Automations

I am using the free version, no apps/scripts allowed. I can use automations, but when I add a button field to the base there is no option to link the button to an automation. Is there a way to fix that and connect the button with my automation?

Introducing Interface Designer :tada: we’re entering beta for adding branching logic to an automation’s actions :heart_eyes: In

I have a zap that I would like to take an existing date from a field in AT, add a constant amount of time to it, and then insert the result as the value for a different field on the same record. For example, if record A had “Creation Date = 11/15/2021” I would want my formula to add a constant of 30 days, then insert the result (12/15/2021) into the previously empty “Due Date” field for the same record. I know Zapier has support for formulas in it’s “Search for Records” step, but I don’t see any of those capabilities in the 'Update Record" step. Does anybody have any experience with this, or know where I could find documentation?

Ok, here goes: I have a AirTable base that consists of multiple tabs, and I want to create an automation to help with some admin. So, in one tab I have a Sales Funnel where we put different sales opportunities on add-on features in different phases. When an add-on is signed by a customer, it gets moved to the “signed” phase. In another tab we have a project management kanban, so when an add-on is signed I create a project in that tab and I link to the sales funnel object. When the project is completed (Checkbox option) I want to move the sales funnel object to the phase “Activated” (Single Select field). I’ve tried different ways but can’t get it to work, so any tips would be appreciated.

HI, We have just reached the automation limit (100,000) and this is business critical operation. I have contacted Airtable through the sales page, but I need to increase the limit today. Can anyone please help us to get on Enterprise plan today? Is there any way to get faster support, because this is super urgent? Thanks

I’ve built out a reminder that notifies someone when a task due date is reached. The one thing I’m struggling with is getting the “to” field to populate correctly. I have a tab with all project contacts, including their work email. One the action item tab, an owner is assigned in a lookup field. That then pulls their email in as well, and my intent was to use that column to populate the email TO field. But because it a lookup field, rather than just an email field, the automation is failing. If I replace that with a single email, everything works fine. The formula I’m trying to use for that field is Field Values → Work Email (from owner) → Value. “Work Email (from owner)” is the lookup that is pulling from another tab based on the selected task owner.

What I want to do, and do not know if it is possible, is when I check a box and I would like a field in that record to change to a different option. So like in the photo below, when I check “Done” I want the choice in the Status column of the record to change to “Done” From its current selection. Is that possible? I’ve been wracking my brain trying to create an automation. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

Hey! So, I need to update an existing record, filling an attachment when a form is submitted. The idea is send a form where the employee need to fill a process number field (it can’t be a list) and attach a pdf or image. When this form is submitted, the automation verify the process number field value, find the same record in a existing table and attach the pdf/image. I’m trying this for a while, but no success… Is this possible? Thanks!!

Hello! Trying to get an automation going where if the text output of a field (i.e Prop1Text) from a formula field (Prop1) that is parsing the input (Property) matches the text in a different view, the “status” field is updated to my desired option. I had an issue with my first test because when the request for multiple properties came in, the “prop” field had all of them in a single string and that failed the previous automation find record if “Property” in master list is “Prop” Text then update. Currently i am getting the “invalid filter on Property field” error when I try to do a find record action I had read that formula fields cause issues during lookup automation (not sure entirely) so I had it copy the text from the formula field “Prop1” in

Hi! I saw an article that discuss my problem, but didn’t have the solution. I’m trying to create an automatization that runs a script to copy a field (formula that puts year and month together like this 2021-12) to a liked to field whenever a record is created ou updated. So I found here this solution that requires you to put the field you want to copy as a primary field let dateT = base.getTable('Dates'); let dateQ = await dateT.selectRecordsAsync(); for (let rec of dateQ.records) { let dateFieldID = rec.id await dateT.updateRecordAsync(rec, { 'Date Link': [{id: dateFieldID}] }) } But I can’t make this because I use my primary field to make a resume for my Calendar view title record. Here is a simple example how my table looks like

So I created a base, with a bunch of tables. The first Table is sort of a summary table of the other tables. My use case: Let’s say I change the status of the item in my General Manager Table from Define to Communicate: I want to update the corresponding field in the Status column to the same value: These selections are drop down selections. So I setup an automation that when a record is created in General Manager table, that it will update the corresponding object (sorry, I’m none-technical, and don’t know the proper terminology) in the Status table:

Hello, I have a table where every record has a time field. I would like to check a checkbox when the time is today at the specified time. Using automations I managed to check the box when the date is today but the time is not considered. Is it possible to check the box at the exact time? For example, I have a record that says 12/11/2021 1:00pm. The checkbox should be checked only after 1pm and not at any time of the day. Thanks

I’m having issues with an automation. There are two collaborators. Their client’s submit forms every week. They would like to get an email when the forms are submitted. They only want to get notified of the forms they are assigned to as a collaborator. This is where I’m running into problems. What I’ve tried: I’ve tried setting up one automation that’s triggered when a form is submitted and inserting data from the previous action to get the email from the collaborator in the “to” field. It doesn’t pull their email. I get an error saying “the to field is empty”. Then I tried creating a different automation for each collaborator that would trigger when a form is submitted. I used the “find record” action and added a condition to filter the collaborator. This time I typed out the email in the to field. However, when

Hello! I have two tables: “Projects” and “Tasks”. I’m wanting to create an automation to do the following: Trigger: When a record is created in “Projects” table Action: Create value {Record Name} in X field in “Tasks” table Basically, the name of the record in the project table should update a field in the Tasks table. I would like the automation to create a new field value within a dropdown field and the value name should be taken from the trigger record name (i.e. the project name). From what I could see, the only way to achieve this is to have the action be to update a field within an existing record, so I created a dummy record. This is what I’ve created: When I run the test, it shows the field in the dummy record is updated with the project name as expected. But when I go and create a new project record, the automation shows as running succ

Hello to all, I have a table with products and their price, and I want to indicate automatically a price range using the symbol “$”; “$$” or “$$$”. I am trying to run an automation to update the record “Price Range” record when the condition “Price ($US/m) < 5$”, meaning I want to display “$” in the field Price range when the price is under $5. So here is what I did but when I launch the test only one record is found and so it only updates one record. However when I apply a filter on my view (price under $5) I clearly see that 10 records match the condition. I tried adding the action “Find a record” where the condition is p

Hi guys! I’m trying to set up an automation where I could send an email to a requestor once the project matched certain conditions. For a requestor field, we’re using a collaborator option, and now whenever I’m trying to send an email to a collaborator I’m getting a message of “invalid email address” . Is that something airtable is working currently on? Or is there an alternative way to generate an email address for a collaborator? The Formula for instance etc. Thanks!

Hi all, I have base a certain table with fields “Production method” and “number” as per attachment. (The numbers are imported testdata) The goal/ each production type should get an (auto) number. each production should get the highest number available +1in the field from a certain range. eg. "production-type 1 should get the highest number + 1 available from field "Number. The highest number available must lie in range 30000 to 40000 eg. "production-type 2 should get the highest number + 1 available from field "Number. The highest number available must lie in range 20000 to 30000 When a production method changes value, a new number must be calculated in another specific range. Business wise this should not occur, but might be needed to catch user mistakes I was planning on doing this via Automations. “

I have a script that makes a request to a GIS API and fetches the response. When the script is in an app, it works at expected. As an automation, it does not work. The fetch returns a response with 403 status. This is strange because this means access is forbidden, however it was not forbidden when this script was an app. Here is what I have in the automation script: const geocode_data = { "SingleLine": addressText, "f": "json", "outSR": {"wkid":102100,"latestWkid":3857}, "outFields":"*", "distance": 50000, "location" : {"x": -8396932.14535, "y": 4854564.864250004, "spatialReference":{"wkid":102100}}, "maxLocations": 2}; const geocode_req = new Request( "https://geocode.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/servic

Hello - I would like to add contacts from my Gmail into Airtable in real time as my emails come in. Does anyone know how I can set this up? I’d like the same kind of feature as the web clipper, but for email profiles/addresses. Thank you!

Hello everyone, I’m very new to Airtable and also a non-coder. I’m trying to launch a script as an automation’s action, which is pretty straightforward. However, the script I’m trying to launch needs settings to be populated before each launch, ask for a confirmation before launch and therefore the script needs to be run manually. However, those settings are now fixed in my base so i would amend the script code directly to reflect those. I don’t know how to proceed. This script is part of this function : https://www.airtable.com/universe/expK9hEwh5d1IGkH3/splitting-multiple-selectlinks-into-individual-records Here is the code : let settings = input.config({ title: "Create junction table (keep multiselect)", description: `Running this script will populate a junct

Hey Airtable Friends! I have a problem I can’t solve, but I feel like it has to be doable. I would love some help! Situation: We’re a mortgage company and we keep a database of our Loan Officers and what states they’re licensed in. Those licenses need to be kept up by the employee, so they come and go very often. Each state their own license syntax, so in Airtable, we have 50 text fields, for the 50 states and when a license gets added or removed, someone goes in and types in the license number for the Loan Officer in the corresponding state field, or deletes it from the state field (if it’s removed). Problem: We very often need to see who all we currently have licensed in X state. But it’s very annoying to sideways scroll through 50 fields - So, how we currently do it is someone adds or removes a license, then they scroll over to a multiple select field and add the state from a drop down. That way we can go to ‘John Smith’ and see

We’re trying to create an automation in Airtable that sends an email from Gmail. Is there a way to hyperlink text with a URL that’s generated by a formula field? Basically each email that sends out will contain a unique URL that’s hyperlinked.

Can I embed the grid link in an html email to show the grid? What I’m looking for is an iframe or something similar that works with most email clients. background: I’m currently sending emails including a grid via the Airtable automation. I was asked if I could improve the design - e.g. include a logo. I’m doing this by sending the email via Zapier and outlook in html instead, but I can’t get the grid to show in the email.

I could have SWORN this was working before the new automations system overhaul a couple of months ago… So I have a little CRM set up. Three entities are involved here. Farms, Interactions, Tasks. Interaction - An interaction has a link to a farm (all interactions have a farm). This is the trigger of the automation. When a certain field of an Interaction is updated, the automation triggers. I want this automation to create a new record in the Tasks table, and use one of the fields from the Interaction’s linked farm to do this. So at the automation’s screen, I issue a: Create Record (task) Set the assignee of the Task to the “User” field of the farm, and to do this, in the automation screen: Click + next to assignee (one o

As of now, automation triggers are limited to one table. Is it possible we could have multiple table sources, doing the same automation, and the outputs are in one or multiple tables as well? For example: generating an assistant ID We have different sources of assistants per table. And we have a table that is a masterlist of all the assistant IDs. Instead of having to automate separately for different tables doing the same thing, is there a way that multiple tables can be chosen (or specific views per table) and theyd all flow into the masterlist table that we have? Thanks!