platform and looking to build a solution to track work relationships and contract info for individuals as part of an organization. Right now, I have multiple tables, one for each "level" or "grouping" of employment (Regional Directors, Program Managers, Program Associates, Country Staff, Consultants, etc). I also have tables for each level of organization (region, country). I have them linked to one another to show relationships (so, for example, each record in the Regional Directors tab has a column for the region they direct, the countries in that region, the program managers in their region, program associates in their region, country staff in their countries, etc, all pulled from the other tables).I have found that these separate tables are necessary because each class of info has different fields that it needs. Country staff, for example, have contracts with start and end dates and submit invoices that need to be tracked month t

Hi all, I have a tracking base for our student organization.  It keeps records of each student involved as well as their involvement (ie attendance, rsvp's, even leases).I'm working to create Interfaces so the other staff members can have a more visually appealing way to view the information.  They are very overwhelmed by the data side of the base haha.  Here's what I'm hoping to do:I have a List Interface page for the students.  Each student record can be clicked into.  In the Record Detail screen, I want to include the fields that link to the various attendance, rsvp, etc records - these will be view-only, just for reference.  But some of these will have a LOT of records linked in them (for our more active members) and that would be overwhelming.  Is there a way to limit the number of records to, say, the last 5 attendances with a little button to load more if they want to?So far, I have tried viewing that field as a List which allows me to filter t

I signed up for beta a long time ago, but seems I'm still on the waitlist. Has anybody one else been let in to beta?Notion's AI tools are cool and I'm using them already.  Wondering if I should be shifting my workflows over, or keep waiting.  It's almost 2024!  

Hi, I am super new here. I want to create a database for ecom owners with linkedin contact and etc.My question is how do I create an airtable where I can show a preview like only 20 / 5000 entries. If they want to view the rest they have to subscribe?Would really appreciate your help. Thank You

Hello, I'm trying to merge a CSV but the field that I need to map to is not available to select. I can't select the field I need as the merge field. It is not one of the options in the "choose a field" drop down.