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SaS_ATParticipating Frequently
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Date off by one day when using pre-filled app

Hello - I am using the amazing pre-filled form extension by @kuovonne to pull form data entered into one table that is then updated with a pre-filled form. The only issue I am having is the date field from the original entry is moved back by one day when the pre-filled form is created (and then updates a new record with the wrong date). I have tried looking at the time zone settings, but have had no luck. Is there any thought about where the fix might live? Thank you!

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AW31_2New Participant
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New Form Builder Layout and Design Options

In the new form builder, can you modify the layout for more contrast (other group background colors)/larger text size like in the old one? The old one seemed to have more options to make it easier to read and follow. This current one does not seem to pass accessibility requirements as you can’t change the font and formatting of the questions and helper text as much.

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Gabriel_MoreiraNew Participant
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Format number in formulas

I would like my formula to present the number formatted by grouping the thousand, like “100,000”, but it displays “100000”. I do not want to turn the number into text because I need the ordering. I think every formula should have a type. Is there a solution?

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Erin_Quick-LaugNew Participant
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Customer feedback app questions (SSO, embedding, voting, navigation)

I’m new to Airtable, and trying to understand the big picture of what it can and cannot do when it comes to app building. We have a need to build an app that displays customer & internally submitted ideas, with a navigation (tree?) of Products & their categories to help filter results. I see we can allow non-paid users to submit ideas via a Form, see results as read only, and possibly interact with some additional Form / automation work arounds for things like voting and comments on other people’s ideas (hopefully without making it cumbersome to the user). I’ve experimented with Interfaces a bit to review what kinds of elements are available, and am exploring templates. Questions I still have: It is possible to have just an expandable tree of Products and their Categories in one element, that when selected filters a second list element? We would be starting with 30,000 records, and would need to filter down the view. The Record Picker element would be a good fallback, but I

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Howard_GoldsteiKnown Participant
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SSO and Google Suite

Does anyone have experience with integrating the SSO capability with Google Suite. Specifically I am wondering if the Google permissions override the Airtable permissions or is this integration just to allow users to use the same login for both services. Thank you in advance.

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jonajingaNew Participant
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Save to Device Camera Roll

Hi folks, I’ve searched and attempted to fix this on my own to no avail. Whether on my iPhone or iPad I cannot get the images I take within Airtable (using their camera inside the app) to save to my devices camera roll. I have toggled the app setting for this on and off multiple times in an effort to get it to work and my version of the app is the latest. Any ideas?

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paulgNew Participant
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Embedding a domain restricted view/base doesn't work on Safari

I am trying to embed a domain restricted view and/or base onto a website. I've used a Google Site and Notion now and tried it with a view and a base. Chrome consistently works just as intended but Safari does not. In both cases, the embedded view/base loads a little cartoon plant and says I need to sign in. This is important because the cartoon plant is unique to embedding. That means that the embedded view/base recognizes that it's embedded in both Safari and Chrome. I then click sign-in, it opens a new tab, I sign in, and then it says I can close the tab and go back to the embedded view/base. I do that and nothing has changed for Safari or Chrome. The difference is I simply have to refresh Chrome and then it recognizes that it's authenticated, no problems. In Safari, I refresh and it looks exactly the same, still asking me to sign in as if I'm not already signed in. I'm pretty sure that this is a bug in Airtable that needs to be addressed and not something particular to my setup. I'v

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EimantasNew Participant
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How to embed Airtable's Map app on a website?

Is Airtable’s Map app embeddable? If not, what tools do you use to embed? The self help article doesn’t cover this: Airtable Support Map app If you have a field containing addresses or latitude-longitude coordinates, the map app allows you to plot your records on one of three different kinds of maps. Please note that you need a working ...

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A_T1Known Participant
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Why can't airtable automatically define the height of the cell based on the content?

Some cells have a lot of content, and the height is set to be larger; for some cells, the content is less, and the height is set to be smaller. Excel can do it, why can’t airtable do it?

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chriss0212New Participant
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Allow only one asset (picture) per field.

I want to make sure, that we can only add one image into a field. at the moment i can add several images and i don’t know, hot to make sure, that only one image is alowed.ThxChristian

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Alan_Ross_MachiNew Participant
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OCR with Vision

PDF OCR badly needed. Note the Vision block only supports images. Any thoughts/ideas on bulk OCR of uploaded documents?

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Tammy_LearnNew Participant
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Over Limits

Hi, I’ve recently downgraded from a team account to the free account. I duplicated my bases to make sure there were less than 1000 records and archived older data but I’m still getting the error. I’m not using any attachments or AI automations. Is there another criteria I should look for as I’d like to continue adding data to these bases.

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chris_brownNew Participant
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How can I automate daily content updates for a puzzle answer site using Airtable?

Hi everyone,I run a niche website that publishes daily puzzle solutions for the NYT Letter Boxed game. I’m currently posting answers manually, but I’d love to streamline this process using Airtable. Has anyone used Airtable to schedule or automate daily content updates to a website or blog?For context, here’s my site: NYT Letter Boxed Answers and tips– I post daily solutions, tips, and strategies.I’m curious to know: Can Airtable be used as a lightweight CMS for this kind of content? Are there any integrations (like with Zapier or Make) that could auto-publish new rows to a WordPress post or static site? How do you manage formatting or templating for content blocks coming from Airtable? Would appreciate any insights or advice from those with experience. Thanks!

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leifbrostromNew Participant
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August 2025 Healthcare Webinar Follow Up

Hi, everyone! I’m Leif B. -- I run Airtable for the Marketing & Communication team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. I just presented with Denise and Ameer from Mayo Clinic and UNC Health respectively. Would love to keep our convos going in this community space!

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Erika_MijlinNew Participant
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Timeline view: display three dates in one bar?

Hi - I am trying to use timeline view to display one bar per record, but to indicate more than start and end dates.Possible?Example: Big Event 17 has a start date, a ‘launch date’, and an end dateIs there any way to have the launch date simply/visually indicated on the single timeline bar for Big Event 17?I suppose I could have it display the text of the  ‘launch date’ field in the title of the bar itself but was hoping for something more elegant... like a dot. 🤓  Are you all going to make me switch to Gantt view? 😉Thanks

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siebereduNew Participant
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Airtable for Europeans (GDPR)

Someone knows when Airtable will decide to allow data storage in an European Server without paying an Enterprise Price for just 1 or 2 users :'(. I love Airtable, but I cannot use it for my clients and myself without data storage in EU.Or do you know a walk around for this?Cheers

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WilliamNew Participant
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Is it possible for me to improve my forum?

Hello all, good morning! Just wonder if I could get some help please! I am trying to use both softr and airtable to build a forum. I like the sample forum that it provided but would like to give it a bit more personality. As per the photos attached, I have a table for users and a table for post. I am using the table of “posts” for my forum so it is not linked to the user table. The issues are:I cannot link the user table to this forum so I cannot add “avatar” field from user table to the forum. I cannot seems to add another attachment photo into that specific space next to the author’s name and post date...  

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Damian KimNew Participant
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Page stops on log-in page on macOS.

Hi guys, I’m a baby on this industry, Automation, AI, so on, but im about to learn from basic.As a first step, Im on the learning & studying by myself alone to use Zapier.But, Unfortunately, Airtable doesn’t allow me to access with login on macOS.(I tried a lot of method, changing Browsers safari, chrome, ARC and also accounts google, apple.Only mobile app accepting my ID, but it doesn’t seems that i can do something on that App)So i’m very discouraged to study automation because i’m stuck with this issue.I hope here is someone who know this issue and recommend a solution with referable links.Please find below captured screenshot.  *Below green bar doesn’t proceed anymore :(

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mariano051New Participant
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[BUG?] Scripting extension executed without user interaction — twice in June

Hi all,I’ve been facing a strange issue and I’d love to know if anyone else has experienced something similar — or if this could be a bug.We have two scripting extensions in our base: Delete XXX File Generate INBOUND XXX File Both are configured to only run when a user manually clicks the "Run" button. There are no automation triggers, no time-based triggers, and no webhook or external script that could be calling them.Despite this, these scripts executed themselves on two different days: June 12th, 2025 June 26th, 2025 Only one execution occurred each day. No user was interacting with the base at that time. These scripts do call a Google Apps Script via fetch(), but that Apps Script has no time triggers or onEdit triggers either — it only responds to manual activation via Airtable’s scripting extension.We checked: Activity logs: no evidence of user-initiated runs. Apps Script executions: no trigger before the Airtable script call. Other tools (Zapier, Make, etc.): not involved

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SoukiNew Participant
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Milestone dependency Gantt

Hi, I’m new to using Airtable. I create a Gantt view when I set up dependencies between some  milestones. I noticed  that in my Gantt view when I have  milestone that is dependent on another milestone, even if I move the first milestone it does not affect the milestone that is dependent on it. however, when a milestone is dependent on a task that has a duration, the change is reflected.Milestone 2 depends on Milestone 1  After moving Milestone1 one day later , Milestone 2 remains due for the 25th. I expected it to move 1 day later    

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Esfandiar_KhoraNew Participant
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Inline images with markdown - Signature in email automation

Hi Any idea when Airtable will update its markdown syntax to accept inline images? I love to send emails with Airtable automation, but I can’t find a way to integrate my signature to emails !

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dpeacockNew Participant
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Base sync

Has anyone seen this message before when trying to sync and emailed CSV file into the base?“Unable to sync this source. A field in this table has too many select options, so no new select options can be synced”.How do i fix this? 

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Kai_Muscher
Kai_MuscherKnown Participant
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use Airtable AI to analyze pictures and documents

Dear community,I am thinking about to turn on Airtable AI, but first I'd like to ask whether the Airtable AI has the power to do what I want.A brief introduction of my base and what I want to achieve:We provide logistics management for cruise vessels when they are in dry dock. We manage the complete supply chain and on site coordination. Building a detailed inventory of all items for the ship and keep track is one of our tasks. Now, we work with barcode tracking which means we have to assign a barcode to a record (primary field = barcode). This can be done by scanning the label (regret to say that, but the Airtable mobile app sucks!) , or manual input (risk of typos), or third party scanning integration. We also take photos of every single item (attachment field).And here is what I want (primary goal):AI should analyze the photo and search for a barcode label, then update the primary field accordingly.So much more what I want, for e.g.:AI should analyze the packing list (attachmen

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MontanaGeekNew Participant
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Scripting Error - Deleting Fields In Table.

Greetings, I’m new to Airtable.I want to run a script to delete field columns that contain the word (SS)I get this error:“deleteFieldAsync available: no⚠️ Your current environment/role does not support deleting fields via script.Please run this in Extensions → Scripting with a Creator role, or delete the fields manually.”I am the Owner of the base.I am in extensions → Scripts and running this script from there.Why is it not allowing me to delete if I am an Owner and I am running the script from extensions?Thanks!

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pedroteclaNew Participant
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Poor Ergonomy: Scrolling is very rough (un-smooth) with taller cell heights in grid view

It seems that the number of lines that the view moves in a single "scroll-notch" from the mouse wheel is the same in any cell height.This feels very unnatural (scrolling the same distance is expected, not the same number of lines).With taller cell heights this means that the entirety of the lines that are visible are new lines after scrolling a single scroll-notch away, which leads to the worrying ambiguity of "what if I have scrolled past some of the lines" since you don't have any lines that are common to both positions that may serve as visual reference points.The only workaround is to click on the scroll bar and drag it, which is not as ergonomic as having a proper scroll.This has been somewhat mentioned in this other question from 2021 "Adjust Mouse Wheel Scroll Sensitivity?"  which doesn't have a single answer.

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