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Hi everyone, I had a question about scheduling a recurring event on Airtable. As seen in the screenshot below, the way our recurring event ‘SoB Boost’ is currently scheduled, the way each event shows up in the table (a row below and a column to the right of the previous event) creates a downward slope that takes up a lot of space. Is there another way to schedule these recurring events that won’t take up so much space, or is this the only way to do it?

Morning, Noon, Evening, There has been a bunch of chatter about a front-end interface to be released soon. I remember seeing this functionality sneak peaked on an Airtable survey they sent out about a month ago. I regret not screen capping. Any way, what would you all like to see from a front end interface? What tools have you used whose functionality would be well appropriated by Airtable? What does your magic 8 ball tell you about a drop date? What have you all heard about it in general? I’m hoping for some more advanced data validation and cascading drop down functionality. This type of stuff doesn’t lend itself nicely to the current spreadsheet model. All the best, Steve

I am an Airtable neophyte, using Integromat to watch for FTP updates and sending the csv file to Airtable to create a record. The Integromat log says the tasks of watching files, getting a file, and creating an Airtable record is complete, but the Airtable table does not update at all. Perhaps it is an issue with my Integromat setup – if so, profuse apologies. Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Best regards.

Hi there We have an enterprise account so access to all features. I use airtable for our medical database and to be able to consolidate information we have tables with a lot of IF formulas. Some of these tables are relatively slow. If I was to create sync’d versions of these tables to embed into our internal website that we use to view most of the data, would this have a speed advantage of displaying the data (while accepting an update lag) or does the sync, sync the formulas rather than the values and therefore there would be no advantage. Thanks for your help Shaun

How do you use a Button to open documents from an Attach field? We have a table with many records, one of the fields is an Attach where we attach documents, sometimes multiple documents to one record. We were using a URL field to put the Dropbox link to the documents - however, this only allows one document/URL per record, so we would link the parent folder rather than the document in the case there was multiple documents. It is much nicer UI to be able to attach multiple documents to the record (using Attachment field). But I would like a Button beside the Attach field, that the user can click and it opens the attached documents in their browser, each document on it’s own tab. Does anyone know how to set this up in the Button? Thank you in advance :slightly_smiling_face:

Hello AT colleagues. I am new to AT. I have a Parent records table and a Child records table. What I’d like to do is described below: • I can select/pick a record in the parent table with the Record Picker Script (from Airtable Script Block). • I would like then, use the selected record, to automatically open a View in the Child table, to display Child records associated to the Parent record selected. Please let me know how can I do this. I can go to the Child table desired View with a Button and URL for the View, but I’d like to do this from the same Script that is picking the Parent record. Or , other similar automated way: Pick Parent record, then view Child records. Thansk for your help.

Hey Guys, I am using the Map app to map addresses. When I click on the points on the map, specific addresses show up, as that is the field that was used for geocoding and mapping. Is there a way to change what appears when a user clicks on the specific points on my map? Thank you in advance for any insight!

Hi all — I have a table with 1000+ TV shows and movies that I’m exporting in A-Z order so they can be laid out in Indesign. We’ll call this Table 1. But I also want to create lists with those shows following a simple hierarchy: Grouping (Drama, Comedy, Reality, etc.) List (Cop Dramas, Med Dramas, Intense Dramas, etc.) Show #1 … 2. Show #2 etc. To accomplish this I created Table 2, and used Link fields to tie the shows in Table 1 to the lists in Table 2. Everything went great for a while. To build a list in Table 2, I would assign a show in Table 1 to a list in Table 2, then duplicate the line and link it to a different show. Where I got myself into trouble — and I can’t find a way out — is that I did a shortcut. I started creating lists on the fly in Table 1. Not Table 2. At the time I noticed I wasn’t being asked to link the list to a grouping, but I think “well, I can do that later.” But I found I couldn’t. Jumping over to Table 2 I saw all my new lists … but they weren’t a

Hi, In the base I am working with we have entries representing individual sessions that are held in different timezones. I understand that the sync between Airtable and Google calendar sends over the times in GMT, so I am looking for a way to use a formula to convert the time of the session (for ex: 9:00 SGT) into GMT without having to manually convert it every time we make a new entry. So, when someone from my team adds in a new session they can add it in as the time it is actually held, ex: 9:00 - 11:00 CEST, and it will convert with the formula in the date + time column to GMT. Can someone please help me with this? The main timezones we use are PST, EST/EDT, CET/CEST, SGT, but we use other timezones as well. Thank you!

Hi there, I’m using the add lookup fields function by selecting multiple fields to add to new table (see picture 1) In the new table, the colums are named with the text … (from “lookup view”) automatically behind the column name. (see picture 2) Is it possible to not show that text? So only the colomn name is shown, as in the lookup view. I use the function a lot, but it is very time consuming to manually delete it. Would love to hear, thanks.

The URL to attachment script has stopped working for me completely. It seemingly add files from URLs at first, but then, a few seconds later, deletes all attachments. This alarmingly also happens when I use automations to add attachments from URLs Both of these methods have worked perfectly fine all other times I’ve needed it.

Hi all, I am on the pro plan and have a table which has some record restrictions, in my particular case, everybody can create records but only a few users can delete them. I need to share this with other people, and would like them to be able to edit the table, but I don’t expect them to be on a pro plan, nor do I want to pay for that. If I add them to the base as collaborators, would they have these restrictions? Note that the tables are less than 1,200 in size, so they should’nt be restricted by that on their free plans.

Is there a reason way the long text field height is defaulting to 78px instead of auto??? This makes the kanban card HUGE. I don’t understand why this can’t be fixed:

Hi, I would like to create a simple weekly report on a Monday from a base showing me due date/time (date field) where that date is within the next seven days from the Monday it’s generated. I realise that this may be a simple report but would love some help! Thank you. Herbert.

I have 25-40 Base’s to build and I need them connected to a ‘master’ base. Internally, our engineers create a table that is a “key”. This key is used both as a Master of unique records and a key for joining all tables. e.g. House# |Issue# | Invoice #…when a new house# is added as a record in the Master table, it would proliferate to all of the other Base’s since House# is a major node for us.

Hello! I am trying to figure out how to apply a unique ID when entering a form so you can see where it was clicked from. I have a store where each row in Airtable posts a new object for sale. I want the ‘purchase item’ button to lead to a form where they can fill in all their information but I can’t figure out how to assign some sort of unique ID so that I can correlate the item they want to buy to the information they put into the form. Is anything like this achievable or is there any advice? Thanks so much for anything and everything!

Hello community! I have streetdance school and this year im doing database with airtable (amazing next to the numbers :slightly_smiling_face: ). Id like to put price for each member of my school. I have collumn with multiple selection (for ex.: streetdance, breakdance, contemporary) and for each course is different payment. Is possilbe to put pricetag for every selection and if i choose any of styles there would be amount of payment. if streetdance would be $40, breaking $50, contemporary $60 member 1 choose streetdance > automaticaly 50 member 2 choose streetdance + breaking > automaticaly 90 member 3 choose streetdance + contemporary > automaticaly 100 is that possible? Thank you!! :slightly_smiling_face:

Hey there! Quick question regarding SSO and MFA both being implemented. Airtable docs mention MFA as best practice if using a password-based authentication method. However, if we implement SSO through Azure AD, is MFA achievable? Or would we have to go another route through an authenticator app such as Duo? Thanks!

Just seeing this now in my bases…

url to attachment script attaching but not opening files from Google Drive. Is anyone else having this problem?

Hi all! We are using Airtable as a research database and want to make some of our work public through Our main base for entry has a series of 5 tables that are all interconnected (we take advantage of the ability to have relational tables within bases). For example, in table 1, our records link to records in tables 2, 3, and 4. Some of the information in our main base has sensitive information (like researcher identifying information) which we do not want to make public. Is there a way to create a synced version of the base that maintains the relations between the tables (e.g. “link to record from other table fields”) while allowing us to limit the fields that are shown on the public version? We want to make research public as we continue to update the main base, so just duplicating the base and removing fields isn’t an option (need some sort of sync with the main base that is being updated). I tried to create a synced base with all the tables from the main base, however, those “link t

Hello. I’m building a table for answering a questionnaire. A person can answer many questions and each answer get a new record. I would like to add a function that counts the number of questionnaire that has been sent in. So I need to find a function that’s not summing the answers (many answers in one questionnaire), but rather count the number of people that has taken the questionnaire. Is that possible?

I am evaluating productivity of another team in AirTable. The team in question enters their projects and tasks into AirTable, however many Task start dates were not entered by users. Is it possible to export the date each task was entered to AirTable in a fairly simple way, or is it impossible to collect that data retroactively without already having an API set up? Thanks.

How can i restore data from Trash by using Android app? Don’t have access to PC.

I am trying to make a quote builder in an “opportunity table” The way I do it is I mark a company/contact (in their respective tables) as “in progress” and a record gets created in another table (called Opportunities). in there I link to a products table and delivery table (the products are ad spaces, the delivery are the publications/issues) and then I add lookup fields and counting fields to make one quote. I have made 4 copies of this to be able to put together multiple offers for the client to chose from. After filling out fields, I would like to be able to click a button for the quotes to aggregate to a pdf (or straight into the body of the e-mail) and sends it to the contact. I know there’s a solution similar to this for contracts that requires two other apps (zapier and helloSign) but I’m wondering if there’s a way of doing this without the extra apps.