Development & APIs

I wrote a formula to find and replace two text strings, and luckily it worked. REPLACE(REPLACE(Description,FIND("<p>",Description),LEN("<p>"),""),FIND("</p>",REPLACE(Description,FIND("<p>",Description),LEN("<p>"),"")),4,"") But I can imagine a situation where I would want to replace more unique strings within another field without using an excessively long formula. Each unique text string makes this formula substantially more complicated. Is there a possibility of adding iterations to the formula field using a built-in array (multi-select field) or custom array such as [1,2,3,7,13] as the input? This would mimic Javascript’s “for” function.

Currently the Blocks SDK creates the deps for the acorn library which has a security vulnerability: Upgrade acorn to version 7.1.1 or later. For example: “dependencies”: { “acorn”: “>=7.1.1” } or… “devDependencies”: { “acorn”: “>=7.1.1” } Always verify the validity and compatibility of suggestions with your codebase. Details GHSA-6chw-6frg-f759 moderate severity Vulnerable versions: >= 7.0.0, < 7.1.1 Patched version: 7.1.1 Affected versions of acorn are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service. A regex in the form of /[x-\ud800]/u causes the parser to enter an infinite loop. The string is not valid UTF16 which usually results in it being sanitized before reaching the parser. If an application processes untrusted input and passes it directly to acor

Hello. I am trying to implement a search functionality using the record id is this possible given that the id isn’t in one of the fields? As an example, I have the following records records: [ { id: “rec2PRjhAMAh2O64a”, fields: { Name: “blah blah”, }}, { id: “rec2otu8JF7ijlmA4”, fields: { Name: "klkdsd ", },] I want to search by the id. Is this possible?

Hello I have a product table. And want to use a button to order the products. And then create order records in order table (pulling 3 columns from product table) and link the two tables. product id - order id need some help im green John

Whenever I try to make a post request using fetch, the Failed to Fetch error is returned. However, if I call wikipedia it goes through. I have tried this with so many other websites e.g http://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL

Hello, I’m facing error : “Record missing in table”. I work on Block and I’m creating a custom block. I have a table (“my_table”) with data and I want to read all the fields for a specific primaryField. The specific primarityField will be transmitted in a Label Select (value). The code works, but when I delete one line from my table, I got the error : “Record missing in table”. I can add new line without error. Do you think my error is in the declaration of record ? Did I misunderstand one principal of REACT or similar ? Bellow my code to help to solve the issue : const base = useBase(); //--------------------------- label Select -------------------------- // We get all the fields from "my_table" and put in selection_value_picker const table = base.getTableIfExists("my_table"); const selection_value_picker = []; for (let i = 0; i < table .fields.length; i++) { selection_value_picker.push({ value : ta

Hi! I’m curious if anyone know how to implement a copy-to-clipboard in an Airtable Block that’s similar to how this Color Palette works, https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/115013249087-Color-palette-block. I’m hoping to make different lines of text clickable to facilitate fast copy & pasting of code snippets.

I have three tables - Organizers, Events and Players. Organizers have events and players are part of an event. I want to pull the most recent event for a particular organizer through the API via a GET, but can’t figure out how to do that. I’d also like to pull in a particular event by ID. In this case, I’ve pulled the ID of the event into a column (RecordID) via a formula (RECORD_ID()), but don’t know the correct URL parameter to send. Thanks in advance.

Does typecast only work on .create? What if I want to update a mule-select field in update? base('Sites').update([ 79 { 1 "id": recId, 2 "fields": { 3 "siteStreetAddress": {!!placeDetailsObj.street_number ? placeDetailsObj.street_number + ' ' : ''}{!!placeDetailsObj.route ? placeDetailsObj.route : ‘’}, 4 "siteCounty": {!!placeDetailsObj.administrative_area_level_2 ? placeDetailsObj.administrative_area_level_2 : ''}`, 5 "siteState": `{!!placeDetailsObj.administrative_area_level_1 ? placeDetailsObj.administrative_area_level_1 : ‘’}, 6 "siteCity": {!!placeD

Hello. I’m learning the scripting block and not a programmer but hope to get my feet wet. I have taken the basic script to “select a record” and added that to a button called COPY. // Change this name to use a different table let table = base.getTable("Table 3"); // Prompt the user to pick a record // If this script is run from a button field, this will use the button's record instead. let record = await input.recordAsync('Select a record to use', table); if (record) { // Customize this section to handle the selected record // You can use record.getCellValue("Field name") to access // cell values from the record output.text(`You selected this record: ${record.name}`); } else { output.text('No record was selected'); } But now I want to use the record selected to copy Field 1 (which is a lookup field) into Field 2 which is just a basic number field. Can anyone point me how to “copy” data from one field to the other?

Pretty new to Airtable and Javascript I’m trying out Airtable to see if I can organize my organizations data better. When importing new data to our database I would like to read from many text files, collect the data from the files (which unfortunately isn’t organized too great), and insert the data into tables. Is there a way to queue multiple text files to read with fileAsync? There are hundreds of files, so doing one at a time is not useful.

Wonder if anyone has ran into this issue before? I’m trying to hit my API from a scripting block. I can fetch a request with the relevant data but struggling to find how to secure the request: is there a way to store/generate secrets in Airtable? I thought about hashing the Session and sending as a header but I cannot import a crypto package or similar in the scripting block if not, what is good way to secure requests coming out of a scripting block?

I just recently released the first custom block for our base, and I would like to start by saying THANK YOU! It is very exciting to be able to create custom integrations so easily. After releasing a test block to demo the process I realized I can’t find a way to either rename or remove blocks that are either unused, or replaced by another Block’s functionality. Is there a way to remove custom blocks at this time, or is this an artifact of the Beta status of the platform?

Hi everyone, just started using Zapier with Airtable and would like to download ALL videos from a youtube channel I’m interested into my Base. Is this possible? I was able to set-up a zap to download NEW videos, but what about all the others? Are there no zapier solutions I could implement? thanks in advance for reading this post Cheers

Hello, I would like to check the state of my app inside my block using React DevTools (Redux). When I open the block in fullscreen the chrome extension icon is enable, meaning it detects a react app, but I don’t see the Tabs “Components” and “Profiling” like I would expect. Did someone manage to make it work ? Thanks

Hi, I am using the API to create records in aritable, but cannot figure out how to create a new line in a long text field. I am currently passing a string with “/n” in it at the point I would like a new line, but all it does is show “/n” instead of creating a new line. Any tips appreciated.

I’d love to be able to create mention tokens with the api because it would allow me to define a simple workflow system. :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi all! I’m still pretty new to scripting, but came across a problem that feels like it should have an obvious answer. I would like a user to be able to update a number field in my base via some inputs in the script, however the input.textAsync function throws an error because the string can’t be assigned to that field type. Aside from changing my field to a string, is there away to change the input type to a number in the scripting block? Thanks!

Hi, I have a list of clients that can be in multiple markets (6k markets). The markets column is pulling form another table. With the FilterByFormula, I need to create a filtered list of all clients in a specific market. The problem is that the API does not include in the results records where multiple markets are listed in the Markets column. For example, client A is in Paris, client B is in Paris and Madrid. The final list will only show client A. How can I get client B on the list too? If anybody knows how to fix it that would be help a lot.

The “To-do list” tutorial opens with In this 3-part tutorial learn how to build a to-do list block that shows a list of tasks from a table and allows you to check them off when done. The supporting screen recording demonstrates this functionality. However, the tutorial only covers displaying the contents of a table or view. There is no information on modifying the table (via a checkbox or otherwise). A subsequent guide does discuss writing to a table though it’s not in terms of the “to-do list” block.

Hey there, Question to the airtable team - since the hackathon deadline has passed, if I fixed a bug or improved something in a block that participates in the hackathon, can I update the block installation in the demo base I shared with you guys as part of the submission? Ronen

I would like to prompt the user to upload a file which I would like to add to an attachment field on a record. From what I have read, the file must be uploaded first and I cannot do something like this: let preview = await input.fileAsync(‘Please upload the new Audio Preview’); await table.updateRecordAsync(record.id, {“Audio Preview”: preview}); I just wanted to make sure my understanding on this input.fileAsync is correct and how other people have handled this. Is there a way to upload the file and grab the url from where I uploaded it or is it better to just display the record and let the user upload it from the record. Thank you, I really appreciate all the help!

Hey, The cli used to be able to detect that ports are busy and have block run listen on 9002, 9004 etc, so I could run multiple blocks in parallel in my dev env. It stopped doing that. Right now it just prints that it listens on 9000 again, even though first block run listens on it. I don’t know if it’s a cli version thing or an OS thing (I recently upgraded to WSL 2). My current env: WSL 2 Ubuntu 18.04 blocks-cli - 0.0.52 Thanks, Ronen

Hello all, Forgive me for what seems like a silly question, I’m new to this and can’t figure this out. I would like to launch a website when I click a button in the scripting block. Is this possible? let purpose = await input.buttonsAsync( 'Are you Creating a Record?', [ {label: 'Create', value: 'creating'} ], ); if (purpose === 'creating') { //LAUNCH URL HERE }

Part of the workflow I’m trying to build is to book hotel accommodation. Ideally, once the script reaches a certain point, I would like to launch a new browser window or popup - passing url parameters to a hotel booking site. The user will then select the accommodation within the booking site, which will show them a booking reference number. The user will copy this to the clipboard, close the window and return to the script, pasting the booking reference into the field waiting for input. Hoping this can be done easily?