Development & APIs

I have been helped by so many of your community posts, thought I’d post one of my own for a problem I’ve been trying to solve. I use Airtable as a resource management tool to staff designers onto projects. However, I want to also quickly pull data on who is on “open space” (not on a project) each week. (I’m often trying to answer the question "who’s available the week of i.e. 9/5?) My Airtable base is set up with the following tables and links: Designers Table: holds all of our designers Projects Table: holds all of our projects (that designers need to be staffed on) Availability Table: created via linked records between Designers and Projects Unless there’s a simple way I’m completely missing, here’s the work around scenarios I’ve come up with: Create a record for each week that’s labeled “Open Space” and set an automation for that record to be deleted if another record (a project record for a designer) overlaps with any of the open space records. That way I can set the filter to sh

Hello, I have a few custom scripts for my base that I would like to be abstracted from other base collaborators so that they can’t see or edit the code. I would like to have these custom scripts moved into a custom extension with a simple UI. Please email me with your calendar / availability at jake@wholescalingsystems.com I’m ready to hire and will have lots of ongoing projects!

Hi all, I have a problem with a project i am carrying out. I have a table A. with a X record which is linked to a field Y in table B and field Z in table C. After I have a table D. This records are linked to a field in table A. So , records in table D , are linked indirectly to table B and C. Now i have a table E, which is an input record to control hours. When I add a record with a field linked to table D, I can add a field with a lookup function, to show the linked field in table A. My problem is that i need to fill automatically as well, fields Y and Z which are linked to field in table A. Some idea how to perform this task? Many thanks in advance

The number 1 ongoing feature request from the community seems to be the wrapping and customisation of the header row. Looks like it’s been around since September 2016 and still not actioned. Any other feature requests that beat that one?

Hello! I am trying to create an automation that updates a single select field based on the input in another table of the same base. I tried the “when a record matches condition” automation but it didn’t work as it only lets me update records from the same table. I thought that maybe it would work with a script but as I don’t know how to code I’m having a hard time. Any help is highly appreciated!

I have a base with two tables. The first has a list of events, and the second is an RSVP form for attendees to sign up to these events. The events are constantly happening and changing, and I’d like to show the events as a multiselect in the RSVP form (which linked fields don’t let you do). Can someone write a script that would pull the event names from a specific view in table 1, and then update the multiselect field options in table 2 to show those exact event names? The field options would be replaced completely each time it runs, which I expect to be daily.

Hi there I use firebase for all my projects but its hard for me to manage content and users So am working on custom extension to sync users (first) so you could easily manage them (disable, delete , rest user account) Airtable Grid view - Airtable Explore the "Grid" view on Airtable.

Hi everyone, I have some coding experience, although by knowledge of Javascript is still very limited. What I’m essentially trying to do is: Iterate through one field for a certain string Collect name (or ID I suppose) of the record that had the string in an array The point of doing this would be to be able to compile the names of all the records that had the targeted string into a list that I could then email out through a build in automation. Unfortunately Airtable makes it difficult to send multiple records on a single automation, so I was wondering if I could do it this way. Thanks.

Question for the community: is it possible to write a script that creates a new record in a table from a different base? Basically I would like to create a button in a few different tables from various bases that, when triggered, runs a script that creates a new record in a table (with some specific fields copied over) in a separate base. Is something like this possible in Airtable? Thanks! -Josh

Will file URL’s captured by API be affected by the planned November changes to the Attachment field? Currently I have a Bubble.io app that gets a file’s URL by API. I don’t store a static URL to the files in the attachment field but I do use Bubble’s Get external data from an API feature to get the record’s Attachment URL. Since this API call is made every time a user loads this specific page in the app, my understanding is that a new URL is captured on every load of the page. This would mean that a new URL good for 2 hours will be captured on every API call. Is this correct? I am trying to figure out how much this planned change will affect my app but I can’t find any information specific to the use of the Attachment field by API.

Hello, @Joris_Grouillet made me this script to search for {tag} and replace by the tag column. Am in urgent need of some changes but don’t want to be too much of a burden so I ask here. Could someone please help me modify the script so that: It replaces every occurence of a match in a cell (e.g. if there is {name} twice in a cell, it replaces both and not just the first it finds) It searches for tags in […] rather than {…} it searches and replace in place rather than in an additional field. (i.e. it uses the same field for template and destination) If possible, it is dynamic and uses regex to find any tag in […] and replace it with the matching column. I urgently need the first enhancement, the rest are more for the convenience of my workflow. Here is the script: (async ({ record_id }) => { async function getClientById(recordId, clientsTable){ const queryResult = await clientsTable.selectRecordsAsync({ fields: ['nom', 'code', 'ville', 'templat

Hey, This used to work and stopped. Tried it with a new app and button too. Whenever I click an open app button when the record is expanded, it seems that the window message with the record id is not delivered to the app. I get the following error in the console: Failed to execute 'postMessage' on 'DOMWindow': The target origin provided ('https://block--t-qtk-d2-z-an-c-dz-kv--b3r294g.alt.airtableblocks.com') does not match the recipient window's origin ('https://airtable.com'). The app DOES open in the extensions dashboard when clicking an app open button from the grid view.

Hi everyone, I want to use airtable as a CRM and activity tracking tool. My logic is: We are working on a project - project table Each project contains 1-n project items - project item table, each record linked to a project Activities are tracked on a project item level (date, effort, related project item) - activity tracking table, each record linked to a project item Now i want to automatically create invoices for my projects for certain invoice intervalls. For this i need to find all related activities (easy, also with an automation) and group them for each project item, in order to create the respective invoice items (tracked activities per project item within the invoice intervall). For this I have created a seperate “invoice item table” in which i currently also have a seperate automation, that gathers all activities for the respective items within the intervall. my core question is: can i combine and automate the necessary steps in a script? Find all activity tracking records (

Non-developer type here! My team is using Airtable as a task management tool Each week we run a report, which includes a long text field (“Details Field”) with details on the work performed on a specific task during that week. To retain a record of the content that’s appeared in the Details Field, I wonder if it would be possible to write a script that would copy and clear the values of the Details Field and cumulatively add them to a field (“History Field”). The History Field would then eventually contain a list of all the updates that’s been put into the Details Field over time (and ideally with date stamps to next to the text that was copied at a given time). Thanks so much for your feedback on this! Jens

Hi everyone! I would like to have a Login Vault on Airtable accessible to a client, but for more appearance of security we’d like to have the Password field entries all show up as *********** and were wondering if there is a script or another way to allow a “click to reveal password” action or “click to copy” option if not the first?

Hi all, Hoping someone could help me correct a script. I have a base with multiple tables in it. There is a table called “Projects” and another table called “Potential Photoshoots”. I’m trying to use a script to move a single record from the “Potential Photoshoots” table to the “Projects” table. It should then delete the record from the “Potential Photoshoots” table. This all should happen automatically when a button is clicked. NOTE: The button field name and the button label are both titled “Move to Projects” and it exists on the “Potential Photoshoots” table. I’m new to Airtable and not very proficient with scripts, but I’ve been doing research and playing around to try and learn. I was able to work out the following script, but it doesn’t move the specific record whose button was clicked. From what I understand, that is because I need to use an input.recordAsync call. I think I understand where that should go, but it seems to cause other errors in the script when I add it. I also r

Hello everyone, I’m building an app that picks data from Airtable. All the listed APIs expect the table name as an input. I’m looking for an API to get a list of all the tables in a base. Is there any API, or any workaround for this? Thanks

Hi guys! I’m attempting to fill in a field with linked records from another table. The values being entered are flight names based on flight confirmations. As flight confirmations go, they often have multiple flights on them. For some reason, even when using the method outlined in the scripting reference, my values are still overriding. Annoyingly, I can quite literally see this happening by watching the table after running the script - so I know the extra flights are going in the right place, they just don’t want to play nicely with all the other flights! The code snippet that’s updating the flights is below, hope someone can help! if (flights !== undefined && flights.length > 0) { // INSERT FIRST FLIGHT let updateRecord = await passengerFlightsTable.updateRecordAsync(record, { 'Flight Name': [{ id: flights[0].getFlightID() }] }); flights.shift(); // get rid of first flight so one-wayers are accoun

I’m trying to overwrite a Field’s options with a list provided dynamically from data that is imported. I have successfully updated the options to use the previous values in addition to the new set of values (similar to the example the documentation provides). However, the use case for my app is to start from scratch: delete all existing records (and ideally field options), and import a fresh set of data with field options that match the new data. The documentation points to UpdateFieldOptionsOpts as a way to do this, but after trying a few combinations, I have not gotten it to work. Any thoughts from the community on what I might be doing wrong? Here is some sample code to demonstrate the issue: let choices = { choices: [ {"name": "Option 1"}, {"name": "Option 2"}, ] } if (field.hasPermissionToUpdateOptions(choices)) { await field.updateOptionsAsync(choices, {"enableSelectFieldChoiceDeletion": true}); }

In a fetch for JSON POST adding these two headers: let response = await fetch(url, { method: 'POST', body: JSON.stringify(data), headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'text/plain', } }); returns a TypeError: Load failed message. But the target API needs both headers specified. Each header individually does not error, but the API doesn’t respond. Any help appreciated.

I’m trying to test a very simple script, but I can’t seem to output specific fields to a table, no matter which fields I specific in selectRecordsAsync, the output is always the same: fields id and name. My code: let table = base.getTable("Procedimentos"); let query = await table.selectRecordsAsync({fields: ["Procedimento","Descrição"]}); output.table(query.records); What am I missing?

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Hey everyone Having a bit of problems with this script. I have a tasklist and at the end of the record I have a delete button. When I press the button I want it to delete just that record. But when I use this script it seams to delete just any of the records in the list except the record I want to delete. Can someone pls advise? // Delete a record in the Tasks table let table = base.getTable(“Tasks”); let query = await table.selectRecordsAsync({fields: }); let recordId = query.records[0].id; await table.deleteRecordAsync(recordId); console.log(“Deleted a record!”);

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Is there any way to access the history/activity on a record I’m looking for a way to see the rowActivityInfoById for a record so I can audit what fields are being changed over a certain time period. I’m ok with coding it up, I just need to know I can retrieve the activity anywhere. Any help would be much appreciated.