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I've created a customer appointment confirmation system for our solar installation business and am struggling with a specific issue.Current Setup:We have an Airtable base with appointment records for our customers We send automated emails with links to an Airtable form for appointment confirmationProblem:When customers submit the form, it creates a new record with their feedback instead of updating the original appointment record. This disconnects their response from their appointment data.What I've Tried:Passing the Record ID as a parameter in the form URL Using "prefill_RecordID" to attempt to link back to the original recordQuestion:How can I set up an automation that will:Capture the form submission Find the original appointment record using the Record ID passed in the form Update the original record with the confirmation status Optionally delete the new record created by the formI'm looking for step-by-step instructions on setting up this automation correctly, especially the "Find

Hi all - a weird thing is happening with this automation. On the table, I have a view sorted on a particular manager, employee type and status, resulting in 72 records - which is correct. When I set up an automation, I need an email sent to a particular email address that includes that table view (in either a list or grid) in the body of the email, which I’ve built and it works - apart from the resulting email that is created only contains the first 10 records, not all 72. And I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why it’s doing that. I understand the preview is limited to just 10, but I am getting this result if I run the automation from start to finish. In the Find Records, I’ve tested both Condition and View and redid the automation and I get the same result. It’s not wrong, as the 10 records it’s showing are indeed in that table, but it’s only the first 10, I need all 72. Any suggestions? I’m getting desperate lol. 

Hi,I’m experimenting with the RLP with DNA 2023 Airtable template.  I’m trying to personalize the column headings and can’t figure out how to do what I want after reading the Airtable help.  Can someone please tell me the following?  It's really a general question about copying/pasting a column field from one tab to another.I made a new field called “My Tree” and inserted it on the DNA Match Details tab.  But, now how do I insert that same “My Tree” column on the Kit Access tab?Thanks! 

I'm trying to send a formatted HTML via gmail and it comes out as junk. In particular, a properly fomatted <table> set of tags appears to have </table> inserted right after the <table> tag, messing up the output. I can't tell if this is something the browser is doing, or is happening as the automation gmails the body.Any thoughts on this?example input and output (note, I'm not listing my entire table, but I do wrap it in a </table> tag and is properly formatted html:Input: <table><tbody><tr valign="top"><td><strong>Email Group</strong></td>source that shows up in gmail:<p></p><p><span></span></p><table></table><p></p><p><span></span></p>

How do I edit what date this filter defaults to? It's been the same default since I originally built the dashboard, but I would prefer to be able to edit this.  

Hello everyone, I’m having some trouble with the field order. As much as I move the field order in my grid view, when I click on manage fields, they appear in another order… I wouldn’t mind but the problem is when I send automatic emails with list views of fields it does not display the fields in the order that I need to. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance Patrick

As we can see in this graph Airtable Interface is not interpreting the numbers in an ascending order. It seems to only look at the first digit. I've tried to fix this issue in many different ways, but no luck.I need the graph to start in September and end in August (our FY)

Hi Airtable Community, I have created an interface with a dashboard. There, budget amounts are given as a number based on our financial year. Now I don't want to have to adjust all filters in the number configuration every year (when the financial year changes).Does anyone have an idea how I could build this dynamically so that I only adjust the FY once and it takes the current year into account in all filters? best regardsMirko

Sorry…I am swapping over from Jotform. I need a form where customers lookup their details (record) by entering telephone number…if there is a match, on submit, the customers details are emailed to them.

Is there a way for me to get rid of the preceding "Sum:" in the interface graphs?  

Hi,  I'm running a research participant network for my organization. When our customers sign up to do product research with us, they provide a number of times they want to be contacted about engaging in a research activity. I need an flow automated flow that will 'quarantine' participants when they have met their limit, and that will reset at the end of the year. (a single select field, that I can use to hide them in the view of available participants) Currently I have:- Availability given by the participant in a form - I'm using a formula to convert that to a number field. - A 'engagement status' field to indicate whether a participant is available or currently engaged (used to filter them from view of available participants).- An automation that switches the above field from 'engaged' back to 'available' once the research as ended. I'd like to be abe to count how may times the 'engagement status' field has been changed to 'engaged', then compare that to

I use the software to keep track of all my craft projects as well as all my supplies. I am trying to calculate the price of the supplies used for my projects ("cost per item * # of items" kind of thing), but one of my fields has multiple values. When I try the below formula, it always returns a 1.0.{Price/sq in (from Vinyl)}*{Area of Vinyl Used (sq in)} Is there a way to have each value in the "price/sq in" field be multiplied by the "Area Used" field (which only has 1 value)?

Hello, I am new to Airtable and formulas. My current formula is thisIF({Full/Part Time}="Part-time", 0.5, IF({Full/Part Time}="Full-time", 1.0, 0))I want to add a condition that if another field has two selected clients, the part time value of 0.5 will be doubled.The Full/Part Time column is a single select field. The formula isn't coming up with any results. Any idea what I did wrong, or what's missing in my formula? Thank you! 

I've submitted my information 4 times online and emailed support to have someone from Airtable call me to upgrade to enterprise. It's been over a week. Is this normal or is there a better way to get in touch with someone?

Just purchased upgrade to Enterprise. Sales rep sent me a "how to" on upgrading to Enterprise. The video shows the ability to upgrade to Enterprise when you click on the license level. When I click on the license level, it says contact sales. We've signed, claimed domain and ready to roll. Just need assistance with next steps.

Hi AirTable community! I have a problem that I can't, for the life of me, find a solution to.I have an Event table that includes a linked column for Personnel attending the event. I also have a separate table where I have profiles for each person for each event ("Travel needs"). So, if Event A has Person 1, Person 2, and Person 3 attending, then the Travel needs table would have 3 profiles in it: Event A:Person 1, Event A:Person 2, and Event A:Person 3.I am trying to create an automation where, if I add a person in the linked Personnel column of an event, it automatically creates a Travel needs profile for that person for that event. The problem is, if I add Person 1, then it generates Travel need record: Event A:Person 1. But then I wait a moment, and add Person 2, and it generates: Event A: Person 1 (again), Event, A:Person 2. It creates new records for every single Person linked to the Event, not just the new ones.I've tried using Find Records in my automation, but I can't seem to g

Hi, I have an automation that triggers on record update. But it triggers whilst I’m still typing instead of once i finish and press enter. Is there a way i can tell it to wait until the user ahs finished entering the data (aka pressed enter) and then run? Thanks in advance :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi there,I have a customer who has developed his logistics management system. It has a well done system with interfaces and automations. He wants me to develop new functionalities, interfaces and automations, but I don't want to touch the system that is in production.What is the best way to do, clone the complete database, only the table and the affected interface. What about the automations?Please your comments on the best way to do it.Thank you,Joseph

Hello! Who is an export in building short term rental inventory systems in Airtable?I work for a A/V production company that rents out LED Tiles and Audio equipment to trade shows. We'd like to build an inventory system that tracks gear getting rented to specific jobs and clients.We'd also like to be able to download what we call a "pull sheet" which is a nicely designed PDF that lists all of the gear getting rented for a specific job. Is anyone up for helping to build this out?

I have an interface that has worked properly for months. But in the last week or so, its behavior has changed so as to make the interface unusable. To demonstrate the issue with video, I've just made this greatly simplified version of it.The filter is tied to the element. When I enter a member number, any existing records linked to that member number should display (this still works). When I add a new record and link it to the member, it should be added to the displayed records (this has stopped working).What the video does not show is that if I look into the table, a new record has been created, but it is not linked. So it's as if the new record is being filtered out before I can even put anything into it. (If that's the case, why is it still letting me select a member - giving me the impression that I've linked the record?)I did nothing to change the configuration of the base or the interface (which was created with the Blank template). So, is this a bug that was introduced rece

Hi there! I have two tables involved in this automation, a Projects table and a Tasks table. Currently my automation is set up so that when a project status changes to "Ready to Build," a series of new records are created in the Tasks table.I'm running into a scenario where a project might be paused or delayed and moves back to "Pending" status, then back to "Ready to Build" again at a later date. Is there a way to keep the automation from recreating the same set of tasks again?Thanks! 

I'm trying to set up an automated email to email our clients with a feedback form (not an Airtable form, we use a different platform). The feedback form needs to be tailored to each individual, so I've added a field for the link for each record. In the automated email, I'm using the "choose data from" tool to insert the form url from the record. However, when I generate the preview, there is nothing left. I've attached screen shots of the draft email vs the preview. How do I make the link appear in the email??

Building a couple automated email reminders and having a weird issue. I have three attachment fields, first is for a black credit card authorization form, the second is for client invoice, and third is for client’s completed credit card form. So far, my automated email reminder for past due balance works nicely, which includes hyperlinks to auth form and their invoice. However, I’m building a second auto email and when I try to enter Clients completed form link, nothing shows up. I have checked multiple times and there is indeed a link in the row & field, but when I go to fill the body of my email with placeholder text and insert the dynamic field for Completed form URL, its blank. It’s almost seems like the properties for automations are syncing with what is entered on my table.

I'm using Airtable to keep updated physical therapy notes for learners in a special needs school. All PT students and I fill out a form that feeds into a table to keep the daily notes. This is all fine until trying to fill out the information for group sessions but having it feed into each learners' individual notes.What I need to be able to do is select all the learners present in the group, fill in the general session notes (I.e. date, time, what activities the group did) and then have the form open a section for each of the learners to have an individual section to be able to write up their individual performance. This single form then needs to feed into individual records in the main database table. To try and make it clearer, if there are three learners in a gross motor group (child A, B and C) I need the main database to reflect the following:For child A - the date, time and general group info, Child A's individual performance in the group but NO information related to child

I am looking for a Chrome extension that sort of acts as a reverse web clipper. The extension should take data from Airtable (or alternatively a csv-file) and put it in certain input fields of a handful of selected websites. I would like to be able to select the input fields via css tags. Does anybody know an extension that would be suitable for the job? Thanks in advance!