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Do you think Airtable can be used for advanced planning & scheduling for a manufacturing company? More specifically, there are several machines and work stations with manual labour wheareas some workflow steps are necessary and some are not depending on the sales order. I want to calculate the optimal order when the material has to be placed at a certain machine or work station to manufacture the product. It is a relatively low volume, but high variety production. We use Microsoft SQL Server/Navision which is the basis for our production data. There are scanners at each work station to track where the object to be produced is. Based on this, could Airtable be used to calculate the optimal order as described above and display when which object should be placed at a certain machine or work station? The calculation should consider the delivery deadline, capacity usage, production time and other factors.

Hi ! With Zapier or Airtable Automations, I can trigger a certain mail to be sent when a record is added in a view or met a condition. However with Sendgrid Block, that seems impossible, I’ve been testing different things for hours ! Any idea? Many thanks

I want to calculate a deadline that is 30 days prior an App Release date for daily content. But I also want a deadline that is 60 days after the App Release for project types that are not daily. The 1st step of my goal works correctly with this formula… DATEADD({App Release (from Master List)}, -30, ‘days’) Here is an IF statement attempt to include the 60 day delay for all other content that does not work. What am I doing wrong? IF ({Project Type (from Master List)} = “DAILY Meditation”), DATEADD({App Release (from Master List)}, -30, ‘days’), DATEADD({App Release (from Master List)}, +60, ‘days’)

Hi All, I am new to Airtable, was wondering if someone can help. i am struggling with trying to get a date to change 6 weeks in advance every time I mark the task done. these are recurring tasks and they have to be completed every six weeks. is there any way I can do this. help will be much appreciated thank you in advance. Jay

Hi, i have an issue with a zap on zapier here is the message : "The app returned “You are not permitted to perform this operation because the field or table has been configured to limit who can perform this operation”. this is a message from Airtable. I’m the owner of my workspace, i’ve put permissions on “editors and up”, so i don’t understand how to fix the issue

I am trying to build an external web app through either Pory or Softr, but my API key seems to have stopped working (I keep getting an invalid key error). Does any one know how to fix this? I’d hate to delete my current API key (I currently have some forms live on my site through Mini Extensions and it would break that connection (although it would be relatively easy to re-do…just not sure deleting/re-generating would really solve this problem - there’s no reason it should have stopped working in the first place). Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Hi All, Simple one but I’m a but stuck… so it’s ask questions time. As per above I’m trying to convert the simple 24 hr formatted column into JUST a h:mmA format. My formula is: DATETIME_PARSE({Confirmed Time - 24 Hr}, “h:mmA”) How do I stop it showing the date portion (11/19/2020) in my result? EDIT: Here are my full fields. Ultimately I’d love to create a single output that combines ‘Confirmed Meeting …’ with ‘Confirmed Time - h:mmA’ (eg November 19, 2020 at 2:00pm) that can be used in as a simple trigger in a Send Email automation on Airtable… I’m just getting my head and logic brain around Airtable though.

Hi Guys I need a hand. I’m building an ingredient inventory tracker (here) and I need to calculate the total amount each of each ingredient used every time the recipe is logged. I’ve got the other half of the tracker working fine, adding in ingredients every time an order is logged. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

This is the formula i am using to manually override my default date entry IF({Date Override Entry} = BLANK(),{Default Mixed Date}, {Date Override Entry}) i attached a screen shot that shows the result that i am getting. It returns a result that is a day off and i am not sure i am not sure why. Thanks in advance any help it is much appreciated. :pray: Screen Shot 2020-11-21 at 11.57.57 AM|700x308

So I have a directory of creatives who have multiple creative passions. I used multiple select in order to help organize their creative interests like this: But when I go to view in groups, the groups that show up don’t filter by the individual option but by the groups of options that each cell has. Don’t know if that makes sense so I hope this picture helps Is there a way to group by individual options? Or another view I can use? This airtable is being embedded in Wordpress so my members could just search, but if there is an option would love to know. Thank you!

I’m looking to use the gallery view that I have for recipes for a foodblog on a page in my blog. But to format to hyperlink to the PageDesigner App perhaps so users could print the recipe or scroll through them. How can I best do this? I feel Airtable is amazing but this one tweak would make it awesome! If there is a template that can be used to hyperlink to my blog tha would be great to know about.

Hi, I am trying to patch a record using the primary field. How would I go about doing this? Use case: I create a record and assign the primary field as the object’s unique ID. A few minutes later I receive more information about this object and I want to add the information to the record. I do not have the airtable id that I received when I created the record, but I do have my unique ID for this object. How can I update this record using my unique ID for the object, without airtables underlying id?

Hi everyone! I’m new to Airtable and need some help with the Forms view. Providing some context below: Table 1: Contains IDs and names of specific users. Table 2: Contains data that is inserted via the Form View, with one of the questions being a Linked Field to Table 1’s ID. My questions are: Why does the form in edit/preview mode show all the other data in Table 1, but when you share the form it only shows the ID? Edit mode: Share mode: Is there a way for me to display the lookup field of the name of the user from Table 1 when their ID is selected? Since selecting IDs will start to get confusing after a while. Thanks in advance!

I am using AirTable to manage a vehicle database. The entire base is embedded within our company intranet page and is visible to Salespersons. We want Salespersons to be able to email a record (from a specific view) to a customer quickly and easily. On the full version of AirTable, I can right-click on a record and choose “Send Record” to email a nice summary of the record and photo attachments. When I embed the base, the ability to right-click is no longer available. Is there either a way to get this functionality back in an embedded base, or a way to simulate it? Thanks so much!

Our primary lead source comes from Canada Post neighborhood mailings. Right now we are sending about 300K flyers/month across 4 divisions but will be increasing to 450K plus come the new year. We have over 20 areas a week and multiple flyer types which we are looking for a more stable way to keep track of. I am wondering a couple of key things before I dive more heavily into mastering this myself. As we schedule new routes, is a recurring date scheduling function something that can be coded in? From what I have come across, this is not something I’ve seen others need to use, but for us it would be essential. Ideally as a mailing route is generated you could schedule it one of 3 ways. a: Say the route has 10,000 homes, and you want to send them out over 4 weeks on mondays starting X date, it splits up the routes (taking into account the varying number of homes) and generates a plan with an assigned flyer type. b: You want to send at least 2000 flyer per week starting on X date and the

I am trying to update a record’s attachments field. I am doing this successfully with curl, and also I have python code that successfully pulls records from the table; however when I add code to that which tries the PATCH, I get a “Could not parse request body” 422 response. Below is the code. Thanks! import requests import datetime import json auth_token=‘keyXXXXmJVG’ hed = {‘Authorization’: 'Bearer ’ + auth_token, ‘Content-Type’: ‘application/json’} url = ‘https://api.airtable.com/v0/applXXXXmLfek/Table%202/recthrgH5KVMEMglc’ print(“GET’ing records…”) # THIS REQUEST WORKS: response = requests.get(url, headers=hed) print(response.json()) r2 = { ‘fields’: { ‘mytext’: ‘success’}} print(“PATCH request…”) # THIS REQUEST FAILS WITH 'Could not parse request body’ presp = requests.patch(url, headers=hed, data=r2) print(presp.text, presp)

Hi, my colleague got this really weird problem. Starting this morning, when she tries to enter text in a Long Text field, it delete each letter after she types it. So she sees the letter for a second or two then it deletes itself. She’s been using this fields for months without any issues. Here’s what I tried so far. Close all her browsers and reboot the PC = Did not solve the problem I tried logging with her account from my PC = It worked!!! I created a Long Text field on another table without activating the rich text formatting = It worked for both of us!!! So it looks like when she tries to type anything in a long text field and activate the rich text formatting, it does not work anymore for my colleague. Beside removing the rich text formatting on the field, do you have another solution that I didn’t tried? Thanks Annie

Hello, Long time reader, first time commenter. Each year, my org has members re-enroll in our program. Ideally, they would be enter their name/ID and view all the relevant information within their record. My hope is to have this information populate a form, where they could then make updates where necessary. Does anyone have suggestions about how to do this within a Wordpress site? I have some basic facility with javascript, but that’s the extent of it. I imagine that the solution will involve the Airtable API, but I’m not sure where to begin. Thanks, Mike

Per the title. Is this a bug? If so, is there an ETA for a fix? Is there a workaround?

This is probably a basic task but I’m not finding info on how to do this. In Table A I have application info from applicants that are submitting through a form In Table B I have info coming in from Paypal (via Zapier) of payments from applicants (their application fee) How do I have each record in Table A reference each record in Table B, matching the records by the Email column, so that Table A automatically brings in the $ amount in Table B? Thanks for any tips!

Hello, I’m having trouble with some Airtable fields. Many come through fine but as you’ll see in the attachment some come through as nonsense alphanumeric sequences. They seem to be the fields that “allow linking to multiple records” and so in this example (attached screenshot) it says: Course Enrollment: reco2nD46QXVJi6pF instead of: Inner Development for World Development Any help or suggestions very much appreciated.

New to airtable, how do I auto populate the current date to every new record that is created? Thank you!

Hi there! I’m using Airtable for content scheduling and curriculum development, but I’m struggling to create a Kanban view that solves my needs due to the lack of multiple field selection (in the Kanban view). I have seen other threads on this, but I’m not clear what solutions were deployed. Here’s the context: I have a master table called ‘Content Plan’, which is made of a number of tables. One of the tables is called ‘Exercises repertoire’, where I list all the exercises media files we’ve produced, and it contains important informations around the length of the file, the production status, the person who recorded it and so on. This view is currently a grid. Each of these media files can create a content journey/curriculums. So if have the files A, B, C, and D and so on I could create various journey by mixing these files in different orders. So for example I can have Journey 1 = A - D - C in sequence and Journey 2 = D - C - A in sequence or Journey 3 = C- F -G and so on. Now, I need

How to get an input via form that creates a view? This can change every-time depending on the form submission. Help pls For example: I need to select my phase of product (column 1) and my focus (column 2) in a 10 column table and based on this input via form the view must be generated. Depending on the input in the form, the view will keep changing. How do i do that? Thanks in advance for all the help and support here :pray:

Hi everyone, Apologies if this isn’t the right spot. I have a table with many columns and 150 rows. In the slew of columns that I have, I have 3 that I am trying to compare to find duplicates (indicating classes that are scheduled in the same room, on the same day, with the same start time) using the de-dupe app currently. The room column is a text string that is identical for the room. The time column is a start time in military time. The day of the week column is giving me trouble - It uses M,T,W,R,F but also includes MW, TR, WF as a meeting pattern. Is there a way to look for duplicates that are in the same room, with the same start time, but where the day of the week column contains a matching character? I tried splitting the MW manually, but it was time-consuming and didn’t end up giving me the result I want- it still couldn’t see there was conflict when the room and start time were the same but the “day of the week” column contained a matching character (ie- didn’t recognize that