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Hi Everyone, I'm Meenu Hinduja and my husband Dheeraj Sudan, run a business. I’m running into automation errors in my Airtable base. Could you please share your suggestions on how to troubleshoot and fix them?RegardsDheeraj Sudan and Meenu Hinduja

I have a database that is used to record the status change of projects and I need help with my automation. Currently I have an automation set up that is triggered when a record is updated (watching the “status” field); then it creates a record on my Change Log Table. I want it to record the “old” status and the “new” status in a field, along with the date the change was made and the user who made it. I am having trouble setting this up, can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

Hi! I wanted to put up a topic about a feature which would tell you which fields should be killed. Airtable could develop something which ranks fields by dependencies and “data completion” (data completion being a stat calculated by “Number of Records where Data Exists” / “Total Number of Records”. This way, we could know if theres not a lot of people using this field and secondly, whether there are dependencies. Omni is great but lots of bases get too many fields over time and we have to start deleting them. I want features that make my bases more elegant/simple.

I’m loving interface extensions so far! It’s super easy to get up and running. I have an external website that uses the Airtable API that I think would work much smoother if it were an interface extension and inside AT proper. The only problem is… it’s in Vue, and it’s way too complicated a project to rewrite from scratch in React.Assuming the interface extensions team isn’t planning on making a Vue SDK as well (...unless? 😳), has anyone tried inserting a Vue component into React, specifically inside the Airtable Blocks SDK, where no Vite config file is available?

Can someone guide me on whether there is a way to nest views under major topics/departments? For example, our photo team might want to have different ‘Views’ they use, but I want to group all of their views under one department. Our ecomm team also has different views, but I want to nest them all under ecomm. I work with between multiple departments, so I want to see views grouped by department (photo, ecomm, production, retail, etc.). We are in the beginning phase of setting up airtable for our teams so we are still learning how this all functions. Thank you for your help!

We are looking for Airtable to help automate our Onboarding process.  It seems like it sends a blank email whereas we want a calendar invite they can click accept and it be inserted into their calendar.  Then we also tried Google meetings to get this working but it only works with 1 user.  Once you add more than 1 person it will not send a calendar invite.  Any advice would be appreciated.

We use Airtable heavily with parent --> child relationships and are trying to standardize our workflows using record templates, especially within Interfaces while reducing the amount of automations used in this aspect of our workflow.What we’re trying to do (high level)We want to generate groups of task records (child records) and link them to a parent record that already exists. We only ever work in interfaces so it must have a way to function for our users there.Using record templates or a native grouping feature Without relying on automations Without creating a new parent recordCurrent setupWe have many tables that act as a parent record and then one table that is the child record (tasks). Most of them have a pre- and post- step of creation, some with 3 steps where specific tasks are generated at each phase (e.g. Interest, Application, and Decision). Below is an example of 2 steps (pre-award and post-

I’m curious about external Airtable documentation. How do you document the setup of your Airtable bases?My team uses a couple of bases and we’re exploring how best to document them. We use Notion for other purposes, including knowledge management. We’re working on user guides for how staff use the bases, but my question for this group is more about the technical documentation.I started playing around with the idea of documenting each table and their fields in Notion databases. That quickly started to feel like we’d sort of just be recreating the base structure in a way that is very difficult to keep up with. We feel the need to have external documentation (to include documenting integrated forms in Fillout, some automations in Make, etc.), but haven’t yet landed on the right format and scale. Would greatly appreciate hearing what anyone else does.

I am so happy and excited about the abilities for Omni to code a custom interface page and to make a custom extension and host as a page.  but I am having a ton of difficulties and challenges in figuring out how to do what I want to do—even with cursor help.  I want to create a custom interface page with the extensions that act like a normal list view but has an improved/optimized record detail view that includes the flexibility features I want for building interfaces pages.  here is what I want to do, and I am hoping to have some guidance or help for record viewer Floating/static Header control + adding a “status field” to the right of the header that also floats Making groups able to collapse and expand on title  Pagination or tabs that I can custom organize, name and assign groups and/or fields to to make long record detail pages, shorter I have tried and tried again. But all t

I’m having an issue with a formula that rounds up incorrectly, i’ve browsed the forums and can’t seem to find a solution.I have a simple math equation x * y = zI suspect that the issues is stemming from a formula that contains four decimal points:I’m not able to round up this number, however, it needs to remain as is.  I’m not sure how to get a correct calculation using airtable. 

Hello everyone,I am new to Airtable and would really appreciate some guidance from the community.I run a luggage storage startup in India, and we use Airtable to manage our customer bookings. Each booking record includes: Booking reference number Customer details (linked / lookup field) Payment method (Stripe or PayPal) Payment status (Yes / No) Booking status (calculated using a formula) Booking created date Start date & time of the booking End date & time of the booking When the payment status is “Yes”, the booking status changes to “Confirmed.”When the customer arrives and starts using our service, the status changes to “Renting.”As our number of bookings has grown, I am struggling to create one single view

Quick question / feature request: Would it be possible to make the Calendar view in Interfaces scrollable (vertically or horizontally), instead of navigating month by month using the arrows? An infinite scroll would make it much easier to:  View multiple months at once Drag and reschedule calendar items several weeks or months ahead (e.g. 1–2 months forward)

I have a table of contacts that includes zip code for each contact. I want to provide a view of contacts for a given county. I can get a list of zip codes for the county, but it's too many zip codes to list each one as a separate condition on a filter.I thought about setting up a zip code table and using a linked record from the contacts table. Is there a way to create a new linked record field that links based on an existing already-populated column? There are too many records to select linked records manually.Or, is there a way to create a view with filter criteria that references another table?Thanks for any suggestions.

I hope this finds you well. I recently upgraded my plans AI credits to accommodate some initial needs around adding data to my base. I will not need that amount of AI credits next month.That said, here are couple questions:What date will I be charged for my team plan? I cannot find this information in my workspace settings. If I downgrade my plans AI credits will I lose the AI credits I've already paid for? FYI - Would Airtable consider adopting a BYOK model? Or possibly separate AI credit purchases from the plan itself. Gemini suggested that Airtable is charging a 5000% markup on AI credits when compared to standard API usage pricing. Does that sound accurate to you?Humbly and respectfully,

I’m building a restaurant menu website (similar to a Culver-style menu) where all menu data—categories, item names, descriptions, prices, images, and availability flags—is stored in Airtable and fetched dynamically using the Airtable REST API. Each menu category (e.g., ButterBurgers, Frozen Custard, Drinks) is linked to a separate table, and the website consumes this data to render the full menu on the frontend. While the setup works correctly in most cases, I’m running into inconsistent behavior when retrieving records via the API.Specifically, some API responses return only partial data sets or miss linked records, even though those records are present and correctly linked inside Airtable. In certain cases, a category endpoint returns fewer items than expected, and refreshing or re-running the same API request sometimes returns a different result. I’ve verified that the API key, base ID, table names, and view filters are correct, and I’m not hitting documented rate limits.

Hi everyone!I entrusted Airtable as part of my career (business plan) and now, I’ve encountered a significant issue at my workplace.My customers are salesmen and they utilize quick ‘CTRL+F’ buttons to find our products on our Airtable. If they don’t, they go to another vendor and we lose that sale.1,000 record view  limit banner with button on right I understand they can press ‘Load all records’, but unfortunately not all of my customers are fluent with computers and/or want to deal with pressing ‘Load all records’ all the time, so we’d just lose the sale entirely.I notice this pops up ONLY when I am logged in. HOWEVER, when not logged in and/or viewing via a link... the banner is not there and all inventory shows as normal. Unfortunately, as a good Airtable

Hi guys, I’m looking to add an automation which assigns an 'issue number' when a new issue is recorded in my AirTable, either by intake form or manually adding in a new line. So the automation would need to understand that:A) Issues can come in groups so there could be multiple issues raised under one issue type and that they will then all need the same issue number assigned to them.EXAMPLE:ISSUE #1Product failure 1Product failure 2Product failure 3 ISSUE#2Sizing problem 1 ISSUE #3Color failure 1Color failure 2 B) Take the next numerical number in the sequence and not duplicate an issue number that’s already recorded somewhere in the table. For example, if I have 10 issues, and issue 1-5 are open, and issues 6-10 are closed, then the automation would need to assign '

Hi all!I’m having an issue of forms responses not populating into my data table after the form is submitted. This is a unique problem though, because what seems to be happening, is that when a response is submitted, by anyone, it pushes the last response through but doesn’t appear itself.For example, a coworker submitted a test response last Friday. I received the confirmation email on Friday, but the response didn’t populate into the data table UNTIL I submitted my own test response. I immediately saw my coworkers response populate into the data table but not mine, even though I received the confirmation email for my response. Has anyone encountered this before? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!Brandon

Hello everyone,I’m currently using Airtable to manage my business database and I’ve run into a problem that I haven’t been able to solve. I’m hoping someone in the community can point me in the right direction.I have a table called “Services” with the following fields: Service (linked record to another table called “Service Catalog”) Sale price Labor cost Material cost Depreciation cost I’ve successfully automated the labor cost calculation based on employees and working time. However, I’m struggling with the material and depreciation costs.What I need is for these values to be “frozen” at the moment of the sale.In other words, if I later update the mate

This is a huuuge release!Finally, one of the top problems in Airtable has now been solved!For the first time ever, you can now control who receives automation error notifications!Amen and hallelujah!! 🥳🙌🎊🍾Check out the screenshots below.- ScottWorld, Best Airtable Consultant 

Goal: To update records in my base table when changes are made to an existing meeting notes document or a new meeting notes is saved. I’d like to review the changes so I can approve or reject any changes before the records are updated in Airtable.Situation: I currently have my meeting notes saved in Google Drive which n turn is  synced to my base in Airtable. When changes are made to an existing meeting note or a new meeting note is saved, it's reflected in my ‘Internal Meeting Notes” table in my base. So the sync works fineIssue: I created an automation to incorporate a trigger that activates when updates or changes are made to the 'Internal Meeting Notes' table;  an action was added to find records, generate AI-driven suggestions for updates, and subsequently update records based on the generated content. Here is a screen shot of the automation. The issues I have are that, I'm getting an error in the “Find record ste

Previously reported issue: Getting all records modified after a date | Airtable CommunityI’m calling Airtable passingfilterByFormula: "IS_AFTER(LAST_MODIFIED_TIME(), '2026-01-25T00:00:00.000Z')",// filterByFormula: "IS_AFTER({Last Modified}, '2026-01-25T00:00:00.000Z')",Last Modified is a formula column I created. Neither of them works.ExpectedOnly return records that were edited after a certain dateActualIt returns all records Am I doing something wrong? Is it not supposed to work?Are there workarounds for this?

Is it possible to utilise a tracking pixel to allow a third party to track the progression of a record through a series of statuses within Airtable?

Hi guys, hoping you can help me out here. I have ‘Table A’ which is used for collecting issues. I have ‘Table B’ that will be used to track the work being done to resolve the issues from Table A. I’m looking for a way to automatically populate predefined data fields from Table A into Table B when you put a ‘tick’ in Table A.For example: If I have Issue 1, Issue 2 and Issue 3 in Table A and I put a ‘tick’ on Issue 2, I want the predefined fields from Table A to then automatically populate in Table B. Any help you’re able to give would be greatly appreciated   

Bonjour,j’ai créé une petite base de données pour répertorier les films de style Fantasy et la partager à un petit groupe d’amis.je souhaiterai que chaque membre du groupe puisse donner un vote (allant de 0 à 5 étoiles) pour chaque film et ensuite sur l’interface principale, je veux juste afficher la note globale (toujours avec un affichage de 0 à 5 étoiles) de chaque film qui correspond à la moyenne des votes des membres.Je suis bloqué sur cette fonction permettant à la fois le vote par chaque membre et l’affichage de la note moyenne sur l’interface.Quelqu’un aurait une idée, un conseil ?Je débute et ne maitrise pas Airtable. Peut être dois-je partager ou fournir le lien de la base pour comprendre la structure existante ?Merci de votre aide.Xavier