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Seeking help I am involved with a project providing holiday gifts for disadvantaged kids. I have a table named Kids, which is populated by others with info on gift ideas per kid. Entry via online Airtable form. Yesterday I exported the data to a csv file for use in a mail merge operation. I proudly examined the output when I noticed some records with clearly wrong data in some fields. Yikes! The cause, I found, was some fields were filled with items that included commas. This messed up the alignment of the comma-delimited input file for the mail merge. So I determined how to identify the faulty records. I duplicated my Airtable table of 156 records, and did a filter on fields with commas. This gave me a list of 67 records. I performed a find/replace on them, replacing all the commas with periods. Here is my puzzle: the original Kids table somehow synced with the duplicate, which now means that it no longer has 156 kids…. But only 67.

is there any way to access a single record via airtable API without using recordID? tried SEARCH() filterbyformula but not working since it is a number field. need to access records based on the SerialNumber. thanks in advance

Hello, I have one table that needs to collect data from two sources. The first source needs to complete basic information (the first 6-8 fields) one of the basic fields is the email address for the second source. Once the first source submits their entry the second source needs to receive an email asking them to complete the rest of the information, another 15-18 fields. I was thinking I could create two forms and use Zapier to trigger the email to the second source. Is there a way to ensure that the second source only modifies their own record? Thank you!

I have integrated Airtable with Google Drive but when I select New and Airtable from My Google Drive, it takes me to an incorrect page in Airtable. I have to then click on a tab called “Bases” for me to access my Airtable files and I can’t figure out how to show them as linked with My Google Drive. Can someone help me?

I’ve created a form for users to input data onto a table. As we’ve growing, some of the status selections have been changed. However, the form did not automatically update. We are creating many forms for our users, and it will be difficult to remember changes on every form. Is there a way for these forms to automatically update (like the views update automatically when shared?) or is this not a feature. Is there a work-around if it isn’t a feature? thank you in advance. Kathi

Hi, I’m trying to add a budget value to a table so that all subsequent entries deduct from that amount. I’m using groups and subgroups and would like each entry to subtract from a budget whilst showing the total value spent against budget

Which app do you use for the knowledge base and documentation in synergy with Airtable? Currently Airtable doesn’t have a compartment for creating wiki and structured notes like Notion. What do you use to solve this problem?

I run a school store where by over 50 student keep different items with me that I group, some of this items are up to 30, 20, 69 and so on. this students come and pick diferent combinations of this items stored with me at any time of the week and will always have some items left until another day, i need a formula that can record all the individauls i keep stock of their items, the items itself and record to show accurately what is taken and what is left anytime a request is made. note that this items are daily provisions. please if there is any other information you need, i will be glad to assist you with it. thanks

I am a long time user of AT. However, I need some assistance. I do operations for a school. I need an elegant way to create the schedule automatically for the classes. I want to input the date of the first class, the days and times they have the classes every week, and the number of lessons in each learning period. I want to automate it, so at the click of a button all the lesson records are created based on the conditions listed above. Is it possible?

I am revisiting this topic from 2017 (see bottom for reference post) I have two tables linked: Tasks, and Subtasks. Tasks also has a column called Area (single select). When I group my data to the linked table Name Field (first column) I can add new entries via the “+”. However, if I group by the linked table “Area” column, the “+” is not visible for adding new items. Similarly, if I then add another grouping below Areas, called Tasks, I cannot see the “+” for adding new entries. Does anyone know how I can group by the last two images, and retain the ability to quickly add entries? Reference post of similar topic from 2017

Is it possible to create a sign up form, that, when filled out automatically gives that new user instant access to the workspace?

My table, Table A is called “UX Debt Log”. I’m using a few columns to help create a prioritizing system for the individual records in this log. In Table A, column C, “Pages Affected”, is linked to Table B which is called “Page Title List and Values”. The cells column C allow multiple values. The next column, column D (“Pageview Value”) is a Lookup column, so it looks up the pages I’ve entered in column C, and returns the total pageviews for each of those pages. Thus, the cells in this column also allow multiple values. What I need is to total the numbers pulled into column D. Is there a way to do this either within column D, or perhaps in a column E (such as column “Total Pageview Value” shown in screenshot below) where I could make that column a formula column and it would end up creating a formula that would total up the numbers in the cell to it’s left? For example, E1 would total all numbers in D1 (reminder, D1 has multiple

I’m in the Help guide: Let’s make a base, Part 2: Views. It says to click the drop down arrow to the right of “Main View.” I don’t have a main view, only a grid view. When I click the drop down, I don’t see the Create a new view option. What gives?

Hi, We use Airtable for rights management for our movies. We have a formula that works well to remove movies that are licensed in a particular country or region. For example if I was creating a list of available movies for France I would use a filter that said Active Contact Regions does not include France. Here’s the formula we use to determine Active Contract Regions. This is only based on geography and whether the contract has ended. IF(AND({Contract Ended?}= “No”,({Exclusive?}=“Exclusive”)),Regions, BLANK()) We also have a formula for Active Contract Rights. This shows what rights have been licensed such as broadcast, streaming, Etc. Here is that formula. IF(AND({Contract Ended?}= “No”,({Exclusive?}=“Exclusive”)),Rights & ‘\n’ & {Holdback Rights}, BLANK()) The problem we are having is that there is no geography associated with the second formula and we need to figure out how to do that. It currently just gives us a list of rights licens

Hello! I am looking to create a formula where the autonumber resets based on the category code selected. Each product has an Item Number which is created using autonumber. I used another tab to create category codes for the prefix of the floor plan ID I create a formula that adds the prefx and item number to create Floor Plan ID Issue The autonumber cannot be reset contingent on the category code. The autonumber is unique to each row created. End Result I would like to have a way to be able to create codes that have the number after the prefix under Floor Plan ID show an autonumber based on the

Lets say I wanted to store a bunch of information, like bookmark URLs. I might have URLs that relate to News, Apps, Development, and these would all be in their own folder in a browser (for example). I know I could store these simply in Airtable using 3 different tables (News/Apps/Development) and each table would have just 1 column (URL). Another way to store them, using 1 table, is to have the column names be the folders where the bookmarks were stored (News/Apps/Development) and paste in the relevant URLs into the correct column. What do you think of this method of storing data? I’m sure it breaks every rule in the book about how data should be stored, where records should contain related data (in this approach that would not be true). But if I wasn’t going to do any processing of the records, would this not be a simple/efficient way to store a bunch of URLs? For one they’d all be viewable at the same time, rather than clicking between tables. Any thoughts on

Hello everyone! I have a problem that I haven’t been able to solve. This is my current table: I would to know how much time it takes for Mario go from “Postulantes” to “Postulantes descartados”, is there a way to know how much time everyone of my leads spend on each phase? PS: Sorry! English is not my first language. I hope everyone understand what I mean to say.

Hi! I’m new to both Airtable and building databases more generally. I have a question about junction tables. I’m trying to build a table similar to what is described in this video and on this page. But I’m stuck on a specific thing. I’m trying to build a junction table that contains a record for each association between one of 15 training programs and one of 51 faculty members. The GAP video and the Airtable support page suggest that such a table would have 615 results - one for each intersection between each of the 15 training programs and each of the 51 faculty members. And indeed, when I build my junction table, I get many hundreds of records. But the thing is, only about 10 or so of the 51 faculty members taught at any given one of the p

Hello there! I’m working on a base for our customer support team. Each record would be a ticket. I would like to add a column where our team can browse between different templates, select one, and then edit the content for it to be personalized and relevant to the client’s specific needs. Is there a field type for that, or a turnaround I can find?

Scroll bar for horizontal is not shown. (Scroll bar for vertical is shown only.) This trouble does not happen all tables, some table happen it.

The Page Designer App has an option to ‘print all page’ in an attachment. How to make this happen? I’ve tried: The settings for the page being different sizes To print via fit, fill, stretch To have two of the same block What would help?

I am trying to use Web Clipper to create a record from a link to a TikTok post. I want the record to include the following information: #Likes = number of likes that the post has received #Comments = number of comments that the post has received #Shares = number of shares that the post has received Would someone please help me decide what to select as “Default value”? Should it be “Text content by CSS selector”? And then what is the CSS Selector for each of these requests? Here’s an example link you can inspect: https://www.tiktok.com/@gilesgillgolf/video/7026371439196507398 Thank you very much for your help!

I have spent hours rebuilding my base to support the box integration for automated file uploads. created a button for the end-user to click to open the image since the thumbnails airtable provides are completely unusable. when the end-user selects the button it asks them to log in to my box account. that’s not at all helpful. id be willing to bet not helpful to anyone attempting to use this integration. I need them to hit the button and the file open. I can’t find any permissions to change or anything that looks even close to a setting for this.

Hi Airtable community! I’m working on a script to automatically merge nearly duplicate records based on given criteria (in this case, I’m using emails), and I’ve run into a couple of problems that I can’t figure out how to solve. I can’t figure out how to get the script to apply to the actual table. It currently gives me the output as a table within the scripting app instead (see screenshot of current code output). In the table within the scripting app, it seems looks like the script is having trouble merging multiple select/attachment fields. I’m not sure if that’s just an issue within the scripting app or if it would still be reflected once the script is applied to the actual table. Script: let dataTbl = base.getTable('Duplicates test'); let dataQuery = await dataTbl.selectRecordsAsync(); let result = dataQuery.records.reduce((acc, record) => { let email = record.getCellValue('Email'); let color = rec

I’m trying to import an Excel spreadsheet that contain totals hours that has to be formatted in [h]:ss format to display correctly. However, when I import to Airtable it displays the result as date with time “1900-01-09 15:52” which is what is showing formula bar in Excel. Apparently Excel formatting does this to be able to SUM hours?? I’ve tried all the formats in Excel and this is the only one that shows my data in Excel correctly. I’ve tried different formats in Airtable, but it still sees it as a date with time. Has anyone else experienced this and come up with a solution? Thanks