Development & APIs

Hi I’m playing around with scripting (not a programmer) and I’ve run into a situation where I can’t update assign the collaborator object. I’ve modified my code to represent what I’m looking for Collaborator is the collaborator field on my base. I’m trying to assign a collaborator (through a previous function) named ‘assignCollaborator’ await table.updateRecordAsync(record, { "Collaborator": { "name": assignCollaborator} }) The errors I’m getting say that the fields don’t exist but I can create references like this let collabName = record.getCellValue("Collaborator").name Some explanation here would be super helpful. Thank you

Does anyone have any tips for creating multi-line tooltips in Custom Apps? My tool tip is a long sentence and it doesn’t appear at all if the window is too small. I’m trying to add new line characters and also tried the following which isn’t doing the trick. <Tooltip content={() => {return <Text>"LONG TOOLTIP TEXT HERE"</Text>}} placementX={Tooltip.placements.RIGHT} placementY={Tooltip.placements.CENTER} >

Hey everyone,I’m trying to send out an email using automations, but I can’t figure out how to do it correctly….I have a USERS table with USER_EMAIL along with DAYS_TENURE (how long they’ve been signed up)I have a PROGRAMMING table with a DAY_ID column, and a few additional columns with relevant data. For each user, I want to find their DAYS_TENURE value, then find the records in the PROGRAMMING table with the matching value in the DAY_ID column, and email them the 3 additional columns from the PROGRAMMING table. I think I need to use scripting to do this, but I’m running into issues. I’m more of a SQL and python person, so there’s something I’m missing for javascript… In my code, I’m trying to do a nested for loop…the outer loop loops through each unique DAY_ID from the PROGRAMMING table, and the inner for loop adds the users from the USER table to a javascript object if their DAYS_TENURE matches the DAY_ID. For the sake of simplicity, let’s say I have DAY_ID value

I’m trying to import data from an API. I’m able to authenticate via my terminal, but I’m trying to write a script to automate that process (the access token is only good for 24 hours, so they recommend refreshing the authentication before every request or once per day). As I understand it, fetch() is the way to do an HTTP POST. I’ve written a function to do this, and I keep getting a 401 Unauthorized error. It looks like nothing after the url is getting passed on. I’m sure this is some kind of syntax error on my part, but I’m not familiar enough with JavaScript or API’s to know what it is. Any help would be appreciated. Code is below: async function authenticate() { let authentication = await fetch(authenticate_url, { method: 'POST', header: 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded', data: `grant_type=refresh_token&client_id=${clientID}&client_secret=${client_secret}&refresh_token=

Hi all, I came up with the following design for the internal BI system. The first table is used to store the payments. (Payments table) I also need to calculate the monthly sales statistics for each sales representative along with their quota (a predefined value that differed from month to month and added manually each time) For that purpose, I have an additional table. (AM table) The combination of (sales_rep, month, year) creates the unique id for the AM table and the linkage between two tables works very smoothly. However, I believe there is room for improvement since I have to Link unique-id-am field to AM Quota manually every time. I just drag the cell to AM Quota as you usually do

Hi. I want my formulae field ot be able to call a script I made. Is that possible and how? app is called times10 function times10(x) { output = x * 10 } I would then call it using the formula field. =times10(5) which would print out 50.

It’s Aug 2021. I read the posts from 2020. No help. Just starting here. Trying to do Hello World App., But on OSX Catalina (10.15.7), Blocks will not install. I tried the suggestion from 2020: “npm install -g @airtable/blocks-cli@0.0.52” Either way, lots of warnings about “Please upgrade to version 7” and then failure: npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! syscall chmod npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@airtable/blocks-cli/node_modules/loose-envify/cli.js npm ERR! errno -2 npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, chmod ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@airtable/blocks-cli/node_modules/loose-envify/cli.js’ npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file. It would be great to get off step one. Thanks in advance.

Hello, I’m looking for an API or automation to remove sharing from all collaborators of a workspace with a single click. Thanks.

Hi, I’m new to scripting in Airtable and scripting in general :slightly_smiling_face: I’m having trouble getting started and was hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I’m trying to build a script where for each new record in a table (“User_Answers”), I would like to score it against all records in a different table (“Company_Answers”). User_Anwers looks like this: User ID | Answer 1 | Answer 2 | Answer 3 1 | True. | True. | False 2. | False. | False. | False Company_Answers looks like this: Company ID | Answer 1 | Answer 2 | Answer 3 1 | True. | True. | False 2. | False. | False. | False What I’m struggling with at the moment, is the basics and I can’t seem to find the answer in the documentation. How do I get the value of a cell into a variable? (For example, the value of answer 2 of user 2.)

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Hello, I am attempting to update a record with an attachment via scripting automation and it appears that the attachment is getting uploaded properly but immediately deleted automatically. Screenshot: Was wondering if anyone might know why this is happening. Is the upload URL improperly formatted? I have done projects similar to this before but this is the first time I have run into this issue. Thank you for the help.

Greetings, folks: All I want is to create the next record: let nuevoRegistro = { 'ALUMNOS': [{ "id": regAlumno.id }], 'ANHO': [{ "id": registroAnho.id }], 'CENTRO': [{ "id": registroCentro.id }], 'isAlta': { name: "Yes" }, 'CLASE': { name: clase }, 'CURSO': [{ "id": regCurso.id }], }; With the following function: let crearRegistros = async function (tabla, nuevoReg) { return await tabla.createRecordAsync(nuevoReg); } And what do I get when I run this? await crearRegistros(tabla, nuevoRegistro); U: Validate this value before parsing I couldn´t find any info about scripting errors. I hope someone did and would like to share what I’m doing wrong. Thanks!

Hello! I’m trying to build a linked record editor. I’ve discovered that Airtable’s own grid component (the same layout as the Grid view type) isn’t available to use in the UI kit. Is there any way to embed Airtable’s grid component in the app? Thanks!

Hi, If I have a column with the field type “URI” it doesn’t actually check that the inputted data is a valid URL. Is there a way for me to define a custom field type with the API/Apps. The ideal situation would be a custom field type that is validated by Regex. Thanks in advance (:

Hi all. We have a custom-app in which its returned some data. We would want to bind this flow, so, when user selects something at the custom-app, the referred record(s) are picked at the table. We tried a lot of ways with no success. Custom-app data comes from an i-frame. We are able to have the records array but we still are not able to pick records as it is shown in the screenshot. Thanks in advance

I’ve got a script that chunks through API requests out to a 3rd party, and instead of outputting a ton of status text, I thought it would be a great UX if they could see the progress of those requests and be able to stop them early, all in the same button. Is this possible to update an input button’s label after it has been sent to the UI? If that isn’t possible, is it possible to update an output string similarly? I’ve tried a few things that might have worked normally outside of airtable, but haven’t had much luck as most of these communication objects don’t return themselves to be overridden later. Would be happy to hear any weird ways this can be accomplished as well (another table in the base that contains the value, etc). It doesn’t have to be elegant, just has to be update-able haha

We’d like to create an outbound notification by sending (http POST) a message to a 3rd party API endpoint on certain events. We are looking to use the built-in triggering and scripting features of Airtable. Has anyone tried to do something similar? Thanks!

Hi, I would like to see an integration with Microsoft Teams. As this is our preferred CMS at work.

Hello. Nice to mee you. I have this probrem.Preformatted text please let me know. //get table info let table = base.getTable("A2_複製"); let queryResult = await table.selectRecordsAsync(); let record; let stocks = new Array(2); //I wanna set to array[i][0~1], but I can't... Error tell me "TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined" for(let i = 0; i < queryResult.records.length; i++){ record = queryResult.records[i]; stocks[i][0].push(record.id); stocks[i][1].push(record.getCellValue("*印刷型番")); } ; console.log(stocks);

Is there a way to delete tables in a base programatically ? The blocks API does allow creation of tables, the destroy although works via the REST API when called with the cookies Will there be a base.DeleteTableAsync ? or can we use sessions in some way to get the cookie and make the REST API call, still have to explore on sessions

Hello, I use Airtable to organize the list of traditional folk tunes I play on my fiddle. As well as the typical tune metadata (name, style, key, composer, etc.), I paste in a PNG of the music score and a “snippet” of the first couple bars. I’d like to instead have the music rendered in a cell using abcjs that references another cell that has the raw abc music notation. Looking at library documentation, seems like this should be an easy thing to do(?), but I’m not much of a programmer. Does anyone want to take a stab at this “for fun”? :grimacing: I’d appreciate any tips to get me started; I’m eager to improve my coding skills and could use this project as a vehicle. Thanks! Tom

I’m guessing if it was possible it would have something to do with using typescript but I have not been able to figure it out. I did download node and tried to install the airtable npm but kept getting a “connect EBADF” error. Not sure if any of this is actually gets me closer to my desired goal but this was just me attempting things.

How can I test changes to a base, and then deploy them to a live environment? I’m building a fairly complex base for a client. Once the project is live, there’ll doubtless be a need for further enhancements, bug fixes, etc. I need to be able to test those changes safely, and then once proven, deploy them to the live base. I can’t see any way Airtable handles this right now - the only option I can see is to manually note all the things that I’ve changed in the test base, and then repeat those changes on the production system, while it’s live. Any suggestions?? Am I crazy trying to use Airtable for a production system?

I would like to know if it is possible to trigger script when a record is updated. I can see the [ useWatchable ](Airtable Blocks SDK) hook is avaiable, but I don’t know if it will run on background or not? For example If I update record using a API then would it would trigger ? Here is what I want to achieve :slightly_smiling_face: When a record is updated in a table ==> Trigger APP to run calculation ==> ADD/update entry in another table. For first table there are number of source to update record… Please advise if thre is an better optoon available.

Hello! The API seems to not return the profilePicUrl on the Collaborator field, even doe the collaborator has a profile picture. Does anyone have the same problem?