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Is it possible to get the previous value of a field to compare to when you have an automation trigger because of an update? I am thinking the only way to do this is to hold the old value in a hidden field and then update the hidden field after you take care of whatever you needed to take care of. I think the only issue is a person can make multiple updates to a field before you ever finish the automation so your previous value will be out of date if an update occurs before your first script finishes.

I am trying to automate my airtable to send an email to me and my coworkers anytime someone updates or changes data in any part of the table. However, I want the email to specify what columns or what parts of the table were changed. Is this possible?

If you share a read-only Interface, is the person with read-only access required to create an Airtable account? I wish to share an interface, but I don't want the read-only user to create an Airtable account and login each time they have to view the Interface.

I have a table called “Plans” that pulls in lookup values from my “Contracts” table, which is linked. I’ve been able to add the standard fields from Plans to a Page Creator page without an issue. However, when I try to add a lookup field from Plans, it doesn’t work. I can drag the field to the Page Creator, but the box never gets populated. Similarly, If I try placing a linked field on the page, it appears as a black box with its original field name from the Contracts base. See screen shot below. Any suggestions for getting the linked/lookup fields to work in Page Creator?

I'm developing a complex reimbursement database and need help:There are 7 divisions,  each division has 3 credit cards and each card has 3 reimbursable categories (for example: food, travel, leisure), each division has 8 employees.Each employee has a budget set from the credit cards their division is assigned, For example, Mark from division #1 has $1000 in food funds, $1000 in travel funds & $1000 in leisure funds. What is the simplest way to do the following:When Mark fills out a reimbursement form detailing the transaction(1) He can detail how much of his transaction goes to travel, food, and/or leisure (one transaction can go to multiple categories.)(2) When I go in to verify his transaction I need to be able to see how much money he has left in each of these categories (if he spent more that his remaining budget) (3) Track how much each division, category, and employee is spending/spent.**No

Hi All, I'm putting a Zap together and linking our recruitment ATS with Airtable. I'm adding job adverts that come from our ATS in to Airtable first, and then I can send to another platform via the Zap. I've run in to an issue that I hope Airtable will solve. Our ATS sends job adverts to 3 job boards, so when it comes from the ATS to Airtable, it enters the job advert record 3 times. So it's duplicated twice. Unfortunately the ATS record has a data field that has all 3 job board ID's together so I can't filter the record by just one job board.Is there a way I can mark the duplicates with a true/false or checkbox field using some form of automation? I can then filter them out in another view and use the view to pass on the information to another platform from Airtable via the Zap without any duplicates. I hope that makes sense! Any help would be much appreciated. 

I have a formula that is achieving 2/3 of my goals, but I need some help figuring out that last 1/3! I am trying to add an "SOS" flag to any to-do that meets one or more of the following criteria:Has been manually flagged as "Behind" in the Alerts column.Has not been given a Due Date (so the Due Date field is blank).Has a Due Date that has passed AND it has NOT yet been marked as "Done."How would I structure that final part of the formula? Currently, I have: IF(     OR(          Alerts = "Behind",          {Due In} < 1     ),          "🆘",

I have an automation - on form submission I receive an email.One of the fields in this form is an attachment.  My automation works fine - I receive an email when someone fills out the form, but I am not to access the attachment of the form. It shows access denied

Seeking to identify if two numbers match exactly in both fields, such as 22 matching 22, and not partial matches like 2.  

I would like to separate a look up field (values separated by commas) into separate cells. I have information from Table 1 linked to Table 2 (Junction Table) that is linked to Table 3. Table 3 has a look up field (puling information form Table 1 to Table 2 into Table 3). The values in the look up field are separated by commas. (I am having a problems applying formulas to the look up field). Is it possible to separate these values into separate fields?

Hello there!I am working on a base where each table must be shared with different users.I was wondering if is it possible to share 1 single table with 2 users with different permissions (1 as editor and the other only viewer)Any guidance you may have would be very helpful!Thank you!

If I have a field of type "Link to..." only the ID appears in the search modal, I have no way to choose which other fields to appear:Instead I have a way to make other fields appear in the detail view:

I just found out that both SET_LOCALE and SET_TIMEZONE functions returns an incorrect hour, at least for Europe/Lisbon and en-gb as per the below examples:SET_TIMEZONE(NOW(), 'Europe/Lisbon')SET_LOCALE(NOW(), 'en-gb')Both these functions as returning 1 hour less than the correct one.

Hello,I am trying to figure out how to insert an image to Gmail: Send email automation.Image is stored in the attachment field and needs to be inserted into email text as an image, not as the URL.While it is easily done for images stored publicly (not inside Airtable) by using the format <img src="https://.......">, I can not understand from the Airtable Help articles how to do the same with the image stored in the Airtable field.Thank you in advance for any hint or advise.

Hi We have received a notification in our Airtable account that "API keys will be deprecated by the end of January 2024". We have integrated our Airtable and Salesforce account using Zapier tool. Does this Deprecation notification affects the current integration happening via Zapier?. I saw the below comment in Airtable help article that we don't need to do anything, and Airtable will take care of the third party tools(Zapier).Note: We are working with third-party integrations to migrate to using OAuth for integrations. No action is required on your part until they complete the migration, after which you can stop using your API key and use OAuth to connect instead.  Please assist me. "

Simple thing I'd like to do: Display the current date (and possibly time) on an Interface screen (blank template).  I created a field in the base that shows the date, but there's no way to display a single field.  I looked at the text object but there's no way to enter a formula in that object.Anyone accomplish this before?  TIA!

Hi Everyone,Looking for some help with improving an automation that I've used to create a variable amount of records in a child table and link it to the parent table based on inputs in the parent table.  Here is the code that has worked. let parenttbl = base.getTable('ListInfo'); let childtbl = base.getTable('List'); let {parentRecord,newRecordCount} = input.config(); let linkField = childtbl.getField('ListName'); async function createChildrenLinkedRecords() { // Airtable limits batch operations to 50 records or fewer. let maxRecordsPerCall = 50; let newRecords = []; // Part 1: Prepare the new records for (let index = 0; index < newRecordCount; index += 1) { newRecords.push({ fields: { [linkField.id]: [{ id: parentRecord }], }, }); } // Part 2: Perform the record creation operations in batches while (newRecords.length > 0) { await childt

It is so frustrating that it's 2023 and AirTable can not group data along x-axis in graphs, forcing you to make several/many graphs to compare data. For example I want x-axis to be product lines, but for each product line it should have multiple bars for each year, and the y axis is revenue. This way you can see performance across each product line across each year for comparisons without making multiple graphs is there an alternative way to get data to do this

I have several buttons with URLs that launch webhooks from Make.Everything works great so far, except for that annoying browser tab that opens and I have to close each time.Is there a way to trigger webhooks using a button without it opening the “accepted” tab?Thanks

Hi, I need to have a formulated field where if the time in the field "start date" is 6 am it returns "ET" and if it is 12 pm returns "PT"

Hi I have successfully implemented the WebHooks to allow for data from my Email form on my website to import into my AirTable Base Station.However, once the user has submitted the form, they are taken away from my own website and are redirected to an AirTable url "https://hooks.airtable.com/workflows/v1/genericWebhook/"page that displays the following message "{"success":true}"How do I prevent the user from being redirected to the above AirTable URL and remain on my website please?Any help would be much appreciated!

I am looking for someone to help me create a team performance board.I have started the process and have mapped out performance indicators using the following fields and so forth.What I want to do now though is actually make the overall performance field update dynamically based on the data I enter in all the other fields.And I also ant to be able keep this as a record every week, when my team leaders complete this document.ie: So they fill it out on friday and it keeps a log and it shows a graph or something on people who arent performing and those who are amazing.I guess I am also looking for someone who can help me build this and really make it into something awesome.I want each of my team members to be able to view their own ratings too.If anyone thinks I've messed anything, please feel free to co

Context Unable to create an automation in Airtable. The path is as follows: An update in the "Sleep" field of Table1 triggers a search for records in Table2 that share a common field (using the "Name" field as the link). The automation then uses a script to update the corresponding records in Table2 with the updated "Sleep" content from Table1 into the Table2 fields, that have the same name, "NewSleep."Automation Path Image Below:My script is producing an error "'recordtoUpdate' is declared but its value is never read.(6133)." I believe what this means is the script doesn't understand or have a value it interprets from Table1 "Sleep" and therefore cannot update the the field of "NewSleep" for the records that have the corresponding name. Script:let records = input

Hi all, my first post here. I did some searching on the forum and couldn't find the answer to my question so here it is.I'm building a client portal where users can add their own records, and share them with others. The records that they have created and shared are shown in their personal overview. This overview is created by adding a condition to all records made ('record creator' is Logged in User's Client Name).Currently, the users need to add their own name to the record they add in order for the filter to work, but this is quite weird and clunky.Therefore, how do I automatically add the user name to a created record? I tried using "Created by", but I found that this doesn't work.Thanks!

I have a base with two tabs:post IDcontent IDFor each post i can select a content: via link to another record (content ID tab)What I can't manage to get done is the following:I want to go to the Post tab and select "published" next to an post ID & it's according content (from content ID tab) and this information should then also automatically appear in my other tab: content ID.At the moment I found a solution but it adds an extra step. I have connected the two tabs via link to another record but I have to select the post first to get the "published" information transferred. Is there a solution to get it automatically?I would like to add new information to the content (select: published) in the post ID tab, also updating this information for the content used in the post, therefore this change should also be visible in the content ID tab.Anyone here has a solution for this issue?Thanks a lot &#128