Hi all, I’m also trying to do this from Filemaker for an art gallery. Over 1000 records all with single images (in a filemaker container field). Any solutions found?
Hi all, I’m also trying to do this from Filemaker for an art gallery. Over 1000 records all with single images (in a filemaker container field). Any solutions found?
Hi @Ben_Stevens,
I am both a Certified FileMaker Developer and an Airtable consultant.
There is no direct or simple way to do this, but it can definitely be done with some work put into it.
First, all of your container field images would need to be migrated to a cloud image hostIng provider, and then the URL’s of each image would need to be stored in FileMaker for each record. You will need to either use your image host’s API or (possibly) Claris Connect to make this happen.
After that, you would need to interact with Airtable’s API from within FileMaker to carry over all of your attachment URL’s into Airtable and make sure that they are connected to the proper records. (The attachments will be stored in Airtable, so you can get rid of the attachments from your cloud hosting provider after the migration is complete.) Alternatively, you could just migrate over your data into Airtable by putting the URLs into a URL field in Airtable, and then use this extension to convert your URLs into attachments.
This entire process is somewhat technical, so if you need to hire an expert to help you with this, please feel free to send me a private message.
Best,
Scott
Hi @Ben_Stevens,
I am both a Certified FileMaker Developer and an Airtable consultant.
There is no direct or simple way to do this, but it can definitely be done with some work put into it.
First, all of your container field images would need to be migrated to a cloud image hostIng provider, and then the URL’s of each image would need to be stored in FileMaker for each record. You will need to either use your image host’s API or (possibly) Claris Connect to make this happen.
After that, you would need to interact with Airtable’s API from within FileMaker to carry over all of your attachment URL’s into Airtable and make sure that they are connected to the proper records. (The attachments will be stored in Airtable, so you can get rid of the attachments from your cloud hosting provider after the migration is complete.) Alternatively, you could just migrate over your data into Airtable by putting the URLs into a URL field in Airtable, and then use this extension to convert your URLs into attachments.
This entire process is somewhat technical, so if you need to hire an expert to help you with this, please feel free to send me a private message.
Best,
Scott
Hi Ben need to transfer a 700 item database from filemaker to airtable
can we talk about it ?
eliasmenasse@me.com
Hi Ben need to transfer a 700 item database from filemaker to airtable
can we talk about it ?
eliasmenasse@me.com
Welcome to the community, @Elias_Menasse!
I have sent you an email!
Best,
Scott