Automations

Hi! I’m trying to transition most of my workload from using AT and Asana to strictly using AT. One feature that I like about Asana is that every few tasks that get completed, they have a small popup appear on the screen in celebration. It’s a completely irrelevant thing and has no bearing on workflow, but it does make you feel good to see it. LOL I’m wondering if there is some type of script I could use to make something like this pop up when certain fields are updated in Airtable? I’d love to keep that ‘happy’ if possible? Again, it has nothing to do with the workflow… I just wondered if anyone knew if it was possible? Thanks!

I have created an automation to add in a specific google calendar an event when the date and time is indicated in a specific field called “Follow-up Meeting” in my airtable database. It works. Now, I would like to update the event in google calendar if the date and time in the field “Follow-up meeting” in airtable is updated. I have created a trigger but I have a problem as I cannot inform the “Event ID”. What should I do?

I’ve setup an email automation where I have a list of employees that need to have certification that requires updating. I’ve listed the certification required and the expiry date of the certification. I have started the automation with: TRIGGER - At a scheduled time ACTION - Find records (Name, Last Name, Certification Name, Expiry Date) Find records based on a CONDITION CONDITIONS Where (Name of Certification) is one month from now ACTION - Email PROBLEM In the body of the email I want to insert ONLY the expired records that are found (in the first action, find records) in a grid list view , however it is inserting the ENTIRE grid of records which are mostly blank because the certification is not expired. How do I insert only the records that are found to be expired??

Objective: create employee resume pages (via Documint) for project proposals. These resume pages have employee info and list previous pertinent project experience. The resume page for John Doe for the ABC Hospital project will have different project experience listed than the John Doe resume page for XYZ Stadium. Our base has these tables: PROJECTS PEOPLE PROJECT TICKETS (join table between PEOPLE and PROJECTS) PROPOSALS PROPOSAL PAGES (Each PROPOSAL PAGE is linked to one PEOPLE record, one PROPOSAL record, and multiple RESUME TICKETS records.) RESUME TICKETS (join table between PROPOSAL PAGES and PROJECTS) Currently I have interfaces that: Create a PROPOSAL record. Create PROPOSAL PAGES records linked to the PROPOSAL record and PEOPLE record. (this is the resume page to print/.pdf) Show me a grid view of all of the PROJECT TICKETS for the individual whose resume PROPOSAL PAGE I am creating. I can filter this grid view to only include the projects I want to list on the resume page. T

Hey there, I have a table on Airtable that has multiple forms inside it. We send each of these forms at each step of a custom onboarding journey. Some of the fields in these forms are the same, so I would like to know if there is a way to prefill data in forms for users who submitted a form previously in the same table. Thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

Hello Right now Im on airtable pro trial plan and Im trying to use automation script but it tells me that its not available for my current billing plan. I was wondering whats the point of pro trial if I cant access its features? Then I tried to upgrade my plan to plus and Im only able to select yearly plan for billing and I cant choose monthly. As you see the image Im upgraded to plus but still not able to use this script feature. Thanks for reading

I have an Automation to send an email when a record enters a view. I can get a regular date field to format the way I want, but I can’t when I try to do any calculations. This is a Deadline date that I would like to add 48 hours to from the time it enters the view. Anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? I’ve tried multiple variations of the following. I’ve also tried using Update Record Automation, but it won’t accept DATEADD() or I’m not doing something correctly. If it’s just a plain date field, I can use this and it works fine: DATETIME_FORMAT(SET_TIMEZONE( {Test Date}, ‘America/Los_Angeles’),‘dddd, MMMM D, YYYY h:mm a’) But if I try adding 48 hours using something like this to an Intermediate Due Date: DATEADD({Deadline},48,’hour’) And change the formula to this: DATETIME_FORMAT(SET_TIMEZONE( DATEADD({Intermediate Due Date}, 48,’hour’), ‘America/Los_Angeles’),‘dddd, MMMM D, YYYY h:mm a’) It fails and says the formula is invalid. Even when it looks correct in the View, What

Hello! I work for a government office which handles various requests from constituents (water issues, waste management, tree trimming, etc). Our current system uses three tables; one for requests, one for our database of constituents, and one for the types of requests we receive. When we receive a request, we create a record which describes the issue and link to the person who submitted it as well as to the type of request. Our type of requests (ToRs) contain instructions for how to solve the issue. Our current process has us copying the information from ToRs into an email to the constituent. My goal is to create an automation which pulls the instructions from the ToR and sends an email to the constituent who created the request. Basically, we review the request and if it doesn’t require any personalization, we could click a checkbox and it would send. I have the logic setup. The problem is that the information about the ToRs exists in a long-form text field with hyperlinks to city web

Hey guys, I’ve been really struggling with this for quite a long, hope you can give me a hand. I’m aware, that those questions have been asked already several times here, but still I couldn’t apply any of proposed solutions to my case. I have table A where I’m adding booking numbers. There are also several “special” booking numbers in table B. Whenever in table A there is a booking number, that already exists in table B, I want to have it tagged/highlighted in the next column (in table A). In the same table A, I’m adding a notification numbers. Whenever I add the notification number that already exists in the same table A, I want to have it highlighted in the next colum. Thanks a lot

We have an Automation setup to send an email notification via gmail account. In the email body is an Attachment field. The email recipients could open the attachments perfectly fine for month. In the last 2-3 days (likely as a results of the Attachment URL change/expiration), these attachments thumbnails show in the email body of the email notification recipients, but there is an error when clicking on the thumbnail image to try to view the attached file. Here is what the recipients see… The email recipients, as in the example of the screen shot above, are not users of Airtable. We just send them email notifications. Any way to fix this? Thanks, Khuned

Hello Airtable Community! I am new in Airtable and have no coding skills so bear with me please. I created a first rule that creates a record in Table B if a checkbox is checked in Table A: That is working as expected. Now, I want to create an automation rule that if I uncheck the same checkbox from Table A, it deletes the same record in Table B. I’ve searched for article and found this one but don’t know how to make it work: Delete a record by automation Scripting extension I am looking to Run a script in an Action. basically whenever the Category “Done” or “Postpone” is set to the record by single select field. I like to run a script that deletes those records. The trigger is pretty much easy to do by the automation configuration. The script is the one I didn’t figure out how to do. Can someone help me figure out how to make this work? Thanks for your help :slightly_smiling_face: Gabriel

I have a formula field that creates a URL from a form, with pre-filled data. We are sending this URL link via an automated email. When someone receives the link on a mobile device and tries to open it, they land on the Airtable site and are asked to sign up. It does not display the form in a browser.This is not an issue on a computer. How do we fix this?

Hello! I was wondering if there was a way to set automations at a scheduled time for a 12+ week interval. The reason we need a “weeks” interval (instead of a “months” interval) is because we want this automation always sent out on a Monday. Thanks so much! Sean

Hi, can you help me? I need to sum 16% if the field “Incluir IVA” contains 16%, if it doesn’t, just do the first arithmetic operation. Thank you

Hello all, I am very new to scripting and trying to find a way to create separate records for all dates within a range of two dates, a start and an end. I found this code online but it is not working, I am completely new and just wondering what needs to be added before in order for this to work with Airtables var fromDate = new Date(inputData.from); var toDate = new Date(inputData.to); var output =[]; var i = 1; do { var useDate = new String(fromDate.toISOString()) output.push(useDate); console.log(fromDate); fromDate.setDate(fromDate.getDate() + 1); i++ } while (fromDate <= toDate); console.log(output); return{output};

Hi guys! I run a small business where we sell vacant land and use airtable as a hub of property data. We have three tables (that are sent to customers) 1. Current inventory with CASH prices, 2. Current inventory with FINANCING prices and 3. Current inventory for a specific sales agent We have a status section for when a property is “available” or “pending”. Since we all work out of different tables, I wanted to see if there would be a way to create an automation that can update the status in ALL three tables when the status is changed in one? I have been trying to do it with update records in one, run two actions but I keep running into a “fix testing error”. so I am hoping someone more techy than me can provide some insight!

Hi Community, I have a table with multiple records. Each record has the name of a colleague in the first column/field, an email in the second column, a link for that email in the third column, and the weekday in the fourth column. E.g., Record 1: Simon, simon.g@gmail.com, URL 1, Thursday Record 2: Jack, jack.f@gmail.com, URL 2, Thursday I need to send the links to the email addresses for each person. Since each link is specifically designed for that colleague, I would have to send individual emails to each colleague. Is there a way to automate the process? So that by every Friday, Airtable could automatically send URL 1 to Simon and URL 2 to Jack, and so on for every colleagues. Thanks!

I’d like the contents of a single line field to automatically be added to a multi-select field. This is meant as a workaround as Airtable doesn’t allow creating new options from a form, so I’d have the user create a new option in the single line field - and then this will auto-populate the multiselect field.

Hi all - I am new to Airtable and am hoping to use it manage inventory for an online secondhand clothing store (Shopify-based). When we receive a new order a zapier integration will create a new row in an Airtable ‘Orders’ table with fields like quantity ordered, price etc. I would like this action to automatically trigger a corresponding downward increment of the quantity available field in my ‘Products’ table. How is this possible please? I don’t want to use formulas as then I would need to store all our orders indefinitely and would quickly exceed the size limit on the sheet. I need to be able to archive the orders information without losing the impact on my rolling ‘quantity available’ field in my products table. The incrementing impact needs to permanent and cumulative. Many thanks, Oli

Hello, I’m building an Automation in Airtable and am using the “at a scheduled time” trigger and the “send an email” action. In the “send an email” action, in the email subject line, I’d like to include the “actual trigger time”. However, the time includes the date and timezone code, and I’d like to remove the timezone code. As an example, here’s what I want the email subject line to say: “Weekly Sales Report - 2022-11-08”. But instead it looks like this: “Weekly Sales Report - 2022-11-08T22:51:31.571Z”. Is it possible to strip out the timezone code (T22:51:31.571Z)? Or can someone suggest an alternative solution? Thanks so much!

Hi there, With all your advice, I managed to create the automation to update my google calendar event if I change something in the airtable record. On the other hand, my little concern is that I did not find the trick to delete the event from google calendar if I delete the airtable record. Does anyone have an idea? Thank you very much.

Just getting back into airtable…is it possible to clear (delete all records in a table) every morning? In a perfect world this would be automated at/for a certain time. Seeing scripting and/or automations could be an option, yes? Full disclosure, an automated scenario from integromat populates the table once a day. Thank you for your time and effort! -Anthony

Hello, I currently have airtable tracking shipments that are scheduled to come back at a later time. I have to manually track all this. I have tried my hardest to find the method to make airtable do this automatically but i cannot figure it out. i have a status field and I would like the delivered date and due date to be automatically adjusted when i mark the status as “with client” I am trying to figure out how to make airtable select the delivered date on the day that I mark the order “with client” and add 10 days to the due date. could someone please help me . thanks

Hi, i have created 2 tables, one for houses (woningen) and the other one users. So the users have a profile with for example min and max what they want to pay for a house. So the house goes to a filter of all the users profile to not overwrite the user that is added to the field i am using a array aggrergator. because i want to send the users in a list to have multiple users instead of one that is overwritten but it gives me this error: BundleValidationError Validation failed for 3 parameter(s). Collection can’t be converted to text for parameter

Is there a script that will just pop up a quick message within an automation? When someone chooses a particular option from a single-select field, I just want a pop-up window with line of text to show on the screen. An email isn’t useful in this case. I need to remind them to link the record to another table if they choose this one option. It isn’t a one-to-one link, so the automation can’t do the linking for them (i.e. the update record automation won’t work.) And an email comes too late, in a different context, and I’d rather remind them to do it while they’re in the record, not have to go back after they check their email. The other idea I had was to have the automation open, or navigate to, the field. Can you “find” a record at a specific field?