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i have a form linked to my website for registration purposes. is there a way to prevent users from using the form after they have already used it for registration?

Hello! I am trying to create a line chart in an interface that shows the number of records (leads in this instance) we received this financial year vs last financial year. I essentially want to see how we are tracking in comparison. What is the best way to go about it? I have created a formula which indicates what FY the record was created in to assist with grouping but I just cant get it to display correctly.Thanks in advance for your help! 😊

I’ve been exploring different ways to structure bases for both small teams and growing organizations. On one hand, you want something simple enough for everyone to understand and use daily. On the other hand, as the team scales, you need more advanced features like automations, interfaces, and integrations.💡 My question to the community:How do you approach building Airtable systems that are simple for new users but also scalable for future growth?Would love to hear your strategies, lessons learned, or even mistakes you’ve made along the way!

I am pulling in data from a webhook to create entries.  I need to prevent entries from being created if they already exist.Is there a way to use the Find Records and Conditions to prevent this from happening?If so perhaps there is a guide somewhere?  This is a very confusing part of Airtable imo.

Hi all,I'm creating an educational curriculum for our medical trainees, and unfortunately the university we are affiliated with doesn't have a robust LMS to be able to track completion of core competencies. I'm wondering if what I'm after can be achieved with Airtable, and if so, if you might be able to help me our guide me towards resources that allow me achieve what I'm looking for.Essentially I have the following bases:- students (fields: name, email, graduation year, etc.)- Learning Case (fields: Learning Case, rotation it is associated with).Every student has the same list of learning cases that they need to complete. I need to be able to track their progress (complete or incomplete), with the goal being that when they finish their training, they've "completed" these learning cases. So to conceptualize, each student has the same master list of learning cases, where they all start as "incomplete" b

Hi all! Im trying yo send a gmail with an automation, I want to send an email to a list fo mails which are in a lookup record separated with commas. I try to do this but the test says that my To field is empty Some help, pls? Many thanks

Hey guys, I have two tables—Email Info and IPT. When a checkbox is clicked in Email Info for any domain,  the domain and any one corresponding email address and its ID should be updated in IPT. I may select multiple checkboxes at the same time.Inbox details have multiple emails and ids. 

Formula field {Allocation Form Recipients} = IF({Send Allocation Form},{Conditional Recipients Rollup (from Payment Schedule)}) where {Conditional Recipients ...} is a rollup field and {Send Allocation Form} is a checkbox field. Formula field {Approval Email Subject Tag} = IF( AND({Term Deal},{Allocation Form Recipients}), 'Recoupment Allocation', 'Payment' ) where {Term Deal} field is a rollup and {Allocation Form Recipients} is a formula field which I explained in #1. When the {Term Deal} rollup is empty and the {Allocation Form Recipients} formula field is also empty, the {Approval Email Subject Tag} should show 'Payment' but it shows 'Recoupment Allocation'. I tried to troubleshoot this by creating 2 separate formula fields stated below: a. _check = IF({Term Deal},1,0) b. _check copy = IF({Allocation Form Recipients},1,0) Surprisingly, these 2 formula fields work as expected. Meaning where Term Deal is blank

Hi AirTable Community, I’ve been struggling with WORKDAY_DIFF formula. My team tracks reports using Airtable. We set an attendance date (AD) and a report type that are set/selected. Based on the report type, I have a formula that will add a certain number of days to the AD to calculate the draft due date (DDD). There is also an option to assign a due date should we need to override the calculated date.  Formula as follows:IF({Assigned Draft Due Date}, {Assigned Draft Due Date}, SWITCH({Report Type / Tasks}, 'ACM - ASMP', WORKDAY({Attendance Date}, 5), 'ACM - Audit/Survey Report', WORKDAY({Attendance Date}, 8),    etc., etc. for every report type.  My operations team also want a ‘Days Overdue Field’ so that they can quickly see if a report is overdue. The WORKDAY_DIFF field I know includes both the start date and the end date in its calculations, I can negate this by minusing 1 day in the formula. But

Hi Community, I have an issue with an automation - I have created this, so that when a new organisation is added, they automatically get added to my H&S Declaration table - however everytime I turn the automation on it creates a random selection of additional duplicate records in the trigger table (Organisation)? Any pointers on what I am doing wrong? Thanks 

On one of my interfaces, I added a calendar element when opening record details. It works great on desktop, but the calendar element is cut and unusable on mobile. Has anybody else had a similar issue?I tried to move the element at the bottom and middle of the record details card, but no success so far.

Looking for an Airtable expert to help configure our database and workflow automation system for project management and team collaboration. Need assistance with base creation and table structure design, custom field configuration with different data types, automated workflow setup using triggers and actions - also need help with interface designer implementation for custom dashboards, integration setup with existing tools like Slack and Google Drive , and view customization including Kanban boards, calendar views, and filtering options. Requirements include hands-on Airtable platform experience, understanding of relational database principles and no-code automation workflows, knowledge of project management best practices and team collaboration tools. Timeline: 1-2 days, remote work preferred. Please share relevant Airtable base examples and immediate availability in your response.

I own an accounting firm where we do work cyclically. I have three tables: CLIENTS (where I identify the assigned bookkeeper) EEs (lists the bookkeepers) RECURRING TASKS: (For example, Payroll for Hourly Employees) ITEM FREQUENCY: This includes Client, Task, and Frequency. EG Client A, Payroll for Hourly Employees, Bi-weekly Client B, Payroll for Hourly Employees, Weekly Based on this, I’d like to create a table (or view) that shows the bookkeeper her work within a specified time period. And, ideally, I’d like each instance of the task to be able to get ticked off (so each instance is a new record). Which is to say: Week one, the bookkeeper can see that she should run payroll for client B. Once she does, she checks it off (maybe includes the completion date and attaches the payroll report) Week two, she sees that she needs to run the payroll for Client A and B. Again, she adds the completion date and the payroll report

Dear Community,I’m working on a vacation & sick leave overview. I created a form each, each of them populating a table, one for the overview of vacation requests and one for sick leave. In the employee interface, we have one calendar page. This shows atm the vacation requests for the current user. Now my question is if I can add the data from the “Sick leave” table to this one calendar page, meaning that in the calendar the employee can see the vacation as well as the sick leave info.If you need pictures for a better understanding, I’m happy to provide them. Thank you so much already!Best, Philip

Hi Everyone,I pay people through Airtable for piece-rate work. On the backend, the data is organised by tasks and by day (e.g. Task 1, Task 2, Task 3 – Monday; Task 1, Task 2, Task 3 – Tuesday, and so on).There’s a button that lets me “Email Payslip,” but when I use it the PDF that goes out to employees ends up jumbled. The tasks are out of order (for example: Task 3 – Wednesday, Task 2 – Tuesday, Task 4 – Monday), which makes the payslip confusing and hard for employees to read.Does anyone know how I can fix the output so the payslip shows the tasks in the correct order?Any help greatly appreciated   

Is there a way to prevent duplicate entries in a particular column? Thank you!

I've a table that generates records through the Airtable built-in form. Each record comes with an ID from an external software. The ID is connected to accounts in this external software, so account 1 could have ID: 123, account 2 could have ID: 1234. What I want is to prevent the same ID appear more than once in the table. In other words: When the form has been submitted and the record has been created, I want Airtable to not delete, but make the user aware of the duplicate in the table. Is the above mentioned possible with an Automation? One think I want to mention is that I can't create an Automation for each ID since we have more than 100.000 IDs (accounts) in the external software. 

I’m running a program for rebates related to project work on homes. The issue I’m running into is how to track the rebates over multiple projects. It’s not as simple as just keeping a running total unfortunately, there are several factors that determine what the available rebate amount is and how it is applied.  I have it all figured out for single projects with everything calculating correctly, so I know exactly what the rebate would be if the full rebate limit is available. However, when I have more than 1 project and a rebate is being spread out between multiple projects is where I’m having issues. I’ll try my best to describe everything below. Unfortunately, due to the sheer complexity of the program and base, plus lots of personal data, I can’t create a copy of the base to share for someone to look into directly, but let me know if there is anything I can provide that would help. Here are the details:

I am setting up an automated email and want it to go to the email (will be multiple emails) from a lookup field that has the email address in it. When inserting the Data from the Record and selecting the property that has the emails in it, it gives me options. I can not get any of them to work! The error is that the “To” input is empty. Screen Shot 2021-04-04 at 11.57.55 AM|672x500

My organization seeks ability to create Airtable based apps with a proper user portal for external users to create/register and log into their profiles.  Unfortunately, Airtable portals doesn’t fit our budget for the number of external users we might expect. (Approx 400).  (we have business plan by the way) Even Softr is pretty pricey, but it seems like a halfway decent option.  I have looked into many different options from Pory.io, Zite, Stacker, Noloco, Glide, WeWeb, Bubble.io, Jet admin, etc  even thought of possibly seeing if I could linked Airtable to a supabase and build portal in Bolt.  I am not very technical, but I want to learn how to do this myself and help build a solution or find the right one.   there are so many options, and let’s say the budget is $2000 per year for approx 400 external users.  This is on top of the existing seats paid for the business plan for internal user

Hello all, I am new to airtable and here is my problem: My database has few automations that run weekly (separate times and days). I would like something like a calendar, where I can monitor at any point if any of the automations ran and if it produced a changed output (its not always expected to). I have tried using the timeline and calendar interfaces, but those are based on fields and not automations. Have I missed something, any advice on how I can visualise what I am looking to do?Thank you

I am experiencing an issue duplicating one of my bases. The details are: Base ID: appMbMonUXRj3FMXX Base name: QUAN LY TNC Issue: When I attempt to duplicate the base (both with data and with structure-only), the process never completes. The dialog shows “Duplicating your app is taking a bit longer than expected,” but even after more than 12 hours, the duplication does not finish. Troubleshooting attempted: Tried duplicating with full data → stuck. Tried duplicating structure-only (no records/attachments) → stuck. Tried in multiple browsers and workspaces. Waited over 12 hours without completion. Already tried to create a new base from a snapshot → still unsuccessful. Anyone have experiences in this matter?

I’m really sorry to have to ask this question.But since the last update of the interface, I have the following problem: How can I exit the edit mode of interfaces if I haven’t made any changes? The publish button is not active, and the “exit” button that used to be there is gone. What am I missing? Thanks!

We have a rich text field with the lever turning on allow for rich text.   This field is being displayed on a form.   However,  when the form is launched,  the formatting is removed and it's all regular text.  I guess Airtable removed formatting for the field when used in a form?We dont have access to the full version of mini Extension just the free version.   

Hi, I see that Airtable doesn't list a php sdk, but I found 2 and saw another user on here mention another.  So, what's the most current, works with the current and near future api?  I’d like to get started but don't want to spin my wheels on a dead sdk.  Thanks :)