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Hello! I’m trying to figure out how to get a copy of a user’s (the person filling out the form) submission automatically emailed back to them after they’ve completed a form. IE: when you make a purchase online and your receive notification via email that your order has been placed and it lists the items you’ve purchased. Is thing a thing or some thing airtable doesn’t offer yet? I’ve searched all over the help site and haven’t found anything. Thanks in advance!

Is there some way to create code that is shared between multiple scripting blocks? Either by external import from some source, or a native solution? Example: I have a function addClientToSession(clientRecordId, sessionRecordId) that I want to use in multiple blocks. Right now, I have to copy and paste the function into each scripting block or automation step I want to use it in, and if I want to update it, I have to be sure I edit every instance. I’d much rather be able to do something like import addClientToSession from "shared-block-id". If this is impossible, what solutions have other people in the community used to accomplish something similar?

Someone else on the team created a Dashboard using the Maps blocks. I am a Creator in the AirTable and anytime I go in, I do not get a map or settings. The Owner sees the Settings and map just fine. Any ideas as to what the issue is? Here is what they see: Here is what I see:

I’ve switched around the order of a few columns in grid view but this isn’t reflecting on Kanban. I would have expected the order of questions/columns to sync up no matter what view I’m in but this doesn’t seem to be the case. Help?

Hi guys, I’m in the process of setting up a product hosted on Airtable, selling the product through Gumroad (https://gumroad.com). Now, the idea is that people who purchase my product, automatically get added to the Airtable’s collaborator list using their email. Is there a bright mind who knows if there is a possibility of integrating Gumroad with Airtable (or some other external solution)? Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hi all, I’ve been struggling with the SET_TIMEZONE feature for about 20 minutes now and frankly I’m over it, so I’m coming to you all. I’m trying to display the times that some orders were made in the local time zone of the person that made the order. I have three columns: Time Zone (which is the local time zone of the buyer), Order Time & Date (CET) (which is my time zone. all time stamps arrive in CET), and Order Date & Time (Local) (which is the field I am trying to calculate). I have set the following formula in the last column: IF({Time Zone}="Alaska",SET_TIMEZONE({Order Date & Time},'America/Juneau'),IF({Time Zone}="Hawaii",SET_TIMEZONE({Order Date & Time},'Pacific/Honolulu'),IF({Time Zone}="Eastern",SET_TIMEZONE({Order Date & Time},'America/Kentucky/Louisville'),IF({Time Zone}="Pacific",SET_TIMEZONE({Order Date & Time},'America/Los_Angeles'),IF({Time Zone}="Central",SET_TIMEZONE({Order Date & Time},'America/Mexico_

Editors cost me–the owner–money. So how can I stop them from inviting new editors?

Sharing a base between a paid and a free user? on this thread there’s huge positive sentiment for a new permission-level on bases, whereby I as a paid user can invite people to have minor box-checking / status changing, comment adding functionality. In my instance, i’m maintaining a base for a tech business, and I work with developers and other collaborators who I want to give limited access so they can update tasks they’re assigned to etc. I don’t see why this thread was closed automatically, when the last reply from Airtable was years ago, and where there’s message upon message from people echoing the same sentiment with no response?

Hi, I’m creating two forms- one that an interviewer fills out at the start of the day, and one that they fill out at the end of the day. I would like both of those forms to go to ONE record which would be based on the date. This would include all the information from both forms. When I made the two forms and tested they each created their own record and the date is in there twice. Thank you!

I have a simple date in my table and I simply want to have the name of the weekday displayed (e.g. in another column). Does this work with a formula?

Hi there Airtable fam, I’m curious if there is a way to create an Airtable form that acts like a cloud based document? The use case here is I teach an online course and I’d love to have students submit reflections on certain lessons but I’d like them to be able to see and edit their reflections whenever they want to. Effectively allowing them to pull up the form at any time and see what they’ve written previously. Almost alike a way that Airtable can automatically save progress and allow the user to revist their posts? I think I might have to use a Google-doc-like experience but I don’t want to force people to have a gmail account. Thanks in advance :slightly_smiling_face:

I’d like to do a search across tables and download the results as a csv, or at least be able to extract some of the information I find (let’s say, all the email addresses of the contacts that come out of my search using the search block). Is there a way to do that?

I’m trying to find a way make Airtable use the info in one field to add an image to the image field by automatically searching the web for an image and select the first image that comes up. Either by script or some other suggestion. Any direction would help. Thanks.

I have created a PHP website driven by AirTable. I have a test subdomain which is password protected with a .htpasswd file and so this connects directly to AirTable API so users can see the changes they are making. To make the changes go live I created a compile script available on the test subdomain, which queries the API for everything we want, and turns them into json files which I put in the appropriate place so that the live website can just read these files with PHP and create the website. This works well but the website does use the attachment URLs for things like website images and attachments. I am aware of the fact these URLs are not reliable and may be subject to change but for the moment a simple recompile would update and make everything well again. Now though, I have a more high traffic website and I cannot take the risk of attachment URLs changing so I need some sort of solution which lets me download the images and put them somewhere else

Does anyone know how/ if it is possible to highlight multiple fields and move them over together? I know in excel/google sheets this is very simple but I am having trouble with Airtable. The use case is that let’s say I decided to create 3 new fields for a table and accidentally added them on the right and now want to re-order them. To group the 3 together and move all the way to left side it looks like I have to do it 1 by 1 for now. Any ideas?

I want to insert images into automated email. I’ve studied markdown and I can’t do it.

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Dear Community, I am new to Airtable. I am making my first block. I have a table with multiple fields. I want to make a Pie Chart with just two of the fields. I made a pie chart from the table but it includes all the fields in the table. How can I select just two of those fields? Thank you in advance for your help. Rob

HI all, I’m hoping for a little direction here. I have managed to write a script to retrieve a single record from Base B based on a Date/Time field in Base A. My problem is that I can’t figure out how to then extract a value from that response. The response looks like this (I have REMOVED record Specifics). I am trying to extract ‘Height’ 3.49 in this case, which is a number in Base B. I then plan to update the initial record in Base A using that figure (I think I can do that bit once I can get the number out of the response). Sorry if this seems very basic, but learning as I go. {records: Array(1)} :arrow_forward: records: Array(1) :arrow_forward: 0: Object 1. id: "REMOVED" 2. ▶fields: Object 1. Timestamp: "2020-07-28T12:10:00.000Z" 2. Date: "28/07/2020" 3. Time: "12:10" 4. Height: 3.49 3. createdTime: "2020-07-28T09:18:24.000Z" Script so far looks like t

I have copied a template with good data to start. I have my own data in a spreadsheet. If I organize the spreadsheet to match the table will Airtable recognize items with the same first column and offer to NOT import, or merge the data?

I need to populate a field in a table using the latest form entry for a particular record. What is the easiest way to pull the latest information from one table into another table? See screenshots below: Here is one screenshot with information from one table that I want to pull to another table. As you can see, there are TWO entries that are ratings for a certain project. I ONLY want to pull the “Final: Avg. Rating” field for the most recent entry for a particular project into another table. I have a Date Submitted column, as well as an Auto Number column. And in case helpful, here’s the table where I want this information to go:

Hello, I have a base setup that tracks campaigns (each campaign has an individual record) that are currently live, upcoming, and completed based on dates we input. I’m using a single select field for the phase it’s in (live, upcoming, completed). The table is grouped by the phase. Each record has a start date and end date entered. How can I make it so each record is automatically in the correct phase based on the start/end date I input? For example, let’s say today’s date is 8/28/20, and Record A has a start date of 8/1/20 and an end date of 8/30/20, I would want this record to be in the “live” phase right now, and on 9/1/20, I want it automatically moved to the “completed” phase. How can I achieve this? Thanks in advance!

I see that if I upgrade to the Pro plan (I’m on the $10/month plan), there is something called Page Builder that will let me design and create a PDF file. I’m wondering if there is something similar that would let me design and create an HTML file from a view that could then be used as part of a web page. Thanks!

Hi! How can I delete a row on a Mac?

Hi all I have a rollup field that shows the last order for a particular sku. I’d like to link to this record. I can link to all orders for this SKU as you can see with the linked Daily Orders field and this would be fine if it showed the latest order first but it doesn’t. Anyhow, because the order number is a text value, I first convert it to a number so that I can use max(value) in the rollup field and then I convert it back to it’s text form:- I’d like to link to this record but I can’t find an automated way to do this. Once my Latest OrdNum formula field is populated I know I can change the field type to lookup and it will work, but only for the records that there at the moment. Any ideas on how this could be solved please. Thanks Claire