Development & APIs

When Custom Blocks go live, if I were to design a base that is deeply integrated with a Custom Block (to basically create a mini application within Airtable), and add that base to Airtable Universe, when people copy that base to their workspace, would the Custom Block go with the base? Would it work seamlessly as Airtable’s blocks do? Would it receive updates if I update the source code of the block and re-release the base to the Universe? I guess I’m also just wondering how exactly these Custom Blocks will work in terms of an “open marketplace” for these things. If Airtable chooses to remain entirely hands off in allowing the free exchange of Custom Blocks via public GitHub repo’s, I can see the environment quickly devolving into a mess of poorly maintained, or unmaintained Blocks roaming around in the wild, perhaps lingering on aggregation lists/sites for years after they have gone defunct, and making it difficult for consumers to know, when they go to install a Custom Bloc

I’m using the CollaboratorToken component: Airtable

Hi Airtable! I thought I would post this to notify users of GDrive and Gmail and users of their API. My understanding is that those users that have an active subscription with Google Suite are exempt from this verification process. My understanding is that Google is having all users of GDrive and Gmail to go through a verification process. This is in connection to users using their (Google) API’s. I believe that this has to do with those that use Integromat. I don’t know if it will affect Zapier. Here is a link to Google about this: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/client-verification Thank you, Mary

Like the title above says, Is there a way for custom blocks to communicate with each other? For example passing data from one custom block to another which is installed by the user

Hi guys, Totally new here, moved from google sheets today. I’m looking to build a restaurant delivery app with an Airtable backend. I currently have a script I made on GS that pulls an address from one cell & calculates it’s distance in km to a predetermined address in the script (restaurant address). To what extent can I just copy this script over? Haven’t seem to make it work yet! Thanks in advance, Josef

I’m trying to connect to the API with a private code playground such as Codepen for quick experimentation. I’ve added the retrieve script to the JS editor: var Airtable = require("airtable"); var base = new Airtable({ apiKey: "key123" }).base( "app123" ); base("Base").find("rece123", function (err, record) { if (err) { console.error(err); return; } console.log("Retrieved", record.id); }); But I get this error: Uncaught ReferenceError: Airtable is not defined I’ve tried linking to the Airtable CDN but that hasn’t worked. What else am I missing to get this to work? Is there a simple way to get Airtable running in a JS editor in the browser? It’s private so the API key is protected. Here is a sample pen (not private with dummy key) https://codepen.io/meowpower/pen/eYJNoXK?editors=0011 Thanks in advance

Hello, I am working on writing a script for work, and as of about a week ago I ran into an error that I can’t seem to wrap my brain around. From what I can tell this doesn’t appear to be a standard JavaScript error, and I am concerned as to whether or not this correlates to some sort of change the Airtable development team may have made on the backend? Up until about a week ago a TypeError was causing some hangups, then this arose spontaneously without any changes to my code. Below is a screenshot of the error being thrown:

Hello, I have a field where I have a list of collaborator. I’m developping a block and I would like to get all the users ID from my field of my table. Currently I can get the name of the collaborator with : const base = useBase(); cont table = base.getTableByNameIfExists(“name_of_the_table”); const value_user = my_record[0].getCellValueAsString(“Name_of_collaborator_field”); I got the name of all my users in the value_user But now, I would like to get the list of user ID. How can I got it ? Thank you :winking_face: . Viken

I’m trying to format a bunch of date ranges to be used in WORKDAY(). I created a script that collects these dates from a base and have them converted to iso-dates. However all my dates has a trailing time stamp of T00:00:00.000Z. Wondering if there is a quick way to omit of the time stamp so it’s only YYYY-MM-DD?

I’m new to JS and been playing around with the scripting block, quite alot. I’ve been wondering about the use of the await keyword. I think i learned somewhere that await can only be used to consume promises inside async functions. Await is used in the main code. Is it me who is wrong or is the script block one big async function?

I’m trying to submit a url query with a filterByFormula to return only dealerships that have the specific brand in them. The brand side is linked, so it’s in a list on the return response and it’s by record ID. How do I build a filterByFormula that will look into a list instead of just the 2nd level value within fields?

Can we automate in a way where we can delate the duplicate entry in airtable on the basis of time stamp or the previous entry?

When I add a new row in X table and click te button a script would copy all rows from /table into table. Is it possible with using script? I developed a script like below but it doesn’t work.

Back to Script-Block, I have recent memories of very regular python practices like: creating an environment (VENV); PIP install a library of my choice inside this VENV; importing that library into my python code; using it in my python code so I don’t have to rewrite it myself! My python is a bit in the fridge in favor of airtable Script-Block. Admitting that you can’t use DOM-Manipulation js code, I nevertheless wish to call one or the other available js Code Git by calling it from my own js code which must run in this block. Please read on to see what I imagine doing like this. Let’s suppose I would have got the RAW js code from a small library called dspmath.js or dspmath.min.js which would not call any dependencies. (this case is purely imaginary for the moment.) Let’s suppose that I didn’t steal this code and that I intend to use it under the conditions allowed by its rightful owner. Suppose that I plan to c

Is it possible to get the linked table id from a Field? I was looking at the Field docs and I couldn’t find anything. Airtable

Hi there, I’m having some trouble getting all of my records via a C# API (Airtable . net). I’ve posted this in their forum and gotten in touch with Airtable Support - but got advised to message here. I’m using Unity to build a mobile app that uses Airtable integration - and I’m building to Android. I wanted to find out if there’s perhaps something I’m doing wrong (or if there may be a limitation of my android build)? On my PC, I run my script to List the Records (173 in total), and it does so without issue. I can’t seem to upload a screen shot here - but on my device, despite logging out the right offset it doesn’t ever get the remaining records.On my PC, it works 100%… just not on android. I’ve tried splitting out the method, to call itself again with the offset parameter (instead of using a doWhile loop) - and I get the same results. And then I just recently tried running the method, getting the first 100 records, then waiting 2 seconds an

Hi there :sunny: I would like to automatically import contact forms from my Wordpress site to Airtable (prospect view). Do I need a special plugin? If someone has already implemented this workflow, I would be happy to get your advice :slightly_smiling_face: Thank you so much in advance for your help. Have a very nice day. Alexia

Hi There! I am just trying to jump in as we are working on data migration for a client. I need to be able to take a table (“Job Applications”) and search for a record in another table (“Applicants”) using a field (“Email Address”) as the lookup. Once the record is found, I would like to link the (“Applicants”) record to the (“Job Applications”) record. I have 10,000 records to scrub, so my current zap is laughable. Thanks for your help!

While you can participate as an individual, sometimes it is more rewarding to do things as a team. If you’d like to find a team member to participate in our $100,000 [Custom Blocks Contest] (Airtable Blocks SDK), chime in here! The contest platform makes it easy to submit entries as a team. To recap, the platform team is offering big prizes for the best blocks in three categories: Blocks for Business Teams (5 winners) Blocks for Education or Non-Profit (2 winners) Wildcard (2 winners) The contest runs until July 6, 2020, so head over to Devpost now to get all the details and register: https://airtable.devpost.com/

I am trying to retrieve all records from a table. The master view has filters on it that have to stay there for other business users, but I would like to retrieve all records without the filters with the API. More specifically, the table is filtered to records added in the last week, but I need all of the records from the beginning of the table. Is there a way to use the API to get all records even if the table in the browser has filters on it?

Hi @kuovonne, I found your script in the below thread incredibly helpful – Thank you so much this is a game changer for me! https://community.airtable.com/t/weekend-scripting-block-challenge-and-1-000-prize/28074/9?u=adrian_head I’m curious if you might be able to help me make an adjustment to the script for a specific use-case which I think it broadly applicable to people needing to use a script similar to the one your created above. I have translated my problem to match the verbiage in your Cake order example to make things more clear. You can find the link to my example base here for your reference. Context:

I’d to send selected records in Airtable to Zapier in order to push the record’s data to another platform. Ideally, the user could select one or multiple records in a table view, click Run on the script block, and the process would occur. Can anybody point me in the right direction on where to get started?

To: Airtable folks: I see that the documentation site is not mobile friendly. I usually read it on my phone and find it very hard to navigate. Please consider making it responsive.

Preface: this is the most frustrating API to POST to I have ever worked with, it’s incredible. I am attempting to POST a new record using Alteryx (a workflow tool with cURL’ish functionality) and I keep getting 1 of two errors: {"error":{"type":"INVALID_REQUEST_MISSING_FIELDS","message":"Could not find field \\"fields\\" in the request body"}} Or, when I re-aliased the alteryx field from “data” to “fields” - {"error":{"type":"INVALID_REQUEST_UNKNOWN","message":"Invalid request: parameter validation failed. Check your request data."}} Here is the data I am POST’ing: '{ "fields": { "Program Name":"Education Test", "Category":"Education" "External Id":"a00ie00QA4" } }' This exactly conforms to Airtable’s spec and I am still getting errors. Do you have any suggested approaches for troubleshooting or resolving this? Edit: worth pointing out that I have been able to successfully POST using

Hello! I have a program that can make API calls via HTTP Request but you can only input URL’s. Is it possible with the Airtable API to create records using just a URL with query parameters? Everything I’m finding says to use curl but that’s not possible with the software I’m using. If not is there a service that my software can send a URL with query parameters to and then it takes it and executes the proper curl to Airtable? Maybe Postman? Thank you.