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422 unknown field name

  • June 19, 2026
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I have a workflow on make.com that is using Airtable nodes to process the data. Very important for the workflow are the the Status fields in the tables from Airtable. One node hast to update a Status field, but I am getting the error, that the field name is unknown. make.com die a trouble shooting and they say, that the error is coming from Airtable and not from make.com. They provided supporting information as well:

At this point, I recommend contacting Airtable Support and sharing the details below with them so they can check why their API is rejecting this field ID even though the field appears to exist in the base/table.
Relevant request details:
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    "response": {
        "status": 422,
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            "date": "Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:02:46 GMT",
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            "content-length": "93",
            "connection": "close",
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            "server": "Tengine",
            "strict-transport-security": "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload",
            "access-control-allow-origin": "*",
            "access-control-allow-methods": "DELETE,GET,OPTIONS,PATCH,POST,PUT",
            "access-control-allow-headers": "authorization,content-length,content-type,user-agent,x-airtable-application-id,x-airtable-user-agent,x-api-version,x-requested-with",
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            "airtable-datacenter-regions": "us-east-1",
            "vary": "Accept-Encoding"
        },
        "body": {
            "error": {
                "type": "UNKNOWN_FIELD_NAME",
                "message": "Unknown field name: \"fld6BuJw8Im3QWmJ9\""
            }
        }
    },
    "request": {
        "url": "https://api.airtable.com/v0/app8RjJnDq0cW8f4Z/tblwJ5JbFH3e1LGv4/recBLPYjZFcepE2UV",
        "headers": {
            "user-agent": "Make/production",
            "authorization": "***",
            "content-type": "application/json"
        },
        "method": "PATCH",
        "body": {
            "fields": {
                "fld6BuJw8Im3QWmJ9": "Open",
                "fldWQ4G9choFddACg": "2026-06-23",
                "fldX3Xkq0c3dQhqWO": "Please review and approve or deny the the newsletter article."
            },
            "typecast": false
        }
    }
}
 
For reference, the field rejected by Airtable is the one Make is using for the Status value.

I tried a lot of things - cloning the node, replacing from scratch, copy paste from a different make.com scenario … I don’t know what else to try. The support from Airtable does not respond to my open tickets.

2 replies

Jonathon91
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  • June 21, 2026

First thing I’d check is whether Make is holding an old schema for that Airtable module. “Unknown field name” usually means one of three things: the field was renamed/recreated, the module is pointed at a different table/base than you think, or Make cached an older field list. I’d re-select the table in the Airtable module, refresh the module fields, and verify the exact Status field still exists in Airtable rather than being a new field with the same display name. If the field was recreated, the label can look identical while the underlying field ID changed.


TheTimeSavingCo
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Hm, seems weird that recreating the module from scratch would still cause this error, during the recreation process it should have grabbed all of those details

As a troubleshooting thing, could you try:

  1. Create a new text field
  2. Make the automation update that field instead with just the word ‘text’

I vaguely recall hitting a 422 error the same as you, but the issue wasn’t related to the field at all and was something else

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Once you get that working I would also highly recommend hitting the ‘Advanced settings’ toggle and turning on ‘Use Column ID’, this’ll let you update field names in Airtable without breaking any the automation

The downside to this is that any fields that create after you toggle this on won’t show up with their field name in the Make module and will instead show the field ID instead, but I find that less painful than having my automations (seemingly) randomly break