Automations

Hi there. I have a table "business partners" with records of type "supplier" and "brand" which are linked between each other. a record of type "supplier" can be linked to multiple records of type "brand" but a brand can only be linked to one supplier. i always want the links to be two way. i.e. if i add the record "Gmail" to the table and link it to the existing record (of the same table) called "Google", i want airtable to automatically identify that there is a missing backlink (ie. record Gmail has "Google" in its "link" field, but record "Google" does not have anything in its link field) and link the record "Google" to "Gmail" automatically. i have an automation that can trigger based on view conditions correctly. i want the automation to trigger, then "find" the linked record (i.e. Google) by ID and then copy whatever existing links are in the "link" field and add "Gmail" to that. However automations refuses to find a record in a table based on the values of a "link" field. ev

Question:What are the best practices or automation options in Airtable to manage and proactively govern user licenses and access?Details:We're currently reviewing our Airtable usage to optimize license management and access control. Our goals are:Reduce the number of licenses to under 50 (e.g., a user like Stevie B. currently has two licenses).Convert some Editors to Viewers where appropriate.Remove access for users who no longer need it.Identify unknown users with access and resolve their status.We would also like to develop a governance process to prevent this from being a recurring issue.For now, our model involves each admin monitoring Editor licenses whenever adding a user and reaching out to teammates if any license changes are needed.We’d love to hear:How other teams handle license management efficiently in Airtable.Recommendations for automation or tools to track and alert admins about license usage.Any governance frameworks that have worked for similar access management needs.

What are some good software options for automating generation of word docs using data from a record in Airtable? I would like to be able to trigger the automation in an Airtable interface (as opposed to an extension on the data side).

Hello, The article on “Airtable automation action: Send MS Teams message” has options mentioned in it that I don’t see on my airtable (we have enterprise), specifically the “Dynamically messaging channels and users” section. Are these upcoming changes? I would love to see these implemented, especially being able to tag people in teams messages or sending messages straight to users. Link to the article: https://support.airtable.com/v1/docs/send-ms-teams-message-actionLet me know. Thanks!

hello i want to make symptom and medicine database. where i select multiple symptome and common medicine shows. i have done relationship, but how to get common answer of multiple symptoms medicine . plz guide

Hey! Wondering if anyone has any insight into this!I'm creating an automation between Make.com, Chat GPT and Airtable to automate part of my content creation process. I'm stumped in this automation and would love a hand! The make.com senario uses a webhook to grab an airtable record, sends the record data to Open AI for Chat GPT to make a completion then sends the completion back to the original airtable record.And it's all working, which is exciting!EXCEPT the chat GBT completion doesn't end up back in the airtable record. I'm not getting any error messages to troubleshoot though. Not from make, airtable or chat gpt so I'm not sure what or how to troubleshoot this.All I can see is that the scenario completes successfully but there's no output in airtable.Inside the Make.com RAW log there also shows a Chat GPT output but the output doesn't relay to the irtable record. Again, I'm not getting an error message anywhere throughout the process. It all looks lik

Hello Community, We have noticed the following error when sending automated emails: Although I have defined the customer as the recipient (with myself as the trigger in CC), the email is primarily sent to me and only to the customer in CC. Screenshots are attached. Do you have any idea what could be causing this?  

HERE IS A TRANSMITTAL - TO 3 PEOPLE -AND WITH 2 DOCS….MATRIX AT THE BOTTOM GIVES THE COMBINATIONS OF PERSON (EMAIL AND NAME) AND DOCUMENT (URL AND POSSIBLY ATTACHMENT)WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS CLICK ON SOMETHING LIKE (INDIVIDUALLY) THE 2 X INDIVIDUAL ROWS FOR RECIPIENT…..SEND THAT PERSON AN EMAIL THAT CONTAINS EITHER OR BOTH, THE URL TO GET BACK TO THIS SCREEN (AND THEN WE HAVE TO PAY A LICENSE FOR THAT USER OF COURSE) SO THEY CAN UPDATE THEIR 2 ROWS IN MATRIX - OR - BETTER - SEND THE EMAIL WITH JUST THEIR TWO ROWS - WITH URL AND ATTACHMENT LINK - AND SOMEHOW A CHOICE OF APPROVE/REJECT/NOTED STATUS AGAINST EACH DOCUMENT THAT SOMEHOW COMES BACK TO THE MATRIX ROWS AND UPDATES THAT STATUS AGAINST THEIR NAME AND THE RIGHT DOCUMENT.- IS THAT POSSIBLE ? ANY BETTER IDEAS…..BEEN AROUND THE HOUSES WITH ZAPIER AND JUST COULD NOT MAKE HEADWAY SO AIRTABLE AUTOMATION MIGHT BE WAY TO GO (SOMEHOW).THANKS - YOUR ADVICE IS INVALUABLE!MIKE IN SW LONDON UK. 

Hello,In two different tables, there is a “customer” field linked to the “customers” table. This field can contain several customers (not unique).I would like to be able to copy the customer names from the field in table 1 to the customer field in table 2 without deleting any existing data, but adding to it. (Copying and pasting deletes the old data.)Example:Table 1: John; Paul; AliceTable 2: Richard; Linda; John After copying to table 2:John; Paul; Alice; Richard; LindaKeep Richard, Linda, and John, and do not duplicate John, who is in both tables. How can I do this?Thank you and have a nice day. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

What does this mean?"cannot assign list of object to collection of complex types"I can't select any field values. And how do I make it so I can select it.  

I have a number of automations that have been working for years that suddenly stopped finding records as of the first time they ran in July. They were supposed to be looking for records in a related view, but were listing Condition Filters that had nothing to do with that view.I tried changing them to use Conditions instead of a View, and there were condition filters defined, apparently from copying another automation and then modifying it. They have been this was as far as I know from the beginning, but worked based on the View filters until July.I have cleared out the unused condition filters and am waiting for the first run in August to verify it is fixed. Just wanted to figure out why they used to work and quit without changes on my part.

Hi everyone,I’m hoping to tap into the community's wisdom here because I feel like I'm missing something obvious.I'm currently working in a base where I frequently need to link a large number of records from one table to a single record in another. For example, I just added 75 new [Tasks] for a marketing campaign and needed to link all of them to the one [Campaign] record.My current process involves either manually clicking the '+' and finding the record 75 times, or setting up a fairly clunky workaround with automations that feels like overkill. It’s incredibly time-consuming and prone to errors.This got me thinking about building a simple extension to solve this once and for all. Before I dive in and spend time building it, I wanted to ask if this is a common pain point for others too.Here’s how I imagine a simple tool could work:* Open the extension and select the table and view you want to work on (e.g., the Tasks table and the New Tasks view).* Use checkboxes to select all the rec

Ante todo, mucha gracias 🙏necesito que se cree un registro nuevo y se grabe de forma automática el correo electrónico de la tabla “usuarios” al campo email de otra tabla “test clientes” y no hay forma. Se crea el registro nuevo en la tabla pero no muestra el campo email. Me podrías ayudar.mil gracias 

Good afternoon,I'm trying to use Airtable automations to send an email to folks through my Gmail account. Airtable is directly connected to my Gmail account. The emails send successfully, but the problem is that when the email shows up in the recipients' inboxes, the sender name is just my first name in all lower case (e.g., "matt"), but I'm sending it on behalf of an organization. This is unprofessional and isn't what I'm trying to communicate to my recipients. So my question is:How can I change the "Sender" on these emails when using Airtable Automations to send emails through my Gmail account?I already confirmed my Gmail settings, my Google account settings, etc. Honestly, it looks like it's just pulling the info from my email address (e.g., "matt" from "matt@company.com").Surely there's a way around this???TIA,ML  

Hello,I would like to update the data in an Airtable table from an Excel spreadsheet.This is a “Customers” table (approximately 1,500 records) which includes a ‘Department’ column. The data for these “Departments” for each customer has changed, and the new values are in an Excel file.I would like to be able to replace the value in the “Department” field for each “Customer” with the corresponding value in the Excel file.If anyone has any ideas on how to do this...Thank you

I wanted to share a recent experience in case anyone else has run into the same thing, and if not, to bring it to the community’s attention. It’s one of those odd edge cases that can cause a lot of confusion when troubleshooting automations, and I think it’s worth having on the radar for anyone building complex workflows. Recently, I was troubleshooting an automation that ran in an unexpected way. While reviewing the automation run logs and the record’s historical logs, I couldn’t figure out how it had been triggered. The revision history showed no relevant edits, yet the automation clearly had fired. After digging deeper and testing different scenarios, I eventually discovered the cause, the collaborator had unintentionally undone an action almost immediately after performing it, either by quickly unchecking a box or pressing Cmd+Z (or Ctrl+Z) on their keyboard. Airtable’s automation system is sensitive enough to register the initial change even if it’s quickly reverted. However, Airt

When creating a trigger using the “When Record Matches A Condition”, is there a way to enter a table value into the matching field, other than a hard-coded value? For example, the table has 2 columns, [Cost] and [Original Cost]. Want to trigger an update when [COST] != [Original Cost], but it seems to only allow entering of an actual value. “When Record is Updated” trigger does work to accomplish this, but it can take about 10 seconds to update the destination field, and begins to execute the trigger the moment the value box is changed (If the value entered 100, it seems to run for 1,0,0 and then 100, as I can see the other fields updating with multiple values until the final value). Sometimes, if we type too quickly, it doesn’t update and will update based on “10” rather than “100”.

I'm building a script that will eventually be part of an automation to create records for upcoming coaching calls in one table based on conditions from a separate source table. We've successfully implemented a similar script and automation combo in another base, but I'm having trouble getting this one to function properly. When I run the script, no error messages appear, but none of the expected records are added to the destination table, despite the fact that the source records clearly meet the script’s conditions. I've triple-checked the data and logic, and everything appears to be in order. I'd appreciate help troubleshooting this issue and identifying what's preventing the script from creating records as expected.

I have a sign up process where users can invite other users to join their organisation. As such I have 3 key tables: Users; Invited Users; and Company Information. Users have a linked field to an Organisation ID field in the Company Information table so that the site can display information about the company they are assigned to. When a user invites a new user to join their organisation the Invited User table is updated with a new record including their Email, Name etc. anda linked field “Organisation ID, linked to the Company Information table. Then when an invited user signs up they are added to the Users Table and there is an automation that pulls over information from the Invited Users table like their access level and assigned Organisation ID. However, pulling over the Organisation Field results in a  "Field "Organisation ID" cannot accept the provided value: Cannot modify a computed field." error.I have tried changing the transfered value to a static value (plain text), using the

Hello,In an “Agent” table, there is a checkbox field called “Check.”I would like to be able to check all the boxes in this field at once for all the records displayed.I say “displayed” because sometimes there are filters based on certain criteria, and only the boxes for records that match the filter criteria should be checked.If you have any ideas on how to do this...Thank you.

I may be SOL but I am very new to Airtable and I’m wondering if there’s any way to delete a line of text containing a certain word within a record. Basically, I input records that all contain source information and the line of source info always begins with ‘Page’ - is there any way to delete that entire line from all records or am I stuck manually deleting it from every record? 

My script runs as an automation when the user clicks a button on an interface page.If the script fails, I log an error to the console, and I can find the error in the run history. But it would be nicer to display a message to the user if they are still on the interface page. Is that possible? Thanks!

Hello- Is it possible to create an automation that sends attachments into a Google Drive account?

trying to store latest revision on a HEADER record from multiple rows (each with an ascending revision) in the same table. The first row far right on HDR should be the max of 4 shown below. currently says 0.Have two views - HEADERS ONLY and REVS ONLY - so created a link to another record to use rollup.When there is a new revision in the REVS ONLY VIEW - I try to fire an automation that detects the new rev, and automatically copies the ME35 number into the field I use for the link…. argghhargghh…..does not want to work !!!! Ideas ??? Many Thanks    Mike 

Hi! I have an automation that has two find actions.Find a record (a person) on table 1  Find an interaction on table 2 After the two find actions have run, I have a conditional logic group in order to update the record from table 1. In the first condition, I want to check if a value from Table 2 exists on the record found on Table 1. The value is a formula field on Table 2. However, when I try to make a condition using a formula (either “Activation name” or the array version of that formula, “Activation name array,” it is greyed out and gives the error Cannot assign list of string with strings. How can I use a formula as a condition here?