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Does anyone have any tips for copy pasting directly from Airtable into powerpoint? I have statistics I need to report on frequently, and I don’t want to have to export to csv first.

Hello, I am having an issue trying to upgrade a free base that isn’t an “Example Base”, and everytime I do the Example Bases is Upgraded not the base that I want to upgrade. I have also tried to move the base I would like upgraded into the example base and can’t move it. Any suggestions? Thanks - Ruth

I have been using the AirTable Pivot App for over a year to summarize data. Today, after a few months, I looked and for some reason on one of my existing pivots that has been in place for a year, the row variable is showing every value instead of aggregating. I checked the variable and it looks right (no weird duplicates or strange spelling). It works using the Group command on the grid view. I tried deleting and recreating the pivot, but same problem. The pivot works for other variables, but I get the same problem when the variable is brought into the table using the LookUP command, even when that command works using Group and even when that variable was previously aggregating in the pivot. Any suggestions?

Hi Airtable Community, I’m looking to pull Facebook engagement metrics for URLs in a view of my Airtable base. I have the URL field in Airtable, and I would like a second field that pulls the total likes, comments, shares, etc. Any ideas on how to do this with free or paid solutions? Ideally, I’m looking to not be reliant on a paid subscription. Many thanks! Column A | Column B URL A | 100 shares URL B | 50 shares Resources: Facebook for Developers Graph API Engagement - Documentation - Facebook for Developers Graph API Engagement https://www.sharedcount.com/api-docs/getting-started

Hello. I built a small chat bot that fetches some data on regular basis (weekly) and stores the results in database. So I run a job daily that does this work, and to determine which records I need to check I added previousCheck field with type number, where I store unix timecode after every check (so the next time I get to it will be in a week). Is this a bad idea? Will I run into problems in 10-15 years? How long is Airtable’s integer?

Steps I’ve done: Download CSV from airtable (with field “Name”) Add some columns (“Name” field doesn’t changed) Trying to import CSV back to the airtable Some records are recognized (by “Name” field) and merged with existing records Most records don’t recognized and so airtable create New records Why does it happen? Why airtable create new records instead of merge with existing records?

Hi there! I plan to use one of these templates BotMakers 7 Influencer Chatbot Templates for Facebook Messenger Launch your own Influencer Chatbot for Facebook Messenger today with our prebuilt chatbot templates. Starting from $79. and run a chatbot for my fb page. It’s necessary to integrate it with Airtable. Is it possible?

Anyone else having issues with Automations?

Hey guys My automations are failing, not responding and some triggering randomly. Is this systemic across users?

A view was accidentally deleted from my airtable. Is there a way to recover a view that has been deleted?

Right now we have some records/projects that have been sitting for awhile because we are waiting on other people to respond. We need to create some sort of Slack notification system to ensure we, and the others, are staying on top of these, figuring in different outreaches and time lapses. How can airtable be used for this purpose? If others have similar circumstances, how have you used Airtable to manage this aspect of your business? Thanks!

I am using Airtable as a Health and Safety Database for my Organisation. I have one Table to record all the Prestarts my teams do, regardless if they are electronic, by paper, or a mix. (Prestarts) I have another Table that essentially is a form for the Electronic Prestart. (Prestart Form) I also have an Automation set up that when a new record is created in Prestart Form, it creates a new record in Prestarts, and inserts the data such has Date, Site, Team Leader. This is working well with the exception of the date that is created in Prestarts is a day behind. I could just change the date manually… but that defeats the purpose… HELP!!! (Initial Form that is filled out) (Table Created from form) (Automation Trigger) (Automation Action) (Prestarts Created Entry)

Hi All, I made a Zap for sending a new rows in a view by Zapier email. In my Airtable row is a column with files. My problem is that I could not figure out how to send an email with attachement. The only possibility i found was to send the file in the coulumn via airtable url to the file? Does anybody know how send an email by zapier mail as attachement? This are the options given by Zapier, none of them is an attachement option??

Hi, I use Airtable forms embedded on a website, we seems to be havng a real issue with the load time of the form which has been ebedded (regardless of hosting, who the site is designed with etc). Is there an option other than say embedding the form into an iFrame that could produce a faster experience for our clients using the front end? Thanks in advance

Hi everyone, I have this problems when i use GG docs to manage my data i create multiple choice option for drop down list in code like this So now when i import my GG Docs to Airtable all my optional choice are become 1 option How can i convert them into 1 single option in Airtable ? Like this one because i have tons of data , it will be consume hunreds of hours to do it manually. Thank you for reading my topic !

I feel like I’m possibly missing something but it appears there’s no way to get markdown/rich text out of the field/table that it’s in? If I add a LOOKUP field that references a rich text field, the text comes through but all formatting is stripped. Is there a way around this?

I have set up a number of Tasks within different Design Projects, but for some reason I can’t seem to move the Tasks up and down the list within each Design Project. I try to drag them from the left side of the Task row where the numbers are, but they don’t seem to move up or down the list. I would really like to order them in terms of priority… does anyone know what I am doing wrong, or why it is not working? Thanks in advance!

Hi, can someone help me with a formula? This is what I have now: DATEADD(DATESTR(“2021-04-25”),-{Indoors Weeks Prior},‘week’) I want to add something so that if nothing is in the Indoors Weeks Prior column, it will show nothing. How do I do that? Also, currently, it displays DATE and then time. How can I omit the time part?

Because we control serial numbers for much of our products, I have one separate line for each purchased item. This means for the majority of items I can’t have qty>1. But I want to generate a Purchase Order pdf showing the sum of each product, to send to my provider. I can’t figure out how to show this sum for the items in a Purchase Order. Does anyone know how could I do it? These are the basic connections I have between some of my tables.

I am using the CSV Import app to import spreadsheets (always formatted with the same columns, no headings). The first couple months I’ve used Airtable, it always remembered the mapping so that each column references the correct Airtable field. Now, it’s never remembering the mapping. I have to re-map every time I import a new CSV. I’ve looked for settings that I could have changed by accident, and I’m sure this is something I’m doing wrong, but I am at a loss trying to figure out what/where to look. Any thoughts, suggestions? This is starting to eat up my time remapping every time.

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Hello everyone! I’m a newbie and just curious about an easy Facebook messenger chatbot integration to Airtable Thank you!

Hi, I’ve got an ‘‘Email addresses’’ column in a base. When I send emails, I go on this base , copy the email addresses and paste them into the sender section of the composed email. This works well when I select email addresses that are in a continuous order in the column, however, I’m not able to select multiple fields for email addresses that aren’t in a continuous order. In an excel spreadsheet, you can select different cells by pressing ‘‘ctrl’’ on the keyboard. Is there a similar function on airtable or do I always need to copy/paste the emails one-by-one?

I’m trying to link my products to my sales records to mark which of my products I’ve sold. Every time I try to link the tables I either get an ‘unnamed record’ across the board or duplicated data across the top of my sheet, depending on which one I try to link from. All fields have name so I do not understand why it would say unnamed. nor why it would add new data instead of linking matching Product IDS I’m trying to link.

Hi. I manage several social media accounts for a marketing agency and use Airtable for my content calendars, etc, however, I would also like to use it for keeping track of and reporting social media analytics to my clients. Something that I can embed on the agency’s website. Has anyone created a table that does this successfully? Thanks in advance.