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I use Airtable to track my hours worked. I use two fields for Time Start and Time End. I am currently counting task hours with the formula: (DATETIME_DIFF({Time End},{Time Start},‘minutes’)/60) Sometimes I am working on multiple projects and, for various bookkeeping purposes, it’s appropriate to track both activities simultaneously. For example, Project A will be a record with start time 14:00 and end time 16:00, while Project B will be a record with start time 15:00 and end time 17:00. There is a 1.0 hour overlap. With my current method, the daily sum of hours would be 4.0. However, by actual hours worked is only 3. How can I count actual hours worked? My idea is to count all the hours in the day which a record does not occupy, and then subtract that number from 24. How can I configure Airtable to do this? Thanks

I don’t want collaborators to see my hidden fields or to have option to expand hidden fields. Is that possible? I have multiple personal views for each collaborator, and I don’t want them to see certain fields as they expand the record. Also, I do not want collaborators to see all personal views. I just want em to see view that is assigned to them, because they’ll always have that option “Show everyone’s personal view”.

Hi! I’m trying to create a simple pie chart with Vega-lite in Airtable. I got it worked in the Vega-lite editor but the pie chart is not showing up in Airtable with the same configuration. See screenshots below. What did I do wrong in Airtable? Thanks!

Hi Everyone, This may be way easier than I realize - but I am running into a bit of a wall on this. Currently I have an Airtable set up with two tables like this: Job Requests and Job Options Basically Job Requests will be jobs requested by clients and be relatively vague by design. I.E. “Graphic of Venus Logo” for each option that I design I create a record under Job options that is then linked with Job Requests, so “Graphic of Venus Logo - A” etc. This also has a “Status” single select field. Basically, once one of the options is selected, I’d like that record to be linked automatically back on the Job Requests table. I am using a Lookup field now, and while it works for giving me a text only answer, I’d prefer it give me a linked record. Is there a way to do this?

Hey guys, I would like to hide whole tables or views from certain collaborators. Also I would like certain collaborators couldn’t see my hidden fields… I mean, why should Read-Only collaborator see my hidden fields? Or why should he see my private view? Why would anyone see someone’s private views unless that collaborator is admin or something like that? I really like Airtable, but I can’t use it more seriously without this feature. It’s completely necessary for my operation, because, for example in my case, my collaborators are my employees, and why would collaborator A know what’s collaborator B doing, or how much is he paid for a certain task. I mean, just basic stuff… Anyway, I would really love to see this in the NEAR future, because this is something that’s missing for sure. Thanks

Hello, I have a question that I wasn’t able to find on the forum: Can I embed an Airtable view on my website in a way that will default to “Desktop Embed Preview” instead of “Mobile Embed Preview” when opened by a Mobile Device Web Browser? I have an online community with a Membership Directory, which is created by a view of my Airtable Membership List with contact information, etc. embedded into this website. The problem is that when a Mobile Device opens an embedded view, the View display in a “Mobile Embed Preview” like shown in the attachment. This is more like Kanban Cards than a Membership Directory where someone can easily view columns, sort, etc. My host program (Kajabi) lets me customize the web view for the page to a “desktop” equivalent, however, the embedded Airtable view is still a “mobile” view. Thanks for any insight you can provide. -M

New here! I work with a Continuing Education company in Course Logistics. I have a ‘Course Details’ table that has a column “Instructors” which multi-links to a ‘Course Contacts’ table. I’d like to be able to make a grid view where the instructor’s courses are listed under their name (grouped by instructor). This works great if there is only one instructor for the course, but for the courses that have two instructors it puts those courses listed in a separate group together. Is there a way to get the courses listed under each name separately so they don’t miss seeing any of their upcoming courses due to it being put in a separate group? (see screenshot)

Hello, I’m trying to replicate an app already built on GoogleAppScripts into Airtable. The problem I’m facing is with the fetch call. Fetch call const availability = await fetch('https://url', { method: 'POST', body: JSON.stringify({productId: productId}) }).then(res => { const result = res.json(); output.text(`Result ${result}`); return result; }).catch((error) => { output.text(`Error ${error}`); }); The API runs on firebase function and the response is 200 Function execution took 10175 ms. Finished with status code: 200

I have seen this question asked already but I can’t locate an answer. Thank you

I have 3 “Yes or No” single select fields and 3 email fields. If the answer is yes I want the corresponding email to be added and a comma to separate the emails. I can’t seem to figure the correct formula out: Review 1 (Single Select Field) (Yes or No) Review 2 (Single Select Field)(Yes or No) Review 3 (Single Select Field)(Yes or No) Email 1 (Lookup Field) (test1@test.com) Email 2 (Lookup Field) (test2@test.com) Email 3 (Lookup Field) (test3@test.com) If Review 1 is YES add Email1 and a comma (if NO add nothing) and If Review 2 is YES add Email2 and a comma (if NO add nothing) and If Review 3 is YES add Email3 (if NO add nothing but would not want the comma from previous YES) Any help would be appreciated!

Hello All, I have a base set up to track progress on tasks. I have feilds that I manually enter a % complete. I’d like to display on a dashboard the current %complete of the task but also show last weeks %complete and 2weeks ago %complete so that all dashboard viewers can see the progress…??? hope this makes sense. lmk if there is a better way of thinking through this problem. thanks,

:wave: Hey there! Im trying to learn more about Airtable best practice in terms of overall schema/base design and structure. My question is: How can I more quickly add data to tables and cut out some manual work? Here’s the specific context. I currently have a document with three tables Students (Database table, one record per student) Classes (Database table, one record per class) Enrollments (Junction table, handling the many-many relationships between students and classes) Currently, the junction table only has three columns (Name, Student, Class) But to add a New Enrollment, it feels very clunky and like there is a lot of manual work. You have to select both the student and the class each time. What If I need to add a lot of students to classes at once? Is there any easy way to do that? For example, could I batch select 35 students and with one action add them all to a target class? What if I want to continually add x amount of students to the beginner class? Is there an ea

I’m new to the platform and need to move a record in the Contractor’s table to the Employee’s table in the same base. Can you help? Thanks in advance!

Hello! I am trying to create a way to record for my barn which volunteers cleaned which stalls on which day, that I can then view by volunteer to see what days they’ve worked, and yet another view to count how many stalls they’ve worked in a day, week, month, etc. I got created my first table and form for inputting that day’s records, and it’s working great! The first column is “DATE” and the rest of the columns are “Stall 1”, “Stall 2” etc. The cells contain the date in the first column, and then the Volunteer’s names under the Stall columns. I created a second table with volunteer names, but I’m not sure I’m linking properly. Suggestions on how to set up my data so I can create views to see by single day (original table), By volunteer’s # of days works, and also by volunteer’s # of stalls cleaned? This will help immensely for us all to track their hours so they can get the credit they deserve. Thank you so much!!

I have a “deadline date” and and we have either a 3 months or 6 months, our two different project time lines we use. So when I set the field to 3 months it will take the project start date, add 3 months and the if the project goes over 90 days, to pop up into my past due view. I want when the deadline date has been exceeded based upon the current actual date for it to jump over to my past due view. For example, I had a project start on Dec.24th and because today is March 24th, if the project is not completed today, tomorrow that project would show up on my past due view report. Thank you in advance!

We are currently testing the Airtable solution to upgrade our project management. We are mainly involved in the manufacturing of wood frame houses. For the moment, it seems that Airtable can be suitable to evolve our current Trello. On the other hand, the “user” visualization options are quite limited. Indeed, before, we had checklists easily usable by the workers. Also, we could easily access the checklists through an application. The Airtable android application does not allow a very fluid visualization of the data and a use in the form of checklist. Do you have a proposal to change this? I’m testing Softr but I’m not sure it’s the right way. Thanks for your attention!

I have found this project:GitHub - drewwestphal/airtable_shipping I want to run it to see how it works. It is possible to run this project given I did not create it? If so, how? Thanks in advance!

I wanted to compare my budget and my expenses through a bar graph, and it’s distributed category wise so categories are on x axis and values on y axis and I want a comparative Bar graph. Can someone help me regarding this.

Hello, does anyone have a script that can be used to copy one fields data into another? I need to be able to input a search query using something like the updateRecordAsync() code to update one field with another’s data. The issue is, that I need it to rely on a user input, so I want to be able to choose the preset of quantity by having a await input.textAsync(). I would then define the quantity options in different fields, and the input would be that fields name. It would then copy the chosen fields data into the main field. It must also include a way to scan for a specific record to be the one to be updated. I have code written for this already, but it would need integrated into a script for it. This is what I have so far. It lets me scan my product inventory table for specific products, and copy those products all into a my invoice transaction table all under one specific record number. It gets represented by a number that looks like IN-#. This number would need to be used to scan a

Hello, I am sending an email out using SendGrid. I have a filed that is a link of multiple linked records. It strings them all together with commas between, which is really exhausting to look at, i.e.: “Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5” I would like for it to be formatted as: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Any ideas? I tried turning on HTML in the SendGrid app, and used a REGEX_REPLACE formula to replace the commas with <br>, but that didn’t work. Thanks! Tom

I have a table with student information like name, class year, email, etc. I would like to create a form to ask them what their summer job or plans are. Is there a way to create the form so that the summer job question populates to the correct student’s record? I hope that makes sense.

Hello, Kind of unconventional question :slightly_smiling_face: I don’t know where to ask. I wondering if AirTable has a footprint in Europe/France ? And If there is Job Opportunities for Tech Evangelist ? What I underestand: There is a lot of Freelance. There is many startup using Airtable as a Backend. I’m asking this because I love AirTable (and NodeRed) for years and so may be if I could “work” on these topic it could be interesting. The drawback is AirTable is very easy to use and to understand. It’s not a pain like fake SaaS like Salesforce or SAP that requires a lot of integration.

Hello, I would create some records (companies) with their sub-records (employers). And so, if I have a record Company A, I would associate then their Company A employers like a CRM. Company A Employer A1 Employer A2 Employer A2 Employer A2 How could I proceed in Airtable? Thanks in advance

Hello! Is it possible to make different tables in one tab? So that these tables do not duplicate the same information? For example, I created a tab - called it “companies”. Now I need to divide these projects into categories and make a new table for each category to make a separate list, for example: new table - technology companies new table - commodity companies new table - financial companies But it’s important that these tables are on the same tab - don’t create new tabs for new tables.

I have seen various questions like this, but no good solutions. I am parsing text from an email into airtable and using the DATETIME_PARSE() function to extract it. I have tried many formula variations, but AirTable refuses to see the parsed time as the correct time for MY timezone. This is an issue because my next step is to turn this into a google calendar event via zapier. The best solution I can see is to add the time difference, however this is very complicated with daylight savings as I am booking events inside and outside of DST while being inside and outside of DST. The only way I can see to do it is to have a formula that adds a different amount to the time based on the event date and when DST is for that year, which will require yearly maintenance but I literally cannot find a better way. Any help is appreciated.