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I don’t have time now to learn how to develop an Airtable Base. I know what I need and want to use. Therefore, I want to hire an expert to build a simple Base for me, which can then be made more complex little by little. The first development is very simple. Surely I can learn and do it by myself, but now I prefer to hire someone to do it for me. Regards. Juan Carlos

I played around with Apps for the first time today. I built this (alpha) tool https://github.com/UnlyEd/airtable-app-bases-compare which basically prints out a Markdown text about the base configuration (all tables, fields, options, etc.) and can then be used through another Text Diff checker tool to figure out what the differences between two bases are. This is essential to us because we have bases that must be eventually sync (staging > production) and we were getting lost in changes until this. I hope you’ll like it as much as we do. Keep in mind it’s still an alpha version and subject to massive changes, but it does work and might help you today. :s

Hi I am a consultant working in pro sports and am keen to understand more about Airtable. My data/information services can possibly delivered via Airtable, where I am currently using Google Sheets and PDFs currently. Each client would require their own environment (workspace) and I would be refreshing their data daily/weekly (which is another question I will need answering). I have read plenty on here and watched YouTube videos, but I would really like to understand the more about the client UX for when Bases are shared externally, via links. Ideally, my clients will be ‘read only’, for the Bases, and I would be keen to see an example of their User Experience - can someone send me a link or provide a video that would present this? Furthermore, would they be able to manipulate the Kanbans, or would that require a different level of access? Thanks for your help.

Hello Airtable experts! :wave: In our agency and freelance no-code work, we’ve noticed a really strong growth in the volume of no-code projects, especially in the past year or so. Luckily, it seems like no-code is definitely becoming an appealing solution to more and more startups, solo founders, but also “traditional” companies. Being that the first generation of makers is already out there, with many of us starting agency businesses or working as freelancers, we wanted to create a freelance platform dedicated specifically to no-code and put our skills and expertise in front of as many clients as possible. With a lot of awesome learning communities around, there seems to be a gap when it comes to finding a good amount of no-code project work in a single place - I am sure many of you are over the chaotic search for the few no-code jobs on Freelancer and Upwork. On top of that, the upfront bidding process on such platforms makes sustainable and rewarding work a pretty

It always surprises me when professed experts are unable to truly understand a market’s topology. How is it possible to claim to track the no-code sector with the list of tools and services referenced in this article? Seriously (trends.vc)!?! These are the “no-code players”? I can think of one that’s missing - rhymes with fair-label. :winking_face: Carrd Webflow Bildr Adalo Glide Softr Bubble Sha

Base -> HTML -> PDF This “show and tell” is based on a project I worked on for the Computer Museum of America (see this post: TimeLine of Computer History). Airtable Pro plans can make use of the Page Designer block, but if you don’t have a Pro plan or want something that is a bit more customisable, then this might work for you. Really, this is about outputting base data into a PDF, but uses HTML as an interim step. The benefit of HTML is that is hugely customisable and, by using CSS, you can pick from a huge range of colours, fonts, layouts and so on. Possible use cases for this might include product catalogues, invoices, brochures, data reports and so on. Or even large format wall displays 100ft long :slightly_smiling_face: The code I used in the CMOA project was very specific to that piece of work, so this is a more generic way to ge

I have an SMS app and want to link the responses from a phone number to a first/last name in my database.

Hi Airtable lovers! :rocket: I wanted to share a personal project I’ve been working on :slightly_smiling_face: I started my Youtube channel because I want to help more people build (and more importantly, UNDERSTAND) nocode databases because I know how challenging it can be to get started. The first tutorial series is on building a great CRM. Here’s the channel: https://www.youtube.com/airopsconsulting Here’s the most recent video: https://youtu.be/exIYtS4EdFA This video is great if you want to learn about how to link tables within your base and why using views is so important! Thanks!

Would love to share with the community here a UserStyle that modifies the display of Airtable’s Kanban view to make better use of available space and simplify the cards UI. It also applies thin scrollbars all over airtable.com (this block may be removed) and modifies a collaborator field with the title “Action of”, if it exists. Don’t get me wrong, the Airtable team is doing a great job, but the chrome is a bit on the heavy side with all those borders. Several design choices are “embedded” within the implementation, therefore impossible to modify. See here for the UserStyle and instructions on how to use it: https://github.com/Arty2/userstyles#airtablecom-neat-kanban

So I typically input the data from my excel and copy past it here. But many of my records look weird, and i have to manually fix them. How can I Avoid this problem ? in the scrreen shot only the partial name shows up.

UPDATE 09/05/2020 - The new “updated record” trigger for automations makes this workaround unnecessary (more notes in a comment farther down in this thread), but I’ll leave the thread here anyway. Using Airtable’s new (but still technically in beta for Pro-plan users and up at the time I’m writing this) automation features, how can an automation pick up all changes to a field? It wouldn’t be a new record trigger, and the only other option right now is a new record in a view. If the field in question was simply going from empty to not-empty, the triggering view—and any connected automation—would pick it up after the first few characters, and wouldn’t operate on the full contents because the record would need to leave the view and re-enter it again to re-trigger the automation. So how can a lengthy change to a single field re-trigger an automation multiple times so that its full contents are processed? As with many things, it’s a m

Data Explained 2.0: Airtable flowchart block does not suffice unfortunately Hello there, we are looking for help with the following: We want to connect a database in Airtable to a Flowchart tool. We want entries from Airtable to get imported into the flowchart tool as described below. The Airtable database Our database contains several rows and columns. Each row contains survey responses of 1 user and each column contains that user’s response to survey questions (each response is text such as: “I looked at a datafile”). For example: Row 1 might contain the data for user 1 and user 1 might have given the following responses in columns A-C Column A entry: “I analysed data” Column B entry: “I checked the results” Column C entry: “I verified the assumptions” The flowchart tool We now want to import this user’s responses to a flowchart app so that these 3 responses “appear” in a flowch

Hello, we run a mid-sized publishing company and we need help building out our AirTable for our company. We are looking to add all of our clients, processes, and systems into AirTable so we can have everything in one location.

Greetings. I’m seeking an Airtable consultant to assist with building out our workspace. I have the base created and would like to increase functionality by setting up the best apps/blocks. My email is katie@steinberginstitute.org.

This is either an awfully clever work-around for Airtable’s limitations on data lookup or an incredibly convoluted method to achieve something that can easily be managed within Airtable itself, had I not overlooked something basic. You tell me… On my current project, my main table tracks items currently within a collection. An item may currently be onsite or in one of several offsite conditions – for instance, on loan, on lease, gifted, sold, lost, out for cleaning, or out for repair. The total number of on- and offsite statuses is fewer than 10. An item may pass through any number of statuses, but it can only be in one status at a time. As I chewed my way through the base design, I quickly realized there was substantial overlap among data required to track offsite status: Who had the item, the date the item went offsite, the date it was due back (if applicable), the date it actually returned, and so on. I created an outRecord table to log each status change for an ite

I have a list of 15 functions/projects that I’ve scoped out as part of my vision to making Airtable do everything we need it to. I’d love to hire someone that can build each of these things in Q4… so that everything is ready to go for 2021. Ping me with your per hour or per project rates if you’re interested.

hi all- I have been in software and technology my whole career, but have hardly used Airtable at all. I understand data modeling, JavaScript, API’s, automation, etc. but I am smart enough to know what I don’t know - and I don’t want to invest time building out an Airtable app without someone watching out for best practices, shortcuts, and helping break through obstacles. I have a client who wants to hire me to build out their system in Airtable. It’s a fairly simple database that will just have a few primary tables/data-types, but there will be a ton of fields to deal with. Once complete, we want to expand the system to use webmerge to produce documentation based on the data. But, that comes next :slightly_smiling_face: For now, I would love to have someone who I can schedule a call with to: Look over my work and provide feedback help out if I get into a jam recommend approaches for getting things done in airtable

I am a Director at a Boston based ed-tech organization, and looking for an Airtable expert to help us build out our Sales CRM and social media Airtable bases. I’d also like to help my team better utilize Airtable and be able to ask specific questions. Most urgently, we need to be able to integrate APIs for Twitter, Facebook, IG, and MailChimp. As mentioned, we also need to develop our Sales CRM (currently using Less Annoying, and wanting to entirely shift to Airtable). Please e-mail me at gabrielle@writetheworld.com if this sounds like a project you can help with. We’d like to get this going by late September 2020 if possible. Thanks in advance.

Here is a demo of a script that I am working on. This script creates a new record and all associated linked records in other tables. Default values are set in a “template” record, not hard coded into the script “Smart” defaults can be calculated values, such as the current date New linked records are created, including multiple levels of links Changing the defaults or linked records requires no editing of code Multiple templates are possible

I’ve built out a base with most of the sections I think we need. I’d like to collaborate with a consultant to come in to finesse it a bit based on the architecture I’ve built out to accomplish our goals. This will include, at least: All Contributions, People, Foundations, Grants, Interactions and a couple other tables. I want to ensure I’ve set it up well, to make as much automated as possible (we’ll be connecting our base to our donation platform, mailchimp, gmail, ideally website/cookies), and that the right information lives in the right place so we can scale. If that sounds like something you’re interested in helping with, please let me know! Thank you!!

Hi! I’m needing to launch my airtable database soon. I’m migrating from FileMaker and have zero database design and found that this is much harder than I was lead to believe. Is anyone here is an airtable consultant who can take over my database migration and help me design the database so that pull out the info needed? We have a budget. We just need to get it done as working between the two databases is no longer a viable option.

I am new to JavaScript, and one of the reasons why I took learning it to use it on airtable. Often I need to sum, count and averages of values in a table and hold the value in a block for a while for others to see. This can be done using existing blocks but one each for sum, count and average - which is tedious. This script makes life easier in such cases. It lets user select the field and table, and even filter conditions before summing, counting and averaging them. I am planning to add error handling. and warnings to this soon. GitHub link is here: https://github.com/indrex/airtablesum

Hello, We recently had to port over an old webapp to Airtable in short order. The structure is there but the next step is to build out a front end that will make data entry to update existing records more user friendly. The users in this case are our internal folks, the app is internal and not publicly facing in any way. I will also have some questions about some complex fields and reports, but the front-end is my priority at the moment. I was hoping the forms view would work but that just allows you to create new records, when I have to be able to update the records. Some Stats on the current base: <100 records 5 Tables 12 Views (currently) Complex Page Designer Block for data presentation (Tear sheets)* *The final front-end product should mimic the layout of the existing and finalized Page Designer Block (Tear Sheet) which might help as a good guide. Finally, at our firm we have a number of possibilities we can use for thi

I am using AT for our CRM and database for our company. So we are able to link financials to the customers and marketing reps commissions. The more I play with AT the more I see it has amazing capabilities. I am a visionary and have some cool ideas on how to use it further but would like to see if there are other users interested in having a ZOOM call or other medium to further explore the idea. We are also in the process of using it for our HR process by using digital forms. Below is a link to a form for those interested in joining the group. https://airtable.com/shrlVF9kevgnyaqrT

Please reference www.highmesallc.com to understand our company. We buy wind cash flows from landowners who have wind turbines on their land. We have been using Airtable but it is beginning to stretch the non-experts, and we are going to need some streamlining and extension of its capabilities. First task is to give criticism/fixes to the existing base/structure, then extension for supporting higher volume of customer contacts. To get a sense of scale: we are currently dealing with 15000 turbines, and 3500 owners. Current important tables are customers/turbines/projects (which are aggregations of turbines)/mailout tracker/deal discussion tracker/family groups. I am sure this can be improved. We need a way of capturing contacts with owners and constant improvement of the dataset (for example - salesperson gets an inbound call from a mailer/email, we need a simple form to correct the phone number for that custom