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While Airtable does EVERYTHING we need it to do – we can’t use it because it is not Hipaa compliant . Can anyone recommend another platform as good as Airtable? We have a very simple flat database used for tracking surgical data There are 15+ fields Some text fields Two date fields Several combo Felds Several check box fields ** One attachment field that can accommodate multiple attachments ** We have multiple views to look at the database and allow users to EASILY filter by DR and date, and edit/print the records. We would like to be able to customize the input form more – but it is great that it accessible from all the different views The search capability from multiple views is nice too. The ability to see many fields in the horizontal view is great and the ability when printing to shrink the font size to fit data horizontally is huge. The database needs to handle 5-10 GB of data and we need an easy way to move older records to another database. ** The database needs to be Hipaa c

Hello Everyone! I use AT to generate a complicated cost and quotation document for our business and a part of that step is copying and pasting data from AT to a google sheets template. Recently when pasting data, random rows will not paste properly. In the same table and view columns will paste in different orders. Check this link for an example I sent to the customer service team. Seems like there is an issue on the backend with how the data is structured. https://www.loom.com/share/2e92902c42be4deb884b61ecbe2b9376 Any ideas on what could be wrong and how to fix it?

Hello I am monitoring many projects at one time on a base. I have different pages/tabs on my base that categorise the projects from imminent, current and completed. I have filtered the entries of the projects by name of the project on each page/tab so that I can follow the allocation of spend of each. Once the project is complete I want to move all those entries on the “current” page/tab to the “completed” page/tab. I have tried to copy and cut as you would usually do on excel and it doesn’t work. Please could someone help me. Thank you

Hello, I’m trying to import accounting from a CSV file in Airtable. In the CSV file the number is formatted like this : 3240,50 (European format - Three thousand two hundred forty Euro and fifty Cents) When i import in Airtable it become : 324,050.00 (US format) (It can change depending on how i set up the decimal on the field) The result is a wrong number so i can’t use it as it is. I’m quite new on Airtable so i hope to find a quick fix. Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks

I am using Airtable as a database for a sports team. Ultimately I will be placing this data on a website. I need to be able to track player stats in a table, and then career stats in another table. Is there a way for two tables to talk, and automatically add the career stats? Lets say I have three tables… Teams… Player (Current Season)…And…Player (Career Total) Can current season and player communicate? Is there a good way to organize this data? I am very new to this… Any suggestions are helpful…

Don’t see a lines/polygons feature in Map App (I’ve asked support to verify) to group sites by geography. Anybody built or integrated a 3rd party app to do that?

Wondering if anyone has issues with Airtable when using MS Teams Meeting? Specifically when sharing screen and trying to use Airtable. Thanks Susan

Is there anyway to customize how Airtable sorts alphabetically in grid view? For example, I’m sorting names with accent marks and AirTable puts the (e.g., Sáblan sorts last after Sanchez rather than first).

Not sure if I am using the right terminology but… I want make a link (term?) to an Excel file on our company network drive. I just want to hit link and have Excel file open. No plans to load data into Airtable (at this time). This file is update regularly by various users who sign into our company system.

Hi, I have a few automations where the action is to send an email to an address from a record. Most of them are working perfectly, however some emails are not being received even though the automation actually ran. I can’t figure out the issue. Is it a problem on the receiver’s side ? The emails are not in their spam … Thanks !

so i have started to make an app using modular I’m creating an app like medium just there u can upload a vlog and u can create a blog but I’m using airtable so any expert can pm me and help for free pls

Hi, I am attempting to create a Timeline App, but the Timeline App will only allow me to select a field that is “single select” as the customized field type. Any suggestions on how to select a field that is customized as a “Single line text” or a field that has been customized using the CONCATENATE formula? Thanks

Hi all, I deal with a lot of 3D geometry files in a manufacturing context. I’d like to be able to provide automatic thumbnail previews for my uploaded .STEP, .STL, and/or .SLDPRT files. Can anyone recommend a way of doing this? I see that the 3D Space App supports manipulatable renderings of .OBJ files, which are quite similar to .STEP files in a lot of ways. But it’s too much work for us to upload .OBJ files in addition to .STEP - I would need to find a way to automatically convert between the two formats in Airtable. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? Alternatively, I was imagining there could be an app that deals directly with .STEP files. I wouldn’t even need 3D renderings, just a static thumbnail preview would be enough. Has anyone heard of a solution like this? Thanks all, -Z

I have a base I’m using to build an equalization table. It has to do with providing fair overtime based on overtime worked and opportunities not worked. I thought I had the sheet working well, until today when my boss threw a wrench in the works. I have to subtract where a normal shift overlaps an overtime shift to get total overtime worked. One table contains employee data, including their normal shift start and end times. The other table contains details of an overtime shift that was worked. If I have a user who works 7A to 3:30P, but got called in for an overtime shift, and he worked 5A to 7:30P, I need to make it so the formula will automatically subtract the normal shift time from the shift worked. (I know, this one is easy, it’s 8 hours). Not all employees work the same shifts, and I need to be able to automatically subtract whatever part of their regular shift overlaps the shift that was actually worked. There are also times when the overtime shift worked would actually coincide

Good afternoon folks. I have PRO account with several bases our department collaborates with. I have one base in particular that my boss and I have access to, me as Owner, him as editor. One field is a single select, and he is not able to add new values to the choices by typing into the field. I have gone so far as to select specific users to allow editing to the field, I’ve made it so editor and higher have rights to enter data… no matter how he tries, he can’t add a new value. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Hello! Here is my situation. I have 2 tables. Table A Populates based on information submitted by the client. Fields include: name, email, subdivisions they live in, a description of a problem and an empty field with the name of the ambassador of that subdivision. Table B Has information about the ambassadors responsible for client of certain subdivisions. Fields include: name email and an array of subdivisions they are responsible for. I want to autopopulate the Ambassador field in Table A with the name of the ambassador responsible with that subdivision. The program would need to look at the subdivision name in table A, then check which ambassador has that subdivision in table B and then fill the empty field in table A with the name of the appropriate ambassador. I am hoping a IF (Find) would work but I can’t think of how to look into other tables I tried by automating update record. I was trying to update a record if a record was created and add the name of the appropriate ambassado

Hi guys, First of all, I’m happy to be here and I would love to get your help with a method I want to develop. I’ll try to explain myself as clear as I can so you could understand my needs and help. We’re using a LinkedIn search URLs on a daily basis. Most of them contains many strings and terms in order to filter our target audience. For example: *(Lead OR Architect OR Director OR SVP OR EVP OR Vice OR Chief OR VP OR Head) AND Data AND (Engineering OR “Application Development” OR “Software Development”) AND NOT (Expert OR Technician OR Support OR Maintenance OR QA OR quality OR Customer OR Specialist OR student * And here’s a part of the URL for example: companyIncluded=NOT%2520(college%2520OR%2520university%2520OR%2520school%2520OR%2520HP%2520OR%2520%2522Hewlett%2520Packard%2522%2520OR%2520Samsung%2520OR%2520Nvidia%2520OR%2520Paypal%2520OR%2520google%2520OR%2520BAE)&companySize=F%2CG%2CH%2CI&companyTimeScope=CURRENT&doFetchHeroCard=false&geoIncluded=103644278%2C100

Hi everyone, I’m trying to have the view name in my row. Basically what I’m doing is I have all these views each with a unique filter, and when a user enters the view I would like to display the name of the view he entered in the row. I tried doing this with automations but the limit is 25 and my views are more than a 100. I can do it with zapier but it would be very time consuming, do you think there might be another way?

Hi Everyone, I’ve been encountering some strange bugs in my bases all day, which is pretty unusual for Airtable. Some other staff members in my company have also reported things going wrong, so I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this, or knows what may be causing it? So far we have had- Linked records disappearing Search function not finding records that are definitely there Formula not working properly on some records (but not all) for no discernible reason and with no consistency across records Can anyone advise?

I want to get the referral credit and I want them to open my shared base. Is there a way to do that in one link? If not, what process would you suggest?

I have a race that happens once a year. Most information gathered for registration like cell phone, address, email generally does not change frequently. But there are a three categories that define how the racer participated in that years event. Vehicle Type (Car, Truck, Motorcycle, UTV, Youth UTV or Youth Motorcycle) Class (Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4 or Class 5) Racer Type (Driver of Record, Additional Driver or Co-Driver/Navigator) For example: In 2017, Johnny Johnson has raced a Car // Class 1 // Driver of Record. In 2018, he raced a UTV // Class 4 // Driver of Record. In 2019, he raced a Motorcycle // Class 5 // Additional Driver. In 2020, he raced a Car // Class 1 // Additional Driver. Knowing there is only one Johnny Johnson that exists in the world, what is the best way to track this racer - year to year - so I can see what the three categories he was each year? Another way to ask that is, how do I avoid having 4 entries for Johnny (2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020)? In an

My problem is a bit tough to explain, but I’ll try my best: I have a table with car allocations per people. Those change on a daily basis, so I have many records for each car, and many records for each person. The relevant fields are: Start date, car number, person ID, end date. Sometimes there could be months between start and end date, and sometimes there are days or even hours. What I’m looking for is an easy way to find for a specific date and a specific car - which person had it during that time. Sometimes I want it the other way around - for a specific date and specific person - which car he had during that time. At the moment what I’m doing is filtering by person ID or by car and looking for all the different allocations, manually checking to see where my date falls between start and end dates. Any idea for an easier way to do that? With Access for example I would create a query. I couldn’t find any easy way to do it within Airtable. Any idea would be helpful.

Hi, I want to achieve the following: I have manually entered lines (financial stock inventory). Each line having different colums (e.g. invest typ, notes, etc.) For each line, I have a Unique identifier entered (it is the ISIN number to identify the relevant stock information) I want now to add a column, where in each cell, a REST call to https://finnhub.io/ should be executed, getting and then displaying the corresponding value (e.g. year-to-date % change) for the ISIN number of this line entry. Is this possible to do in airtable? if yes, how can this be done? thnks for any support! Chris

I am using a free account. I had a base used for a triathlon team. Only 2 people have owner/creator status. Everyone else is read only. The base was covering multiple years of data and it got to be too much. I created two more bases in the workspace so I have a 2019, 2020, and now a 2021. But sharing was originally only with the one that is now for 2020. I need all those people to have access to the entire workspace instead of just the one base. Is there a way I can do that without having to send a link to everyone? I’d really like to be able to just do it behind the scenes. Thanks for any help! Happy New Year!

I am looking at the pricing just to plan ahead for possible needs in the future as our nonprofit expands. Yes, I plan to send an email soon asking for a discount :slightly_smiling_face: but want to get a feel for a couple things before putting together our request. So looking at the pricing page I see the following: You can add as many collaborators and bases as you’d like for free, as long as each base falls below the per-base record limits described above. If any of your bases exceeds those limits, you’ll need to upgrade the team to which that base belongs (if you are a solo user, you are considered a “team” of one person). For paid teams, you will be charged the per-user, per month fee for each person you’ve invited to collaborate on bases belonging to that team. You will not be charged for read-only collaborators. So here is my question. It said that you can add as many collaborators as needed as long as you do not exceed the limits. So would I be able to pay for 1-2 users bu