Automations

Hey Airtable community, i need your help ! I have a question :slightly_smiling_face: I have a table in airtable called “invoice” where all of my client invoice informations goes (Name/mail/adress/total paid/…) i use these informations and connect them with zapier to a template, the infos autocomplete this template. I wanted to know if same thing can be done with new automation function directly through airtable. From what i’ve leaned it’s not possible airtable can only transfer data to specific header columns and not to a template. Thanks for reading !

I’m trying to set up an automated email that fills in the contents of a multiple select field. Is there a way to insert the multiple select field in something like a plain english list? For example, I have a multiple select that has [Sam; Suzy; Pete]. I would like to insert the sentence “Sam, Suzy, and Pete” into my email. Thanks!

Hello – I have two tables and have an automation running from conditions met on the first table to create new records on another table. I have several automations running between these tables with no issues for some reason, one of them keeps creating two extra records. I’ve even tried deleting it and recreating it. Any ideas? You can see here that it is only meant to create 5 records but it’s creating 7.

Hey guys, does anyone know why there is +07 at the end of this line? also, for some reason, it’s not picking up the correct rows (i.e this test returns a row that has last modified on the 8th [it is now the 10th]) any ideas on how to be more specific with the date?

Hi, I would like to sort a table without sorting the last 2 columns, is there a way? Thank you. Jill

Dear community, We help our customers by notifying them when their employees certificates expire and they need to renew certificates. Employees have 10+ different certificates and I would like to automatically update the expiry data for the certificates to “5 years from today” when it expires. But how do I update the specific date field in the record when I have multiple date fields in each record? How does the automation know which date-field to update? Can I refer the to date that just expired, and if so, how do I do that. Hope some of you have a solution. Thanks, Jon

I am trying to create an automation that triggers when a record reaches the last stack in my Kanban view (Placed 1st Order) that the action is updating the record to checked a box in the columed called Customer. I’ve created the trigger, but I’m getting tripped up on the action. What record ID am I suppose to add? And When I choose the Customer field, it doesn’t let me tell it to check the box.

I am trying to create a duplicate table in the same base with few records. I have used trigger actions and trial run was tested successfully. trigger( a new record created in s_table in base_1) to action( create new record in s2_table in base_1) the s2_table has custom modifications so that the records to integrate it to Hubspot via zapier. . The only change in the field type from original to duplicate is primary services ( multiple select ) and primary services ( multi line text in s2 table).>> reason( for Hubspot integration) I will appreciate it if some one help me with the automation issue?

Hello everybody, Quick introduction i’m a beginner in Airtable and Bubble io, i have a bubble io website where clients write down their invoice linked to airtable, my project is that when i click on a button on Bubble io, Bubble Io creates a new line in Airtable in a table called “invoices” with informations the client just typed and previous informations already in Airtable linked to the current mission. So here’s my issue : I use a workflow to create a new record in Airtable, i link the data with an External API (for the data i already have in airtable) but when i link the already existing data composed of formulas 'in airtable (for example : Data 1 & " - " &{Data 2}*) the constraint is red and it doesn’t work. When i initialized the Table in the Airtable plugin i specified that the formulas were a “text” data. In the example under this post, you can see a screenshot, the red circle represent the data with a formula which i want to put in m

Here is my need. I have a table of sessions with three columns: duration (one week, two weeks or more) , dependancy : link to another record in the same table start-date : date of the session. Duration is set manually. Dependancy is set manually or empty if session is the pivot. Start-date could be calculated if session is dependent of precedent session or set manually. What is the elegant way to implement the algorithm? Is it possible to use formula to do that or should I use automation? Thanks a lot for your help.

I have a complex base with about 16 tables. I am trying to figure out the best way to be able to set a reminder for a record in ANY of the tables easily. I want to be able to set the time & day of the reminder in a REMIND ME field in any record of any table and get notified by email when it is due. I was thinking I could create a REMINDER Table and link it to the other tables and then set a view in for Remind me is before (NOW) and then set an automation to send me an email whenever a record enters the view. What I am having a hard time with is how to link the tables properly. If someone can explain in detail how to do this with just 3 tables EVENTS, TASKS, & the REMINDER table, I can extrapolate the rest. Any help is appreciated.

Hi, I am working on setting up an automation with Microsoft Teams where a post is made in a channel when a record status changes. I’d like to be able to tag the person who submitted the record (they enter their email address into a column) so they can be notified when the status changes through teams. Is it possible? The email address entered into Airtable will match the account holder in Teams as they will all be company addresses.

I know they are not currently supported and it says “We do plan to support the lookup field in the near future.” and I know about the formula workaround. But I don’t want to add a bunch of extra field just to copy data. Dose anyone know when the support is scheduled to be implemented? I need this to plan my actions. I love the added automation ability and look forward to this helping making this tool even more useful. Thanks in advance.

I am currently writing an airtable automation for my organization that is trying to run a script on records that are a certain age (currently thinking week old records). In order to do so, I was thinking of using the “When a record matches condition” trigger, and using the When field on the Created date for the record, and checking if it is before one week ago. The main point I want to check on is if this is one week from the time when the automation runs, or if this is one week from the time the automation was made. Likewise, how often will this automation run?

I have a base where I track real estate leads as a realtor and potential investments. I have one table with the property specific information (SF, Unit count, # of bedrooms, baths, rent, etc) and a table that shows the contact information with a relationship between the two tables. It’s pretty time consuming to flip between the data source like Redfin to manually enter in the property information. Is there a way I can have a field where I can insert the link, and then the other columns automatically fill in the data based on info from websites like redfin/zillow?

Hey guys, I’ve just subscribed to Airtable Pro and i’m trying to set automations with “Run Script”. I’ve tried my first automations with a simple scripts as console.log(“test”) and let table = base.getTable(“Titular”); let query = await table.selectRecordsAsync(); console.log(query.records); But when a test it, it keeps getting “Test Failed”. I don’t know what to do in this case. Would appreciate if someone give me a clue. Thanks. Luis

My table has a column with a single image which I need to process via remove.bg (to remove background). I want the processed image to be loaded to a new column NEXT to the column with the original image. And I have many records in the table so I need the process to be automatic. AirTable automation doesn’t seem to offer way to deal with REMOVE.BG so I am trying to setup Zapier (haven’t tried Integromat yet, but that’s another option). Zapier flow works but the issue is, the flow doesn’t allow me to add the processed image in a new column next to the original image. I sent support request to Remove.BG but I don’t think this is an issue with Remove.BG. It’s a limitation with the AirTable ZAP in Zapier. To get it working in Zapier, the Zap flow has 3 parts. Part 1: When this happens … New Record in Airtable This is a tri

I created an automation that triggers when any record is added to table A it automatically creates the same record in table B (within the same base). I’d like it to copy all the records already in that table so that the number of records in table A is always equal to the number of records in table B. It only copies NEW records though. Is that possible?

Good day I am looking to update a number of records using an automation. It worked, but only updated a single record. I am not sure how to get it to update all of the records that match the trigger.

When trying to turn on my animation (that is triggered by a google sheet entry) after a few seconds it switches itself off. Does anyone know why this might be?

Hello there, I’ve been using airtable to match candidate and job posting thanks to link field. Most of the time, one candidate fits many job posting, so the linked field contains multiple records in it. I would like to create a new record in a different table based on each of these linked record. Is there a way to do that without scripting in Airtable ?

Hi there! I was wondering if it possible to have a form that allows the user to attach a file (csv or xlsx) then using automation, take that attachment and populate the matching columns - as well as do any update. Basically would be the CSV Importer but instead of dropping a file, it would consider the values from the attachment. There is Spreadsheet importer: Airtable Scripting but not sure how to make it work. Thanks!

Is there a way to rerun a failed automation? The problem I’ve encountered is that Google Calendar sets a limit of how many invites it will allow you to send within a certain timeframe as a spam protection: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2905486?hl=en Lesson learned and won’t be going this route in the future. Because of that, some of my automations failed to run. I would like to rerun them during the pockets when Google unfreezes my calendar. But, I’m not seeing an option to rerun the automation. Here’s an example of what it looks like. Looking forward to your advice! Thanks!

How do I update a check box from an action, just stuck on the next step,

First of all - this kind of stinks. I probably have 30-40 zaps that are now using the “Airtable (Legacy)” app with no warning. I know it probably won’t change how anything functions, but it still makes me feel like I need to spend hours going through all my zaps and updating them. Second of all, I’m curious if there’s anything new and shiny with the new Airtable zapier integration, or if it’s just a change of the internals?