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Hi, i am trying to build an interface page that i will use as a quotation builder.Basically i have an problem with the interface how it compiles records when i open my quotation. I cant find any easy solution how it would get working so that when i open for example quotation Number 11 it will only show records that are linked to that quotation. And also that when i add record from interface to that quotation it would automatically link that record to the quotation number 11. I dont want it to be in form when i add records to my quotation. Best way would be grids or lists where i add these records to my quotation. Im not experienced with these softwares and the logics flusters me quickly. I dont want it to be manually grouped and filtered type solution with every quotation i open. Is this even possible to make with airtable interfaces?  Thank you before hand!Br. Riku

Created this automation to send an email if a new task is created. Shows it’s running correctly. However no emails are being received. Nothing in spam either. Query into Omni as to why suggests all the usual things, which I’ve confirmed are not in error. Any suggestions? 

I have a use case where I am trying to store email chains in a rich text enabled field. My users would like to preserve the formatting + as much detail from the emails as possible. The native supported markdown capabilities for the most part cover formatting, however I’ve run into a bit of interesting problem with embedded tables. For whatever reason, Airtable’s rich text doesn’t support markdown tables so there seems to be no clean way to do this. I’ve come up with a somewhat hacky solution of converting to ascii tables and embedding it as a code block, but even this get ugly once the table is wide enough to push past the view window of the rich text field (it’s not resizable), which causes the text to start wrapping on the next line. I’m wondering if anyone else has had a similar use case, what they did to work around these limitations, and if I’m missing something/should be taking a different approach? Any input is appreciated,Thanks.

Hello,I have a form I am trying to create for clients to be able to fill out and provide their information. I currently have it set to populate a new field for “Agent” contact information when they select that the “Client” and “Agent” ARE NOT the same. When they ARE the same, I want it to autofill the “Agent” field with the same information into the “Client” fields, but I do not know if this is an option and have been unable to figure it out. Hopefully that makes sense.

Is it really the case that Airtable Interface forms can't automatically populate a linked-record field based on the record context from which the form was opened?For example, I have a list of Projects. A user clicks into a specific Project record in an Interface, views its details, and sees a list of related Deliverables. I have a button associated with that list that opens a form to create a new Deliverable. I would expect the Project linked-record field to be automatically populated with the Project record the user is currently viewing, but that doesn't seem to happen nor is there an option to fill that dynamically.Am I overlooking a setting or feature that enables this? It feels like a fairly common workflow, and requiring users to either create records inline or use a separate prefilled form URL seems like a less intuitive experience.

I’m working on building a custom interface page that allows me to choose certain records to send out emails for. I started with a blank interface page and have built what I need to see data wise on the page, but I’m running into the issue of setting up a button to run my automation. I choose “Trigger an automation” when placing the button… but then it tells me that the source is unconfigured. I’m not able to choose my automation until the source is resolved. When I go to choose a source, I’m given no options.So I thought I might need to turn on my automation first. I went in to try to turn it on, but since my trigger is a button being pressed and it’s not connected to a button yet, it won’t let me turn it on. So I’m running into a roadblock on both ends.Does anyone know how I can configure this properly? 

Hi all. I have an automation that creates a doc in Google Docs as one of its steps. It’s triggered by a button press in an interface. We run it 20-30 times a day. 90% of the time, no problem. However, 5-10% of the time it randomly fails to create the doc with a very nonspecific error: When we re-run it with the same data and so on, it runs successfully.The workaround is simply pressing the button again, which is fine, but I’d still like to know what is going wrong. Is there any way to see more information on this error? Or, has anyone else encountered a similar issue?-Natalka

I am needing to build a dashboard to represent TAT on Account Implementations for various teams. I am being asked to use a field history report that will give me a date and time stamp when Stage or the Platform Setup field is changed. We want to be able to show an overall TAT but granular time spent in the various options. Historically I have had a report that would be a single line item per Opportunity with the date stamps out the right in columns.Is there a way in airtable, or before airtable, to help me consolidate or accurately report the metrics? Here is a snapshot of the data from the field history report I am being asked to use: 

Subject: Team Plan Subscription Reverted to Free After Workspace RestoreHello Airtable Community,I’m experiencing an issue with my Airtable subscription and would appreciate your guidance.I purchased a Team Plan (monthly subscription) and had only used it for around 12 days, so my billing period has not ended yet.However, after I deleted my workspace accidentally and later restored it, the workspace was automatically reverted to the Free Plan instead of remaining on the active Team Plan.My understanding is that since I have already been billed and the subscription period is still active, the Team Plan should remain attached to my account or restored workspace.Has anyone experienced this before, or does anyone know how to properly recover the paid subscription on the restored workspace?Thank you for your support.

I sometimes wonder why I still pay airtable money. For an application that claims to be good for time planning it’s mad it still doesn’t seem to be able to do time and date maths properly. I am in UK (so GMT/BST) - I want to have a date field and a separate time field, and to be able to combine these two into a calculated dateTimenothing I have tried seems to work reliably for this without jumping the date back to UTC Has anyone found a solution for what should be a trivial task?Thanks Richard

Subject: Team Plan Subscription Reverted to Free After Workspace RestoreHello Airtable Community,I’m experiencing an issue with my Airtable subscription and would appreciate your guidance.I purchased a Team Plan (monthly subscription) and had only used it for around 12 days, so my billing period has not ended yet.However, after I deleted my workspace accidentally and later restored it, the workspace was automatically reverted to the Free Plan instead of remaining on the active Team Plan.My understanding is that since I have already been billed and the subscription period is still active, the Team Plan should remain attached to my account or restored workspace.Has anyone experienced this before, or does anyone know how to properly recover the paid subscription on the restored workspace?Thank you for your support.

Hello! I am importing messy data entered over many years in many different formats. I am hoping there is an easy way to merge similar single select fields in one.For instance, in the screenshot below there are 50+ ways that people have entered this info over the years, but I would like to consolidate those into under 10 categories. So I would want to take the “Large” single select option and then pull in the various fields such as: “lg” “Lg” “large shade” “large?” etc.Hoping there is a simpler way to do this because there’s a large volume of records.Thank you for any thoughts! 

I want to make a custom interface dashboard page that has a more flexible grid layout, but I want to  develop all the interface elements that could populate that layout as individual custom interface elements. E.g. I click a ‘+’ icon in a block of my custom dashboard interface and click Custom option to open the  ‘Add Custom Element’ dialog box. From there I can add a custom interface element to that block. Is this possible today or do I have to develop all the dashboard options with within the dashboard page element? Thanks!

Greetings Airtable Community!When selecting colors in Single-Select Menus, Charts, etc., is it possible to import a custom color palette that would then be accessible to select at anytime when designing within a base.I noticed the color palette extension add-on, but this appears to create color palettes to copy and paste for use elsewhere but does not create a custom color palete for use within airtable: https://support.airtable.com/docs/color-palette-extension#setting-up-a-color-palette-extensionThanks for your time!

Hey all! I am building a base to track degree progress over about two years for a small group of students. These students need to do four internships in these two years, and I am trying to use a gannt view to set four semesters as dependent on each other. I am having trouble with how to move students backward. For example, I have linked fields to the specific semesters that students are doing internships in: First internship: Fall 2026 Second internship: Spring 2027 Third internship: Fall 2027 Fourth internship: Spring 2028 I am trying to build the system such that if I change the second internship to Fall 2027, it will change the value of third and fourth internship to Spring 2028 and Fall 2028 respectively (but NOT change the semester tied to first internship).  Has anyone done anything like this? 

I have a workflow on make.com that is using Airtable nodes to process the data. Very important for the workflow are the the Status fields in the tables from Airtable. One node hast to update a Status field, but I am getting the error, that the field name is unknown. make.com die a trouble shooting and they say, that the error is coming from Airtable and not from make.com. They provided supporting information as well:At this point, I recommend contacting Airtable Support and sharing the details below with them so they can check why their API is rejecting this field ID even though the field appears to exist in the base/table.Relevant request details:​{    "response": {        "status": 422,        "headers": {            "date": "Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:02:46 GMT",            "content-type": "application/json; charset=utf-8",            "content-length": "93",            "connection": "close",            "set-cookie": [                "AWSALBTG=hN9PUHDIl+znDkXtzw0+U5Ox8NiHEt35+Rt84wZxdqIY6YH

I have an automation that runs from a button on a blank interface. I’m trying to fill in the qualifying Billing Sheet [Link] field with the value from the current Billing Sheet on the blank interface. The automation runs correctly, finding the matching records in the Invoice Task-Hours table. But it won’t link them automatically. I tried linking to the RecordId and to the Billing Sheet Title field. No dice. Note: the Billing Sheet Title field is a formula, if that matters?  

Hello everyone, i’d like to access to the page airtable.com/account/credits and get the JSON of my referred users, which can be found under “credits”I’m talking about this:"acceptedInvitedUsers": [{                    "id": "usrp*****c9IeJ4G84E",                    "email": "m*******@hotmail.com",                    "profilePicUrl": "https:\u002F\u002Fstatic.airtable.com\u002Fimages\u002FuserIcons\u002Fuser_icon_7.png",                    "name": "Maurizio",                    "wasAwardedCreditForReferringUser": false,                    "_invitedTime": "2026-06-10T16:59:09.000Z"                }, {                    "id": "usrCw9R7*****KZcIzo",                    "email": "f*********i@optibus.com",                    "profilePicUrl": "https:\u002F\u002Fstatic.airtable.com\u002Fimages\u002FuserIcons\u002Fuser_icon_10.png",                    "name": "*********",                    "wasAwardedCreditForReferringUser": true,                    "_invitedTime": "2026-05-26T13:29:57.000Z" 

Hello, I received a message that my workspace reached it’s automation run limit. However, there is nothing that I have found in the admin that shows anything about specific automations for a specific base. I have scores of bases and it will not be worth the time to go through each one manually to find the culprit. If there is something I’m missing I would really appreciate the help!

Hi,  When I tries to access a shared link (can’t share here), I get the following error   This private share link is no longer available.The owner may have unshared or deleted it. For security reasons, we cannot share information about the share link owner. Contact the share link owner to request access. How do I fix this?

Scenario Field | Type | Value-------------------------------Amount | number | 100VAT rate | Single select | 13.5VAT amount | formula | {Amount (Net)} * VALUE(SUBSTITUTE({VAT Rate}, "%", "")) / 100 Interesting to see that the VAT Amount value is 14????It should be 13.5, well, mathematically speaking it has to be 13.5 With VAT rate as number, it works as it should be.However the idea is to use single select to reduce human error/workload. Is it possible to get VAT Rate as single select and VAT Amount working together correctly?Any ideas out there? I just ran out of them. Thanks

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.

Dear Airtable Community, for a Project Gantt Plan I have differnt swimlanes that are grouped by Workstream Tags. The gantt view used to show the Tags in a column on the very left side of the table (directly next to the column of the different views). Now this column with the Grouped Workstreams disappeared and there is no option to show it again only when I change the Layout from Gantt to stacked. Please help

Hello, I’m not a developer and need some advise. We have a fairly basic database that we use for internal support requests. When our support team closes a ticket, we would like for them to be able to select a pre-formatted response that fits the scenario but that will also allow them to edit it to fit their personality in a specific note field. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this? 

I’m invoicing time records by project, by month. Each time record has a “Time Task” which comes from a linked lookup table. There’s some 42 time tasks and more may be added in the future. When creating a monthly invoice I want to summarize the hours for each task utilized by that monthly collection of time records for each project invoiced.e.g.5/1/2026 2.0 hours Preparation5/19/2026 1.3 hours Preparation5/21/2026 1.0 hours Preparation*Total Preparation 4.3 hours 5/8/2026 1.5 hours Development5/8/2026 5.8 hours Development*Total Development 7.3 hours I only want to show the * totals, not the actual individual time records.Ideally these totals would simply go into a separate table linked to the invoice.I really don’t want to use a third party tool like Make or Zapier. How can I go about doing that?