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Is there anywhere recording of this webinar? I missed it and there aren’t any available slots anymore. [Live training: Introducing Airtable Automations(Live training: Introducing Airtable Automations)

Hello, I am in search of an API to manage the shares of tables and bases. The idea is we would keep a permission list (potentially the list would actually live in airtable, but this shouldn’t be relevant to the ask) and be able to verify that the airtable permissions currently in force are those that are recorded in our separate source of truth. We are a nonprofit organization that uses Airtable heavily for our day to day but care deeply about information security as well. Part of the problem is mitigating the spread of share links, direct individual shares by members, and non-expiry of shares for members who are inactive in our system. It seems that there is no such API available. I could use webscraping to simulate what happens in the web UI, but obviously this is suboptimal. As Airtable’s adoption rises and our organization grows, I consider this a critical issue for our continued usage of the product.

Hi - just staring out with Airtable and wondering if anyone knows how to do the following. I have a table that is collecting a variety of meeting requests at my conference, and have 3 different forms which are collecting requests from different audiences. For each of those forms, there is a date selection of what day they want the meeting to take place. Is there a way to limit what dates they are allowed to choose? I don’t necessarily want to use a single-select field, because I want to be able to use my calendar view for the table to plot out what dates the requests are for (assuming I can’t do it if it’s not a date field). I also need the ability to limit the dates to a range of 4 days for some of the forms and only 2 days for another form. However I want it to be the same field to avoid having multiple columns of event dates. Is this possible in any way? Help appreciated!

Hi there, I want to set up a simple system to plan/manage staff utilisation. Does anyone have experience of doing this? We have a small team and our goals are to track allocation of staff time against projects and prospects in order to get an over view of work load, spot where we may have more work than time and need to bring in additional resources, identify spare capacity where we have opportunity to bring in extra work or shift overflow. Any ideas?

Hi, is this possible? Thanks for your help.

I’ve upgraded my Mac to OS Catalina this weekend and Apps stoped working. I’ve re-installed node and npm to the latest version and tried to install a “Hello World” App and after running the command “npm install -g @airtable/blocks-cli” couldn’t continue because the terminal said block command is ‘not found’. Any tips, please?

Hello, I have seen similar requests posted on this forum for things like a “dashboard” view of data from various tables but some of the solutions are not well documented, so I am asking this question again. I have 3 tables: Proceeds, Expenses and Income On the proceeds table I have aprons and cookbooks which are currency columns that - of course - give me a total sum on each column. On the expenses table I have a misc. column (currency) which gives me a total sum at the bottom. On the income table, I am building a dashboard so that I can see the total cost of my expenses from the expenses table and the total sum of my proceeds from my proceeds table. I then want to simply have a formula column that subtracts the two so that I have a snapshot of what my income is currently. The way that I have achieved this so far is to create a link to all records on the income table in both proceeds and expenses. Every time I add an expense or proceed record in one of those tables, I simply populat

Hi, I am looking to change our current media base to Airtable but have one question that I can´t seem to find an answer for. We have over 300 dealers in different countrys and I need to know if I can create a account for every dealer with different access. We have 6 different brands and some dealers sell all brands and some just one. It is very important that I can specify in their account what folders they have access to. Is this possible? Regards Per

I’m trying to work out how I can have different members of a team view a spreadsheet of ideas (each row is an idea) and have them each vote on whether they like the ideas. I want to then show an updated tally of the number of votes each row gets. I was thinking maybe I have a multi-select column with the names of each team member. If you like an idea you add your own name to this selection. I’d then want another column which is a number, which I was thinking I could have a formula to count the number of items selected in the multi-select field. So I’m not sure what formula would work there. Or if perhaps there’s a better way of approaching this? Thanks.

SOLVED: SEE POST FROM KAMILLE I have a database of students in Uganda and I am building a separate table to help the administration track student temperatures (government requirement for school re-opening). The table is simple and the nurse will use a basic form (Select student name, enter date/time, enter temp). In the Student table, I’d like to add a field that shows the most recent temperature taken and the date. The Rollup field works well for the date using the MAX(values) aggregation formula, but I can’t figure out how to show the most recent temperature (as opposed to the max or min). Any suggestions on how to show the most recent number added within a set of values? I’ve seen a few other posts on this, but I couldn’t find a clarification. I realize the “Most Recent Temp” field in my screenshot is a text field. I’ve placed that there for illustrative purposes only until I can figure this out. Thanks, Dave

Hi there, I’m trying to create a grid that compares values from two columns, like the preview thumbnail for the chart app. Other forum posts have said this is impossible, but every thumbnail in the chart app shows comparing multiple values. So either it is possible, or the thumbnails are purposefully misleading. Any ideas? Compare columns in chart Compare columns in chart

We are managing all our orders in Airtable and I’m trying to calculate the time between orders to get an average for each customer. So a client orders, say on September 13, and then the same client orders again September 19 and September 25. I’ve been trying to figure out a solution, but have a hard time. How can I calculate the datetime_diff between records in the same table? Thanks a lot!

Hello! Has anyone managed to create a workflow that generates a pdf from the document creator using a code step and attaches it to the record? I’m looking for ways to automate document creation based on a button press, or programmatically, and I’m not seeing any option without using other software…Which is frustrating, as it feels like Airtable is SOOOOOOO close to what I need

I have a Zap that includes running Javascript in response to a trigger. Specifically, when a record enters a view in the project table, the zap adds tasks for that project into the task table. Here’s what the Zap screen looks like for the Run Javascript action: Input Data csString 1. Task Record IDs: record id…record id… Code //this code is required to turn the string containing record IDs into //an array of objects. Because the output is an array of objects the following //steps will run for each record found. if (inputData.csString == null) { var listArray = ; } else { var listArray = inputData.csString.split(","); } var output = ; var arrayNos = listArray.length; var i=0; do { var thisItem = new String(listArray[i]); var thisItemObj = {}; thisItemObj.record = thisItem; output.push({thisItemObj}); i++; } while (i < arrayNos); I’m trying to recreate this Zap using Airtable automation. Step 1, of course, is the trigger. In Step 2, I chose a “run script” action. I pa

Hello, We have an Airtable base set up to receive information from JotForm. The form will collect emails from every submission; sometimes the submission is missing components to make it a complete application. We would like to notify this customer, with the incomplete application, what is missing by sending them an email copy of their record. If we right-click and select ‘Send Record’, the way bottom part of the message has a ‘View in Airtable’ link. We can not send these to the customers because they will try to request access to our workspace. Is there a reliable way to send a single record to a customer without having this link embedded? The SendGrid app only appears to be able to send to whole columns, and it just seems tedious to single out a record, enter it into a view, and send the email that way.

I have 3 tables: Units - a list of all our technology units whether classified as inventory or leased to a customer Customers - linked to the Units table Unit Setup - this is a form to be used by the shipping department to go through shipping checklists AND assign a Unit to a Customer. I cannot figure out how to get the Unit Setup Form to update the Unit assigned to the Customer. I can get it to add a new linked record column… but I want it to update the main associated Customer record to the Unit.

Hi! Yesterday evening my SendGrid Airtable app stopped working. I would get an error sign after clicking send and no explanation. After a day of lots of testing, I was able to figure out that what’s triggering the error is that the email template contains more than 8,000 characters, including characters created by merged fields. That’s so little for an HTML email…! I don’t want to go back to plain text, and have so many templates that I use… Has anyone else ran into this issue? Any workarounds? Thanks so much!

I have a master media list set up as a relational database in Airtable. I now want to create individual lists from the master list for each of my clients. I have considered using ‘Views’ but if I delete a contact in one view it will delete the data in all views. Is there an easier way to achieve my goal?

Somehow my apps aren’t loading the past 5 days. Everything else is working fine. Here’s what I’ve tried that’s not working: reloading the window reopening the Airtable base restarting Chrome It works and loads just fine in my desktop app. Anyone know what’s going on here? Thanks for any input in advance!

Hi there! We have a base on the pro plan that we normally use from EU locations without any issues. Now we are trying to use it from Canada and the browser tab where Airtable is open freezes making it impossible to work on the base. Our tech staff has checked the issue and concluded that it is related to Airtable performance. *Her laptop has enough specifications to work with Airtable (Intel Core i5, 16GB RAM, Windows 10, Chrome) In fact it works with Mercury, Zoiper, Slack normal, and without communications cuts. During the 5 min call, there have been no cuts, however, Airtable stayed blocked 2 times. * Analyzing the calls the browser makes to Airtable, he sees the calls POST to https://airtable.com/internal/beacon are those which stayed blocked and take more than 20 secs to resolve but just happens with some of them. Anyone experiencing similar issues?

Hi, i’m working with airtable a while now and i think it’s a really good software. But at the moment i’m stucked and i don’t find a solution. I was searching in the forum but didn’t find a solution that matches my problem. Maybe i’m not searching with the right keywords. Here is what i like to do: I have a table in which i import csv files called “Keywords” (let’s say f.e. every day a different csv file with the same structure). Every record which i import needs to be linked to a record in a second table called customer. At the moment i’m using the app “CSV Import” and after that i need to link every record manually to the other table (customer). For every record of a CSV file i import it is always the same record in the other table i like to link to. So i’m wondering if it’s possible to use a script (?) to import the csv file and have the opportunity to say to which record i like to link the records to so it’s just one step and it’s done automatically? I’m an absolute beginner in codi

My apps have not been loading for over two weeks! I do not know what is going on. My Gantt chart worked for a couple days after going pro, but now it just sits and spins. I have submitted help requests every way I know how, but have gotten no response. The support page is terrible. The contact us page just goes to the community instead of actually having contact info. The community has no good information for my problem. The last post only has 10 views so no one that can help is seeing it. When I try to post a new topic I have to select a category. I don’t feel any of the categories are correct and fear that they are not going to the correct support staff. Terrible support.

It’s impossible to scroll the desktop version of Airtable on an iPad Pro (2018, 12.9”) - either with touch or with the Magic Keyboard trackpad. I use the iPad as my primary device for work that often brings me away from the desktop, and so I essentially can’t work with Airtable unless I’m at home on a desktop. The iOS app does not have anywhere close to feature or interface-quality parity to the desktop, which makes it not an option for doing serious work in Airtable. Is there any plan to fix this? Are there any workarounds? Bug: Scrolling in Airtable Desktop on iPad Pro w/ Magic Keyboard

Zapier has now Google Home Assistant module. I was excited to see that as a potential replacement for IFTTT. It seems (at least in theory from how I see it), the Zapier workflow should allow to tell a command (in your phone or google speaker etc), Google Assistant will ask for the record I want to look up (e.g. by by number) and then update the field in the record using the voice. That’s how I see it. Wouldn’t this be amazing? Flow is setup and configured all green and good but if I tell Google the command, the flow doesn’t get triggered. I know it’s not issue with Google Assistant because my IFTTT flows still work. So it’s maybe Zapier flow still doesn’t work. It’s in Beta. Or has anybody get it working? What’s your experience?

Hello, I was hoping to show a field on a Gallery View but only if it had data in it. If this were possible some cards would show a field if there is data in it and others would not show the field if there was no data entered in the field. I have long cards taking up space with blank voids. Is this feature available? Similarly, the cards allow the same amount of space for all fields that are showing regardless of how much data there is. If there is a one-word answer I do not need three+ lines of empty space after it. I do not need the cards to be the same length. Thanks