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Can I email a view once a week

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Once a week I want to email a report from Airtable to stakeholders (who don’t have Airtable logins). This report is based on rows created in a particular table in the last 7 days. Basically a filtered view of the table. The report could be as text, PDF, Excel or HTML.

I have managed to use Zapier to send some data on a schedule. But the ‘Find record’ zap only seems to be able to find a single record. Ideally I want to be able to send a whole view or block.

Any ideas? This seems like a fairly basic use case.

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    jowan_qupty
    • jowan_qupty
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    • 25 replies
    • January 24, 2019

    I believe that zapier has a digest app which should do what you are asking for.
    Never used it though so am not too sure how to use it.

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    • Andy_Brice1
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    • January 24, 2019
    jowan_qupty wrote:

    I believe that zapier has a digest app which should do what you are asking for.
    Never used it though so am not too sure how to use it.


    I wasn’t clear what a digest did either. But maybe that will do it. I will investigate. Thanks for the suggestion.

    it would be nice if there was a Airtable zap that allowed you to send a view or a block as a PDF. Then you could just email this out once a week.

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    • Maggie_Raible
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    • 2 replies
    • January 20, 2020

    @Andy_Brice1, did you ever figure this out? I’ve been looking for this functionality too!

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    • Andy_Brice
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    • January 20, 2020
    Maggie_Raible wrote:

    @Andy_Brice1, did you ever figure this out? I’ve been looking for this functionality too!


    I wrote my own custom program to do it, using their API and the scheduling function on my Mac. It wasn’t trivial.

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    • typeflow
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    • October 22, 2024

    Coming late but if you're looking for a solution, Typeflow can help you easily generate PDFs from Airtable data using Google Docs templates. It's straightforward and efficient.

    Feel free to give it a try, and I'd love to hear your feedback! I'm also offering a lifetime plan for early users at just $100.

    Feel free to ping me if you're interested or have any questions.

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