Formulas

Hello! I would like to tag some records based on the text content in a column (ie: if Title contains "Tour" tag Tours). Feels like it should be pretty straightforward but I can't figure out how? Thanks! For more context: I imported all of my team's events from Outlook and realized Airtable doesn't support the "Category" feature, so I want to add tags to these events so that we can break down the data. I figured I could probably do that based on title or other key words. Thanks in advance!

I am trying to build a table to calculate pricing. But, every column (which is its own product) has different price points under it, based on square footage. How can I set up a formula that will calculate each drop-down option (multiple selection), per column and total that up at the end? See screenshot for reference First column is interior photos. There are four potential options in that field, so I need a formula that will calculate based on the selection I make in each column. And the same goes for every other one.

Hi there. I am trying to write a formula ("Duration of Pending Repayment") that calculates how long an unpaid repayment is overdue. Essentially, it will be: If "Repayment Due Date" is not blank And "Repayment Received Date" is blank Then calculate Today-Repayment Due date. This part I got with DATETIME_DIFF(TODAY(),{Repayment Due Date},'days') I cannot figure out how to do the If/And with blanks, not blanks. Any ideas, wizards? 🤓 Thank you in advance! PS - Here's how the formula currently reads: IF ( AND ( NOT ( {Repayment Due Date} )), {Invoice Issue Date} , DATETIME_DIFF ( TODAY (), {Repayment Due Date} , 'days' ))

Hi, Hoping that someone might be able to help me with a formula question (I'm quite new to formulas and have been fumbling along until now, but have reached the limit of my knowledge!)... I have a table of payments that have been made, each with the payment date. These Payments are associated back to a project budget and are rolled up so that, at any point, you can see the total Actual spend to date. I've got this all working well. I am now trying to add in a new field in the Project table which shows total Actual spend as at the most recent quarter end - and I'm stuck! I've managed to write a formula in the Payments table which formats the payment date into the year and quarter (so turning 2022-02-04 into 2022-1) but I now want to work out how to pull this through to the Projects table. I know that I could build a series of fields in the Projects table that rolled up (respectively) all Payments in 2022-1 and then all Payments 2022-2 etc etc, but this doesn't feel very sustainable as I

Hello, I am trying to create a formula to put together a date we expect something to be completed. Date to Client is entered by my team and is the first part of the equation. Client Timing is pulled as a lookup field from another table dependent on each client as is based in days. Formula I have is Dateadd({Date to Client}, {Client Timing}, "days"). This equation is taking the client date (ex 12/2/25) and always subtracting one (ex 12/1/25. Is there a different formula I should be using for this type of transaction?

Hi - first timer here! I have 2 tables in 1 base. Table A contains info about Recipes I'm creating. Table B is where I schedule those recipes for newsletter publication. Recipe names are pulled from Table A into Table B by linking fields. There are 3 recipes per date, so 3 linked fields. So far so good. I want to have the newsletter date in Table B pulled into the corresponding recipe record in Table A. See attached illustration - what formula do I need to replace the question marks with dates?

I have a table in Airtable with two fields: "Child" and "Mother" (just an example to explain the structure easily). The "Mother" field is a linked record to the same table. Here’s a sample dataset: Child Mother Ravi Sneha Kavi Sneha Balli Prerna Malli Prerna Sneha Mother Prerna Mother I want to add a new field, "Number of Children", that counts how many linked records (children) each mother has. The expected output should look like this: Child Mother Number of Children Ravi Sneha 0 Kavi Sneha 0 Balli Prerna 0 Malli Prerna 0 Sneha Mother 2 Prerna Mother 2 I tried using a Rollup field with COUNTALL(values), but it counts each linked record separately instead of summing up the total number of children for each mother. How can I achieve this without creating another table? Any suggestions or workarounds would be greatly appreciated!

I'm looking to send out an email when a record is updated to interface-only collaborators. I want the email to include a link to the record in question. I've got a link to the record using the following formula: "https://airtable.com/appxxx/pagxxx?xxxx=" & RECORD_ID () But I need to link to the Details section of the record with this link. I.e., my Interface uses the 'Sidesheet' details pane. When I click the email link, I want to be taken to the correct Interface and correct page and have the sidebar pop out too. What do I append to the above formula to make the correct sidebar pop out?

Hello everyone. I'm a Korean user, but there are still few AirTable users in Korea, so it's hard to find a solution, so I wrote to the community for the first time. I'm trying to use automation to send messages to Slack that mentions multiple users. I've tried several ways to do this, but while I know how to mention a single user, I haven't found a way to mention multiple users yet. I've tried the following formula and automation, but it didn't work. 1. @Mention using a Slack username <@first.last> 2. @Mention using Slack user's ID <@memberID> 3. Dynamic @mentioning CONCATENATE("<@", {Slack member id lookup}, ">") All of these methods worked when I linked only one record, but when I linked multiple records, they didn't work correctly. ex.) when linking sigle record -------------------------------------------- when linking mulitple record Does anyone know how to solve this problem? 😭

Hello, I am attempting to create a “email merge” document template using Airtable that allows me to: Use rich text formatting (bold, bullets, etc. for email formatting), and Use reference fields in the text (for example “Hello {First Name}, your User Name is {User Name} and your Password is {Password}.” If I try to do this in Page Designer, I can do #2, but not #1 that I know of. If I try to do this in a Long Text Field, I can do #1, but not #2 that I know of. Any ideas? Thanks, ML

I'm wondering if a formula has a way to reference the field name. For example I want to name a field the number 10 and then use a formula which calculates if {other field} < {thisfield.name}. Is that possible?

I'm managing 5 websites, and have created one base with 5 tables - each reflecting the blog planning for one website (syncing with the website-specific bases). I've now created a table that collects all the posts from all the websites, so I can see where everything is at in a blink of an eye. What I can't wrap my head around is the dates: I now have 5 date fields (lookups), but I'd like to be able to sort things by date (or display them in a calendar, etc) - regardless of which website it's for. I created a formula field to merge the dates, but that displays them as "2015-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"... I know there's a DATESTR([date]) formula, but that gets me an error message (am I using it wrong?). Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi, I have one column in my Jobs Table that pulls the Job address from my Table of Customers, its a Formula and seems to work fine it puts the correct Job address into the Jobs Table if the customer has a different Mailing address, it looks like this: IF ( {(J) Address?} = "Yes" , {Mailing address (from Customers)} , {(J) Street} & " " & {(J) City,St,Zip} ) I have a second column in the Jobs Table that I need to JUST have the City Name appear in. I have tried to write the formula, and it just returns an Error Message, it looks like this: IF ( {(J) Address?} = "Yes" , LEFT ( {(M) City, St. Zip (from Customer)} , SEARCH ( "," , {(M) City, St. Zip (from Customer)} )), LEFT ( {(J) City,St,Zip} , SEARCH ( "," , {(J) City,St,Zip} ))) Is there a better way to pull the City out of the Job Address Column? I feel like I'm beating my head against a wall. Thank you!

Hello there smart folks! I am building a base for small film productions, and the industry has some odd practices I have to work around. One of those is tracking scenes on scripts in page length in fractions - specifically 8ths. For my personal tracking I have a column that just holds the size in the total number of 8ths (so instead of showing 1/8 page it is 1, 1 and 3/8 pages is 11) which I can then total into total number of 8ths. I now need to convert that back into pages in fraction form to display on one of my reports. So say I have 10 scenes over 5 3/8 pages (so my total is 43). How do I create that 5 3/8 to display? I hope this makes sense!

Hi, I am very new to scripting and managing a base for content production. Want to create a script that will update a series of dates based off the publication date changing. I'm getting errors and not sure why. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Here is the script let table = base.getTable("Deliverables"); async function updateRecord() {let inputConfig = input.config();let recordId = inputConfig.recordId; // Fetch the record ID from the previous step // Check if recordId is valid (a string and not undefined)if (typeof recordId !== 'string' || !recordId.trim()) {throw new Error("Invalid or undefined record ID. Ensure the input provides a valid record ID.");} // Fetch the specific record from the tablelet record = await table.selectRecordAsync(recordId); if (!record) {throw new Error(`Record with ID ${recordId} not found.`);} let publishDate = record.getCellValue("Published Date");let Series = record.getCellValue("Series"); if (publishDate) {let updates = {}; if (Series === "Catalyst

I am working on a job board project and have this challenge. I have gone through some of the community posts but cannot figure out a solution. The marketplace is continuously updated with titles, urls etc. I want to convert the URLs to hyperlink. As well, I want to create a solution that will apply to the entire field. I saw a post but I think that is valid for permanent urls, not where every record has a new url. Is this possible? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Hi! I have a table where I am tracking when a certain item (Lot) needs to have its lab testing updated. Each record has a {Lab Status} single select field, a {Latest Lab Date} date field, a {Next Lab Due} field that calculates a date 6 months out from the date field, and a {Send By} field that calculates a date 1 month prior to the next due date. The rest of the fields are linked to records in another table of the same base but are not pertinent to this. Record Lab Status Latest Lab Date Next Lab Due Send ByLot AA Up Next 08/01/2024 02/01/2025 01/01/2025 There are two functions I would like to implement, if possible, either into the table or with automations: 1. (automation or formula?) When we enter into a given month, I would like for any records with a Send By date in that month to automatically update the Lab Status to 'Up Next'. For example, on February 1st any record with a Send By date in february gets its status changed to 'Up Next'. For now I've tried to set all the dates to b

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Hello, I have a very simple formula that is taking the values calculated from other fields and giving a total. The problem I am running into is unless I have the formatting set to 5 decimal places the results will round. For the work we are doing we need the data to not round, but the issue is for the exports we have to do to input the data into another system we have to remove the extra decimal places. Is there a way to keep the 2 decimal place formatting while preventing the rounding? For example if a value is 2543.54546 we would like it to be 2543.54, but if I change the formatting to two places the number ends up being 2543.55 which for reconciliation is a problem. The values change daily so the direction of rounding also changes. My formula is super simple {value1} - {value2} I did try adding the ROUND function, but that didn't seem to help at all. ROUND ( {value1} - {value2} , 5) I tried various values for the precision and none of them did what I needed. I appreciate any help yo

Hi there, I have two tables and an interface with a form. The first form is used to add an entry to the table. I have this displayed as a nice gallery. I wanted to add a button on the gallery, so the user can click the button on the record and it will take them to another form to request a change to that record. I've got about 90% there, but getting the field to prefill with the record_ID has been miserable. I've tried every combination and it just doesn't work. On the form I added a new field "Link to another record". I select my primary table and select some columns to bring in via lookup. It looks great, the user can use the drop down to view all submissions and select the one they want. But the prefill doesn't work to auto select it. https://airtable.com/HIDDEN/HIDDEN/form?prefill_Vacancies=["rec1YlesldDRjs06V"] https://airtable.com/HIDDEN/HIDDEN/form?prefill_Vacancies=rec1YlesldDRjs06V Nothing prefills the entry. If I try another field, like Name or Title which isn't a linked reco

I'm sure this an easy one - but I am stumped. Here is the scenario: I want to create a view so I can send out a daily report that shows all records that are on tomorrow's service schedule, yesterday's service schedule, and 2 weeks ago service schedule. The current airtable filter options of tomorrow and yesterday work great until it comes to the weekend - meaning on my Friday report, the Monday activity is not showing up and on my Monday report, the Friday activity is not showing up. I have created formula fields that calculate the next work day but Im still stuck on how to filter it. I tried to filter using "is after" "today" but then it gives me all records in the future when I just want the one next workday. Maybe I am approaching this all wrong and making it more difficult than it is - but my brain is not computing

i have a record table like this (simplified) id created at (datetime) category(text or link to category table) content catrgory record count (?) 1 2025-1-2 cat-1 2 2 2025-1-1 cat-2 1 3 2025-1-1 cat-1 1 my idea ist to use a formula like this: count records, where category = category and {created at} <= {created at} somehow, all my approaches fail. tried rollup and formula.if it helps, category fields are linked to another "categories" table. but i could not filter over linked cecords, because that would require linking two times - to the categories table and then back. i want to avoid using an automation, because i have a large number of existing records, and an automation seems hacky for me. if there is no other way, i'll go this route, though. i'd be glad for a hint or a lin to a documentation for a similar case 🙂

Hello! I have a field in every record for zip code (number field) I am looking to have a sheet to count up how many records I have in a specific zip code. Interfaces can give me a chart on the zip count but I can not figure out how to get a table of it. I can group by zip code in the table by I need that data in it’s own table.

I am trying to track when i should expect a project back based on the amount of days given to return. The first return length is 70 days or 10 weeks. The second time it is submitted is 30 days return. Column: Submitted date: (constant)- user entered Columns: Expected Project Return (date) DATEADD ( {SUBMITTED Date } , 10 , 'week' )) This checks out good. when I have a Resubmittal column(date) I would like the Expected Project Return Date to now show DATEADD({SUBMITTED }, 30, 'day')) So in short i want the expected return date column to update once the resubmittal date is updated.

I have and “hours” table whose rows consist of the following relevant fields: An email address of an event participant Number of hours participation in an event Year of the event participation There will be separate rows with the same email address for each event where hours are recorded. I want to create a query (filter, group by,…) that answers this question. Which people (email address) participated in at least one event in both 2022 and 2023. Following one suggestion, I Grouped the rows by email address Created a new field, called “yrs active” that is defined by the formula “arrayunique(year)”. On the email address group by line, it indicates the number of unique values found so I assumed I could apply formulas or filtering that operated on just those unique values. Created a second field, “In 2022 and 2023” defined by the formula, AND(FIND("2022", {Yrs Active}), FIND("2023", {Yrs Active}))thinking that at the group by level, if the unique values contained both 2022 and 2023, the l