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Our firm ships hundreds of packages a week and we currently manually track each URL to watch for updates on transit times/ delivery status. We have tried to prompt an AI agent to open the URL and provide tracking updates but it can’t seem to figure it out. But, I know AI Agents have the capacity to Web Search/scrape.  We have put our prompts into ChatGPT/Claude to get assistance with prompting but it seems like its a limitation of the AI Agent. Can anyone advise? Thank you!

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Hello Airtabler, We use Microsoft Teams for both internal and external calls. I’d like to have a button in the interface that lets me make a call via Microsoft Teams. Unfortunately, a button with “Callto:” or something similar doesn’t work. We use Chrome as our browser. I’m almost afraid that this might be due to one of the company’s default configurations. Or does anyone have any ideas? 

Hi everyone,We're currently managing Microsoft 365 mailbox migration projects and using Airtable as a project tracking platform.The migration itself is performed using SysTools Office 365 migration software, which generates detailed CSV reports containing mailbox status, migrated item counts, failures, timestamps, and other statistics.What I'd like to do is automatically push those CSV reports into Airtable so customers can view migration progress in near real time through a dashboard or interface, rather than sending them updated spreadsheets manually.Has anyone built something similar?I'm considering a workflow where Airtable automatically imports the latest CSV data and updates customer-facing views. I'm curious whether people are using Airtable Automations, Make, Zapier, custom scripts, or another approach for this type of reporting.Would appreciate any suggestions or examples from those who have implemented client-facing status dashboards.

Hi! I’m trying to run an automation, I have a repeating group but it only returns 10 records from a view, so is not a conditioning issue, somehow the length is set to 10 so that’s the only records retrieving, also the same problem is now presenting in other workspaces in the past it would retrieve more than 10 records and now it appears like this. Some help please  

Hi everyone!I run a small agency and we are trying to set up an Airtable base to track all of our company's legal compliance documents, FBR tax filings, and incorporation certificates across different regions (specifically South Asia / Pakistan).Right now, we are using a free portal we built for our local market secp portal   to actually calculate our local taxes and generate the required SECP (company registration) documents. But I want to organize all that data and the generated PDFs into an Airtable base to keep a timeline of all our renewals and tax deadlines.Does anyone have a good template or base structure for tracking recurring legal/tax deadlines? How do you guys manage uploading and organizing official incorporation documents in Airtable?Thanks in advance for any tips!

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This might be a dumb question, but it’s not obvious to me: when giving users permission to sort, filter, group etc. in an interface page, will this affect the interface as a whole or only for that user? E.g. I set up a specific filter and sorting, give users the ability to filter for something themselves and someone adds another filter - will this then affect the filtering for everyone or just themselves???I would like to give them the option to filter, but for the different tabs I’ve got specific filters set up that I don’t want changed on the high level…Can someone enlighten me? Thanks!!

Hello Airtable Community,I'm excited to join the community! I have a basic understanding of Airtable and I'm now focusing on intermediate and advanced topics.My goal is to master:Advanced formulas Linked records, rollups, and lookups Interfaces Automations AI features Business database design CRM systems Workflow automation with n8nI'm building my skills to help businesses create efficient workflows and automation solutions.I'd love to hear from experienced members:Which intermediate or advanced Airtable Academy courses do you recommend? What projects helped you improve the most? Are there any best practices or resources I shouldn't miss?I look forward to learning from the community and contributing as my skills grow. If there are opportunities to collaborate on Airtable projects or volunteer on community initiatives, I'd be happy to help.Thank you

I’m new to Airtable, for the most part it’s not bad I’ve used Chat GPT and OMNI to set up my table however when generating a letter the identifier is not showing up in the right footer note like it should it’s using another Identifier.  I’ve done everything I can to fix this but I’m getting nowhere 

Despite log showing execution:I still get error :I believe the script to be OK,  “let recordId = input.recordId;” Does anyone have any suggestions? 

I’m fairly certain the answer is going to be no, but is it possible to get/collect the accepted/rejected responses to calendar invites when sent via Automations?We have a meeting planner, we will send out invites using an automation (fairly standard) - can we accept the responses in some way to then use that information (for example, a manager declines, so we can invite their deputy)?Anyone done anything like this?

The Chatgpt plugin for Airtable doesn’t seem to recognize that it has access to automations.. I gave the following prompt Using Airtable, list all automations in the Personal CRM base. Include each automation’s name, deployment status, trigger, and actions.And it gives me the below response:  I found the Personal CRM base and confirmed full access. However, the currently installed Airtable connector does not expose automation-definition tools—only bases, tables, records, fields, interfaces, and comments.Therefore, I cannot reliably retrieve the automation names, deployment statuses, triggers, or actions through this connector. No automation list was returned.

Hi,Looking at our photo studio order handling and logistics function, I’m wondering how to build an interface for selecting images to to be printed for each customer. Currently communicated by e-mail between the client handling personnel and the logistics personnel, I want to have it inside Airtable.One should be able to view one client’s project, select which print product to order, then select which images to be printed, perhaps select a separate album cover image etc. With this information in the database I’ll build an interface for the people placing the actual orders in the vendor’s system (eagerly awaiting the day when the vendor would be able to accept an electronic order of some sort..).The images are on Google Drive, and we have them linked to an attachment field via an automation (I think, can’t quite remember how this was built).I can show the images on a record picker interface, probably also in a gallery view, open to view them larger and allow comments, download them, but

I logged into Airtable today to find a large number of fields in one base broken. When I traced back the issue throughout multiple fields, I found 7 with an Airtable alert saying “Additionally, some conditions are no longer valid. Clear invalid conditions."  When I clicked on Clear invalid conditions, the grayed out dates on the filters became black but nothing changed (see attached image). It DID fix the broken field issues, but I’m just wondering how that happened. Was it an Airtable update issue? Thanks!   

Hello everyone,I have a personalized interface that displays images of an Airtable base. This interface allows me to export it in html, only my photos are not displayed since the urls of airtable images are temporary. Do you have a solution please?Thanks

When attempting to apply a lengthly list of Sandbox changes in the appropriate order, it would be very helpful to be able to filter by whether the change is an Add/Edit/Delete change. This would allow us to quickly isolate all newly added fields, apply only those changes, and prepare data in Production prior to pushing additional changes that may be dependent on those fields existing.Additionally, it would be helpful to be able to filter by the element impacted (e.g. Data tables, Interfaces, Automations).

I’m creating Airtable Interfaces where stakeholders can select a record themselves and view its data across multiple categories/charts. This works well for most fields, but I’m facing an issue specifically with linked record fields.After the stakeholder selects a linked record, the chart displays the correct data, but the filter shows it as “Unnamed {type} record” instead of displaying the actual linked record name.Is there a way to make the filter display the linked record’s actual name? Screenshots attached. Filter shows correct names of linked recordAfter selection filter shows unnamed {type}  

First of all: thanks for the recent MCP improvements. These are by far the most exciting and useful updates in a long time. Specially adding support for Automations and Interfaces is amazing.I’ve been using the MCP recently through Claude and Codex and it’s been great. However, there are still three limitations that don’t let me work as smoothly as I would like:The MCP doesn’t allow creating or updating automations that include Script actions, so I need to modify those manually The MCP doesn’t allow to add filters to Interfaces, so I need to add filters for things like Current User manually The MCP doesn’t allow to edit existing Interfaces, so whenever I want to make a change, I need to either recreate the whole page from scratch (spending tons of tokens in the process and losing the filters I added manually before) or edit it manuallyIf you could improve the MCP to remove these 3 limitations, it would make a big difference for me, and I’m sure that for other users as well 🙏Thanks!Áng

Washington County was established in 1777 and the county seat, Jonesborough, was established in 1779; the oldest county and town in Tennessee.  We have over a 1,000 family folders and over 400 local history folders along with books, microfilm, maps, etc. in the library genealogy collection.  We are building a searchable database on these family folders and local history folders. In this data base, we also set up through ‘extensions’ a search engine.We want to share this database with family researchers.  But we would like to share with them a “read only” database that is searchable.  This is our problem.  How can we set up a “read only” database that researchers could use?  We do not want to put this database on the internet.  Is there a way that we can set up a searchable database that is only ‘read only?’ 

 I have a very basic question! When I use linked records, I thought the field should auto-populate, but it is not doing that. Is there any way to make that happen? Eg: I am using Airtable for a small school attendance records. There are two tables; one called 'classes' and another called 'educators'. In Classes, each Class record (such as ESL120), has educator(s) listed in the 'Teachers' field. When I add a new class, I am able to look up teachers in this field, and I can see all educators listed in the Educators table. In the Educators table, each Educator is listed. There is a linked field called Classes. I want this field to auto-populate with any classes that the educator is listed under in the Classes table. TIA!!

Hi,We have built an API that gets the data from AT and imports the data to WordPress using Custom Post Types that we built.  I have fields in AT that get formatting and when those fields are exported some of the HTML tag formatting is not totally retained.  I get bold text and paragraphs but for example not H2 tags.  The H2 tags gets replaced with ##.  Is there something I am not doing in AT or do I need to tweak something in my API or WordPress?Thanks,Stan

We are on the Business plan and have almost reached our limit of 50 automations. Is there a way to request additional automations? We’re willing to pay for the additional automations, but just need to know who to talk to.

Hi everyone,I'm looking for the best way to integrate DocuSign with Airtable.Ideally, I'd like an Airtable Automation to send a document for signature, track the signing status, and update the Airtable record automatically when it's completed.Has anyone built something like this? Is it best to use the DocuSign API directly, a third-party tool like Zapier or Make, or another approach?I'd appreciate any recommendations or examples. Thanks!

Hi everyone,Is there a recommended way or best practice to clearly identify which base is the Sandbox and which one is Production (live data) ?I've run into an issue where I accidentally connect to the Sandbox base instead of the real one because they have the identical name in the selection menu.Is there an interface visual indicator or a technical identifier that you use to prevent this mix-up?Thanks in advance for any tips!