Automations

Can I ask. I am using automation sendmail via Airtable. In my email content, I have Underscore _ (Ex: http://abc.com/ab_cd) But when I sent mail, Underscore is NOT display in my email content. Can you teach me to fix?

Hi! I created an automation that, once a Single Select cell is updated, it will tag a Collaborator in another cell. However, I have to create one automation for each record. Is that right? Is there an easier way to do that? Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone, About one week ago, we started seeing more and more of this “Script exceeded max CPU time” error. I looked at the code and don’t see “major performance flaws”. (but I am not an expert with JS and I might be doing something wrong without noticing) I looked at @Bill.French race condition suggestion but cannot see one here. I also checked that I wasn’t doing a “single update” multiple times. (@kuovonne recommendation on another thread) Can anyone help me find some ways to optimize this script ? let config = input.config(); let triggeredRecordId = config.RECORD_ID; let candidateEmail = config.EMAIL; let jobId = config.JOB[0]; let applicationsTable = await base.getTable("Applications"); let query = await applicationsTable.selectRecordsAsync(); let records = query.records; let recordsWithSameEmailAndJob = records .filter( filterOlderApplications ); function filterOlderApplications(a) { let currentRecEmail = a.getCellValueAsString("Email"); let

Hello, I was lurking around the forum but cannot seem to find a solution similar to what I am trying to do. Basically I would like to create a calendar, which people could go into weekly and update their working times. I would like the dates for each day of the week to update automatically with real time dates. So for example, I could go inside and enter that Monday to Friday I am working 9-5, then from the next week these days will be updates to the current weeks dates so it will still show that I am working 9-5 with the new week, and so on. As a simple automation to avoid creating new entries for each working week and inserting the working times.

Everything was working fine since yesterday. Now all my automations which send an email keep failing, it says the “To” field is empty while its not. Also my Zapier to Mailchimp is failing as Mailchimp cant recognise the email adres. Have contacted Support but no reply yet. The To field is filled in through a form. I have double checked the email adreses and they are valid. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Screenshots attached:

Hi there, On a fairly large table, after I fill out some hand entered data, I’ll need to duplicate each row 3 to 4 times. This becomes tedious after the 20th copy and invites human error. Is there a way to select a bulk of rows and have them all copied as many time as requested?

I am attempting to have an automation that every Monday morning will look in a table for specific records and then broadcast that into Slack. I got the trigger and record searches to work, but when I attempt to place them in the message, all I get are options for HTML formatted results which just look like a mess in Slack. Is there a way to just insert the results and I’m just missing it?

Can someone PLEASE help me figure out why this automation isn’t happening? I’m about ready to stop using Airtable and switch platforms if I can’t. I keep trying to update so the Trigger is that whenever something appears in the table and the Action is just for associated info to update. The Trigger is always testing fine and works. The second I put in that I want a record to be updated EVERY TIME IT SAYS THE FIELD IS BLANK WHEN IT ISN’T. I put in the correct Table, I have the record attached: those both seem to be fine. I put in the field name, which in my case is “Class Listed” and it has a multiple select attached. Each time I add it and run the test with the added information it says it failed. I do the same thing with “Create New Record” and it seems to work. What am I doing wrong? PLEASE? I’ve tried contacting Customer Service and literally nobody has gotten back to me and a week and it’s affecting the business this is for.

Hi! I’ve been loosing my mind over the past days trying to find a way to either solve this automation or find an alternative even if it requires a manual check. However it got to the point where I am willing to pay for much needed dedicated help. Here’s the situation: Scenario I have 2 Bases. The first one is a very simple setup on a free plan where collaborators drop basic input: Airtable - Registro de Producciones (that’s it, nothing fancy here). The second base is on a different workspace on a Pro account. I’m using the Sync feature to pull the data onto this Base. Goal Part 1 Create a new linked record when the field of either “Videographer”, “Photographer”, “Producer” or “Videographer 2” is not empty. Add an Emoji to represent their role (this is very important because of other formulas running behind everything) Part 2 Update records whenever a collaborator modifies the role on free plan base. Current Situation I’ve managed to trigger the automation to create t

Hello all! I’ve set up automation to act as a support desk. I’ve got a form on our firm’s internal square space site, from there it feeds into Zapier which automatically pushes into airtable to create a record. Square Space Form > Zapier (8 automations) > Air Table Base (1 Automation per base) Based of the question subject the question gets directed through zapier and into airtable. Currently using the automation “When a record is created”. Which then sends off an email to the user who submitted the form request. After running tests, I’m receiving 8 emails, from all 8 automations in each base. Any idea why this is happening?

Hello, I have a google sheet that takes pricing information for different products and lets sellers know where they can get the best price for their inventory. I have the google sheet working, via a couple dropdown menu and a query based on the results. I wanted to layer a UI on top of the google sheets and I’m having trouble finding an app that’ll allow me to read and write responses instantly from google sheets to the UI (airtable, glide, etc.) Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this. From what I can tell there’s no way to instantly read/write data back and forth from google sheets.

I’m trying to us the example script, and keep getting: airtable recordid should be a string, not undefined I am using the script as is, except I changed the table name on line 2. I followed instructions on how to configure input variables using the left panel. I added recordID field to my table, using the recordID function in formula field. When that didn’t work, I changed to a short text field, preserving the generated record ID values, but I still got this error. I’m out of ideas. Can someone help? “TypeError: Invalid arguments passed to recordQueryResult.getRecord(recordId): • recordId should be a string, not undefined” TIA, Sharon

I have multiple automations set up for email notifications to different parties when a record enters a view. the automations are set up correctly and run as they are supposed to when the record is initially entered. Then 3 days ago, May 1st - the automation triggered and an email was sent out for ALL the records in that view even though they were old records. Then it happened again on the 2nd and the 3rd. Then today, a different automation triggered and sent out 150 emails for old records. I really need assistance to figure out why this is happening so I can fix it. Please help!!

Hello, is there a way to change the creation date / time of a field? Automations will only render grids with fields sorted by creation date. This makes reports unreadable, and automations as weekly digests useless…

Hi all I have a table containing 10 ‘taster’ registers (URL links) - one for each week of the term. I’m trying to make the correct week’s URL copy into the ‘taster register’ field, depending on which week we’re in. I have two separate formula fields - one called ‘day of the week’ (Monday = 1, Tuesday = 2, etc), and a second called ‘current week’. To update week 2’s register, for example, the automation is dependent on two criteria - that the day of the week = 7 (Sunday), and that the current week = 1. This way, at the end of week one, the week two register links will automically copy into the ‘taster register’ field. It might make more sense to look at the base itself - its quite tricky describing it here. Basically, it isn’t working. But, if I manually change the the formula to match the conditions, it does trigger on all the records. What am I missing? Has anyone experienced something similar? Here’s a link to a redacted version: Register Example Any help would be hugely appreciated.

Hey all, So I had my rep create a triggered/automated email based on date passing and it was working fine, except I needed to add some other triggers. I somehow broke the previous cool hyperlink with the text: ** Hey Team, The video 2021-05-03T13:00:00.000Zfor Film and Visual Effects needs to be retrieved.Click here to access the record** I fixed the weird time thing(used a different field, no fancy formula) but broke the hyperlink Hey Team, The Archology-2021-01-12video for Datasmith needs to be retrieved. https://airtable.com/tblxvulRRANNvpsaC/receRXgVuBqS0FRy9

Hello! Had a bit of a puzzling issue today. We currently use Airtable to make a list of 3D styles that need to be worked on in our company for clients. Our clients receive an automated email when the status changes to “ready to be reviewed” or “questions for this style”. Today I received an email from airtable automations that I had +1400 failed email automations and we’ve also been receiving emails from our clients that they gotten upwards of 200 emails about their styles that are no longer relevant. It seems that anyone who got the emails got notifications about all the tasks they’ve ever requested us to work on. Before this happened I had merged a .csv import with my current data in the table (all tasks gets entered with an empty status), when I do this is also change the email field to a ‘look up’ so we can associate emails to the proper client based off a linked clients tab, then change it back to an email field so it works with the automation. All tasks i’ve done before without t

Hi, I’ve been using Airtable to manage and automate registrations for events. I set automation to confirm the registration. The trigger was a “When a record is created”, i.e. when someone completed the registration form. After the event, I did not switch the automation off, and I inserted a new column into the same sheet to indicate who participated in the event (checkbox). Problem: Registered people who could not participate at the event complained about receiving my automated message confirming his/her registration after the event a second time. Previously, I assumed a record was when someone completed my form. Please help me to understand what happened. If the inserted new column was a new record/trigger, why only just a part of registered people received the automated? With thanks

I have two bases that use automations. In both cases I have problems with the automations triggering. In the first case the automation triggers for some things but not others. I believe that there may be a cascading automations problem in the first case, but I don’t know how to space things out enough to get all the automations to work correctly. In the case of the other problem automation it just never triggers, and it may be suffering from a semantics argument. The records are created by an outside automation (the record is being copied over from another base) but I’m only watching the relevant field for updates. I view that as an updated record because the record has to be created first, then that information is copied over, but is it still considered a created record and I need a separate automation for updated records? Thanks for the help!

my use case is very simple I want to invoke a REST API on every trigger of Record Created and Updated .(Whenever new record is added in Sheet or existing record is updated ) I should be able to read all the column data of a created / updated row and pass it to my API payload as a POST request Thanks

I have created 2 google worksheet automations. They test well and were working successfully. They have just stopped working but still test OK. I am on the free Plan. Can anyone help me?

I have an airtable table that I have automated into a Google sheets sheet, and then have that google sheets sheet copying info to another google sheet using the =Sheetname!cell number formula, but nothing appears when I have the airtable automated data in there, only when I type it manually into the google sheet. How can I fix this? is the data formatted differently when it comes from Airtable, or does the google sheet not recognize it is there or something in order to add it to the second sheet?

Here is my basic situation: I use airtable to manage events - each record has a specific date and time associated I have a limited number of staff - each record can only be assigned to one staff member within a given time frame (staff are not able to overlap their events) Is it possible to create an automation that creates a calendar event when I reach 75% of my staffing capacity? From what I can tell, I can only create an automation based on individual records. I am envisioning an automation along the lines of: “When number of unassigned staff at a given time falls below 10, create an event in GCal” Any other creative ways to approach this would be super helpful. Maybe there is an app that would be more appropriate. Thanks in advance!

I would like to build a pricing tool script that allows me to provide a few inputs, and then the script would calculate the price based on a series of calculations that run in the background. This is a for a trucking company whose job is to haul materials from the customer to a processing location. Each processing location charges a different rate to process the hauled materials. The pricing calculator needs to calculate the distance from the customer’s site to the processing location and the cost to process that material. [Project Table] input project address input material hauled input market location [Processing Table] list or processing locations containing address, materials accepted, processing rate, and market location I would like for this script to run a calculation for each record w/in a particular view of the Processing Table, and produce the lowest rate and associated Processing location that is driving that cost. The script would need to leverage the Google Maps Distance M

Hello, I’m not a developer, but I’m trying to work on an automation using scripts that will take the inputed “Current Monthly Image/File count” number and add it the “2021 Image count” total for every record in my table. Every month someone else inputs the number of images captured by a photographer in “Current Monthly Image/File count” and I want to add that number to the annual image count in the “2021 Image count” field. Thanks!