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Hi AllI have a base with 3 tables: Routes, Passengers, and Absences. The Routes table has multiple passenger fields, which are linked record fields to the Passengers table. The Absences table has a passenger field, which is a linked record field to the Passengers table and has a lookup field to the associated route field - as well as a date of absence. When an absence is added to the Absence table, it pulls the route the passenger is on. If a passenger changes route, the linked record lookup field for the route in Absences will change for past absences. This means the data in Absences is no longer historically representative. What is the best way to preserve the original route that is pulled through onto records in the Absences table? Preferably I would avoid: a) having the route name in an extra text field or b) creating a linked record field directly to Routes rather than using a lookup field, but open to all solut

In a grid view, I can select multiple records and then right-click to e.g. delete this selection.Is it possible to add this selection to a linked record field in another table?

Text:I am interacting with two tables in my AirtableFirst table: "Payment History," where I have a lookup column called "Unpaid Delivered Tasks" that displays codes in a format like "#C0005, #F0055, #T800."Second table: "Sales," where the first column is called "Unique Code," and it contains codes corresponding to each sale. Additionally, there's an important column named "Advisor Payment Status" with two options: "Pending" and "Paid."What am I looking for?I'm trying to find the most effective way to update records in the "Sales" table when an automation or script is executed from a specific record in the "Payment History" table. The goal is to search for all the codes listed in the "Unpaid Delivered Tasks" column of the "Payment History" table and update the corresponding records in the "Advisor Payment Status" column of the "Sales" table to mark them as

Hello!I have a table called "Payments" where I record all my payments of the day, I upload a csv file daily. Each record represents a transaction and could be a declined transaction or an approved one. Daily I check my declined transactions and call my clients, if they answer and agree i fill out a field called Rescheduled Payment Date. The next day I'll upload the csv file of the payments of this day and want to create an automation that finds a record with the same name and that the payment date matches the Rescheduled Payment Date of the first one it encounters if the payment is approved. I hope this is possible to achieve and thank you in advance 😊

I'm writing a script in Airtable Extensions to pull data from Canvas API. I've set the per_page limit to 100, because that's the maximum number of objects Airtable will retrieve at once for an external API.I need to use pagination to download the rest of the results. According the Canvas API reference, it's in the response header Link value. I'm able to see this in Postman but how do I retrieve this in an Airtable script? How do I set up a loop to paginate until the end? All the online discussions are about Airtable's API and I can't find how to retrieve response headers.  let currentCourses = await remoteFetchAsync("https://XXXX?per_page=100", requestOptions); const currentCoursesData = await currentCourses.json(); console.log(currentCoursesData);    

In the Teams plan, can a form that's shared with a Commenter and filled out via mobile web browser be secured via password?

I have a table with a field "Project" by which is grouped.It is filtered by a specific project and by records in which thewhere the field "Project" is empty. Between some records, the emptyproject group and the records of the non-empty project group there isa relationship in another field.The goal is to have the records in the empty project group that have a relationshipto the non-empty project group appear together in one view. Is this representable in Airtable?

Hi The screen shot is of a table for sales in one of my bases. The 'pay window filter' field determines which pay month the date falls in, our pay windows run 25th to 24th, so 26th September would fall in Oct Pay Month. The 'Pay Month' Field formats that date into the correct Text format I want which then links to a second table called Pay Months where the record name is October 2023, November 2023 etc. As you can see from the screen shot, I've filled in a new record with a date, its automatically calculated the Pay window filter, but 'pay month' has automatically formatted the text and linked to the other table. Why is this, am i missing something? I thought this would automatically do that. I'm new to airtable just building out systems for my business, so any help much appreciated. 

Hello 👋I took an effort and explored other related posts available. I came to a workaround I am not happy with, so I decided to make a new post and ask Experts for guidance 😇 I know almost everything is possible with Airtable, sometimes we struggle to find a way.Problem StatementHow can I display linked records that meet certain criteria (not the lookup/rollup field), but exact records.ContextI have 3 Tables (relevant for the issue). Chapter, Event, Sentiment. The story looks like this: There are different Events. Chapter Members from multiple Chapters provide responses about given Event in a form of Sentiment.Relations(one) Chapter - (many) Events(one) Chapter - (many) Sentiments(one) Event - (many) Chapters(one) Event) - (many) Sen

Hi there, Tablet : Galaxy Tab A8 SM-X200, Android 13 As the title say we just got a brand new Android Samsung Tablet for our workshop to be able to check the PDFs of manufacturing plans. However, when i click the pdf file, it displays a broken image icon.The thumbnail preview does show the first page of the plans, downloading the pdf and opening it in another app of the tablet works, i tried opening the same pdf on dropbox from the chrome browser and it works, of course on the desktop-chrome it works.  Do I need to enable anything on the tablet or app?  Thanks for the help

Hello, everyone,This may be a very specific use case, but I have created prefilled URLs from formulas that I need to get to my reviewing committee. The problem is that they want a once a week email that has the information in a list format.This is largely not an issue as the rest of the informing information gets across, but it does present a challenge as when the formulas are one of the fields turned on in this list, they don't hyperlink.Is there a way to work around this, or should I focus on an alternate way to get the prefilled URLs to them?Thanks!

I am unable to remove collaborators—and keep getting billed for them every month. I go into workplace settings and view the list of billable collaborators—of which three are listed— not including myself. I click on “add or manage workspace collaborators.” However, only I am visible. A search by name or email address also produces nothing. Please advise. Thanks!

Hey Folks!When I copy and paste the contents of a multi-line rich text field, it seems to remove formatting, including the bullet levels, spacing, etc. For example:Test 1Sub note 1Note 2Sub note 2Sub note 2aIt shows up like this:Test 1Sub note 1Note 2Sub note 2Sub note 2aThis happens both when I copy and paste and also when I send a record. The send record preview also shows the unformatted bullets.  Any ideas?  

Hello,I configured my date format to European on Airtable, however, when I send this data to Integromat and making a Google Sheet template, it reformats the date in US.Date on Airtable (03/12/2022) :Date format received by Integromat (2022-12-05, yes I know is not the same date :p) :Date on the template :Do you have any idea why the date format changes on export?Do you know any way to circumvent this?Thank you in advance!

I created a form type page in interfaceI want a field to only display data that comes from another fieldexampleI have a project table and an apartment tableeach apartment corresponds to a single project(the connection is well created)logically in the form when we choose the project we must display in the apartment field only the apartments which correspond to this projectTHINK YOU

I've set up an interface dashboard that pulls in data from two different tables. Within this dashboard are two number elements that are Field summery Sums of data from the two tables. In a third Number element I wanted to use a formula to divide one by the other, I thought I could use a very simple formula for this in the element itself, but I cant. Is it possible to do what I need in the interface dashboard?

Hi everyone. Recently, one of Airtable users shared their Workspace with me. There is a base in the workspace with a lot of automations, and sometimes they fail to run.The workspace (and the database) owner receives emails saying, "Something went wrong with an automation..." but I receive nothing. Is there a way to fix this and allow me as a collaborator receive those notifications?

Hello, I have one formula field {Ball 1 ?} in the table A . The formula checks another table {Ball 1} via a linked record to see if it contains an attachment. If it does, the computed field writes "Yes", if it is empty, it writes "No". This part works fine.I have another field (checkbox) named {Balloon 1} in the table A, that I want to add to the logic.But when I add {Balloon 1} to the condition:Meaning : If {Ball 1} OR {Balloon 1} is true, then writes "Yes" in {Ball 1 ? } and "No" if it is false.I receive an error and it doesn't accept the formula.Here is how I wrote it in the formula field {Ball 1 ?} : IF( OR( {Ball 1},{Balloon 1} ), " Yes", " No", )  How can I fix it ? Any advice ?

How do I have a formula based on 2 different multi-select fields, that will add a specified number to the resulting formula, based on how many options were selected for each multi-select field?Remember that each multi-select will be adding on different number.Here is my formula so far.   (IF( {Pull Factors Attract}, LEN({Pull Factors Attract}) - LEN( SUBSTITUTE( {Pull Factors Attract}, ",", "" ) ) ) + 0 ) * 2 + (IF( {Bonus Pull Factors}, LEN({Bonus Pull Factors}) - LEN( SUBSTITUTE( {Bonus Pull Factors}, ",", "" ) ) +0 ) + 2 ) * 1   You can see an example base here.&nbsp

I've set up a Table for recording my Staff working hours, moving from a paper system. Each day the staff member using a form, enters the date, name and number of hours worked, site location etc. When its time for payroll I want to create views that filter for last months payroll window. Our window runs from 25th of the month to 24th of next month. So when I'm preparing payroll on the 24th October, I want the view to filter out all results except those falling in 25th sept to 24th Oct pay window. I was trying to use filter so many days ago, but this varies each month depending if its 30 or 31 days. Is there a way of setting up a filter from the 25th of last month specifically? 

HelloI'm testing airtable and I want to make a database with all my trial cases. These are cases that we must check  with some regularity, the idea is that each case generates a record and that once the record is created, it will be assigned to a role of periodic reviews, meaning, each case must be check by my staff every 3 months to update de info of each case an check the task or actions that we need to take with every case.  So  My desire is to create some kind of automation to generate monthly an e- mail to me an my assistant to check those cases that reach the 3 month period and need to be checked for updates.  Also, I already have a lot of existing cases, and my goal is to divide those cases in groups to not overwhelm my assistant with all the cases needing a review at the same time, but I don’t know how to do that.  Hope someone can help me, and sorry if my English is not good, is not my native language

Hello! I don't understand why the linked field won't accept the value. What am I missing?  //Setup Startlet tableName = "🎵 Tracks"let linkedField1Name = "Composer(s)"let linkedField2Name = "Producer(s)"let compiledLinkedFieldName = "Contributors (-mix)"//Setup Endlet {linkedField1Values, linkedField2Values, recordId} = input.config()let table = base.getTable(tableName)let compiledObject = new Object;for (let record of linkedField1Values){compiledObject[record] = recordIdconsole.log(record)}for (let record of linkedField2Values){compiledObject[record] = recordId}let compiledArray = new Array;for (let record in compiledObject){compiledArray.push({i

Total airtable newbie here in need of some help and direction, please! I have two tasks I would like to accomplishPlease find below a screenshot of what my table looks like. I have a drop-down selection field for each year camp has taken place, and can select “camper” “staff” or “canceled” for each year. Task 1: I would like to have a field that calculates the number of years a person has been in attendance at camp, whether or not they were staff or a camper. So the year tallies would look like this:Person A Years at camp = 1 Person B Years at camp= 2Person C Years at camp= 1 (Because they canceled in 05) What are the steps I need to do this? I think part of doing this airtable wizardry will involve making my year fields linked record fi

Hi all,I want to create an Interface page that helps my team with a recurring task, that involves three tables:Choose a single project, presumably using a record picker ("Projects" table)In a grid or list below, choose multiple records ("media outlets" table) with a check-markUpon clicking a button, an automation creates entries in a third table ("status" table). These entries are linked to the project from step 1 and the selected media outlets from step 2 and also are assigned a certain status (i.e. "new")It sounds simple, but I fail to pass the info from both the record selector and the grid on to the script.Seriously hoping this is doable. I would appreciate any hint as to where I should be looking as I am quite lost at the moment.Thank you!

We very recently hit the limit to the number of automations you can have in a base, but we still have a laundry list of automations we would like to create.How do you all handle the limit put in place on a base? Is there any creative solutions out there? I was thinking of maybe moving some tables off into another base, but then I would probably hit the 10 table sync limit in our base too.Use the API? But how would triggers work?