I'm trying to use this feature of passing the name of the user logged in to the record when a new record is created and it is just not working and for the life of me can not figure out why, clearly I'm missing something.
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Automation passing user name
+4Best answer by Dan_Montoya
Airtable has a built in CreatedBy field. It sounds like this is what you are trying todo. Then when an record is update happens you have LastModifiedBy
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Airtable has a built in CreatedBy field. It sounds like this is what you are trying todo. Then when an record is update happens you have LastModifiedBy
+29I also initially expected that the “user who took action” for a “when record created” trigger would be the user who created the record, but it currently is not.
As far as I can tell, the “user who took action” only knows about users who push interface buttons that trigger automation and users who edit field values.
+4Thank you, I would have thought that value was the one I needed, so I just backed into be solution from a different angle now knowing this!
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