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I know there are a number of Noloco users who use Airtable as the back end, and I'm hoping for some advice.I have a fairly complex app and due to some changes my clients IT team made the magic links and password reset emails not longer get to the users.  Noloco support is recommending I clone the app under a new name which should work as long as the new name is acceptable.Has anyone had experience with cloning apps (I've done it but not with a larger live app)?  Is there anything I should watch for or be aware of?Thanks.  

Is it possible to add validation for linked record rows?I am using the Record Review layout to display data with a one-to-many relationship. I need to apply validation to ensure that the value is not empty and does not exceed a dynamically generated value.Is this possible in an Airtable interface?Thanks.

Hi all! I am trying to find a method to tell me the Field Name of the last modified field, using a Formula. Is this possible without external scripting? I'd also settle for Field ID, although not most ideal 🙃Was hoping for a function like LAST_MODIFIED_TIME( FIELDNAME() ) or something.Basically, I have logs coming into a Logs table with 100(ish) columns, and I want to know at a glance what type of logs that particular one is 🙂Thanks in advance!Adam

I have a form where users will enter product details, among those details is the "Field Date", I am trying to set up automation so that when they submit a form and enter a new record, it takes the "Field Date" and subtracts 11 days from it and then enters the new date into the "Feedback Due" column for that product.I have a TRIGGER set to recognize when the "Field Date" is not empty. My ACTION is set to Update Record, then in the "Feedback Due" I am trying to use DATEADD({Field Date}, -11, 'days') to calculate the new date.I just get "Field "Feedback Due" cannot accept the provided value: Could not convert string to date."Both columns are set to the same date format. I am new to airtable and would appreciate any help anyone can provide to get me going in the right direction.

I can’t figure out how to center align a column. Surely I can do this?

I am working on an interface to summarize project line items by vendor with the goal of seeing how much of each project order needs to be ordered from each vendor.  To do this, I am using the list interface and grouping line items by project and vendor.  In the interface, the only summary data shown at the vendor level is record count.  However, within the base, it gives you the option to show summary data for different columns (i.e. sum /average of column at lowest level).  Is this possible within the list interface?  Or would a different interface be more useful?

Hello,I think I'm at my limits with trying to get Airtable to function as we really envisioned.  Anyone know the best place to find Airtable consultants with likely programming abilities?  A few of the things we really wanted to do were:1. Create a custom form that goes to contacts and their selections would filter back into our main table but this needs to be very limited with selections as certain items we code on contacts are internal only.2.  A mass emailer.  We use Airtable as a giant database for our independent contractors and code them by areas they cover and preferences.  We have Zapier and an external operations system and would love the ability to integrate all so that we can send a mass email to a designated list of names/email addresses based on a filter that looks nice and inputs the key job data available from our operations software (SQL Server database).  Have struggled with this one and even though we have the Stripo HTML email created it

I need a formula to verify a single-line text field only contains productId's separated by commas with <=30 comma separated productId's.OK: <=30 comma separated 8-character productIdsNot OK: >30 productId's; <8 or >8 character productId's, not comma separatedexample (with 5 comma separated productId's)correct: B0D5FHXP,B0D86NWH,BCVPRWY7,DRKM1T5G,GK3DHGH9incorrect:7 productId's: B0D5FHXP,B0D86NWH,BCVPRWY7,DRKM1T5G,GK3DHGH9,H4VPMWY7,MRKM1Y6F5 productId's with missing commas: B0D5FHXP B0D86NWH BCVPRWY7 DRKM1T5G GK3DHGH97 productId's with semi-colons: B0D5FHXP;B0D86NWH;BCVPRWY7;DRKM1T5G;GK3DHGH9 

HeyI am using Postman to make an API call from Airtable to list all 14,000 of my records to store in a variable and pass onto voiceflow.This is my pre- request script: function getAllRecords() {const url = 'https://api.airtable.com/v0/baseID/tableID';let records = [];// First requestrequestAirtable(url, null, function(initial_response) {records.push(...initial_response.records);let offset = initial_response.offset;// Handle pagination recursivelyfunction fetchNextPage(offset) {if (!offset) {console.log(`✅ Data Fetch Complete! Total records: ${records.length}`);pm.environment.set("voiceflow_data", JSON.stringify({ fields: records }));return;}requestAirtable(url, offset, function(response) {records.push(...response.records);fetchNextPage(response.offset);});}fetchNextPage(offset);});}function requestAirtable(url, offset, callback) {const api_key = pm.environment.get("AIRTABLE_API_KEY"); // Securely store API keyif (offset) {url += `?offset=${offset}`;}const options = {url: url

Hi All, I'm new on using Airtable Automations and have been trying to sync content with a Google Spreadsheets file.Once using the "When record update" trigger type, I've observed that each "enter" command made by the user when typing on a specific cell/field in Airtable creates a new row in the GSheet tab.My question is: how to assure that the GSheets will reflect and store only the final status, i.e., the most up-to-date content in Airtable?Rks in advance for your thoughts! 

Why do we use the Data Set feature? What is the point / benefit? If the data set is fed from one table in a base, then why can't we simply sync this table out to other bases in a workspace?The guide doesn't clear this matter up in my opinion.https://support.airtable.com/docs/data-sets-and-verifying-data-in-airtable

Hi there,I have a team of account executives and I'm trying to rollup the amount of revenue each person manages during a 12-month period. Revenue is generated on a per project basis. Each project has a start and end date and a monthly retainer fee, which are recorded in the project's record in my project table. I have a formula field ("Project Value") that calculates the total project value.I maintain a second team member table and I link account executives to the projects they manage using a linked record field. Some projects are managed by two account executives (and are linked to two account executive records as a result).The problem is that when I rollup the amount of revenue each person manages during a 12-month period, for projects that have two account executives attached, the rollup attributes 100% of the project revenue to both of the employees linked (rather than 50% to each). Can anyone point me towards a solution? Many thanks.   

Hey there - What I'm Trying to Accomplish:I'm building an Airtable automation that extracts email addresses from multiple fields in my Contacts table and creates individual records in a Master Email List table. Each email should be stored as a separate record, along with the corresponding Contact Name and an "Email Type" field (Primary, Partner, Referral, or Connection).This will allow me to export clean, deduplicated email data into HubSpot for email campaigns.My Setup:Table: Contacts (source table)Fields:Contact NameFirst NameLast NameEmail (Primary Email)Partner EmailReferral EmailConnection EmailTable: Master Email List (destination table)Fields:EmailContact NameEmail Type (Primary, Partner, Referral, Connection)Automation Steps (Attempted):1️⃣ Trigger: "When a Record Matches Conditions"If any of the email fields (Primary, Partner, Referral, or Connection) is not empty, trigger the automation.2️⃣ Find Records Action:Find all records in Contacts where

Hi All,I'm migrating from Smartsheet to Airtable for Project Management and one thing that I am struggling with, that we rely heavily on for project management, is date / task dependencies. Setting this up in Smartsheet is easy and intuitive, requiring no formulas.Desired workflow:I want to set the Start Date, the Duration and task Dependency so that, if the Duration or Date(s) of a task change, the downstream tasks, as denoted in the Dependency field, will auto-magically update. I have reviewed this video several times and it makes sense and seems easy, but when I configure my fields following the instructions in the video, it does not work as expected.Set up:Table has a Duration, Start Date, End Date and Dependency fields.Dependencies are enabled and set up like the following:The table looks like the following:Expectation:In the Table image above, I would expect that, since the 'Get PB' task is dependent on the 'Get Bread' task, Start Date for 'Get PB' will begin  on 12/28/

Hi,I have a formula that almost works. I'm trying to make my primary field a formula where it looks at "Column A" and looks at "Column B". If a there's a value in "Column A", enter that value as the primary field. If there's a value in "Column B", enter that value in the primary filed. If there's a value in both "Column A" and "Column B", combine those two values and place a "/" between the two fields. The formula I have looks like this: IF(AND({Column A} != BLANK(), {Column B} != BLANK()), CONCATENATE({Column A}, "/", {Column B}),IF(Column A != BLANK(), {Column A}, {Column B})) This does work. However this formula is adding the "/" character to the beginning of "Column A" and at the end of "Column B" when there's only one value in one of the fields. The results look something like this:If there's a value in "Column A" but not in "Column B":12345/75326/23457/ If there's a value in "Column B" but not in "Column A":/93664/30483/54214 I tried r

Say I have a base with a table that has a parent/child relationship with itself.  Projects with parent/child projects, Tasks with subtasks, Contacts with links to a fiance or manager – there's a lot of use-cases for linking a record to another record in the same table.  The problem I'm running into is that two-way sync doesn't allow you to edit linked records to the same table.Linked records in two way sync is so great, and it fixed soooooo many things in my workflow – but I can't figure this one out.  Links to the same table are not editable in the target base as far as I can tell, but I really really want to be able to make changes to parent/child relationships in a target base. The only way around this I've been able to think of is to make a second table to handle the relationship, probably like this:It's a little ugly in the data view, but it works well enough in interfaces in the target if you use a view and not a field:This approach works fine, except for

Hey Airtable Community,I have a list of tasks, and I group them by project (which is a separate table). I also have a field in the project table, specifically a progress field, and I’d like to display this field alongside the grouped tasks in the interface.I remember I've done it before and I even have a screenshot I attach below. But I can't remember how it's done!Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated!Thanks in advance!

I have a task table and some have linked records to a subtask table. Is there a way to get the subtasks to show up on a timeline view page that the source is the task table?If not, is there any other suggested way of managing subtasks that would allow this that isn't a long text with rich text checkboxes?Thanks! 

I have a 4 table layered structure in my base.  VP<->Objective<->KR<->Project.  Each layer has a link to the layer above/below it.  I am creating an interface to show all of the work under each VP.  For Objectives solely under 1 VP, this is working great.  My challenge is that we have some Objectives that are shared between multiple VPs.  When I show those, I want the table to look like this:Shared Objective   Shared KR        Projects (filtered to show only the selected VPs projects)I have fields in the Projects table that I can use to filter, but have no way (that I can see) to apply a filter in this way.I tried creating a link from Project<->VP.  From that, I can build a table of Projects grouped by KR, but I can't show any of the KR information in the table.  Is there a way to do what I am trying? 

Hi there, I’ve added a new custom field to my primary view and put it the order I want it to be with my other fields. When I navigate to a secondary view that custom field is alllllll the way at the end of my view (not where it is in my primary view). Is there a way to customize the field so that it’s at the beginning of every view? Does that make sense?

I have tried all week, very unsuccessfully, to get my company's account upgraded from Team to Business.  I have submitted multiple sales contact forms and help desk tickets.  Nothing but crickets.  Is there any DIRECT line to a human sales person at Airtable that can assist, today, in getting our company switched over?  We were supposed to roll out AT to our entire research team today but because I could not get it hooked into Okta, we had to delay for...well who knows now.  

Hi All,I've been working on customizing a script for an air table base I'm building, and I've hit a wall with fixing the section about copying over dependency (linked record field) from the template tasks table into the active tasks table. I need the newly created tasks in the "Active Tasks" table to have dependencies mapped to each other as instructed by the "Template Tasks" table. Here is how my base is set up: Newsrooms Table"Revenue Services Link" → Links to "Template Revenue Services" Table"Create Template Tasks" → Button Field"Link to Active Tasks" → Links to "Active Tasks" Table"Onsite Ad Ops Tasks Created" → Checkbox/Boolean"Newsletter Ad Ops Tasks Created" → Checkbox/Boolean"Strategy and Execution Tasks Created" → Checkbox/Boolean"Branded Content Tasks Created" → Checkbox/BooleanTemplate Revenue Services Table"Template Task Links" → Links to "Template Tasks" TableTemplate Tasks Table"Task Name" Single Line Text Field"Dependency" Linked Records in "Template Tasks" Tab

Hello. I am a dog trainer with multiple board and train dogs that stay with me for various programs I offer. I teach the dogs in phases, and would like to keep track of where each dog is in their progress. Can I have an automation where if a record is marked as "done", the notes field is updated with new text with the next steps? The dogs are always in different places in training, and my brain feels so torn trying to mentally keep up with who has mastered what skill. I just want a way to visually see things as well as help hold me accountable to follow steps without skipping any, as the dogs start to blur together and sometimes I go too fast/slow (I'm on limited time, the dogs need to be ready in 2, 3, or 4 weeks depending on program!) 

Hi, How can I add multiple rows at once in a table. (This is a function that is super easy in google spreadsheet). AT only allows for one row at a time and I have to keep clicking on the Plus sign. Too much work. I wanna add 100 rows at once. Is that possible?

I am allowing users to add projects via record templates by clicking an add project button in my interface. The challenge is that while much of the information they need to create is already handled by the template (i.e. tasks, predecessors, etc.). I do need them to create a project name, assign a project manager, etc. When I select the template a form opens to collect this information. So when I select Broadband (New or Upgrade) I get this form which has all the information I need to collect. But when I select the Disconnect Any Services template I get a completely different form.Some of the templates appear to reuse the same form (monthly invoice review, monthly strategy, etc.)How do I control what form is opened when I select a template? I would like to reuse the first form from this post for all my templates but I can't see any way to set the form used by the template. The add project button is configured to use that form but some templates seem to ignore that and us