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I am trying to upload several jpgs to one record. I use ‘Gallery’ and drop files in bulk to the plus sign bottom right. They are pages from a book and therefore in a sequence. The files are numbered as jpgs in a numerical sequence. Why can I not have the viewed output remain in the correct sequence? Why is the output always reversed with the last item first? How can I fix this? Many thanks if anybody can help!

I’m developing a WordPress plugin that backs up your entire Airtable account (as JSON, CSV, and optionally downloading any attachments). I intend to release it as Open Source when it’s done. It’s not finished, and won’t be for a few months, but I’m interested in seeing how it works for others. Because it’s still in alpha stage, and I know there are security-related bugs, you’ll need to have a LOCAL web server with WordPress installed (i.e. one that’s not accessible on the internet). If that’s you, and you’d like to help, please get in touch.

Can anyone provide some input on how I would go about creating a rule between tables? In my situation, I am attempting to pair students to jobs available. I have the two tables linked, but would like to set a rule that once a student has been “assigned”/linked to a position on the other table, that the move from the “unassigned” column to the “completed” column. Another way that this may be able to work is if there is a way to limit the number of times each record can be linked. In this situation, we only want one student to be allowed to be linked to one job. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!

I’m building a social media content calendar using Airtable’s Digital Content Calendar template. I created Sections for each social media platform, but I haven’t found a simple way to link the actual posts per platform. I’ve been logging the posts as Records and then linking them to the Section. When I want to share the same post across four platforms, but at different times on the calendar, I’ve had to create four Records - one per Section/social platform. My goal is to see when they’re all scheduled in the calendar view, but it seems redundant to make four Records of the same posts for it to cover all four Sections/social platforms. For example, I’m sharing the same post on Twitter and Facebook on two different days. I would like to only make one Record, but link it to both Twitter and Facebook and have it show up in my calendar view on two separate times. What’s the most efficient way to do this?

Hello, brand new user, here! :slightly_smiling_face: I see the ability to edit permissions of a field so that only specific users can edit a field; however, is there a way to set the permissions so that only specific users can see the field to begin with? We want to include some sensitive information in our database that can only be seen/accessed by certain employees. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

Is there a way to automate this system of numbering new records: Q-19001 - “19” is tells me it’s from 2010 and then it’s followed by a 3 digit autonumber. Q-20001 - that’s the first record for 2020 and the 3 digit sequence resets itself. I have two questions - Which formula command “extracts” the 2 digit year (YY) from a “date created” field for example? I can’t seem to figure that one out. I am sure it’s easy… How do I set the autonumber field as having to have 3 digits - and is there a way to have the auto-numbers reset every year? (Someone had suggested to manually adjust the formula at the beginning of each year by subtracting the highest number of last year - that’s certainly one way of doing it.) Thank you so much in advance.

Hello Folks, I am totally new to Airtable, I work as a content planning manager, so I want to build a base that’s is collaborative and at the same time keeps sensitive info to their owners, For instance: I have 5 content owners, each is ingesting his data to his view and involuntary to the main base, however, they have some sensitive columns, they don’t want these to be visible to anyone.even if they changed their view to personal, other collaborators can’t see it but still can unhide the columns to the main base or to their own views. What’s the best practice to create such a thing, where everybody is ingesting all information to the same place and hide whatever they want to their own only? Could you please help me with that, thanks in advance to you all.

Hi, I’ve just learned how to set up a simple booking system with Airtable (cfr.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES1RyNPv_Kg). Now, is there any way to automate the meeting availabilities based on a recurring schedule (eg.: for the next 2 weeks from today)? Thanks for your help! :raised_hands:

I’m trying to upload a set of data using the CSV import block - wondering if when you get the warning of ‘2 cell values couldn’t be mapped’ there’s any way to see which cells that is referring to. Does anyone know?

I have a page designer document set up to send to the client using photos the contractor’s uploaded of their work through the various stages. At times these contractors upload wrong, blurry, inconsistent to project photos. Is there a way to choose which photos are attached to the document without downloading, copy/pasting the best photos out of a selection of 500-1000 photos a day?

Hello Airtable Community! I’m using Airtable to keep track of a series of components on a customer site via the Serial Number, location and revision level and am currently trying to merge data from an inspection table and a installation tracker table to spit out the most recent entry entry so that I have an accurate real time master sheet. Unfortunately neither of these are perfectly accurate or complete so they often fill each others data gaps. The current issue I’m having is I can’t seem to find a way to stack serial numbers from 2 fields into a single field. I figured this would be a good way to compile a master list and then use a formula to clear duplicates and keep the most recent entries. If there is a better way about going this I’m all ears as well! Best Regards, Nico

I have data in a pipeline and I am using lookup to pull it into my base. They are connected by the Company name field which is linked. The problem is that we have multiple customers with the same name. (They are churches). Each record is unique but when the lookup runs it pulls in multiples. The example below shows Trinity UMC. This is one specific record but the lookup pulled data from every Trinity UMC we have. How can I get it to look at each instance of Trinity UMC as a unique record? Do I need to connect the two with a different field such as ID#? That would be unique on all 22000 records.

Hello, Is there any body facing the same issue as me? Since June all my tables automatically shows “all views” column as long as I open one and it’s annoying. Might have set up something by accident but didn’t know how to fix it.

Record history is good - but I need it to display the actual dates that events have occurred for each recond. My history column for an expanded record shows things like ‘3 mo’ to indicate that a record update or change was made about 3 months ago. I need the actual date. How can I see that?

I am new to Airtable and am sure I am missing something very basic here. I have a base with a table of clients. I am trying to work with and better understand how to sort my table, but am clearly missing something. I have reviewed the posts I’ve found related to this topic and have not yet resolved my issue. Following the API docs, I have modified my codes as follows. let table = base.getTable(‘Client Appointments’); let result = await table.selectRecordsAsync({ sorts: [ {field: “Client Name”, direction: “desc”}, ] }) All I am trying to do is simply sort my client table by the name column in des order, but the table never changes. If I update my code to include output.table(result.records), then the output displayed following script execution in shows the outputted table with the sort order as defined in my code. However, the actual table remains unchanged. What am I missing that is resulting in the table not sorting as expecte

Hey Airtable community! I am making a order form for my delivery business in Airtable’s Page Designer block and am running into the problem of having too much information in one text box and all the informaiton from the origional cell not being included. Is there a way to fix this?

Hi, hopefully I can explain what I am looking for. I have several tables - “In the News”; “Events” and “Projects”. Each of those tables has detailed information (date, description, etc.) on each individual event / project / news item. I also have a field in each of those tables that links to a “Topics” table, so I can tag specific topics (e.g. coworking, consulting, affordable housing, etc.) that each news article, event or project could relate to. The problem that I am having is that I want to be able to see the detailed view of Events, sorted by topic. If I sort in the Events table by grouping topics, then events with multiple topics get put in their own separate category (ie if an Event is tagged “coworking” and “consulting” it will show up as its own category, rather than showing twice, once in the “coworking” category and once in the “consulting” category which is what I want). If I go to the topics table and group by topic, I have to click into each linked

The problem is visible in the video. Video Checked for 2 phones with android 9 and 10 versions. If you reload the application, the correct picture will be sent for the first time. All further attempts to send another picture will fail. Pictures will be replaced first.

Hello–I have a simple question that I am struggling to solve. I am trying to calculate the difference between two dates but I need it to count full days. For example in the first record Start date of 1/2 and end date of 1/3 needs to equal 2 and not 1. The same with the 3 record–I need a formula that will calculate this to be 5 and not 4. Thanks in advance.

Hi all. i have some issues to connect airtable and google calendar wit Zapier. it seems that there is always an issue when zapier tries to get the datetime from airtable. Do you know which field i should use on airtable so Zapier recognises it properly? "im lost and a newbie :frowning: Big thanks for the support

Hello, I am trying to create a simple application that does two main things: It allows for the creation of a profile record for a person, with about 100 fields. That profile needs to be updatable using a variety of different forms, depending on who is updating the record. For example, the record will be created when the person fills out their initial intake form, with about 20 fields. Later, different people will use different forms to look at, update, modify, and add new values to other fields in the users record. The forms should be reasonably usable but don’t have to be beautiful, but they must be pre-populated with any existing fields. Once the data is ready, we need to have a way to trigger a webmerge to a document output. Currently this is done in webmerge/formstack and the actual document part of this is working well. So, it might be enough to just integrate Airtable to webmerge/formstack and leave that part alone.

Hey guys, this is prolly a pretty dumb question but hopefully y’all can help me out with it. I have a Airtable I want to split the views on where something is in the process- I.E. I have Video’s---- They are out for Transcribing,So I want all the Videos that are out for Transcribing to be in a block vs a list. I have attached some photos. of how I want it t o look like.

Hi - I’m (somewhat) new to Airtable, I’m trying to figure out how the heck to get a Gantt chart view INTO the calendar view. It seems that this would be incredibly simple, and yet nothing allows me to move or enable that view in the calendar. The system just keeps asking me if I’d like to enable Gantt chart visualization - which I DID download, but it’s just sitting there in the dashboard on the side. Any advice as to how to make this work? Thank you.

I am constrained to link to the same table due to the requirements from the flowchart block. The problem is that as far as I understand, to make a self-link field accepted by the flowchart block, you have to you have to assign the values manually? In my case right now, this self-linking field could be easily automated if I could use a formula field. But again, this it is not picked up by the flowchart block.

Hello all, I am encountering the following problem when working with Airtable. We are currently checking if and how we can set up a structure to access and interpret our data easily. To do that, we need to have data on when items are getting published to our Shopify. Of course, we also need retrospective data of all our items. Meaning we need to know at what time did we upload each item to Shopify. Is there a way to access this data in some kind of way? Meaning is it possible to look up at what time each individual row/item id got created? Ideally, we would know the exact day of upload for each ItemID. If we manage that, I can cross-reference that our remaining database and then start digging deeper into the problem. I hope you understood my question/problem. All the best Johan