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I’m contemplating moving from WordPress to Airtable, where I would spit out posts via the API (not with Webflow on the end of it). Of the many things I’m trying to wrap my head around… How would article bodies function, from a formatting perspective? Unlike highly field-driven CMS work, articles are not discretely formatted. That is, article bodies contain a variety of text formatting originally created at the user discretion, inside WordPress’ TinyMCE editor - ie. crossheads of different h-tag sizes, links, images etc. WordPress stores the post body as HTML in MySQL. These elements should be retained on the Airtable side. What are my options… ? Long Text field that just contains a load of HTML tags and becomes burdensome to actually write/edit into? I see the Long Text field accepts formatting, with some reference to Markdown. How is this actually stored? As Markdown/HTML/something else? If Markdown, maybe there’s a risk I will lose any non-MD-trasnslatable HTML elements, ie. iframes

HI - I created a lovely base. I imported a CVS file and it totally messed up the base. I tried UNDO several times to no avail. I tried to go to a snapshot but there was no earlier version of the file. What to do? HELP!!

HI THERE – I imported a list from an excel doc. The format was exactly the sane as the base. For some reason - the import didnt work probably and a lot of the entries are either blank or only have one category filled in, Basically - is there a way to delete an import to an exisiting base. I tried UNDO but it didnt work. THANKYOU

Hi there, I’m building an app separately and I’m using Airtable as my database. In my base, I have “categories”, “brands”, “products” and “inventory” tables, where the 4 tables have proper linked fields configured as one-to-many (inventory → products → brands → categories). I need to have an API that shows records from all 4 tables based on the linked fields and using filters. After reading different help topics, it seems that the way to do this is by creating view, but I understood that creating a view with linked fields is limited to maximum 2 tables (linked and linked to tables). How can I create a view (or an API) that retrieves data from all 4 tables? Your help is highly appreciated. Thanks Fouad

Hi everybody, I would like to create a column that displays an action when a date has reached a certain value. If the date field is 30/6/2022 the actionfield would read “GO”. So I tried IF(Date=“30/6/2022”, “GO”, BLANK()), but it wouldn’t work. IF(Date=Datetime_format(“30/6/2022”,‘D/M/YYYY’),“GO”,BLANK()). No result either. What am I doing wrong? The date field has an European Date format (D/M/YYYY). Thanks in advance!

We currently use Air Table to enter our customers purchase orders- creating Work Orders for our warehouse. Within that **Work Order, we enter date created, due date, and any "Stations (A,B,C,D,E) that each Work Order will need to get work completed at- along with some other details not relevant to this topic. What we need is a way utilizing Air Table to do the following- I need EACH Work Order # to show on the schedule for every day beginning with “Date Entered” and ending with “Date Due.” Also need each Work Order to show on the schedule as I stated above- for EACH “Station” (A,B,C,D,E) for each day beginning with “Date Entered” to “Date Due” For example- Work Order # 10000 entered on 5/1/2022- and due on 5/16/2022 - and will need work completed at Station A, Station D, and Station E.(For this example- assume there are 5 “Stations” A,B,C,D,E Work Order # 10001 entered on 5/1/2022 and due on 5/31/2022- for Stations A, C Work Order # 10002 entered on 5/2/2022 and due on 5/24/202

Hello Airtable Community! I am going to make this simple and sweet. Is there any way to accomplish what this article is doing, but instead of just updating the primary “Name” field, I can update a status? This may not be possible but I figured it was worth a shot. Airtable Support Use case: update records via a form This article is meant to give you an idea of how to work around a common request we see from Airtablets: updating a record that already exists in a base via a form submission. If you often find you... Our organization essentially has a lot of people outside of our admin team that we delegate the “status” of a particular project and need a way for them to update this status through a form submission and without having access to Airtable. Hope this makes sense. Thanks!

Hello- I saw this formula for creating SKU’s based off of Single Selects and codes: SWITCH( {Product Category}, “Mural”, “MUR”, “Magnets”, “MAG” ) & “-” & SWITCH( {Class}, “Economy”, “EC”, “Deluxe”, “DX”, “Premium”, “PM”, “Platinum”, “PT” ) & “-” & SWITCH( {Substrate}, “Canvas”, “CN”, “Wood”, “WD” ) & “-” & SUBSTITUTE({Size}, " x ", “”) & “-” & SUBSTITUTE({Product Name}, " ", “”) My Question is: Is there a way to not specifically call out the IF selected in the field types, basically what ever you select becomes the “CODE” - because I have thousands of selections that would not work here - would take me forever to write and I don’t want to have to add new ones as the new parts come in - make sense?

I started working on an Airtable Template and there was sample data in it. I didn’t realize I had to clear the sample data before using it. I did some manual deletions and then started entering new data. I then got a bunch of popups wizards to guide me through using it. I saw an option to Delete Sample Data. I clicked on that assuming it would only delete the sample data - not new data entered! It deleted everything. I’ve checked all the ways to restore (trash icon, snapshot, revision history, workspace trash) and it’s like the info never existed. Is there any way I can get this restored? Or do I have to start from scratch again :sob:

Hi ! We have a search app installed on a base, the app is configured to search accross 5 tables. When we search for “permis” (in French), the search return results for word starting with “perm” like “permanence” for instance, but that’s not relevant at all. Also, it only search content starting with the search keywords. For instance, if we search “entreprenariat”, it won’t return content with the words “l’entreprenariat”, again, that’s not relevant at all. Is there a way to know exactly the search rules for the app ? Or a way or another to configure the rules ? Because, as is, it’s quite useless… Thanks, Nicolas

Hi All, Is there a way to change the list order of users listed in a Collaborator Field? We have some users using a table more than others and would handy for them not to have to scroll or type their name’s in the list. Thanks, Andy

Hi, I have no coding experience, Im trying to run a Vlookup to search a value from a single select field (integrated from jotform) and bring a value from another table related to that value. Saw a script on youtube but won’t work, the only difference with the video is that the selectRecordsAsync is crossed out.

I have a base where we log samples into and out of our laboratory. Samples in and out are in separate tables. Samples out has a link to the corresponding sample in. In the samples out table I have a link field (multiple selection) to a separate table that lists the tests that are done on the samples that go out. We started with a simple multi select but changed to the current system so that we could associate more information with the list of tests (methods to be used, approved laboratories, levels of detection etc.). We have set up a second base where we record the various test results for each sample. We could do this in the original base but for various complicated reasons we need a separate base for this. Each time a new sample out record is added to the first base, the second base is updated with a new record, ready to record results against. I have put a lookup field into my second base to reproduce the information from the linked to tests field in the first table. So we can see

Hey! I’m working with a base that has a number of tables broken down by category that archive information from different team members. We’d like to be able to track and share out via a weekly email how many ‘rows’ each team member added across the entire base that week. I’m really at a loss as to how to do this in an efficient way. Any ideas? Thanks!

Is there a limit to the number of options you can have for a multi select field? If so, what is the upper limit?

When I change the filters, and therefore the visible records, I would like there to be a field that numbers the records. The reason is I want to copy and paste only the records I use over to a collaborative view that has sorting turned on, and the rearranging makes it difficult to do last minute updates.

I have a table with all customers to be invoiced. They are to be invoiced monthly on a set date. I have a data creation date as well as the day to be invoiced (i.e. every 25th of the month, the fields is only 25) I want to create the following: from the creation date (for example may 10th), create the next date that is day 25 (therefore may 25th). is there a formula to do this? Thank you!

Since yesterday Airtable doesn’t seem to work well in Chrome. Selecting, importing and copy of data is a real burden. In other browsers, it works fine. Anybody else with these issues?

Hi All, I am working on the feasability of a rental application for holiday houses with airtable. My first target is to allow a user to fill in a form where he would enter an arrival date and choose from a choicelist all the possible stays available containing this date. Do you think this would be possible with airtable? Thanks for reading :winking_face:

Hello Airtable Community, I have three table: In table A is the column Fruits. In table B there is the column Vegetables. In table C I need to create a column called Fruits and vegetables, and that allows me to select records from Table A, column Fruits, and from Table B, Column Vegetables. That is to say: I need a column C to call me the records of the Fruit column (found in table A) and the Vegetable column (found in table B). I know how to link tables and do look-ups, but I don’t know how to integrate in the same column different records from different columns in different tables. I appreciate your help.

I logged out tried to log in back using my google account, but it looks like it’s a different account, I can’t see any of my workspaces or databases. I don’t remember, but I suppose I create an account using my email not my google account but it’s the same gmail. I guess when I logged in using the google account this account overwrote my old one since they have the same email. I hope someone from airtable can recover my databases and link them to my email. Thank you.

Hi I have a table with a lookup from another table in a grid view in which the result is Brown. When I go to the calendar view to select the field for the color, it’s not in the list of options. Thank you!

Help! I have an automation set up that when a new record is created in one table, to create a list of ‘to-do’ items in another table. Both tasks are related by their matching ID’s. (It’s a monster of an automation, so I had to shrink it to fit! lol) The problem is that when a new record appears in the 1st table it ‘fires’ the automation, right? But most of the time it is ‘firing’ so fast that it misses the ID number in the 2nd table and JUST lists all of the ‘tasks’. What am I doing wrong here??? Thanks, DG

Hello all! I am working on a project where I am inputting data that we collect into one table based around different areas we collect from and how many days it took to collect data. In the other table, I have been manually updating the rate of collection. It is structured by: Column 1 - Date Data Collected (with some repeat dates as multiple collections happen in a single day sometimes), Column 2 - Single Selection Dropdown of the Area Collected From, and then another Column - Data Points Collected. With these columns, is it possible to update data in another table that has a list of all the offices in one column and their estimated rate of collection in another column based on new data input into the first table. I hope this makes sense and thank you for your help!

Hello Airtable community, I´m having a difficulty for finding how many times a specific category (that is in a multi-select field) appears in a table where I´m tracking specific “needs” mentioned in 1:1 interviews. How can I do? Part B of the question (once the other part is solved) One more thing. In the report I may have the same person more than one time and I don´t want to double count the needs, what do you recommend me to do for this?