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I am setting up a project tracker base with multiple projects that utilize the same tasks. I have a Tasks table that links to projects table. I think I need to have a formula field for the Tasks primary field. If so, whats the formula? If not then what? Thank you community!

Nothing happening when I click on ‘Contact support’ (other links are ok)

I was looking at some of the third party apps in Marketplace and am a bit concerned about the apparent lack of support for privacy. When clicking to add any of the apps, there is a standard phrasing, which includes the name of the app: “Your use of the app is subject to [app provider]'s terms and conditions and privacy policy” Given that many of the apps don’t have a website (so the support link is to Airtable support), there is no privacy policy or terms and conditions. Even where there is a website (eg for miniExtensions) the privacy policy and terms and conditions on the website relate only to the website, and not the app. Are all of the 3rd party apps at our own risk, as it were? What checks do Airtable do on apps before they are added to the Marketplace? I’m thinking that this means my organisation won’t be able to use any non-Airtable provided apps…

I’m pretty sure that in the past there was an info icon next to the view name, which showed the view description when you hovered over it. That has gone. 2 days ago I had no way to view the description at all, unless I edited it. Today I can see the descriptin when I hover over the view name (info icon still gone), but the formatting is lost (no paragraph spacing) and it’s truncated: This isn’t great, as I was using the view description to provide summary instructions for users, to reminde them what they should be doing there. (And so they don’t need to refer to our documentation constantly.) Apologies if I’ve missed a ticket on this. I did search but couldn’t see anything.

I would like to know why there is no Simple Templates for the following examples for a beginner; Parts and location, Music or DVD collection. These are so basic to most people. It’s a big disappointment for me as a beginner. Like my electronics teacher said, when troubleshooting remember if it’s plugged in, Basic things. Garry

Having trouble locating a logical operator for “not equal to” and a way to reference a blank field This formula is references 2 fields; Start Date and Finish Date. The formula is intended to return the age in days of the task I am tracking. This should give me the amt of day between Start Date and Finish Date if Finish Date is not blank, else the amt of days between Start Date and Today IF({Finish Date} [has a date/isnt blank] ,DATETIME_DIFF({Start Date}, {Finish Date}),DATETIME_DIFF({Start Date}, TODAY())) What should I put here to make this formula work? What am I missing?

Here’s my use-case: I want to remove the first column with the indices because I think they would confuse my client, who wants a very simple report presentation.

Does anyone know how to export VCF files (Contact cards) from an app in Airtable to desktop?

I keep a table that shows how many hours I have available to work for clients each week. I am a freelancer who provides X number of hours support each week to around 10-15 clients. Each of my clients has their own column with their requested hours on the worksheet. I then use a formula column to calculate how many hours I have remaining so that I can build in new work. As I get busier, I am increasingly asking my associates to do some of the hours for me. I would like to find a way to show how many of the client’s requested hours are being worked by me and how many of the client’s requested hours are being worked by my associates. This will then help me to plan extra work where I know I have gaps because my associates are taking care of some of the hours. I hope that makes sense but here is a screenshot of my simple worksheet. Any suggestions of the best way to show what I’ve described would be wonderful. Thanks ever so much.

I am researching on how to integrate our application with airtable base as a database. Any links to the api/ integration docs/guides on this would be helpful.

Hi everyone, I would like to embed an Airtable view of our calendar to our internal knowledge managment site. However, I don’t know where to disable the email domain restrictions imposed by the enterprise account (“Your enterprise account has additional email domain restrictions enabled.”). Embedding the calendar works fine on our internal site, but it then requires everyone to first create an Airtable account with our email domain to be able to see the calendar entries. Not everyone reading that site has or even needs an Airtable account. Is it possible to disable these email domain restrictions somewhere? Or is that only possible as an admin?

So I have a wiki-like database where users can add information and request to edit information. I am currently working on a prefilled form and automation where they can edit the entries themselves. However, this table is kind of massive in the sense that there are a lot of columns and some of the information is a bit lengthy. Here is where my question comes in. Is there a limit to the length a prefilled form link can be? Or how many fields an automation can have? Also, my automation tests keep failing when a select field or other non-text field is present. It would be nice if the data could be added (appended) instead of overwritten, which would negate the need for such a huge prefilled form. I don’t think airtables update automation can do that though? P.S. I am on a free plan so apps and the like are a no-go.

Hi, I have added a fairly simple scripting block that accesses an endpoint on my application. The error when running this is below, but can’t for the life of me work out what this is referring to. Has anyone got any ideas? ERROR SyntaxError: Unexpected token C in JSON at position 0 at Unexpected token C in JSON at position 0 let token = await input.textAsync("Insert Token") let table = base.getTable("test"); let record = await input.recordAsync('Pick a record',table) let initialRaw = record.getCellValue("updatedcontent") let recordid = "60cf7b6133fed78cdae3ca48" let env = await input.buttonsAsync('Choose Environment', ['Test', 'Live']) var exampleRequest = { "items":[ {"ID":"1234", "name":"Mr Smith"}; var exampleRaw = JSON.stringify(exampleRequest) let raw = JSON.stringify(initialRaw) let url='' if (env=='live') { url= 'https://live.com/user/'+recordid } else { url='https://test.com/user/'+recordid } console.log(url) co

Let’s say I had 400 records and I create two grid views. Will that count as 800 records?

E.g., at least provide indentation so simple outlines can be created. Better yet, why not provide a full-feature RT editor? Should be simple implementation, no?

Is there a way to tell how many times a table/view has been seen? For instance, if we share the Airtable URL with external users, is there a way to tell if the link has been used, and how many views there have been?

I am trying to sort information for employee reviews in columns, but I;m not sure what tool I should be using or if it is even possible to do in Airtable. Here is the scenario: I have a list of email addresses (column 1) and employees (column 2). In column 3, using a linked record to the email address, I have assigned people who will do peer reviews. Now I would like to add a column that shows all the employees assigned to the original employee (column 2). Is this possible?

I have a database that uses tags. When a new tag is added, I have to manually change everything. This sucks because there are hundreds and hundreds of rows! I was hoping that I can create a separate table with all the tags in it and when I add tags to that table, it would be available in the dropdown menu. I know I can do this with a linked record?, but the search feature I want to keep would not be available, which is the toggle feature below. The linked method does not show the user what tags there are to use or search by. Anyway, just curious if this could be done…without having to pay for a service as this project has no funding.

Hello- I am a formula novice. I have created a countdown formula to track how many years and months I have before my leases expire. If looks as follows: ({Remaining Term (YRS) (as of today)}& " years, "& Months) This formula works well, but I cant seem to add a “IF” statement. that if my {Remaining Term (YRS) (as of today" field is blank, i.e., no date, that the formula returns the result “Vacant” Any help would be appreciated.

Hello, We create a workplace with differents collaborators. I would like to automatically send emails but with the email of a collaborator. Is it possible through Airtable? Thank you.

Hi everyone, I’m using airtable to keep track and make labels on our orders. The Page Designer app is very friendly in terms of the design and inserting relevant information on the label. However, I couldn’t figure out a way to make the printing part easier. For example, when I have a few items on each row and each has a different quantity (let’s say item A x1; item B x5; item C x3). All I can do now is to go to “Current record” from the app and print each item one by one. It is very frustrating when we have more than 100 items. I’d love to hear your experience and what you could think of to solve this problem. Cheers, Jane

Hi, I want to know how to the change the avatar background color. As you can see in the attached screenshot, two of the collaborators have the same background color for their avatar icons. Apart from updating the picture, can I change the background color to differentiate them? Thank you. Victor

Trying to to get a percentage in a column called %won. I have a basic formula of {actual amount/amount needed} however some of my actuals are $0 so NaN appears in those columns which won’t give me a total Average of % won. So I used an If statement IF({Minimum Credit Needed} = 0,{Actual Credit}, IF({Actual Credit} = 0, 0, {Actual Credit} / {Minimum Credit Needed})) Now I have some crazy percentages and my average is not even close. When any of the columns have a 0 I really just want it to not factor into the overall average. Can someone help me with the formula? Thanks

Feature suggestion for Airtable. Make markers on text for comments like you do for images. That way a user can identify what another user is commenting about like the part of a text field. Comment tracking is the main reason our writers won’t switch from Google Docs to Airtable.

Has anyone used AirTable for proofing (i.e. email, print materials, graphics, etc). That would be willing to share an example of a base that works for you? We’re looking to outsource our proofing process with a different software, but if there’s a way for it to work within AirTable, that would be the best.