Development & APIs

This week, we’ve added an example that shows the table description as well as field names, descriptions, types and options for the table and view the user is currently viewing. It is ideal for large teams collaborating on a single base who want to introduce new viewers and editors quickly to how the base operates. You can pull in this example as a template and see how we built it here: https://github.com/Airtable/blocks/tree/master/examples/table-structure-block

Thanks to all that tuned in for the inaugural Airtable custom blocks webinar. If you missed it, you can watch the replay (https://airtable.wistia.com/medias/23n94jsbrc) and follow up with any questions on this thread. We received many insightful questions from the webinar. Here are three of our favorites: Q: Can you create a block that calls another base? A: Yes. You can use the public API in tandem with a custom block such that when you click a button in the custom block, it makes a call to another base. Q: What are the permissions for custom blocks? A: Your custom block respects the permissions of the end-user who is interacting with the custom block. Q: Can you release a block to different bases? A: Yes, many developers choose to develop in a dummy base first and then release it to another base afterwards. When you create a block, it lives inside one base by default. We do have a function in the blocks cli tool called remotes. If you’re familiar with git, it works very similarly. In

I’m trying to update the duration fields via standard hh:mm:ss and my updates are failing. By no means an expert here so forgive my ignorance as the API documentation isn’t telling me much. What type of number should I be using in order for this to work? Should I be converting time to a UNIX timestamp or something else? Thanks in advance!

Hi all, I have recently come across AirTable and love it for the simplicity it offers for managing a semi-complex product catalog (i.e. flexible categories, groupings, pictures, etc.). I’m exploring migrating my current catalog to AirTable from my current self-developed database. However, I wanted to ask if there’s an easy way to pull a Block into a web page to display on my public website? I know it’s possible to export the PDF, but I’d really like to export a product sheet into a tile on my website. I know I can leverage the API to pull the data and do the coding on my side, but it would be so much easier to pull in the Block altogether. Thanks, Max

I want to fetch data based on last_modified_time but the timezone is wrong, is there a way to change the timezone?

Hi, assuming I just have the reference id of an entry, but I don’t which table it is from, is there a way to load or update the entry? Or to figure out the table it belongs to? Thanks!

What is going on today??? Why won’t Airtable work?

I’m close, but no cigar. Hey guys – what am I doing wrong here? I’m trying to find a specific record, with a specific date. I’m able to find one side of the formula at a time, but when I try them together my code crashes. I know it’s some dumb syntax thing. What is it? let myFilterByFormula = “{Playlists} = “1WHXgsAyhX66lcrOKeGpOb”, AND(DATETIME_DIFF(TODAY(),{Monitor Date}, ‘days’) = 2)” Thanks in advance! Cindy

I’m seeing error “LIST_RECORDS_ITERATOR_NOT_AVAILABLE” pop up once or twice a day at different clients since Friday. None of them got an update from my side and all of them have been running without issues for months or even years. IMHO something on your side has changed; it’s no timeout as there are only seconds between the API calls. Just FYI.

I’m receiving a 422 error when I send a POST request to create a new record. I believe this is due to a specific field. When I submit a POST request with the following data: data = { "records": [ { "fields": { "access_key": "an access key", "user": [ "rec123ABC" ], "server_name": [ "rec456DEF" ], "Status": "Live" } } ] } The request successfully goes through. However, if I add the following field to the data request: 'outline_id': 3, I receive a 422 response. outline_id is a new column that I’ve recently created. It is in Integer format. Additionally, when viewing my API documentation for my base called ‘access_keys’, table called ‘access_keys’, I see that under the ‘Create records’ documentation, the outline_id column is not shown in the e

Hi, I’d like to remove the limit of 100 Rows on pagination in PowerBI. Can anybody please provide some code as I’m not good at code. Here is my current code: let Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://api.airtable.com/v0/appqRdDk5cCOPccJ5/Third Inning Report?api_key=my_key_here")), #"Converted to Table" = Record.ToTable(Source), Value = #"Converted to Table"{0}[Value], #"Converted to Table1" = Table.FromList(Value, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error), #"Expanded Column1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Converted to Table1", "Column1", {"id", "fields", "createdTime"}, {"Column1.id", "Column1.fields", "Column1.createdTime"}), #"Expanded Column1.fields" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded Column1", "Column1.fields", {"OpportunityID", "New Category", "Anticipated Timing", "Country", "Existing LP", "Client", "Reporting Name", "Low", "High", "Expected", "Comment", "Account", "BAI Status", "Status"}, {"Column1.fields.OpportunityID", "Column1.fields.New Category", "C

Hello Everyone! I am creating a custom wordpress site. I have an articles page that is looping through all of my articles using airtable as an api and cURL. When I click on the link for one of the articles, I would like it to bring me to that article’s specific page (dynamic template page). How can i create a link that will grab the information for that specific airtable record? Issue is that i would normally have to do record[‘0’][‘fields’][‘Name’] however, since my page is dynamic, i cannot put the specific array [‘0’].

I’m looking at removing all collaborators from a cell. I have attempted to send different variations of data and always receive 422. I’ve tried to: Update the field with an empty string: ‘’ Update the field with an empty json: {} Update the field with an empty record: {‘id’ : ‘’ } I can always update it correctly with {‘id’ : ‘usrXXXXXXXXXX’} I know I can send a valid request but I can’t send a valid request to clear the cell. The cell is clearable in Airtable on the web interface, so I believe it can be done but the API documentation doesn’t say how to clear a cell with PATCH. Using PUT seems drastic to update a single cell by sending all the other data except that cells data. For reference, most field types are an empty string apart from the checkbox which is the string “false”.

Hello airtable community, I’m just wondering how to remove collaborators via API calls? Currently I have adding collaborators working well, I send the get request from a custom UI to our server, which then handles the api calls to airtable, with just the ids of the collaborators I need to add to the list. Those new collaborators do show up when I inspect via airtable. When I want to remove collaborators, I understand from reading the api docs, just send in the objects of the collaborators I want to keep. I send in the new updated list of collaborators without the one we need assuming that should remove that collaborator. That does not work. For both my attempts to add or delete, I send in an array of objects with ids only. Any ideas on how to handle removing collaborators via API?

I am trying to patch fields, however I am facing trouble with the record ID: Here are the records {"records": [{"id": "recMcKXnqXUsJ2Ptu", "fields": {"Name": "GoodLife"}, "createdTime": "2019-10-10T11:56:56.000Z"}, {"id": "recayWtmjGL5k1kgK", "fields": {"Name": "Love"}, "createdTime": "2019-10-10T11:56:56.000Z"}, {"id": "recqCoVKArOQS4UPL", "fields": {"Name": "Fashion"}, "createdTime": "2019-10-10T11:56:56.000Z"}]} And here is the error message I received {'error': {'type': 'ROW_DOES_NOT_EXIST', 'message': 'Record ID recayWtmjGL5k1kgK does not exist in this table'}} As you can see above, there actually is a record with the ID recayWtmjGL5k1kgK, hence I do not understand the error message.

I’m about to develop a public view of our entire product database, which is one Airtable base of around 2000 records. Right now we’re having something like that in place, but basically just as an embedded view (the standard Airtable functionality) – but we’d like to enhance this public view, hence the custom developing need of it. The functionality of our public view will have to enable filtering all of the products on multiple levels – e.g. product category, price range, colour … you name it. Since this will be a public view, and hitting the api limits would happen easily with around 2000 records (I guess), I believe some sort of caching of the entire base data is in order. My main question is: how, and in what way? My first thought is to poll for the Airtable base at like an hourly interval, and saving all that data in one json file, then reading that json file on the client side with vue.js and outputting it in a gallery sort of way, with all the filters in place. That still leaves

I have a table with a multiple linked reference field. In airtable, I can drag and drop the order of these references, and changing the order does have an effect in the return result. However, it isn’t behaving fully as expected. I’m using graphql, and not sorting by any field which kinda works: exercises( sort: { order: ASC } ) { id name description } My question is if there’s some field tied to the drag and drop reordering of references within airtable, or else how else I should handle ordering of multiple linked references. I’m not sure how to solve the problem otherwise, since there could be one or many references, and they’re all shared resources so can’t have an “order” field (an individual could be referenced many times in the parent table in many possible orders).

I have a table/records with a computed column/fields (using a lookup function) - let’s call this field/column F0. I would like to PATCH the table by changing the values of field F1 and leave everything else as is. However, when I send the request I obtain the following error { "error": { "type": "INVALID_VALUE_FOR_COLUMN", "message": "Field \\"F0\\" cannot accept a value because the field is computed" } } Any guidance would be appreciated!

Is it possible to amend records using API without losing linked fields?

Hi All, I’m very new to airtable and I am trying to write a URL to POST to my airtable and I am trying to figure out what the URL should be. I am trying to post a jpg as an attachment to a cell. I was able to pull data from my airtable with - https://codepen.io/airtable/full/rLKkYB. I am not having success with posting data to the table using the codepen listed. I am using Airtable in Dynamo for Revit. Any guidance could help. Thank you for your time, Mike

I am fairly new to Airtable and was having trouble finding information on the filterByFormula option in the API. I was trying to get rows back based on a DATE field using a date range, so any date that fell between my startDate and endDate. I couldn’t find any specific examples, so I am posting this to hopefully help someone else that tries to do this. Below is some javascript code using airtable.js and this is what I used to be able to get results back within the range: let data = await base(‘Timelogs’).select({ filterByFormula: IF(AND(IS_AFTER({DATE}, '${startDate}'), IS_BEFORE({DATE}, '${endDate}')), 1, 0) }).all() This may have been elementary but I about ripped my hair out trying to get this UBER simple process to work. Edit: There are backticks (quotes would work too of course) around the IF() portion. This editor doesn’t seem to print them. startDate and endDate are variables in the code and I am using template literals to pull the values in.

I couldn’t find this in the documentation or answered on this forum. I was recently brought in to get a handle on our organization’s technology. They use Airtable extensively and have a few zapier automation. Recently a high-level employee was released from the company causing a security audit (by myself). Which accounts (what level) can generate an API key? Is there a way for admin accounts to view and control API access for accounts that are not their own? ie: I want to see all accounts that have generated an API and/or be able to delete and view any automation occurring across all bases in a workspace. Thank you for any assistance. Matthew Moran

Hello, I’m getting the following error: Class { error: ‘UNKNOWN_FIELD_NAME’, message: ‘Unknown field name: “2019-09-16”’, statusCode: 422 } in a select from a view with the following config { "maxRecords": 1, "view": "Employee data", "filterByFormula": "AND({SlackId} = 'UD5UYN55L', {Active})", "fields": [ "Firstname", "Lastname", "ATEmail", "SlackID", "Office", "Type", "Team", "AutoCreateNextWeek" ] } where the field marked as unknown is not present. This is my code: let getActiveEmployee = (slackId, airtableClient) => { var config = { maxRecords: 1, view: "Employee data", filterByFormula: "AND({SlackId} = '" + slackId + "', {Active})", fields: fields } var select = airtableClient('Dispatch').select(config) console.log("config1: " + JSON.stringify(config)) return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { select.firstPage((err, records) => { if (!err) { if (records.length > 0) { console

Not sure where to start after doing the tutorial? We’ve put together a few examples of custom blocks that can help get ideas flowing. The code for these examples are in Github. What have you found helpful in your ideation process? VISUALIZATIONS Simple Chart Summary CUSTOM REPORTING Print Records SELECTIVELY UPDATING RECORDS Update Multiple Records Block EMBEDDED PREVIEWS Youtube Preview To-do List ENRICHING DATA VIA API Wikipedia Enrichment Block

I’m curious if anyone has been able to access a single table’s model via the API. I can’t find anything in the API documentation that allows it, but I assume it’s possible due to the fact that the API documentation itself is being generated based on the tables’ model/columns defined within an Airtable base. What I’m trying to do is create a client-side data sanitiser and validator. I’d like to control the relationship between the client and the app. Ensuring the data is formatted correctly is a time saving measure that I can do before submitting to the Airtable API and helps me to provide a nicer smoother experience for users. It should also hopefully let me store valid data offline (which won’t error later when being submitted) to then submit to the Airtable API later when connectivity is available. Since Airtables can have their model/columns changed easily, fetching the model could also mean automating any migrations or potentially reconcile differences between one version of the AP