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Hi everyone, Today is an important deadline day for us, and we are collecting client deliverables through Airtable forms. We have a large influx of form submissions today, and everything was working as expected until about 10:30am MT this morning. I received a correct form submission at 10:25am MT, and then the next form submission at 10:33am MT had been edited by an "anonymous" user. Every form we've received after that has also been edited by an "anonymous" user, and any files that our clients included in an attachment field on their form had disappeared / been deleted from the records.The only other post I can find like this is this one, but it doesn't seem to have a resolution. Our team is also unable to upload attachments to records ourselves.Does anyone have any insight on this issue? We really don't want to have to reach back out to all of the clients that are submitting deliverables today for the deadline to ask for them again.Let me know if any other information woul

I’m using Airtable to organize an annual event, and something we do is track people. I made a set of bases last year that track what each person does and links to many other tables, but the problem lies in trying to make this abstract for every year. I’d like to have a “contacts database” that is outside of each year’s airtable, and syncs contacts with “2023” status into the 2023 base, and same for other years. We need different bases for each year because a lot of what we do gets “reset” every year. I need to start with a blank slate and be able to easily copy people in. The problem is that I also need to add new contacts every year. By setting up a sync, we can’t edit the basic info on each Contact in the 2023 Base – I can no longer have forms (either with Airtable or Miniextensions) which populate Contact info, which is a mix of the info synced from the Contacts database and year-specific info. The closest I got is by having separate contacts tables for each year and using Multi-so

Hello Airtable Community, I'm creating a form where I need a specific number of volunteers for each area of an event I'm planning, for example, I need 5 volunteers on Saturday from 9am-12pm; 5 volunteers on Saturday from 12pm-3pm, etc. What can I do in creating the form to where as the volunteers sign up for various slots, the available number of slots decreases from 5 available to 4 to 3 to 2 to 1 to 0?I don't want six volunteers to sign up, I don't want the sixth person to see it would be an option.  Any suggestions would be most appreciated!Best, Dan

Scripting no longer has typescript support or formatting - is this coming back? (Please say its coming back)

Did Airtable use its own platform to design this Community Forum? It’d be perfect for what we are trying to do… We are trying to design a (closed - invitation-only) platform on which collaborators can start threads by asking questions. Currently each new record is a question. There is a tab for collaborators to be assigned to the question. The answer to the question is given in a long text field (with tabs for grouping the questions by issue) and the collaborators can upload documents to the record. Any comments and back and forth are in the Activity tab of the record as a comment. In Blocks, we have appear.in and google hangouts so participants can chat or video conference to discuss… But the above is missing the sequential conversation format (ask question, get reply, another reply, another reply and a resolution comment). It would also be great to be able to mention a group of collborators instead of naming each individually. Is that possible? (I have grouped the collaborators by co

Is Airtable able to sync with repos within an organization account?

As far as I'm aware, we're not able to set the Primary Field as the User type. Has this feature been discussed/is this a feature that is likely to be added in the future?

Hello,My organization requires our companies to submit quarterly reports via an Airtable form. Because companies cannot see the previous quarterly report form submitted, sometimes, they will duplicate answers from the previous quarter. I'm wondering if there is a way that companies can see the last quarterly report they provided when they are completing the current quarterly report.Thanks!

Hello community! Question 🙂 :Is it possible to take values from one table and use those values as field titles in another table.For example: Table1 has a list of first names and I would like to use those first names as separate field titles in Table2Makes sense?Hope someone can help me out! Thank you!

Hello, I am having trouble with numbers coming from a .CSV. Currently I have the field set as a Decimal (1.0). The data in the CSV looks like: The data when uploaded looks like: I’ve tried changing formats, but I need it to remain a number format so that I can pull averages. Thank you, Lindsay

I am trying to prefill a check list with the check boxes into a long text field, i.e. make prefill links for different maintenance reports as required. I am trying to use a formula to generate this result. Here is the code “?prefill_Notes=[+]+Test\n[+]+Test2” This is the output: It is not showing the second paragraph / line The check box is not in its checkable form but rather its underlying raw text form. I have then tried to prefill from a field already containing the correct structure of the check list and this solves issue 1. with the missing paragraph / new line spacing. “?prefill_Notes=” & ENCODE_URL_COMPONENT({Details / Task Breakdown}) But as you can see, Issue 2 still persists the check boxes are not immediately usable. Any way of doing this? Thanks

Hello, I'm new to Airtable and already very impressed. My question:One thing that Databases, PowerBI or Tableau have is RLS (row level security). I read this article https://support.airtable.com/docs/permissions-overview but it was more about the capabilities of different roles. What I want is sth different:In short, let's say I have a column USERNAME in my table. I share my table with a collaborator called Julia. Julia can only see the rows where the column equals to USERNAME is "Julia". It's basically like a filter but the the collaborator cannot unfilter it. Julia would have only viewing / editing access to the above mentioned rows.RLS are handy as they can scale. In our case, I might have 20 collaborators in the end. All collaborators should only be able to see their "own" rows.Thank you so much BR!

Hey All,I'm not sure if there is something similar on here anywhere, but I thought I'd ask.So the base(s) are pretty complex at this point, however here it goes.We have different levels of tracking.High level tracking of Clients. This tab(le) stores client data that goes through various states and tracks them.  They may never go into training, but it stores other high level data.Once a client has paid/agreed, etc for training they move from #1 tab into this tab: this table tracks unique training, so company ABC from #1, could have ABC-110123, and ABC-011723 (start date of training as unique ID). This also stores lookup data from the next one as far as ALL the trainingThis table is the actual training "calendar" so all the training dates with the respective courses, date & time, etc are store here. We also track the #of attendees that are invited as well as who actually shows up.All of this data is used to track the amount of training, specific people who attend, etc. The bigge

If I select multiple fields (columns) and cmd-click one of them, it narrows the selection to that one field. If I select multiple fields and go to the dropdown for one, it narrows the selection to that one field. How do I delete multiple fields at once rather than having to go through them one by one? This seems like incredibly basic spreadsheet functionality and I’m puzzled that I can’t find it.

Why are my bases unavailable - its been a few hours now.  

It is not possible to prevent base collaborators from viewing certain fields (columns) within a table or base. To get around this problem, the only recommended solution I have seen in this community is third-party tools, also referred to as external tools or portal tools.Examples of these recommended tools are Noloco.io, MiniExtensions.com, GlideApps.com, Softr.io, Pory.io, and StackerHQ.com.But rather than using a third-party tool, what if we created a “mirror base” within AirTable, and established a different set of collaborators for the mirror base?The mirror base would be a duplicate of the original base, but with several additional fields added. The mirror would update in real time whenever the original base is updated. The two bases would always be exact copies of each other, except that the mirror would have several additional fields.Could this work?

Hello All, I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue.We needed to connect a team member to our base and sent an invite directly to their email. After some time, their invite still appeared as pending. After confirming with them that they have connected to the base we kept checking the base and eventually they appeared as connected and for about a week and a half prior. This caused some confusion in our team. I have been using the MAC app, is this a bug or is there something I can do to prevent this in the future?Thank You. 

Hi. I have a base with a Table "Projects" with a multiline text field where I add simple updates on the progress on that proiect. These updates are generally brief but vary in length. There will be a lot of them over time.I have that field linked back into the table, where I would like to only show the most recent update, is there any way to acheive this please. Can you format that linked field to display the primary field only to a specific character as a thought?In the longer term I'd like to find a more elegant solution overall as appreciate this is basic but having something in place for the short term was my thinking.RgdsRobgriff

We have been using Airtable as our internal database and have built some simple scripting extensions to update data from our backend. Every row has an Update button and clicking on it runs the scripting extension showing a dialog box which somewhat creates a bad experience when editing multiple records quickly.Would love a feature to set the extension to run in background or to show a small toast showing whether the run was successful or not, rather than showing the entire dialog box again and again.

I’m trying to use a Rollup to create a numbered list of linked records that reflects the order in which they’re linked within a field. I’ve tried a couple different array options but can’t crack the numbering part.

When uploading an attachment, it loads but instantly disappears Does the same thing happen to someone?

Hello Airtable Community,Is it possible for an admin to delete a base in which they are not a collaborator?Thank you,Liz

Hello,I am using page designer to create some forms for my business.  Currently I am taking an image that is embedded in Airtable and putting that as the background to complete the form.  The issue is with airtable moving to all expiring url's I have to adjust this daily which is not practical.  From what I have seen I can do it through google drive.  How can I take an image from Google Drive and use it in Page Designer to avoid my links expiring? Thanks,Zak

Hi! I want to use the Formstack app, but I’m getting this error when I hit the “Create document” button: Similarly, in Formstack, the Merge History shows: I’m signed in to both applications and am not having any other problems in either of them, but something about the integration is obviously not right. I haven’t seen this problem discussed in other posts - has anyone else seen this behavior? Not sure what to try!

HiWhen using the HR base for recruitment purposes, can only set only certain people in the organization to see specific aspects (permission levels) i.e. someone you have recruited and is now internal you would not want seeing who applied for their position; people in mid-level positions, you would not want them to see senior-level positions.  Can you only allow certain people to see certain positions e.g. for shortlisting purposes?Thanks