Development & APIs

Hello everyone! I am not familiar with scripting or programming so I was wondering is it possible to create a script that pulls attachments from multiple different fields and compile them into a single field? Below attached is an example of what I am trying to describe. I want attachments uploaded in [DASH] to be compiled into [FM] All other customs docs.

Hey everyone! I’ve spent hours dealing with this issue, and I think it’s time to come hat-in-hand to the community now. I’ve created a royalty system that pays out composers each month. I’m working on splits now among our composers, so each song in our catalog may have a link to one or more composers. Up until now it was very easy to do a “select” call to our song base and filterbyformula on our “Composers” lookup field by individual composer and then do various nifty operations on that composer’s songs for the payment period. But NOW some songs have more than one composer attached, and when I try to do various iterations of filters that I’ve tried, I either get ZERO songs or ALL songs, neither of which are ideal, to say the least. Does any Airtable API Javascript guru out there have the answer where I can make a call to the Songs and filter by Composers (with more than one attached in a Lookup field) where I can do what is essentially a “contains” filter? Thanks in advance! Cindy

I’m trying to make a script that will read from a Date field and copy and paste that data into a Link to field in the same table. If there is a better way of doing this I am completely open to it. The end goal is to setup an Automation that will check for a change in date from the source and reflect that in a weekly report table.

I have a table that tracks the steps and results in a process. Sometimes we modulate the steps, but often the steps remain the same over multiple submissions/rows. For example, we have molds that need to be cleaned using a variety of different tools, solvents, and methods. I have a column titled Mold Cleaning with options “Standard” and “R&D”. I would like to be able to have subsequent columns autofill based on the selection in this column. If “Standard” is selected, then I would like the tools/solvents/methods to input our standard selections for that. If “R&D” is selected then I would like for the tools/solvents/methods to remain blank for input. Can this be done through scripting or some other means?

Hi, I have a Product Management Base that houses a series of production deadlines. As each deadline, set in its respective Date field, approaches the 72-hour mark, a corresponding Function field flips from “Work In Progress” to “Upcoming.” My question is as follows: is there a way for this change to trigger an email, either through Zapier or Integromat? From what I’ve seen of Zapier, it’s Airtable triggers only involve adding new records, not updating existing ones. I’m new to integration so anything helps!

Hi guys, I’m wondering if what I am looking to do can be done via an out the box automation, or if I need a script writing. Or both! In short, we are a villa rental agency and send an email to our property owners regularly to ask them to update us with their latest availability. We are then updating the ‘last updated on’ date field at property record level as and when we receive the updates. I was then going to run an automation to send an email to the owner when the ‘last updated on’ date is more than 7 days ago. This would then run in the background and would email owners accordingly when the availability data is out of date by 7 days, correct? However, in some cases owners have more than one property and may have recently updated us on one of them, but not the others, so ideally we would implement something that could check the owner record first for the total number of properties linked to them, then check the last updated on date for each and then bring across the name of each pro

Hi, I am working on a custom block and would like to automate my deployments. I want to write some tests for it, but I haven’t had any success with this as of yet. Any ideas for how this can be done?

Hello. I have a series of actions in an Automation set up to create records (tasks) when a new project is created. Sometimes there’s a snafu and the project is created accidentally or there’s a mistake. Meaning I need to re-run the steps in the Automation but they won’t run again on their own. I thought I could create a script to choose a record (Project) to run that specific Automation that creates the records (Tasks). Is this possible or would this all have to be generated by a script? TLDR: Can you run an Automation selectively by a Script > Record Picker

Here is my workflow: User submits a form I built in Jotform. I am using On2Air’s Simple Select widget to pull records from Airtable. In Zapier, I am using a catch hook, creating a new Airtable record and then sending the data from Jotform to Airtable using On2Air update record action. . The problem that I am having is that when I map the data for up to 10 linked records, unless I send exactly 10 linked records, it won’t work (too many extra commas). Sometimes the user may only include 1, 2, 3…10 records. Anyone know how to format the data in Zapier or in Jotform before it is sent?

Hello, I try to test scripting but i have a generic error that really doesnt help me to find the solution :slightly_smiling_face: “There was an unexpected error while executing your script.” let table = base.getTable("Max"); let queryResult = await table.selectRecordsAsync(); let record = queryResult.records[0]; console.log(record.getCellValueAsString("Rue")); My goal is to have a trigger where i get the new row & do several things

Using a script, what is the syntax for clearing a value from an existing record in a single select field?

Hi everyone, I’m trying to write a script here to do a thing but I’m not a coder. I can usually reverse engineer examples to get by but right now I’m coming up short. Here’s what I"m looking to do. I have Table A Table A has records for projects taco, sandwich, and cereal. The base has tables corresponding to each project and share the same name. Tables taco, sandwich, and cereal have records for each project update, most importantly the Notes field. For each record in Table A, I want to grab the latest record from the table that matches the record name and display the Notes field content in a field in Table A. I figure I’ll put this in an automation that runs when Table A is opened. I can make various parts of my intent work but I can’t put it all together. Can any of you epic geniuses help out?

Hi guys, can I ask you to expose launch mode in the script? Reason: I have a huge table and the current script from Apps does await input.recordAsync() from filtered data to speed up the selection(e.g. filters out records with past Due Date, ‘not ready’ status, etc.) I found that Button may be a nice addition if you want to initiate the script from any record. But it has limitation: Can’t use record from button field To use records from button field with input.recordAsync, use a Table or View as the source. So, with session.launchMode I can modify the script to ask input.recordAsync() just from the full table and use filtered records if I launch the script from Apps. Best regards, Maks

Hi, I need to know if this requirement is possible. I using Airtable with API and currently I have multiple table link to each other. The issue is the order of the data linked is important for me. For example: in the image attach, I want to link the data with certain order by using its data. tm_26137 -> days = 3 tm_29311 -> days = 5 tm_29311 -> days = 7 I want to arrange the linked data based on the days value, lets say I want in days descending value. Is it possible? this is to minimal the code effort. Thank you in advance

I have a script that’s currently working to create one record on my Project/Yarn junction table, but I need it to create multiple records, one per linked cell value in Yarn (from stash), if there are multiple of these. I’ve had a looked on the forums but am struggling to find the solution, can anyone help? This is my current script: let table = base.getTable(“Projects”); let record = await input.recordAsync(‘Select a record to use’, table); let populateTable = base.getTable(‘Project/Yarn’); if (record) { await populateTable.createRecordAsync({ “Project”: [{id: record.id}], “Yarn used”: record.getCellValue(‘Yarn (from stash)’), }) output.text(Record created: ${record.name}) } else { output.text(‘No record was selected’); }

I’m trying to add more intelligent time support to one of my bases, so I went looking for a free time API that I could query, and I found this: worldtimeapi.org World Time API: Simple JSON/plain-text API to obtain the current time in,... It looked like it would fit the bill, so I built a quick test in the Scripting app. However, I hit a CORS-related error, so I shifted testing to a script action in an automation. While I’m no longer getting an error, I’m also not getting the response I’m expecting based on the examples on the above site. Here’s my simple test based on the first example shown on the homepage: let result = await fetch("http://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone") console.log(result) This is supposed to return a full list of timezones, but this is what the console shows: I’m still relatively new to calling APIs, so it’s possible I’m missing something basic, but I’m not sure what it is.

We’re excited to announce a new input method for the scripting block: input.fileAsync ! This enables script users to upload files, which the script can then use to do things like create or update records. If you’ve ever wanted to preprocess the data in your files before importing it to your base with the CSV or XML import block, you can now do so with input.fileAsync ! Because you can access the file contents from inside the script, you could also do things like conditional record creation or custom fuzzy matching to update existing records. We’re excited to see how you can use this to empower your scripts! The returned value from the file input gives you access to the uploaded File itself, as well as the parsed contents of the file (if supported). Currently, parsing is automatically performed for .csv, .xls, .xlsx, .json, .xml, and .txt files, giving you immediate access to the underlying data. Check out the full documentation for input.fileAsync in the API reference inside the bl

I am looking for the simplest way to get the raw data from my table fields into my static HTML page(s). I am using iframes right now but cannot style with CSS… Unfortunately, I only know HTML and CSS so the API documentation is over my head. Looked for videos on this and they all seem to use various third-party apps that I do not have or know how to use. Please help! Thanks, Bill

I am trying to search for research applications on district websites and have all the website URLs in one column and keywords for research applications in another. Is there a way to modify the existing script for searching the web for keywords to only search specific websites?

Hi Community, I have a table ORDER of n orders with the {fields} : order-id, product, quantity, delivery-date Airtable SHOP - Airtable Explore the "SHOP" base on Airtable. I am trying to use a script to group_by (product, delivery-date) in order to sum the field {quantity} of a group (total-quantity) Then: with Automation, create a record in a table GROUP-ORDER with the fields: order-group-id, delivery-date, product, total-quantity Example on how the results should look like, is shared in the link above. I’m a little knew to the Scripting App (and my skills in javascript are medium). Is this approach feasible? and how should I get started? I managed to group the fields with a script as in : I need help for solving a problem on the script block However, I am struggling to create a new group-order record in a separate table. Thanks!

Hi there I currently use airtable as my delivery fulfillment hub for virtual video game items where I have multiple staff take and fulfill orders via Kaban View. The process is the record comes into a view and the first person who changes that operator name to theirs gets to take that order. The problem comes where there is latency and multiple people click and take that order within the same second, it will override the true initial person to change the field, also its possible for them to change it after the fact (the airtable history does not work well if it all happens within the same second or one staff has higher latency then the other i think) I want to know if this is possible to build then I will look for an app developer to help. The problem comes with latency, the app would need to have some parameters built into it where it will know what the field was changed to FIRST then override and prevent it from being changed again within the next few seconds Would love to hear your

Hi, I’m trying to use the API encoder to find if a value exists using filterByFormula, and in response get a certain string if it exists and another string if it doesn’t. This is where I’m at but it seems it’s not the direction IF(FIND(“5z”,{Field 6})=0, “DOESNT”, “EXISTS”) Any ideas?

How do I get the all data ( Pictures) from Google forms >> Airtable. Or Forms >> Google Sheets >> Airtable. Either way I want to see the question and picture or audio/Video included. Is this possible? If so, how would I go about building these scrips or connection successfully?

I have a list of names of people enrolled in my class. Is there an easy way to place them into randomized groups of 6? Ideally, I could do this to have gender-balanced groups. Any suggestions would be welcome. But then, I also would like it to have prevention such as, if they answered yes in not being in Madrid, please put on the same group. Groups [ Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4, Group 5, Group 6, Group 7, Group 8] I.e., If value for In Madrid? Yes, automatically add to Group 8, otherwise, randomly add to another group, but don’t allow more than 6 records to be assigned to each group. Ideally, I want to assign a record (name) to a different group every week, and would eventually want to create a new row of groups, where the record (name) is assigned to different groups, but make sure it’s not the same as the previous group assignment. I hope this makes sense! Adriana

hoping for some help/feedback on the following error. below the error i’ve pasted the portion of my script getting the error. The script was copy/pasted from a scripting block into an automation script. i ran a compare and the script is identical to the scripting block script: TypeError: Invalid arguments passed to output.set(key, value): • value should be a JSON-serializable type, not undefined at main on line 27* 21 const query = await new_submissions.selectRecordsAsync(); 22 if(query.records.length === 0) { 23 output.markdown(“No submissions to load. Done.”); 24 return; 25 } 26 27 output.markdown(Found *${query.records.length}* submissions); 28 for(var i in query.records){ 29 let r = query.records[i] any help would be appreciated