Development & APIs

Is it my impression or the latest version of the SDK removed support for defining a table as a custom parameter? My extension reads data from another table as support for that has been recently added. In order to avoid hardcoding things, I was allowing users to select a table. This was supported  (see link below). However, the latest version of the SDK does not seem to support that. (^0.0.0-experimental-e7419444f-20251120). I’ve updated my code so the parameter is now just a string. It seems to be working. Could you please confirm this makes sense?https://airtable.com/developers/interface-extensions/api/BlockPageElementCustomPropertyThe signature of the type BlockPageElementCustomProperty I’m getting does not include that type anymore (see below) and I also get a run time error.type BlockPa

Our team currently uses a legacy spreadsheet in Excel that is connected to Power Automate. This is visible by many teams and transitioning this workflow from Spreadsheet to Airtable would cause more issues than concerns. I’m wonder if its possible to connect excel to Airtable and make it live so everything is in real-time so that I can use Airtable dashboards to showcase the data we get in the spreadsheet. Is a 3rd party application needed? 

Hi everyone,we’re already using Airtable (initial tables exist) and we’re looking for help to properly structure the base and build a lightweight internal frontend / possibly an app to track and analyze our networking activities.Use case: Manage contacts (not customers) and log interactions/meetings per contact (date/location/type), discussion topics, resulting projects/leads/outcomes, follow-ups + reporting (activity over time, last interaction, topic/outcome breakdowns).Key requirement: A mobile-friendly workflow to take photos of meal/entertainment receipts and attach them to the related interaction/contact, including basic fields (purpose/occasion, attendees, amount, etc.) — with the goal of providing documentation for our tax advisor / authorities if needed.Usage is internal only (1–2 users, no external access).If you’ve built something similar

I need to import the “Resolution” field from Jira Cloud  (Resolved, Won’t Do, Cancelled, etc) -- this is not showing up in the Standard fields, and is not listed on the Help page (https://support.airtable.com/docs/airtable-sync-integration-jira-cloud)Also wondering if there is support yet for custom fields?

Hi all, I’ve got a company that works with lots of freelancers and I decided that instead of a service like Calendly, I’d build an interface on Airtable, in a base where they all sync their calendars so I can see their appointments overlapping, and find the “holes” where people are available to meet. It’s worked really well (using filters in the interface, so I find the exact team members I need for each meeting). The one thing is, I’m trying to protect our contractors’ privacy, and don’t want to sync any information that’s extraneous to checking their availability (I don’t want any event details other than whose calendar it’s coming from, start and end time). I’ve successfully toggled off all details EXCEPT the event title, which, it seems, cannot be toggled off.My workaround has been to create a formula field where I change the event name to “Person Busy,” so they don’t show up in my interface, which works fine, but I wanted to see if anyone knows of a way to

Hi,Has anyone tried integrating Culture Amp survey data with Airtable for analysis and visualization? I'm considering whether integrating the Culture Amp data would produce better data analysis and visualization results, while also saving a lot of manual work. Thanks!

I’m using the utility function getHexForColor to get the color the user defined in a single select field and use it in my interface.  However, the hex colors I’m getting do not match the colors used on the AirTable UI.For example for a selection I have, the Airtable Color is blueBright and when I call getHexForColor  I get #2d7ff9, however, the AirTable UI uses #166ee1.I also noticed shouldUseLightTextOnColor doesn’t seem to work well on dark mode but I think that’s expected as I think dark mode is still experimental, right?

Hi all, Am I correct in assuming that there’s no way to duplicate a base via API? It seems weird that there’s so much you can do loads of customisation with creating a base via API except you can’t do the 1-click duplicate which is available in the UI? The problem with the create base API is that several things don’t work - e.g. AI fields. It’s not practical to use API to create base then manually have to go in and configure a bunch of AI fields by copy/pasting the prompt in 😅 Any workarounds anyone has found?

Hello everyone,I’m a junior data analyst and recently I was asked at work to integrate new data that is external to our management system. This data consists of Excel spreadsheets stored in Airtable. While researching, I noticed that there are several ways to integrate this data.For example, one could use “bridge” solutions like OneDrive or SharePoint, or connect directly to Airtable via its API.I was able to connect directly using the API (after creating a Personal Access Token), performing a blank query and using an M script to retrieve over 20,000 records. However, I would like to hear from more experienced people whether this could be the best approach compared to using a bridge solution. I personally think it is, but I would appreciate the opinion of experts.I have tested this with free accounts and demo Excel files with over 20,000 records, and I can retrieve them both directly via API and using OneDrive or SharePoint.Additionally, I understa

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I built a small site using Softr + Airtable (Free plan, working as a data sourcing). My site reaches Airtable API calls litmit very soon every month. Just a few days, the limit of 1000 calls has run out. I don’t think there are so many visitors to my site. I want to know whether one API call is counted when one visit to my site? My site is https://www.petfairsea.com/ can anyone help point out the reason of this issue. If there are really so many visitors, I’d have to upgrade to team plan. Thank you in advance. 

Hello,I’m curious if anyone here has connected Airtable to Lightspeed restaurant U Series POS?  Either directly from Airtable to Lightspeed or indirectly with a third party like Zapier.   I’m trying to pull daily sales and labor data from my POS into Airtable.  We are working on creating better internal tools that our managers can have access to.  Tools that would track our main expenses like labor and COGS.   I’m having a hard time getting the connection done.  Airtable is not currently an integration partner with Lightspeed U Series.  Neither is Zapier or something like Make.com.  So I’m looking for someone with experience with these specific platforms. The people at Lightspeed have not been super helpful.  I know I can’t be the first person to try to pull data to Airtable (or even something like Google Sheets).   Thanks

I’m building an integration that needs to sync ~6,600 records from an external API to Airtable, ideally in under 1 minute.Currently I’m hitting the standard REST API limits (10 records/request, 5 requests/second = ~2-3 minutes minimum, but in practice it’s taking 10-13 minutes due to network latency).I’ve looked into: ∙ Sync API (CSV) - but the table becomes read-only, and I’m seeing significant processing delays after the request completes ∙ REST API with performUpsert - works but slow at scaleHas anyone found a faster approach to bulk insert/update thousands of records? Any workarounds or techniques I’m missing?For context: manual CSV import through the UI takes ~5 minutes for the same data.

Hey everyone!I built Sheet Wizard - a Chrome extension that lets you bulk update Airtable records using natural language commands instead of manually clicking through rows.For example: "Set all records where Status is 'Done' to Priority 'Low'" or “Update Due Date to 2026-01-10 for all Marketing Campaign records in Project"It's live on the Chrome Web Store with a 7-day free trial. Would love feedback from the community!Happy to answer any questions!https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sheet-wizard-for-airtable/ofhnpikabgcaihpaohanedkodjfgboiahttps://www.getsheetwizard.com/

I’m trying to use the new ChatGPT integration with Airtable - specifically to have ChatGPT pull data from one of my bases in Airtable base . I’ve configured the settings in ChatGPT to connect to airtable, but Chat GPT is still asking me several times to confirm it has access to my base and other data points in Airtable. Is there a way to configure this to stop asking this question? It seems to be slowing it down. 

Hi all,New to the community here 😊Quick backgroud, I use Airtable as core operational platform for enterprise-scale stadium delivery coordinating content, instructions, and approvals across major events. External stakeholders access structured workflows via a portal in Softr, while internal teams manage live production delivery in Airtable.I’m currently on Business and evaluating a move to Enterprise Scale.Before upgrading, I’m trying to confirm whether Enterprise Scale supports embedding Airtable Interfaces into third-party portals (e.g. Softr) with the following requirements:Embedded without public “share to web” access Users authenticate normally (Airtable / SSO) Interface permissions are enforced (role-based access, edit vs read) Users can edit records and reorder rows within the embedded Interface

i keep getting ‘Invalid permissions, or the requested model was not found. Check that both your user and your token have the required permissions, and that the model names and/or ids are correct.‘This error from n8n. any idea how to fix it?

I’m calling the API (https://api.airtable.com/v0/:baseId/:tableId/:viewId) to get the records from a table, using a view.  There are ~1000 records in the table and about ~200 that are displayed by the view.I’ve noticed that the first time that I call the method that calls the API can take about 10-20 to complete.  Subsequent calls are subsecond.Is this a characteristic of API itself?  Perhaps it caches the dataset after the first call.What, if anything, can I do to prevent this behavior?This is the service layer’s method:export const getTrainees = async () => { console.log('AirtableService.getTrainees()') const TABLE_ID = 'YYY'; const VIEW_ID = 'XXX'; const fields = ['Full Name']; const params = new URLSearchParams({ view: VIEW_ID }); fields.forEach(field => params.append('fields[]', field)); const url = `${AIRTABLE_B

Hi everyone,I’m looking to develop an Airtable extension that relies on some wasm library loaded by the extension script, and some Web Workers started asynchronously on user request (NOT background or service workers, just plain WebWorkers). The wasm scripts are loaded using standard `WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming` API. Does anyone know if there are any surprising sandboxing limitations imposed by Airtable extension architecture for this?

I would love to sync Airtable and ChatGPT w/ the new integration but I can’t find any details on security for this and how data is used. Any one able to give insight?

I have list of keywords and URLs. I want script, once in a month, go through those URLs and find if that keyword is still on that URL. Based on result, update field with the status, Exist / DoesNotExist I want to track my backlinks for SEO purpose, they are still live or removed. Any ideas?

Can someone please let us know What is the status of CORS support for Oauth 2.0. In documentation it says development is in progress. By what time will this support be available?https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/oauth-reference#cross-origin-resource-sharing-cors

I’m looking for an extension that would allow me to receive SMS to a specific number, and have that populate field (or Create Record) in a base. Reading up on Twilio and Whippy and some others, and it looks like there are plenty of options for sending SMS, but can’t find anything there about receiving one. Any insights on what’s available or maybe I missed something with the capability of those tools.

Hi I'm working with Airtable Forms and using a single-select field for a Sample ID (which is a number). I'd like users to be able to add a new Sample ID directly from the form if it doesn't already exist, instead of being limited to the existing options.Is there any way to enable this "Add new option" behavior for single-select fields in Airtable Forms? Or would I need a workaround—like using a linked record or setting up an automation—to allow new Sample IDs to be created automatically?Appreciate any guidance

I am a business specialist for a company and I also teach workout classes for the women in our office 3 times a week. I have a fitness Airtable base where I have added all the exercises I like with a muscle group field. I am trying to find a way to automatically generate a workout to reduce the time I have to spend coming up with a set of exercises. For example, we worked chest and triceps yesterday so today I want to generate a workout that includes x number of exercises with x number being bicep workouts, x number being back workouts, and x being ab workouts.I have very minimal developer experience but I can edit and update pieces of a script if given the outline.