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Hey everyone!This is my first post here, so forgive me if it sounds like a silly question. We’re currently working on a script to send an automated message via Slack every time a new record is created in Airtable. We’re using a script, rather than the pre-built Slack automation, as we need more advanced styling options and a button that takes you to a specific Airtable interface page.I have just figured out how to call Name and Address values from the record in the first step of the automation, but I’d like to be able to use these values in the message itself. How do I call the Name or Address in the message part of the script, so that they appear as text?Hope someone can help — thanks in advance!Alan

HiI am a novice using Airtable, but I am learning….slowly.  I have the free plan, and I’m trying to figure out how to add recurring events to my calendar easily. For instance, I would like to add a recurring event every Friday between two specific dates. Any help would be appreciated.

Here's a question for you all,If you have a check box that asks a question such as [Would you like to add this service?] Where checked is yes. How can I get a formula field to fill with a price result?i.e. IF({New Service}, ….{New Service} Being the checkbox field. What goes next? Thanks in advance.  S 

Hey there--- I seem to not be able to use the same “run script” function anymore, because the record area is missing-- Here is what I’m looking at now: And on my other base, I have one more field that I can set that doesn’t seem to appear anymore:  What am I missing?? 

Hi allIn reference to my screenshots below of my Web vs Mobile interface;On mobile, I am unable to add items (order line items table) to my order (order table).Just wondering if anyone knows how to make this work as seems to be an issue trying to do either as field, grid or form...Web Interface Pic: Mobile Interface Pic: 

Hello, I want to know if there is a formula to identify a text within a link cell, in this cell conditions that a home meets appear. Example: unreleased, released, foundation, walls, roof, finishes, finished. I want the formula to identify if the cell evaluated says without releasing the result is UNSTARTED, if it contains released the result is IN PROCESS or if it contains finished, the result is TERMINATED. I have tried with the IF formula, but I have not succeeded. Thank you 

Hi everyone,  I have created a domain specific link to an interface using a shared link. Staff can register with Airtable OK but the link wont work saying they are not authorised to access this page. The same happens when I do it by invitation. Is there something I’m missing? Any suggestions, even the most obvious, would be greatly appreciated.

Hi there. I’m pretty new to airtable and am having an issue with something that feels like it should be quite simple so I am assuming I am missing something obvious. I have a Product table linked to a Product Bundle table. In a single record in the Product Bundle table I have multiple linked records from inventory from name, cost roll-up, quantities etc… Works great. One thing that would be super handy is to find the individual item that is linked from the Product table with the closest expiry date. At the moment I am able to use a roll-up max value field to find the earliest expiry date but I cannot figure out how to reference the record name that it belongs to. For reference, I have 10-20 products linked in one bundle and the expiration determines how I will sell the particular product or if I can at all. So, by finding the record with the earliest expiry date, I can replace that item or order new stock. I hope this makes sense. Thanks in advance, Erica

Hi, I’ve built some automations to send an email when a button is pressed. In the TO: and CC: fields, we use email addresses that forward to a distribution list. Think something like company_operations@misc.com and that will send to 5 people.  For some reason when the automation runs, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. And it’s very inconsistent in what’s causing the problem.  Any thoughts on what the fix could be? (Other than just listing all the people on the distribution lists individually since that could be 30+ email addresses.) Thanks in advance!

HiI’m creating on airtable a KPI for restaurant and my challenge is to find the right Formula that worksi generate the formula with the AI but doesnt workplease help regards 

I created a Form but don't see it in my Data view. 

Hi!I’m creating an automation that creates a record on another table every time that record is updated in the main table. I want to limit this to whenever the update is by adding something, not deleting. Ex: I have an asset that is being used in campaign X. I’m creating a seperate table when whenever this asset is updated to be used in a particular campaign, the table will create that line. If that same asset is then later used in another campaign it will create another entry in that table so I can track performance per campaign. The issue is that if by mistake I update it with the wrong campaign and then delete it, when I delete it (it counts as an update) and it create another record in the automated table. How can I overcome this?Thank you

This question is similar to what another person asked here:I would like to also:1- Select the fields where duplicates values exist.2- Select to keep the newest record to keep3- Run it and be done.however I would like this to be the case with newly created records as well. Every new record that contains a duplicate value in a field would be kept while the existing record with the same value would be deleted. This way the newest record with the value is kept, the old is deleted. The solution in the above link only works for existing records, not newly created records. So I was wondering if there is a way to delete records in this way in Airtable. fyi: my new records are being made using a post API request, if that information helps. thank you

Hello Airtable community,This is my first Airtable project having previously used Trello and Monday.com.I am looking to create a project management tool with standard features (client, contact, team member, project, etc).  Where I am getting stuck when mapping out/setting up is:Projects are to have a start and end date (proposed) or a timeline that can be changed depending on progress on-site. This ideally will have subitems as stages or tasks. I see this as quite straight forward. Team members will be assigned to a project, which can change daily. For example: Team member 1 works on Project 1 next week, however on the following week we need team member 1 on project 2 for 2 days, then back to project 1.  Equipment/machinery TO be treated similar to team members or as items? So they can also be allocated to a project for differing times.With the above in mind, my boss would like to continue sending out a daily (or weekly) schedule showing who is where on what day and what equipment need

I am trying to add a hyperlink that will direct applicants to a third party website within the help text of a form, in order for applicants to visit this site they will currently have to manually copy and past the link in to their browser.  is there a way to have it so that they could just click on the link provided and that would open up the link? so this english proficiency test link is the one I am referring to…   Thank you in advance!

Hey! We have a difficult airtable formula to create that outputs 1 or 0 based on how soon a date is. Could you tell me if you could help?This is the problem:We have a variable called {Deadline}, which is the deadline to respond to a job. We have a job board linked to airtable. However, this is also the deadline for us as recruiters do our work with the applicant. It's still up on the website even minutes before the deadline. So if someone responds, it's too late, which is frustrating for them. But we still would want them to apply in case we have the time.So we need AT LEAST 8 hours (a 9:00 until 17:00 workday) * 60 minutes (for more accuracy) = 480 minutes to do our recruitment work. So we need a formula that says: IF we have less than or equal to 480 minutes of work during work hours until the deadline, the formula should be 1 (indicating to us that we should give a warning on the website when someone applies that we might not make it but will try). If it is already closed it should

My system allows people to sign up for projects and when they sign up, I have an automation running that adds them to the projects table from the users table. The issue is, it’s not allowing that user to be added to multiple projects. If a user clicks the link on a different project, they are removed from the first one. Any insights on why this behavior is happening?

Hi allI’m on the free Airtable tier and I’ve created a basic app to store data about the salamis I make as a hobby. There are several tables. The default interfaces pages are fine for my needs. Is there a way to create a basic homepage that shows when I open the airtable app on my phone that shows me a simple form that has a button to create a new salami, create a new daily measurement, daily PH test, new recipe etc?I have a form but can’t see how to have the buttons open a new form (ie open the Add Salami form) and I can’t see how to have it open by default, and I can’t see a way to have it show when I open the app or the Interface in the app. My guess is that within that is my answer.  But can anyone help?

Hi there, It has been a while since i last made any significant updates to my Airtable projects so I am a bit rusty. I am struggling to find the best way to create “a table inside a table”....I have a table called “Quotes” that has these fieldsQuote ID (single line text) Option (some clients will review different configurations) Line items (multi-select)I want the Line items field to select multiple (static data) records from another table called “products” and then list them inside the quote record. Is this even possible? Any other way to achieve a similar result? 

Hello,I am endeavoring to create a social-media post manager/tracker to coordinate reposting of the same centrally-approved content on the same dates by many different agencies for various campaigns.  The first table contains a record for each content item with the posting date(s) assigned, along with the agencies who will need to post; since there may be multiple posting dates, instead of a Date field, I have added a table just for dates to make this a Linked Record selection.  My second table, which has a row for each selectable date, pulls in the content to be posted on each selected date with a lookup for the agencies tied to each. This is intended to be the table that contains views specific to each agency for their own status updates, filtered to show each agency's approved content assignments (via the "Msg Approved by City" checkbox). This is how I would like it to work when the base is put into use.  Note that I tried to use Autonumber for the primary f

Gents, do you know how to connect the Airtable db with Telegram bot?

So CSV has proven to be a problem for me. I downloaded a CSV file from Homebase, the database my dad used before either of us had ever heard of Airtable, and his product description cells were separated out because of all the commas within. How do I prevent that from happening with Airtable? I’m currently combing through my dad’s 50,000+ records to cut-and-paste clauses back into their origin cells and it is a complete nightmare. It’s not something I can do every time I download a CSV file from Airtable. Please, oh please, tell me there’s a way to avoid getting cells separated out because they’re long text fields with product descriptions that include commas. :fearful:

Hey Everyone,I’m working on a shared Airtable base, and I’d like to restrict certain team members from seeing specific views while still allowing them to access the base. I know I can lock views, but I need something more like custom permissions per user.Does anyone know if this is possible natively in Airtable?Thanks!

Hello. I’m very new to Airtable and need an assist! I have this formula in Google Sheets: =BYROW($G$15:$G,LAMBDA(i,IF(i="",,VLOOKUP(i,$F$1:$G$2,2,0)))) VLOOKUP references this lookup table: 1 UsedLikeNew 2 UsedVeryGood 3 UsedGood 4 UsedAcceptable 5 CollLikeNew 6 CollVeryGood 7 CollGood 8 CollAcceptable 10 Refurbished 11 New  If a number there matches a number in a column  starting in cell G15 (via BYROW), then it returns the category in the lookup table associated with that number. So the column might be: 357410 And the formula would convert these to: UsedGoodCollLikeNewCollGoodUsedAcceptableRefurbished What’s the easiest way to create this in Airtable? I also have a similar issue with this lookup table, but not with numbers: AMAZON_NA FBA DEFAULT FBM  So I have a column that says either AMAZON_NA or DEFAULT and want to convert these to either FBA or FBM. I used =VLOOKUP(F15, $A$1:$B$10, 2, FALSE) in Google Sheets. I assume the logic would be the sam

Hi I am extremely confused by Airtables Linked records and dependencies. Former Access User - I am used to the process of a query design where one takes two tables, identify the matched field on both tables and then having the ability to create a new table with the records from both tables or update one table based on that field relationship. In airtable I can’t see to find a way to do this.I keep creating a linked record in airtable from one table to another and it’s empty.. if I make a lookup field up it wants me to add things but I have the data in both tables I just need to manipulate. I have watched and read airtable instructions over and over and it’s not clicking!!