Automations

I'm generating HTML emails and sending them using the Gmail automation.  They work great, except when a user puts a return character in the form used to generate the email (i.e. hits return on the keyboard inside the field (type=long text, rich text NOT enabled).  When there's a return character, even though the HTML looks solid, and is passed directly to the gmail automation, when the email is received on the client, where the return character was a bunch of closed HTML tags are inserted ( </p> </td></table> </div> etc) which totally breaks the HTML code and makes the rendering awful.Anyone else dealt with this?

Hi there, I have an email automation that is set to send an email 1 day prior to an appointment date. The date conditions are simply based off of date, not time. Do you know what time the email should expect to trigger?Thanks!

Hi. I'm wondering whether there's a way to search a table or interface using text that's passed through in the URL itself. Like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=test which searches Google for "test." I think no because the search uses Javascript, but maybe there's a way that I'm overlooking. Bonus question: What's your preferred method for quickly getting to a table or interface and drilling to a specific record quickly? Thanks,David  

Hello guys,I have created an automation that is being executed when a new record is created, what I wanna do is to get that specific new record in the script, the last one, how can I do that? 

Several of my automations send emails, inevitably I get some bad email addresses and will get a notification in AirTable of a bad email address. Is there a way to incorporate these notification into my automations to alert the person entering information of the bad email?My use case:Hosts are entering Guest information, I want to send an email to the Host that they entered a bad email address automatically.Thanks,Tommy 

Hello,Could someone please help point me in the right direction?I have an automation which is triggered by clicking a button in an interface. I want the automation to send an email (containing a grid summary of some records) and then update the status of the same records to indicate that those records were sent in the email.However, the updating of the record status is not working.This is how the non-functioning step is configured.Once the email is sent, I need the status to change from 'required' to 'ordered'.This is how the conditional logic is configured.This is the error message. I have gone through the 'how to fix

Hello,I have set up a zapier automation that, when an email in my gmail gets a particular label, will create a record in Airtable. Zapier will pass along the "to" email address(es) into one of the fields.  If there are multiple recipients on the email, the info is passed along as email1@test.com,email2@test.com with a comma separating the addresses. Here is my issue -- is there any way for me to set up an Airtable automation that will read those as two separate emails and then link this record with two contact records I have in Airtable?  I can make the Airtable automation work if the email was sent to a single recipient, but it cannot seem to recognize the comma as a separator in order to match/link multiple email addresses with multiple contacts.Thanks for any suggestionsAlex

Hello All 😊I am using an automation to send  a slack channel reminders to fill out an airtable form each month.I would like to embed the form in the notification. Is this possible?I've copied the 'Embeded Code" given by airtable into my automation but when receiving the slack notification, the form does not show. Is this possible? 

HelloI am trying to create some asset management system, and having a play with Airtable to see if i can get the functionality we need I have a table of ToolsI have another table with Field Work, with a start and end date. they are linked together with a link field where people can select which tools will be going on that job. I need to make sure there is some way of flagging a conflict if a tool is assigned to a record on the same dates.this flagging can be either a notification/flag, or refusal to assign tool, i dont mind as long as the users can see that their is a tool conflictCan anyone help with a way to automate this? or a different way to go about it?Many thanks!Kate

Hi!I have a date field and a formula field (today MINUS date field) and another formula field that countdown (3 MINUS subtraction between today and date field) - I included photo of these fields. This is because the customs allows only 3 days for import the product. So I want an alert (countdown from when the customs contacted me that the product is at the customs).Now I want to add another date field (let's call it date field #2).I want automation (or formula field) that when I enter date in date field #2, formula field stops the countdown. Is it possible to do that with automation or another formula field? And also, how it's done? 🙂Thanks a lot guys!

Hi all!As a novice user, I'm having a hard time automating a process. Hope I can get some help:I'm creating an app to track bets in a sports game so:I have a parent record "The game" with these fields: Date | Game | Result (Win / Loss)Linked to the game I have different bets, usually more than one) with these fields: Status (Open, Closed) | Bookmaker | Odds | BetThe automation should be:1- When the game result is updated2- Find bet records associated with that game3- Change those bet records' status to ClosedReading many threads I've seen that I may need to write a script but want to validate before starting to learn how to do it.Thanks in advance

Hi, I am trying to find a workaround for an issue I have with an AT automation that is triggered by a webhook. I am using 2 system webhooks (I can't control when they trigger) from ActiveCampaign. One is for 'deal created' which I am using as the trigger to create an airtable record. The second is 'deal updated' which I am using to update the airtable record (the aim is to keep the deal stage in the AirTable up to date). I am getting automation errors in AirTable because the deal updated webhook also fires in the same minute as the deal created webhook fires which means that the AT 'deal updated' automation runs an error with the update record upon most new deals. I am planning a workaround and wonder is it possible to restrict the conditions in the AirTable (deal updated) automation to end if an additional condition (field value in the webhook body) to the webhook trigger is not in place, or proceed if that data poin

hello!i'm trying to send emails via the outlook automation. everything works like a charm, apart from the emails not arriving at all. so it doesn't work at all 😞 unless the receipient of the mail is an address with the same domain as the one i am sending from, that seems to work. but if i try to send to a gmail address, i simply never receive the email. does anyone have any idea why this might be? very sad.

Hello, I would like to create a CRM from an existing customer list, with an event management function.In particular I have: a "customer" table and an "event" table.Customers must register for the event by submitting a form (which inserts data into the "event" table). When the customer already exists, a tag is created into the "customers" table referring to the event. Or in any case a link between the "customers" table and the "list" table.Do you have any suggestions? Thank you!

I'm trying to put together an automation that will update a date field within a group based on a selected record in that group. I put together an automation that watched a view with only the main records and then pulled all the other records from that group into a list and then updated the record with that main record's date. However for some reason when I went to update the 2nd group with it's own automation, it started updating both. Is there an easier way to do this? Based on the image below, I want the date for CEE to go into all the CEE countries and the date for Benelux to go into all the Benelux countries. 

Hello everyone,I am trying to follow ongoing contracts on a timeline view. However, the timeline will not display items that don't have a Start and End Date.Following  some other topics, most notably this one, I am trying to find a workaround where an automation automatically updates the End Date to match Today's date.A Checkbox is ticked for all contracts flagged as "Ongoing". The "Find" step locates the ones where "Ongoing" is ticked, and the "Update Record" steps supposedly updates all End Dates with the "Today'scDate" field value.However, as seen on the attached screenshot, I get an input error. I used the "Find & Update" method quite frequently and never got this result before. I usually use "Wh

Hello, I’m trying to create an automation: –TRIGGER: status of the record is changed to “Completed/Published” (I managed this part, I think) –ACTION: the “Published Date” field is automatically filled-in with today’s date (here’s where I get lost) Is it possible to do this, and how? (I tried various things but am getting “test failed”) Next question: Would the user still be able to manually change the “Published Date” field? For example, let’s say our content was published yesterday, but the user only updates their record in AirTable today, so they would need to manually correct the date. Thanks for your help!

Hello I would like to make a simple verification process with a form (where after stored on successful verification further steps follow)In a form the email is queried - which will end up in the same row as another email (from a database) -> can I build a view which filters only by the end of the email address?Field 1 (submitted field)= @123.comField 2( which is in my databank) =@123.com When field 1 ending of emailadress contains something of field 2 -> Success, enters new ViewMaybe I think too complicated, would be glad about help.

Hi Folks, I'm trying to build a degree audit for my department, and the automation I built recognizes when any of XX courses is present in the student's record. I then want the next automation to use that same set of course numbers, but not count what automation 1 already identified. I can't figure out how to reference the previous automation though. Any ideas?

I'm using the 'create google doc' automation to output a grid of records.One of my record fields is a formula field - which is concatenating 2 long text fields together, and using the '\n' in the formula to give me a line break between the two fields being pulled in.  This works fine in the airtable (it shows the line breaks) - but I loose the line break when the google doc is generated: Any help very appreciated!! 🙂Layla  

I will be using Make to update a table with information gathered in the field. This includes new photos of assets. There should be only one photo in the attachment field, with all old photos stored in a separate field. I don't want to just replace the original attachment, as these photos are still needed. I want to be able to do the following:Upload the new photo into an attachment field ("Photo") using Make.Once the photo is uploaded, the previous attachment is moved to the "Old Photos" field. This field can have more than one photo stored in it.Is there a way to achieve this using scripting or some other tool?

I am trying to hava a base or table that keeps track of all of the visible fields in a view, and I want this to be done automatically whenever a fields is added, removed or it's visibility is changing.  We have more than 30 views and more than 30 fields.  I am getting this error, whenever I try to run the following code.   let table = base.getTable("Master Product List");console.log(table)let recordId = input.config().triggerId;let records = await table.

Hello everyone! Are there any Automator document users here?I'm trying to create a document that picks up fields from a find record from a view to put into a Google Docs, except the layout is not respected: the \n line break character in Airtable does not seem to be recognized: do you know how to make a line break as in the Airtable view?Line breaks are coming from a ARRAYJOIN({Lookup},"\n")Thanks for all your advice!

Hi, Is there a script that will generate a Unique ID for each image that would ideally be the concatenation of other fields like Initiative Name, Project Name, and then some random value?  While the image has a name, creating Asset ID's automatically would help organize and ensure we are working with the correct creative asset. 

I’m following up on a previous solution ScottWorld provided for another user. I apologize if there’s a better way to link to the old closed post. Anyway, the goal is to Automate the END TIME based on START TIME, and DURATION. The formula Scott suggested was: DATEADD({Start Time}, {Duration}, ‘minutes’) When I put this Formula into the END TIME formula field exactly as is, and the DURATION field empty, the END TIME is automatically set to 5 hrs after the START TIME. When I enter “3:00” (3 hrs) into the DURATION field, the END TIME is automatically set to 7 Days and 20 Hrs later. Obviously, I’m misunderstanding something.