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Is there a way for tables data to clear at a certain time each day automatically?

I have a base that has 1 table that shows everyone that has registered for an event.  Primary field is the email field, but also has the date they registered. Then in another table I have page views by date. I am trying to figure out how to create a formula that takes the number of registrants and divides it by the page views on a certain day to give me my registration conversion rate. I’m really new to airtable so I”m not sure if this can be created.

 Hi there,I use airtable in my network of retail stores. I have a form where people make various requests, and I have added a drop down field to select the Area Manager associated with that store. This field has been setup as a table with a list of the Area Managers names, and an email field.I am trying to setup a new automation where it sends an email to the selected Area Manager to notify them of the request. I am having trouble getting the right setting for the ‘To’ field. Initially I set it to select the email field of the Area Manager table. But doing this populates the ‘To’ line with a Field ID number, and returns an error saying this is not a valid email address. Can anyone guide me on where I am going wrong? I have only used an email action in the past on a static email address, I have never set one up to use a dynamic email address like this.Thanks in advance. Images below as reference.   

50 automations isn’t enough, we rely on Airtable everyday and have optimized automations wherever possible to handle multiple actions. But we’ve met our 50 automation limit and need more

Hi all,  I’m looking for examples or scenarios of when and how you are using components not for entire workflows and bases, but for fields and automations. I’m also interested in understanding the impact on time savings for creating components vs instructing users to just copy or set-up their own fields and automations. 

I have a table with all our employees along with their start date, their manager, and their manager’s email. I want to send a monthly email on the 1st of the month to each manager separately that will list if they have any employees that will be reaching a milestone that month (30-day, 60-day, 90-day, anniversary, etc). So far, I have the automation set up so that the trigger is at a scheduled time, the action is finding records who are managers, but then what I can’t figure out is how to send separate emails per manager that ONLY lists their own employees and not any other managers’ employees. Is there a way to do this without having to manually set up an automation for each manager?

Hey Everyone! I’m working on custom building a dashboard for our institution that will track student milestones not only while they are in school but beyond. The way I’ve build or database, we have 4 tabs. Activity, People, Ventures and Events. Activity being the catch-all for any thing that has happened in the other 3 tabs. Anyways, what my goal is is to build a record review that looks like the salesforce education cloud that can display milestones that the student has accomplished like the photo below. Does anyone have any experience with this? I really like the way the Life events looks specifically and obviously I’m flexible, but it would be a cool feature for us.  

Hello to everybody, it's my first time here &#x1f605I want realize a Data Repository for all the departments in our Business, but i can't find Case History like this.Can someone have somethings like that? I can be very happy to learn the experience of someone.

Is there a way to see an Instagram grid/preview when using Airtable for social media content calendars? 

In automations triggered by a webhook, is it possible to use the same webhook/automation with different data payload structures? For example, if I’m importing data from 2 different forms with different JSON properties, can I then use conditional logic in the automation to parse the data differently? I know when you test the webhook trigger, it lists the properties, but could you bypass it to handle variations?

Hi, I have a company table and a contacts table that are linked. When i click in the linked field of the company table, and click +, i see all the records in the contacts table. I would like to limit the shown records to only those contacts that belong to the company in question. Can anyone advise how i do that plse?

Given the new integrated Gmail, I’d love to see the ability for Airtable to have a similar integration with Google Chat as Slack where a bot can be added to a Char room and send messages based on Automations.

Hello,Beginner here working on a MVP. Is it possible to create an interface with 6-8 photo carousels each with a drop down of filters? Or is that something beyond a beginner? Thanks!

Hello,we run an agency and for every client we have a different base. The base is almost identical for every client. We now have access to the business plan, and we want to use a master base to consolidate the data from every client into one base, so that we can benchmark our performance as a whole, and dive deeper into every client if we wish. We have a table called KPIs in every client base. The KPIs are always the same. For that reason I have created the same base in our master base, and I am now syncing data from master into each client base. We also have a projects table for every client, which includes 3 fields (primary metric, secondary metric, tertiary metric). These field are linked records from the KPI table. In the KPI table (for each client) we can then see how many times a KPI has been used for that client, and the overall uplift for a KPI with a client. I want the same information to be shown in the KPI table in our master base, but then for all clients. I thought about c

I'd like to: Identify fields with duplicate values Keep only the most recently created record, deleting all other duplicate older records Run the process and be done However, I also want this to apply automatically to newly created records. That is, whenever a new record is added with a duplicate value in a specified field, the new record should be kept, and the older one deleted.The field with duplicate values that I want to identify is called Deviceid, and I have createdtime field.The solution in the linked thread only handles existing records—it doesn’t account for new ones added later. Is there a way to automate this behavior in Airtable scripts?script i made that doesnt work:let table = base.getTable("tablename"); // Get the triggering record's Deviceidlet inputConfig = input.config();let newDeviceId = inputConfig.Deviceid; if (!newDeviceId) {    throw new Error("No Deviceid found in input config.");} // Fetch all records with same Deviceidlet query = await table.selectRecords

Is there anyone who can help with a script for this, if even possible? Would looove to see this implemented as a feature, as we’re using A LOT of views. Thank you!

How can I search globally in all tables ? No the existing search app doesnt work. See the image below. it only search in the records in current base not globally. Please guide me whats the possible solution to this. Screen Shot 2020-09-17 at 10.53.07 AM

When I go to upgrade to the new Teams plan, it says I have 14 billable users (and tries to charge me for such), but 9 of our users are only commenters.The Pricing page FAQ says, "No charges will apply for read-only collaborators, commenters, or people submitting forms."When I click "14 Billable Users" (on the upgrade page), it says, "…users with viewer and commenter permissions will get free viewer seats."And yet:It says here, "You can see every billable collaborator… This includes… any base collaborator with owner, creator, editor, or commenter permissions."And here: "On self-serve paid workspace plans, any collaborator with a permission level of Commenter, Editor, Creator, or Owner is classified as billable.I know Airtable is in middle of a price structure switch; not sure if this conflict of info is due to that.

Hello!  TIA for any help!  I'm creating a base for Donor Management and have run into a challenge.  I'm building an interface for Fundraising Campaign tracking.  The main Interface is a Record View layout.  Potential donors are loaded into a table and then viewed via this Interface.  When you click on a potential donor, it loads their contact information and the tracking data below it, as you can see in this screenshot.  *I've removed the sensitive data! Because the potential donors are linked into the campaigns, all their contact information is not editable in this Interface.  I'm generally okay with that, but I'd like to include a button that would let users open a donor's page for editing, possibly using the Contacts Interface you can see in the menu bar at the top.  Is there a way to create a link that would somehow take the ID of a linked record from the current Interface and pass it to the Contacts Interface on loading?Thanks agai

Hello, I have a table where one column is a relationship to itself. So I can links records to each other.I’d like to have another column where I show the linked records. Sort of like a Lookup what records are linking to a specific record.I found this 3 year old thread, but it has no solution offered here: Is this something I could do today?

When indenting a numbered list in the Airtable rich text field, the Level 1 numbering is working properly. However, the level 2 is not unique to level 1 and continues on the sequence from the previous level 1 line. Ideally, I could have a list organized like below:step one… Note regarding step one… step two Note regarding step two… Any idea on a quick fix for this? 

My company publishes books and the titles of the books often change throughout the course of the publication process. We currently ingest records via a CSV download from our title management platform that is manually uploaded to Airtable. We already have an automation that deletes or rolls up duplicate titles. Currently, when a book title changes, it is viewed by Airtable as a new record. Is there a way to have Airtable check the upload and see that the ISBN is the same and update the record title rather than create a new record? Example: Title ISBN ORIGINAL TITLE 123 NEW TITLE 123  Instead of creating a new record for “NEW TITLE”, I would like Airtable to see that the ISBN is the same and update “ORIGINAL TITLE” with “NEW TITLE”.  Thanks!

Hello, Been very busy and I suspect I’m going blind with what’s probably (hopefully) a simple data flow. As a picture says a thousand words, my problem is as per below; I can self link a record to its own table with a lookup field, which in this example I consider that as “Pushes to” - So A pushes to B. But what I’m needing, is another column that tells me the reverse of that relationship, so I can see that “B” is pulling from A - and then even create a filtered view around that very “Pulls From” data. I’m keen for your thoughts on this, hoping there’s something simple that I’ve missed that will allow this workflow. But I also have access to scripts/automations too if they’re the only way out of this.

Anyone know how to stop autofill on forms? 

I have two separate AirTable bases that I’m using to track our orders and inventory. I just upgraded from a free account because I wanted to be able to sync information from the two bases to be able to compare orders to inventory side by side. I’ve created a new base and synced tables from each existing base but cannot figure out how to get data from one table into either the other table or a new table. I’ve tried lookup fields and linking to new record fields and can’t get a new field to populate with information from the other table. Is this not possible or hopefully I’m just missing a simple solution?