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ckennedyNew Participant
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Copying a column heading/field from 1 tab to another

Hi, I’m experimenting with the RLP with DNA 2023 Airtable template. I’m trying to personalize the column headings and can’t figure out how to do what I want after reading the Airtable help. Can someone please tell me the following? It's really a general question about copying/pasting a column field from one tab to another. I made a new field called “My Tree” and inserted it on the DNA Match Details tab. But, now how do I insert that same “My Tree” column on the Kit Access tab? Thanks!

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Patrick_MatosNew Participant
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Field order different between grid view and manage field

Hello everyone, I’m having some trouble with the field order. As much as I move the field order in my grid view, when I click on manage fields, they appear in another order… I wouldn’t mind but the problem is when I send automatic emails with list views of fields it does not display the fields in the order that I need to. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance Patrick

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Barry_FitzhenryNew Participant
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Customers use a form to lookup their details (record) by entering telephone number..if there is a match, on submit, the customers details are emailed to them

Sorry…I am swapping over from Jotform. I need a form where customers lookup their details (record) by entering telephone number…if there is a match, on submit, the customers details are emailed to them.

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ClayBNew Participant
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How do you get someone at Airtable to respond about upgrading to Enterprise?

I've submitted my information 4 times online and emailed support to have someone from Airtable call me to upgrade to enterprise. It's been over a week. Is this normal or is there a better way to get in touch with someone?

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Can't Upgrade to Enterprise

Just purchased upgrade to Enterprise. Sales rep sent me a "how to" on upgrading to Enterprise. The video shows the ability to upgrade to Enterprise when you click on the license level. When I click on the license level, it says contact sales. We've signed, claimed domain and ready to roll. Just need assistance with next steps.

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Bel_PortoNew Participant
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Generating multiple records from a single form submission for a group activity

I'm using Airtable to keep updated physical therapy notes for learners in a special needs school. All PT students and I fill out a form that feeds into a table to keep the daily notes. This is all fine until trying to fill out the information for group sessions but having it feed into each learners' individual notes. What I need to be able to do is select all the learners present in the group, fill in the general session notes (I.e. date, time, what activities the group did) and then have the form open a section for each of the learners to have an individual section to be able to write up their individual performance. This single form then needs to feed into individual records in the main database table. To try and make it clearer, if there are three learners in a gross motor group (child A, B and C) I need the main database to reflect the following: For child A - the date, time and general group info, Child A's individual performance in the group but NO information related to child B

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Clemens_GrossbeNew Participant
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Reverse Web Clipper

I am looking for a Chrome extension that sort of acts as a reverse web clipper. The extension should take data from Airtable (or alternatively a csv-file) and put it in certain input fields of a handful of selected websites. I would like to be able to select the input fields via css tags. Does anybody know an extension that would be suitable for the job? Thanks in advance!

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Need a two-way link to other records in the same table.

Hi, I have a database for planning a vegetable garden, within it there is a table for vegetables which contains a field called 'avoid', this links to records in the vegetables table that this plant shouldn't be planted near. I would like to do some sort of rollup / lookup to show a list of vegetables that need to avoid this plant. Beans need to 'avoid' onions. In the onions record I'd like to see field that says onions are 'avoided by' beans. This is similar to a two-way link where one person becomes their daughter's mother after making the link. Any ideas? Thanks.

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Rose_FoxNew Participant
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Identify which form view data came from

I run an event. Participants can suggest multiple different types of program items to have (talk, workshop, etc.). Since Airtable doesn’t support form logic (grr) this requires multiple forms, as each item has different requirements (for a workshop I need to know room layout, for a performance I need to know A/V needs, etc.). I noticed that a single table can support multiple form views, so in theory I can gather all this data in one place, which is great. But to do that, I need some way to indicate which form the data came from so I know which item type it’s for. Airtable also doesn’t support hidden form fields (grr!). It will look bad to have a form that says “Workshop Proposal Form” and then have a question for “What kind of item is this?” with “workshop” as the only answer. So is there any way to create a form key of some kind? Or am I stuck making one table for each type of item, or doing some hacky workaround like creating fields called email-workshop and email-talk and using tho

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Gene_SigalovNew Participant
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Push Comments to Slack?

I have set up a view and I’d like to be updated whenever there is an update to that view in Airtable. That means, when someone does @me in a record, I’d like to be notified in slack. Unfortunately, the slack integration does not seem to trigger any notification when there is a comment added to a record. What gives?

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Copying Fields & Automatically Filling

I have created a marketplace using Softr and Airtable. I am trying to figure out two issues: 1. I have lots of records and want to create a field for signup, with the URL pointing to the sign-up in in Softr. Is there a way to input the URL into one row of a record and then copy that into every sign-up record? 2. Going forward whenever I create a record, I would like that the sign-up field will be automatically populated with the URL. How do I do that? Ideally, I would like to have the Signup in the Softr record (card) directly point to the appropriate URL but it seems it will allow me to map only through Airtable. 😞 Thanks a lot in advance.

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Courtney_PardueNew Participant
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Law Firm Invoice Template

I just opened up my own practice and am trying to avoid using expensive law firm management software. I have been exploring and tailoring the Law Firm Management template for my firm and so far so good. However my biggest struggle so far is setting up my Billing and Expenses table in such a way that it will produce a line item Invoice. I am using the Page Designer and Time Keeper Blocks and I know that ultimately the issue here is how my Billing and Expenses Table is set up, but I’m not quite so talented with spreadsheets/databases. I need to be able to have multiple time entries for a single Matter, but only one time entry per day. Each entry should list the Date the work was done, Description of the work, Time it took to complete the work described, Hourly Rate and then a Total amount of Hourly Rate x Time. I also need to enter individual line items for expenses (filing fees, payments to other professionals that assist on the case, etc.) However the problem that I am facing is that w

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Extract #3 item from a text list with separators

I have been playing around with @Justin_Barrett’s excellent script “Parent Child tree hierarchy” (Parent Child tree hierarchy). The output of this is a text field with any separator you like, for example: World > UK > London > Hammersmith > Elspeth Avenue > Joe’s Cafe World > France > Paris > La Defence > BNP Paribas World > USA > New York > Manhattan > Central Park Question - is there any way to extract the #3 item (or the #2 or #4 for that matter) from these text strings? In this case, to pick out “London”, “Paris” or “New York”. I assume this should involve counting 2 instances of the separator (“>”), and then selecting the text from there up to the next separator.

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raethguNew Participant
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Middleware to integrate type 2 email?

This may be an issue more with our organization's strict IT rules but here is the situation: We have a type 2 email account that hosts all of our events on its calendar. When we initially started with Airtable, we used the outlook integration and was able to access that type 2 by using one of our work emails that subscribes to that type 2 calendar as the sync configuration source. ex. connected accounts>raethgu's outlook>events calendar One day the sync was broken and in an attempt to re-establish the integration, a coworker updated the sync configuration source through their outlook account ex. connected accounts>coworker's outlook>events calendar It looked fine until we noticed all the tasks and subtasks and comments were gone. We believe using that different source erased all the existing records and replaced them with the same records (since it was the same calendar). Our goal is to make the integration independent of any person's outlook account but here are the caveats: When we t

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raethguNew Participant
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Removing outlook calendar dupes

Hello, We have a table that syncs with our outlook calendar that we have been using for a few months now. Our organization adds events every week, for some reason when they were added to the outlook calendar today, Airtable made dupes of each one. I can confirm there are no duplicate events on the outlook calendar itself, but I do notice that Event 1 and Dupe 1 have different outlook IDs. Has anyone experienced this or have a solution to remove the dupes? Thanks.

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Richard11New Participant
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How do you export attachments?

How can you export all the PDFs/images/etc in attachment fields?

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Molly_1Participating Frequently
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CANVA INTEGRATION

Hi. Has anyone managed to integrate Airtable with Canva using Zapier? I have only seen the option to integrate with onlizer so far....we've been trying with Zapier but the designs aren't appearing anywhere on Canva.

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WooG70New Participant
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Links and Lookups stopped working

Hi folks, I am going out of my mind! Everything was working perfectly until I deleted some data in my table and now BAM it's all gone to total rubbish! If anyone can help I would be hugely grateful. Quick summary - I have one base with two tables; ID and Conversations. I want to connect a unique numeric number to a user email so when information is zapped in it connects the numeric number with the correct email. ID table houses the unique number and email. It was all working fine but, as mentioned, I deleted about 20 rows and it has stopped. I have reset the link/look up and it worked on the existing rows but not on anything new coming in. The screenshot below shows (with the face stickers - sorry, it has confidential data that I can't share), Columns Project ID, Email Lookup and Link to ID Record and as you can see (if the stickers were not there!) it was working perfectly and then at the end you can just see the last one worked and then the further two rows did not populate. I create

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Community on Read Only?

Hey Airtable Community! 👋 As @GCheung, @MaddieJ, and the incredible Airtable team gear up for the exciting re-launch of our community, you’ve probably noticed we’re heading into some “read-only” days (Feb 21 - Feb 28). Whilst we wait for the migration to take place (and eventually the big reveal 🎉), I wanted to make myself available if you need any help, have burning Airtable questions, or just want to chat about automations and solutions in the meantime. Feel free to reach out to me directly via Private Message (if they will still work?), or most probably via email at mike@automaticnation.com — happy to be a resource while the community gets its well-deserved glow-up! ✨ Looking forward to it all! Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation

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HirenViraiydaParticipating Frequently
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Airtable to PowerBI

Hello Community, I want to sync all Airtable data into Power BI to create a dashboard. Is there any other way to fetch data from Airtable to Power BI besides this method? https://support.airtable.com/docs/visualizing-airtable-records-in-microsoft-power-bi-power-query Thanks.

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Airtable Error: pglVIuVsNWW64aSoj

Upon pasting the data, I keep getting this error. Please suggest how to resolve it.

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Neal_Miller1New Participant
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Updating Existing Records Problem

I need external parties to update existing records. I have successfully created a second base that serves as the receiver of the updated fields. I accomplished that by creating a form in the second base and using the URL from the form to create a formula field in the first base that will pass a record identifier to the second base. The URL works well and the record identifier from the first base shows up in the new record (RequestID) in the second base to match the record being updated from the first base. My problem seems to be with the automation. I am using when the form, from the second base, is submitted to trigger the automation. I then added update record to the automation. Based on a video covering the topic by Julian Post, I list the second table called New Update as the Table in the configuration. I list RequestID from the second table as the Record ID. For testing purposes, I add just one field in the Field section. I set it to dynamic and map the corresponding field with th

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blueliagainNew Participant
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Do we have formula to sum something grouped by group

Hello Sorry about the title. Actually, I don't really know how to ask it correctly. Basically, I want the circled value to be the sum of the above 'Max' values. In this case, I expect 500 + 100 = 600. Is there any alternative to achieve that since I cannot switch the function to SUM; otherwise, the MAX would be lost... I goal is to show that sum "600" somewhere. Thanks

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SareyhParticipating Frequently
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List linked records not linked

I have created an airtable base to see what steps different organizations need to take. I have a list of all of the steps in one table. And a list of all organizations in another. I have a linked column connecting the two to show what steps each organization has taken. I am trying to make it so I can easily see the steps that an individual organization has NOT taken yet/ what they still need to do (They all have to do all of the steps). I don't necessarily care how it is done as long as I don't have to do it manually and can easily see what steps have not been taken by each organization. For example, I want Organization 2 to say that it still needs to do steps 15, 19, and 20 (the steps do not have to be done in order for the most part). Images and an example base are attached for a better understanding of what I am trying to get at. Link: https://airtable.com/appP3aMz3aJ2jYLGp/shrnb4rpltjlBPdZH/tblbT6mtF29tzfsbF/viwiytG0caCqn0XZT?blocks=hide Thank you for any help that you can provide!

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Alex_WebsterNew Participant
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Zapier - Serach by Record ID (or RECORD_ID()) [ SOLVED ]

Using Zapier, I am trying to lookup the “full name” field of a linked record by using the record id of that linked record. The record ID is the relevant record is returned by Zapier - so I should be home and hosed, right? However, This post seems to suggest that I cannot serach by record id unless I first define a “record id” field in my linked table (using the formula RECORD_ID()). UPDATE This works RECORD_ID()="<TriggerValue>(Step 1: Record Id)<TriggerValue>"

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