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Hello everyone. I’m a Navy Career Counselor. I am basically working as a Human Resource Manager. I have a base that tracks various data points which include contract end dates, rotation dates, etc. I have 10 tables on one base. The first tab is the Main tab which serves as an Alpha Roster and is the link to all other tabs. My conundrum with automations is that when I want to update a contract end date on my Loss table I also need that same contract end date updated on every other table for the same person but I can’t get the correct formulation and automation to run (test fails every time). Can someone please reach out or help me? I must admit that I do not know or understand code and scripting. I’m sure with the requisite time for study I could do it but this base is live and I need to automate now. Thank you in advance for your help. Christopher

I understand a URL-designated field can only hold a single URL. Thus, my query. Some of my fields need to contain a URL plus explanatory text, or multiple URLs. For that reason, I set that field as “Long Text,” then use rich text to embed a URL behind the website name. Ex: Visible text reads “ScotlandsPeople,” but the lengthy embedded URL points to a specific page on the SP website. When using Airtable on the laptop, clicking one of these embedded links opens a new browser tab, to the desired page. On the mobile app, however, the front-facing text (that has the embedded link behind it) appears and behaves as just text. Not blue with an underscore. No embedded link. No fly-open icon to click. Just dead text. Am I missing something? Seems if the rich text option exists to embed a full URL behind text in the desktop version of Airtable, it ought to work in the mobile version too. Hmmmm.

Hi all I have a base for managing casual employees’ hours worked. Employees submit hours via a form and payroll uses the entries to pay wages. Payroll would like to see only the records for the relevant payroll period: 16 May - 19 May and every two week period thereafter. Is there any way to filter by these rolling fortnightly periods? Thanks! Travis Further notes: I found that I could get fortnightly periods using the week numbers: ROUND(WEEKNUM(Date)/2) The trouble is that the payroll period is not exactly in sync with the week numbers… Maybe there could be a way to shift the period?

Dedupe seems like a good product, but I must be doing something wrong. I have a TON of duplicates in my table. First name is Dan/Daniel, Greg/Gregory, Joe/Joeseph, Rob/Robert, etc… Last names are identical and so is all of the other information. Dedupe isn’t recognizing ANY of them. Am I doing something wrong in the settings? Or what am I supposed to do to help recognize these duplicates

I have four fields: Unix Timestamp - a single line text field that contains the unix timestamp Date & Time - a formula field that converts the unix timestamp into a readable date and time using the following formula: DATEADD(‘1/1/1970’,{Unix Timestamp},‘seconds’) Date - where I wish to extract just the date from the Date & Time field Time - where I wish to extract just the time from the Date & Time field How do I get numbers 3 and 4 to work?

I had the pleasure of using the Dedupe App the other night on a huge client project that involved 3,500 duplicates with mismatched data. Not just pairs of duplicates, but sometimes groups of 2, 3, or 4 duplicates. And not IDENTICAL duplicates, but duplicates that might or might not have different field information from one another. I was really dreading the project, but it turned out incredibly well because the Dedupe App is absolutely perfectly designed!! The Dedupe App is EXTREMELY well-designed, EXTREMELY intuitive, EXTREMELY powerful, and it has ALL THE OPTIONS that you could ever dream of in a Dedupe App! For example: You can match on any number of fields that you’d like. You have the option to hide matching fields (i.e. fields where the data is 100% the same across multiple records), so you can instantly tell at-a-glance if you can safely merge multiple records. It lets you REMOVE records from a s

Hello Airtable family, I’m struggling to figure out a solution on this one and hoping that someone might have a viable approach I can try. Background Info: We are using Airtable as a small business CRM, and the services/products sold are in an ‘orders’ table, which links to a ‘customers’ table. Each order links to a customer, and each customer can have several orders linked. The Mission: When someone calls our shop, it is common that we need to look at their customer record and see information about their orders on the fly. We want to be able to find the customer quickly in the customer table, expand the record, and see particular information about the orders. The Challenge: Our base is, well, rather complex utilizing nearly 100 columns/data points on each order. Filled with formulas, lookups, calculations and even static fields generated from automation scripts. When we input a new order,

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Need the assistance of some brilliant Airtable minds. My parents are dealing with quite a few health issues. My dad has Alzheimers :cry: . I want to create a digital dashboard like Dakboard but need to avoid monthly fees. Wondering if anyone have any solutions, suggestions, on how to build a digital dashboard that utilizes Airtable? MagicMirror2 looks like it is beyond my skill set. I created an Appointment Scheduler where I can add their appointments and then created a view that shows upcoming appointments and another view that shows past appointments. I would love to have the upcoming appointments in the digital dashboard. Dakboard looks easy to use but there is no mention of it integrating with Airtable. If you of you kind brilliant folks have any thoughts, I would love to hear from you! Many many thanks :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Hello! How to add hours from one column to date from another column and get the result. Formula DATEADD ({Matchday date}, - {Date / Time}, ‘hours’) in Date / Time I write 2 hours, but for some reason the result is 5 hours, instead of 2! Help)

is it possible to connect the tracker view to another table in the same base? so that it collects the status infos from table 1 (grid view) and sorts and shows them in table 2 (tracker view) many thanks

Hello there, I am new with Airtable, I’ve got an idea I would like to make happen for my Real Estate client on Webflow. Basically, I would want to make a base where her prospects and related connections would be able to fill out there available times & dates. This will be incorporated into Webflow’s CMS with the help of Zapier. I was not sure if you can have a feature of the form where the client could make new fields for the availabilities. Thanks

I was trying to make some changes to my AirTable workspace and ended up messing it up so my records and tables are no longer functioning properly. Since I made these mistakes, I am now trying to revert back to my latest snapshot workspace (11 hours) ago. However, everytime I restore it back to this version, it saves in a new airtable base rather than replacing my main one (which is what I want). Please let me know if you can help!

I’m having a strange problem in Zapier where searching for a record in Airtable doesn’t give me access to all of the fields on the record that is found. I’ve tried everything I can think of, but for some reason only values from a subset of the fields on the record are available in future steps in the zap. I have confirmed that the API key I’m using belongs to a user that is a creator in Airtable, so no issues with permissions. It looks like only lookup and formula fields (maybe?) are fetched and made available in future steps. Has anyone else seen this issue and found a solution?

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In my usage of Airtable, I have records that I email to certain individuals in our company. **Is it possible to send a record to a customer’s mobile number and them still be able to see the full record?? If not, is there a possible workaround to help make this happen?? Thanks, Dominic

Under “collaborators”, I am shown as the owner along with the message “This workspace also has 1 base collaborator not represented above”. No other collaborators are shown. How do I find out who is this other (hidden) base collaborator?

Hello! I created a Follow the Money map via google cloud API on airtable. Is there a way for me to obtain an embed link for the map for our Squarespace website?

Hello, I’ve just started using airtable and I’m wondering if there is a way to quickly add records in Kanban view? Basically, right now, I have to click on the add record button, which opens a dialog each time and it makes it less easy than just adding your description for Task 1 + pressing + adding your description for Task2. Seems like the only way to do it is to go to use grid view and shift + enter? Why not just enter? In my opinion adding records should be effortless in any view

Hello community, I’m somewhat of a newbie and I’m perplexed… I had created a table and shared it with the collaborators. I also had a colleague share some tables with me. Now it looks like I can see the tables she’s created, but I’m missing this particular table. I just had a colleague reshare the table with me and now it’s showing in “bases shared with me” and I’m still listed as a creator. I’m wondering why this happened and how I can avoid it in the future… Has anyone experienced this?

Hello community, I’m somewhat of a newbie and I’m perplexed… I had created a table and shared it with the collaborators. I also had a colleague share some tables with me. Now it looks like I can see the tables she’s created, but I’m missing this particular table. I just had a colleague reshare the table with me and now it’s showing in “bases shared with me” and I’m still listed as a creator. I’m wondering why this happened and how I can avoid it in the future - it scared the crap out of me… Has anyone experienced this? Table disappeared

Currently, I have my data in multiple tables (20) Each table has the exact same table structure. Please dont tell me to put all data in same table. I can’t do it. & I don’t get much time to go into each and every table to check which leads I have to followup on. I need a way by which I can view all the records that have the status ‘Negotiation State’ in all the tables to be displayed in one place so I can be more efficient with my work. I make chnage in this view and the chnage should be implemented at the original table. I see in other softwares like Asanas the pipeline thing is built in. How can i make my airtables more efficient ?

I have a table that has two fields. We’ll call the table Table One and the two fields Name and Diameters (note the plural form). The name field is a simple string. The Diameters field is a list (or array) of values. As a simple example: Name: “Widget”; Diameters: “1, 2, 3, 4”. Now, I want to create another table – we’ll call it Table Two. Table Two also has two fields: Name and Diameter (note the singular form). What I want to do is create a unique entry for each diameter in the Diameters field in Table One. So, Table Two would look like this: Name: "Widget; Diameter: “1” Name: "Widget; Diameter: “2” Name: "Widget; Diameter: “3” Name: "Widget; Diameter: “4” In other words, I want to loop over each value inn the Diameters field in Table One and use that value to create a new entry in Table Two. I am not sure, though, how to do this. Do I need to use the Scripting Block? Is it possi

Hello, I am trying to link records in a single table to each other to manage a referral program. Here’s what I’m trying to achieve: Jim refers Beth, Bill, Jane. In Beth, Bill, Jane’s records - you can see that they were referred by Jim. In Jim’s record - you can see that he referred Beth, Bill, Jane. Right now, I can only figure out how to reflect this relationship one way. So, Beth, Bill and Jane’s records reflect that they were referred by Jim. But, I am not able to figure out how to get it to show up in Jim’s record that he referred 3 people. Thanks!

HI all, For work, we support a lot of clients and do the same work for them on a yearly basis. We are managing all of this in one base. In the base I have the following tables A table that lists all of our clients A table that tracks our contracts for each of these clients (contracts are renewed annually) A workplan table that has the template for the work tasks that we do each year. While I have my workplan template, I want to be able to automate this list of records for each new contract that is added. Example: For client A’s 2020 contract I need to do tasks A-Z For client A’s 2021 contract I need to do tasks A-Z For client B’s 2020 contract I need to do tasks A-Z etc. I am getting stuck on how to best set this up to automate or script so that I anytime a new contract is created in table 2, I get the automation of the template tasks created in Table 3. Does anyone have any ideas on how