I’ve been building a workflow that connects Airtable to a CMS so blog content can move from planning to publishing with less manual work.
The setup usually includes title, slug, content, images, publish date, and status fields, plus a draft/review/publish flow.
I’m curious how others here manage content operations: do you keep Airtable as the source of truth, or do you use it only for planning?
Happy to share the structure I use if anyone is trying to reduce manual blog publishing work.
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My clients use Airtable as their single source of truth.
I give my users a dropdown menu in Airtable that they can choose from when they want to publish a blog article. The dropdown menu will change itself to let them know the current status: “Draft”, “Publish Article”, “Successfully Published”, “Error when publishing”, etc.
This technique is described in this thread.
When they choose “Publish article”, it automatically runs an automation with Make’s advanced automations & integrations to push their blog content from Airtable to their CMS.
If Make doesn’t natively support your CMS, you can use their HTTP module to write your own API calls, or use their code module to write JavaScript or Python code.
(If you know JavaScript you can also write your own scripts natively in Airtable. However, I don’t know JavaScript, so I use Make because it’s a no-code/low-code platform.)
If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one of the ways that you can instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable.
I also give live demonstrations of how to use Make in many of my Airtable podcast appearances. For example, in this video, I show how to work with Airtable arrays in Make.
Hope this helps!
- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant
+4Airtable is my source of truth for entire business and for my clients too (wherever we have setup their operations on Airtable).
So my workflows are also very similar to what you have described and there is a lot of scripting (along with automations) that I do to connect to external APIs from Airtable.
For clients who prefer having more no-code tools in the stack, I use Zapier or n8n to connect with other tools but Airtable still remains the single source of truth.
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