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Hi there, I am wondering if it is possible to use an AirTable formula field to take a list of city/state names: … and turn it into a new field representing the timezone that city/state is in. Or would perhaps my best solution be an IF(OR(FIND formula with a list of city/state names and timezones? Any help is appreciated!

Hey - two quick questions. When using the Map App, is it possible to remove markers for things that are not in my base? For example, when in light mode, I can only see my markers, but when in map mode, I can see other things like grocery stores and restaurants. I want some of the features of the map mode, but would like to hide the extra markers. Also, other than a screenshot, does anyone know how to export the map so it can be printed?

In the Help-Database, there is a description saying how to add records directly into the gantt-view by using click-and drag. This doesnt work for me; after having clicked and dragged, the square dissappears as soon as I let loose. Adding records by rightclick works well, but unfortunately doesnt add the group i click on, like it automatically happens in a grouped grid-view . Anyone having the same experience, or even better, a solution for me? (I have all rights to create records in the database and the view is my own. I work in the Windows-App.) Thanks, Peter

I use Airtable to help visualize and share data for our high school. Currently, I have a view that is set up with the following columns: Student (Text Strong) 1st Block Grade (Number) 2nd Block Grade (Number) 3rd Block Grade (Number) 4th Block Grade (Number) 5th Block Grade (Number) I added another column, a formula column, that was intended to display the number of classes each student was failing. The formula works at each level, but the formula itself is too long. Airtable truncates it. I am self-taught with regard to this sort of stuff, so there is probably a more elegant way to do this that fits within Airtable’s capabilities. I anticipate that someone will ask why I do not create a view and use the filter to achieve what I want, and my answer is that I would have to redo the filter every 9-weeks when new grades are being uploaded. With this formula, I can update the column names using Ctrl+F in Google Docs, then copy/paste it into the formula field. Any

Hi all, I would know if it is possible to copy and past multiple cells from excel to a shared view in one time and if yes how can I enable it Thanks

Wondering if there’s a way to force the embedded views to keep a collapsed grouped view… When I directly access my base, it keeps all records grouped AND collapsed, but as soon as I embed to my website, the records are grouped but expanded. Any way around this?

Hi all! I need help in calculating the average value of a single select field. I tried the count(values) and it works. However, AVERAGE(values) gives me NaN. In the image 2, I’ve created a roll up field of the linked records An alternative to this is creating a field in the first table with the formula VALUE(Strategy - Top Ten Targets (Pitch 1)) and then using the roll up function on that field and works! But I want to know whether it can calculate the average just by changing the formula in the roll up field. Thanks in advance!

Is there a way to setup ‘is-a’ relationship among tables? ex: We have a Person table with atttributes like email, name etc. We want to setup Employee table that inherits all attributes of Person but has more attributes like salary etc. Is it possible to setup “Employee is a (Inherits from) Person” relationship?

I would like to know whether our team who are not full-time are able to view their respective project details outside of Airtable say via email. As our field leader would not want the team to see details of another team member’s information: Jack - Burundi , Daniel- Tanzania , and Ryan - Mozambique for example, each member should only have read capabilities of their respective projects? Is this possible outside of Airtable via the field manager sending them their project details via email from Airtable or would each team member need some sort of access to Airtable to view their respective projects only?

I have a table that is a list of people. Call it “People”. Say there are 5 people. Then I have a table that’s a list of deals. Call it “Deals”. Say there are 3 deals. Each Deal record has a “closing date”. Then I have a table that’s a list of investments made into Deals. Call it “Investments”. Each person can invest in each deal. So there are as many as 15 records in the Investments table – one for each intersection of Person and deal. I’m trying to come up with a way where, in the People table, I can see the date of the most recent investment each person made. And then I want to sort by that date. This way I can see who hasn’t invested in at least X months and I can reach out to them to try and reactivate them as an investor. I’ve noodled on this for some time but no solution has come to me. Any ideas? People can make Investments into Companies. People can make as many investments as they

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I have 4 plus events in my calendar and only 1 or 2 of them are visible in the week or day views. The afternoon appointments are not visible at all but the first appointment for the day is. Does anyone know why? If I switch to 2 week or month view I can see multiple appointments on each day.

Hi everybody! I’ve started using Airtable to create an inventory for work, I’ve started working with creating multiple tables: Employees | Devices | SecondDevices | Other Devices | Monitors | Group1 | Group2 | Budget I need to sync all devices (Devices, SecondDevices, OtherDevices, Monitors) that have a tag within budget. The case being that budget has 2 types, internal and external budget. Goal 1: All external budgets should be exported or synced to Google Spreadsheet automatically. Goal 2: Entries in one table should be duplicated when added a tag. Question 1: What is the best (free) way to sync Airtable to spreadsheets automatically. (register new entry’s and update old entry’s) I tried Zapier & Automate.io and it is not possible with the free licensing. Question 2: Can I create tags in Airtable? Question 3: Is it possible to add an entry and that it g

We’re on a Pro plan and use one of our user accounts to log in to a handful of workshop floor devices. I appear to have hit a limit on the number of devices that can sign in using the same user account. Is there a maximum? What is it?

Hello dear Airtable community! :wave: Is it possible to add a fixed prefix with a randomly generated 4-digit number to a new entry? – So, a new entry is created with name and first name of a person in two columns. And in a previously created 3rd column called “CODE”, a 4-digit, randomly generated and unique number code is now automatically added (1234) to a previously defined prefix (#AB): for example #AB1234 or #AB9876. Who knows advice? Thank you very much in advance!!! :pray:

Hi, I am a total newbie to Airtable ! I just created a first basic form with email, phone, name, … And this data is directly outputted in my global database. Using Sendinblue (software to send mass email), I would like to share to my users (the one who filled my first form) a second more complete form on their needs, and also for them to upload files. How could I link the answer to my second form to my first database ? Without asking again for basic information such as email. Thanks a lot for your help ! I am a French student, so feel free to ask questions if you didn’t understand

Hi everyone - I’m new to Airtable and loving it but somehow can’t figure out the following: I want to make a simple staff schedule (max 10 employees in various roles) that ideally would show each shift in a colour with the name of the employee in it. We have several fixed shifts (daily day and night) and a few more irregular ones (ie cleaning staff with various start and end times). I then want staff members to be able to iCal their part of the calendar into whatever app they use themselves, and use data to calculate staff payouts and such later on. I know it’s a block in my own brain but can’t figure out how to structure this one, a little tip would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! D

Unless I’m mistaking, if you create a rollup/lookup field and thus get the name of the original field (if you don’t specify your own field name), that name isn’t updated when you change the field name of the original field your rollup/lookup field refers to. I would find it useful to see the rollup/lookup field update it’s field name in such cases.

I am sharing a view-only link to a base with others but the views they see are including views I have set as personal to me. I expected it would only share views set for “Collaboration” Is this expected behavior? Any way to hide those views from read-only people?

Hi all, does anybody know if it’s possible to show the name of the day - in addition to the date - beside a grouped field. Please see screenshot, could we add a “Sat” for Saturday beside it? Thanks a lot! Kind reg. Sabine

I am looking for a free software of sorts. I am not a big company, only an individual. Paying $300 for a month for any software is not feasible. I am looking for a form software that is able to use Airtables field linking. For example, a user can add variations to a product that already exists in the database by clicking on “+Add”. I considered Jotform because of its ability to have IMAGE CHOICES, as well as being able to better organize a form so its not a mile long. However, it lacks this functionality. :frowning: If anyone has any suggestions, I would be glad to hear them. :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi I am looking for a way to change negative amounts to positives and visa versa. Am currently doing in excel and moving over but wondering if possible in Airtable? Can anyone help please? Thanks, Maria

I’m setting up an Integromat integration to watch for Google Form responses and create new Airtable records accordingly. I’ve got pretty much everything working with the exception of one field… In my Google form it’s a multi-checkbox answer for the instruments people play, which (I believe) returns a comma-separated text string - or possibly it’s already treated as an array, I’m not sure. The values from that need to go into a Multi Select field in Airtable. The values in both the Google Form and the Airtable field are identical. From what I’ve found, I think this is going to involve some kind of array parsing, but I just cannot figure out what I should do in Integromat - their own documentation on this is not at all clear, so I was hoping someone here would be able to help me out.

Hi, I’ve been very interested to improve the efficiency of using Airtable. I wish we could use different bases for each department in the company but most of the work is getting done on one big (lots of tables) base. Hence, I am trying to find a good workaround. right after I saw the new ‘personal views’ section which is pretty cool, I started thinking about two things: being able to have the same feature for each department and being able to hide/show the tables. ex: we create a table in a separate base that holds the name of the collaborators and the departments they belong to. then we sync it with the main base. when we set up a department/group view, the views we added to the list will be shown by the people who work in that department only. In the meantime, if we can have (like edit permissions feature for the fields) ‘hide’ feature and we can select the departments which don’t need to see the selected table (when ‘select all’ is used, it’ll be hidden to everyone, when

Scenario 1 (Consolidating data across multiple bases) How can we combine common data from bases (assuming they have different number of columns and different information) into a single table that acts as the single source of truth? If not, what is the alternative for combining data from different bases into a single source of truth? Scenario 2 (Consolidating data within a base) How can we consolidate and merge data common information into a single table within the same base? Assuming I have to use “Linked Records” to merge data, is there a way to “mass populate” link records instead of manually selecting each record?