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Copy one field to another using automation

  • October 6, 2020
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hello, i want to copy my first field to second field using automation as shown in image below. any help please?

my automation’s trigger is “when a record is created”
and action is “Update record”

i want to update my second field with my first field’s value

Best answer by Silver21

Hi - Im new to Airtable, so I could be wrong here, but this seems more to do with using a formula in the second field to ‘copy’ the first field rather than an automation

I am basing this on your screenshot which shows the two fields being in the same table.

Dave


if i use formula in the second field, then i lose linking functionality. but i’ve found the solution on how to do that, using airtable team’s help.

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  • October 7, 2020

Hi - Im new to Airtable, so I could be wrong here, but this seems more to do with using a formula in the second field to ‘copy’ the first field rather than an automation

I am basing this on your screenshot which shows the two fields being in the same table.

Dave


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  • October 7, 2020

Hi - Im new to Airtable, so I could be wrong here, but this seems more to do with using a formula in the second field to ‘copy’ the first field rather than an automation

I am basing this on your screenshot which shows the two fields being in the same table.

Dave


if i use formula in the second field, then i lose linking functionality. but i’ve found the solution on how to do that, using airtable team’s help.