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Hi there! I see that if you change the end date of a predecessor to end later than the start date of any of its successors, the start dates of those successors will change automatically. However, I’m curious if there’s a way to do two other things. Automatically compress the time between variables to start the next day. For instance, say I’m eager to make a cake and two of my variables are making the batter (which takes me 2 days) and baking the cake (which takes me 1 day). If currently taking the batter is on Monday and baking the cake is on Friday is there a way to shrink this time, so baking the cake would start as soon as making the batter wraps up. Or do I have to do that manually? Automatically have a successors move up in time when you move a predecessor up in time. So, once the two variables are happening the next day. So making my batter would start on Monday, it would take me two days, and then baking the cake would star

Is it possible to map header fields so that I can import an Excel spreadsheet into an existing table that has several different headers?

I need to link a table of 1 base to another base : is it possible? or : how can i copy a table of 1 base to another base without retyping everything? thanks !

Imagine this scenario - I want to create an invoice line. I have a product table of product_code and sales_price. I have the product code and quantity in the invoice line table and want to lookup the sales_price and copy it into the invoice line table field sold_price_each. I can do it with a lookup but that has a problem. If the price of the item changes in future, then the invoice will change after it’s been issued, which is no good at all! I am new to Airtable and cant see a way forward on this one. Any help appreciated.

Hello! New to Airtable, and wanting to explore using the gallery view as a front end for an application catalog of tools available at my company. The gallery view is almost perfect, but I would like to be able to link directly from the gallery card without forcing the user to click on the card, then click on the URL. Is there any way possible to remove the second detail pop-up and have the card directly link to a detail page on our intranet? Example gallery view: Redundant popup I want to remove (and link directly from the card to the URL): Thanks

Can someone please share what formula I would use to update the day for holidays that change each year? For example, MLK Day, President’s Day, Good Friday, etc. all change each year. I’m using a social media calendar template and the current formula is not auto-updating the holiday dates for 2020.

Hi all, I came across an article saying https://www.supportcolumbuseats.com/ was created to help covid-19 affected restaurants in Ohio using Airtables and Squarespace. I am trying to do something similar for the affected restaurants in my area. How do I use Airtables to create the checkbox filters? Thank you.

Hi there, I have linked two tables & then a data column was lookup in the second table. But, when I created a form I cant see the lookup field in options. Is there a way so that we can add the lookup field in forms? Thanx!!

I am creating quote base. It would be helpful for me to get auto suggestion of list of words if I type the same thing in the cell that’s been rooted in the same column. So that I can I avoid duplications. Is there anyway to do this? Thank you so much in advance for your kind support.

Hey All! Here’s what I’d like to do, not sure HOW… Notify Teams of people at once when a new record is added. I have a list of team members, working on multiple projects. For example: Bob works on project 1 and 2 Bill works on project 1 and 3 Sally works on project 2 and 3 I want to assign people to these projects as a TEAM. For example: Project 1 - Team 1(multiple people linked) Project 2 - Team 2 (multiple people linked) Project 3 - Team 3 (multiple people linked) Then when I add a record - have a field that has TEAM as an option, and when I select Team 1, all people associated with Team 1 would get a notification. The same way as a collaborator field would do but with this Team group. I can see making the groups with people and linking the tables, but how do I get the Team selection to send out the notification. Thanks in advance for any/all help! Cheers

Hello I created already a few Airtable database, although I’m still a newbie :winking_face: Before I start a database and table design, I try to make a drawing on paper, with the different tables, and especially the fields that are linked to another record and those that lookup information in another table. If you get these right, you’re more than halfway :winking_face: Today I still use pen and paper to get the design roughly and with arrows drawn on paper, I can see the relationship between the fields in the tables, before I start programming. My question is : Is there a handy tool, cloud-based and free ;), that would make these drawings and the design of the database easier ? And if this simple tool would have an export to Airtable, so that you have already the database with the relational fields, that would be a great bonus :winking_face: Thanks for your suggestions, Michel

Good morning, pretty new Airtable user, but liking it so far. I’m running into a challenge with this requirement: I need to take a list of sales managers, reference their staff, based upon multiple tiers, referencing the sales staff’s number of sales, and calculate a bonus amount for the sales managers. I’ve considered linked tables, scripts, and junction tables. I can’t SEARCH/FIND for this nor create an IF statement that’ll do it. I’m unsure how a Junction table would help, and haven’t really dug into the script block yet. Basically I need to find an employee ID in another record, as referenced in the “manager ID” field of the original record, and then pull data from another column (sales numbers). This would be trivial in a Google Sheet/Excel, but no go so far. Ideas would be much appreciated, with code examples if possible, thanks much!

Hello everyone, I am trying Airtable to prepare some reports. For this purpose, I need to create a graphs to represent month on month change in planned numbers as compared to actual numbers. For Exmaple, I have 5 projects, say - P1, P2, P3, P4 and P5. I have planned some hours on each project for May and June. I am also tracking my actual work hours on these. We can use this data for create a graph: |Project|Month|Planned Hours|Actual Hours| |P1 |May|15|18| |P2|May|18|12| |P3|May|25|30| |P4|May|20|23| |P5|May|22|16| |P1|Jun|20|10| |P2|Jun|25|27| |P3|Jun|15|20| |P4|Jun|23|15| |P5|Jun|30|40|

Hi everyone, This is my first post here. Hoping to get ideas that could solve my problem. Here’s my setup: I have a table where I upload CSV files to. Each row contains, among other information, a price and an attribution to both an item and a vendor. I decided to list the prices in rows and not in columns (as often seen in the forum). Existing records are merged by a unique value consisting of the vendor’s name and the item’s name. As you can imagine, there can be different prices for one item from different vendors. One item can “occupy” up to 5 rows. So although I only have 10’000 items, the limits of my base in PRO can easily be reached by this setup (by the way, if you have an idea how to set the whole thing up more effectively, please let me know :slightly_smiling_face: . To save space, I thought about only keeping the two lowest prices for each item. As for the more expensive prices, I want to create a view in which I can eas

From what I’ve read about the field permissions this isn’t possible, but I hope someone has found a workaround for this? Without Forms, preferably! On View 1 I’d like a field to be utilized by all. then as the workflow progresses and moves to view 2 this field is locked to prevent the user from making changes to the filed and so on.

I manage online content for multiple companies. I need a way to get feedback on content revisions from my client, but don’t want them to see any tables or data that is not specific to their company. For example: Company A has 12 items. I have a view in a table that is specific to this company’s items. I have edited two fields: 1. Title and 2. Description I need to give them visibility to these fields, in addition to about 6 others that are reference only and static, but I also want to give them the ability to give feedback in a “Client Comments” field. A shareable URL does not allow them to add “Client Comments”. I think I could do it in a form, but am not sure how to filter it such that the form is ONLY Client A and the items/fields/values that are displayed (Title and Description) are ONLY for Client A.

Hello, we have some inspectors out in the field and have recently upgraded their tablets and phones. Previously (on their older devices) the images they would upload were 1mb or less, wouldn’t take long to upload and wouldn’t use too much data. Now that we have upgraded (ipad mini’s and galaxy s10 for example) the photos are generally 5mb+ causing longer upload times and using all the data very quickly. Does anyone have ideas about how to make the photo quality lower? We don’t need high resolution photos. We have tried adjusting the resolution in the camera apps but they don’t go anywhere as small as the previous devices. I know there are ways to reduce the image size/quality after the photo is taken with other apps etc but that’s not really practical if they are taking 10-20 photos an hour and need to line the photos up with some other data when inputting into airtable. thank you in advance for any ideas.

I want to connect basic pageviews/unique pageviews from GA to our AirTable Editorial Calendar. The edit calendar has full URLs https://www.oursite.com/path. GA, of course, only has /path. How can I automate matching these records? Is there a way to bulk edit all URLs to insert or delete https://www.oursite.com? Something easier?

Hi - is it possible to color multiple columns using the conditional logic? For instance, we have 8 columns: Budget 1 Spend 1 Difference 1 Budget 2 Spend 2 Difference 2 When setting up the conditional logic, we’d love to be able to say “if the difference is less than x, make the field green.” If isn’t possible, are there any workarounds that you would suggest? Thank you!

I share different data with outside organizations. Should I setup a Base for each organization? If so, how would I track activity globally among all of the organizations in the same workspace?

I created a base for artists, all of whom will have multiple pieces of art listed. Each piece has an (attachment) image field, and 3 other text fields: price, dimensions, and medium associated with it. I need to link those fields (columns) together, but unique to each artist (listed in rows). (Otherwise, we won’t be able to match up the details to the art image, if not linked together). How do I do this?

Is there a way to write a formula that inserts the date when a change is made to a record? I would like to automatically show the date when I change a single select item from one selection to another. (I am changing from “in progress” to “closed” and I’d like to see the date I closed the record without having to remember to add that in a separate field).

I have a base that I’m using to track contractors, the projects they are working on, & all of the tickets they submit for payment. I have the project, contractor, and invoice tables all linked and that seems to be working fine. Each contractor will have multiple tickets per day that will be combined to generate one invoice at the end of the week. Would it be better for me to add a field for tickets and link it somehow or add a table for ticket information and then link that however?

Hi In Israel the week starts in Sunday. Is there a way to change the calendar view accordingly?

How can I capture selected text using CSS selectors. The use case is that I want to capture some interesting lines/quotes from articles that I am reading. I tried using the ::selection however it does not seem to work. I am selecting the text manually myself so, it’s not that difficult to make a copy and do a paste after opening the extension. But having the selection populate automatically would be cool.