Automations

I have an automation that emails the count of records that match certain criteria. This often results in emails that indicate there are 0 records for consideration. I’d like to only fire this automation (or send the email) if there matched records are >0. Is this possible using the new conditional automations, or via scripting? Thanks, Andy.

Seems like it should be relatively simple, all I want to do is use a button from an interface to add 1 to a number field in my tableI'm using the button linked to an automation and here's what it looks like:And this is using a dynamic update:But here's what happens when I test this:So I guess it's the wrong format, and I can't find any documentation on formatting for this. Seems like I can't even add two fields together.So how would you do this?  

I have 100 records in a table with the same status "ready for publication". How can I use the "Find records" action to only retrieve the first found record?

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I may be having a particularly dense day here, however am not understanding how to automate the following situation:I have four workflow records for each project in a table. There are multiple projects in the table. The workflow records are, in order "project name" Define, "project name" Design, "Project Name" Build and "Project Name" Test.  Each has a status of "Not Started", "In Progress" or "Done".  What I want to do is, based on the trigger of the status changing from "In Progress" to "Done" in one task, set the status in the subsequent task to "In Progress".  I can select the trigger record without a problem, but how can I move to the next record in the sequence?

Hello,I am relatively new to Airtable and had a question about Automations. I set up a research table that I want to add records with Name field and URL field. I want the name field to auto-populate the link's page title when I paste the URL in whenever I create or update a record. Any idea how this can be done? 

Hi Folks, I’m having a problem with an automation that I built. Initially it worked but now it doesn’t. Essentially what I’m trying to do is this: the trigger is a new record creation in 'Table C" Then we work to update a field in “Table B” using the linked id of a lookup field from 'Table C". Then in the field area I simply try to create a simple subtraction formula: Current balance - amount But I keep getting this error! (screenshot attached) Any idea what could be happening?

This new Airtable Community Forum SUCKS so much and I cannot type it without harassing the keyboard caps key at the same time. Why on earth did Airtable switch from the old community board. If it ain't broken don't fix it. This is difficult to you, boxy, hard to find things. Is it only me having the incident notification window on the left and doesn't go away, it stays stubbornly there even after try to close. I really miss the old forums, I don't think i will come here very often anymore because this board is user unfriendly.Anyhow...My question was about Selenium. I am looking to populate text from Airtable into another web-form like commercial site and I need to enter text and upload pictures. The main challenges:1) how to get Selenium access data in Airtable and always take the next line (next record) of data2) how to upload image to the 3rd party form (I can't past URL from Airtable documents, it will have to be upload from computer but maybe there i

I have an automation where an email is triggered when a new record is added. However, the emails are generic and only says: "A new item has been created in the XXX job log"How can I get this email to say what the exact record title is? I have looked everywhere and I cannot figure this one out. Any help is appreciated... I am sure it is something simple. Thank you.

I'm wondering why Airtable is saying that I can't run a script on my current plan when I am on a trial period of the Pro plan. I'm really hoping to see if paying for the pro plan is worth it for my organization. Thanks for any help!

Hey All,I'm trying to create an automation whereby, when a user checks the green "flag" checkbox for a given "Adjustment" in the "All Adjustments" table, it triggers the creation of what you see under the  "Analysis by Division" field in the Analysis Table. That is, for a given checkboxed "Adjustment" (listed in All Adjustments Table) like "Seat Molding," "Touch ID Seat Adjustment," "Heated Massage," "Meal Reheater/Composter" or "Retractable Covid Seat Screen," I'd like Airtable to automate the concatenated formula (as shown under "Analysis by Division,") pairing every one of the 17 "Team Divisions" that I have posted in the list of Team Divisions (which I have rolled up into the "A

I want to automate copying data from one field to another field in a different table.The Assets table has three fields:Asset NameNotesURL (where the asset is saved) Whenever a new asset is created, the user enters information into a form that creates a  new record in the Assets table. So, the data might look like this:Asset Name: BananasNotes: Used in the XYZ projectURL: URL link 001When an existing asset is changed, the user enters that information into a form that creates a new record in the Assets Update table:Asset Name

Hi All,I'm wondering if there is a way to get an automation's name from within the automation.I'm working on a better error handling system for collaborative bases. When automations fail, they currently only send a notification to a single user - the person who turned the automation on or updated it last. I need multiple people to be informed in a non-arbitrary way should any one of the developers be out. I currently have something that looks like this:  output.set("update_status","success"); let buildErrMsg = function(automationName, description, name ){ let msg = description + " in " + automationName + ".\n\n" + "Failed with error: " + name return(msg) } try{ await table.updateRecordsAsync(recordsToUpdate) }catch(err){ err.description = "Issue with updateRecordsAsync"; err.automationName = "My Automation" let msg = buildErrMsg(err.automationName,err.description, err.name) output.set("u

Hi, I am new to Airtable and have a question. I have two tables, each with the same column (multiple select) for "Technology". Specifically, it is about funding programmes and investment measures. In the table of investment measures I would like to have all funding programmes displayed in one column, which have one of the same technology tags. (e.g. a funding programme has the tags "digitalisation" and "business financing", and the measure (online shop) also has "digitalisation" as a tag, so the funding programme should be displayed there in the column).Can it be done via an IF function or something else?

I have an Expense Reimbursement Form I use in Airtable. It collects things like date of purchase, dollar amount, person to be reimbursed, and an Attachment field for Receipt images. It then sends the form data to me automatically via email, but the email doesn't include Receipt Images (attachments) in the body of the email.Is there a way I can have the Form Response email include attached images (receipts) in the body of the email? Each form could have 1 or more attached images.That would be very helpful because it would give me a complete Expense Reimbursement request, or equivalent Check Request form. Thanks in advance. -M

How can I trigger a webhook (to trigger Make) when somebody uploads a new attachment to an attachment field?I can run a script to send the record ID to the webhook and then get the record data, but this would also include attachments that have been previously uploaded as well. I just want the latest attachment that has been uploaded.

Hello!I have an Airtable base that, weekly, has a script run that adds roughly 300-500 records. Airtable Automations then assigns a specific value to a record based on criteria. IF a record gets a checkmark based on the automation, it becomes visible within a specific view. Weekly this view is then downloaded and emailed to a few stakeholders.  I'm curious, does anyone know of a way to have a button that triggers an automation that will automatically download the CSV? Even better if it will send said CSV to those stakeholders. 

Hello and thank you for your help in advance,My question: I have my main table "Schedule" where we create all new appointments coming in. Now, I want to know how many appointments we actually created per day. Another words, how many new records created for a certain day. Do you think it is possible to create this automation and if yes, what are your thoughts about it.I was thinking of creating another new table where all the data would be collected, lets say the name for this new table is "Counter" where we have first field "Date" and then next field is the field for the actual number of new records for each given day.I have no idea how to calculate new records and input this date in some field.Any thoughts?

Hi everyone !I wanted to capitalize the first letter of every word in my "Address" field, but the automation for that doesn't seem to be working : I used the exact same automation with Modify > Uppercase and it worked perfectly, but Capitalize doesn't seem to do anything so far. Any ideas or tips ?Thank you ! 😁

Hi All,I tried to get feedback from ChatGPT but it steered me wrong. Lol. Long story short, I'm trying to create an automation whereby, when a checkbox in a given record's checkbox field is checked:A status field in the corresponding record is changed from "Upcoming" to "Initiated" (I assumed this was "Update Record"). Then, a pre-made form that I have created is automatically e-mailed to a recipient (whose e-mail is already rolled up/selected on another field) on the same record. Where I'm stumped is -- on the update record action, it keeps asking for a mandatory unique record ID, and I'd like this change to instead apply to any record for which a user checks a checkbox in the checkbox field, not just a single, identified record. Any thoughts? Am I doing this incorrectly?ChatGPT said Airtable has some kind of mapping feature that could help me, here, but I couldn't find it. 

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So I want to ask about the automation table,Let me first explain the structure of the tableso there are 2 tables namely [Users] & [Profile]User = management userProfile = each user has their own profileso I have a need when each user is added, it will also be added on the profile automation side, this is successful [Success]but how do I change my name from [Users] - Full name and auto update to [Profile] - Profile Name ?I have failed to auto update my profile name. Is there a way to do this auto update?

I've subscribed to the beta for the Send SMS automation action. Testing with myself and a few friends so far works well. But I'm going to use this soon on a trip where I'll need to send SMS to about 120 people (to let them know that an event's time has changed, etc.). And I'm wondering how to best to do it.Right now I've got a table with people and phone numbers in it. I added a field 'SMSMessage' to that table, and a trigger field. I write the message, then set the trigger field (to 'Send SMS'), and the automation runs, sends the text, then resets the trigger field to its resting state. The problem is, this works fine for ONE message. To send a bunch of messages, it's less convenient. On my computer, I can copy the message and paste into a bunch of messages; then copy the trigger value ('Send SMS') and paste that into the trigger field for the bunch of records. On computer, that's okay. But would be great to do this from phone, and it's not so good on the phone. 

I have a simple automation set up where once I move a record to a new column on a Kanban view, it sends an email letting us know that we need to review. However, it fails at the action step and says “Google reported an error while processing this action: Insufficient Permission”. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Goal:  Recreate many-to-many table links on synced records in the destination base based on csv text field of original source record idsContext:Have synced multiple related tables to another base (for reasons of access control, division of unrelated data. Overall syncing 6 of 25 tables to another base)Several of the links are many to manyI have added record_ID to the source tables, and created formula fields that arrayjoin the linked records into a csv (comma separated) text fieldI cannot use the primary name field because they are not uniqueI cannot use the update records directly because I do not have the new destination record IDs for that csv list of source record idsI cannot use the find records because it's not letting my search by each item.  This means that this problem would be trivial if I only had a 1 to many relationship and worked from the "1" side.Potential Solution areas: