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Hi there! :grinning: Thanks in advance for taking the time to help me out. I’m new to airtable and I’m currently evaluating if I can use it for my small business to do the budgeting for my projects. I actually think what I’m looking for is too much of a spreadsheet functionality which isn’t supported by airtable as a database tool. But I would love to be wrong because it would make my life so much easier if it was possible: I’m trying to calculate the costs of each of my departments and usually just have a long list of items and staff. Some fields I need to be the percentage of the total costs (and update automatically if the total sum changes). For instance I would like to have a field with contingency costs of 5% of the total sum. Am I right assuming that there is no easy formula that can do that? And I would have to follow a complicated workaround with rollup fields and a linked table instead, because you can’t use summary values in formula fields? I feel like I’m really in a pick

Hey guys! I would like help to develop a formula that would give me the day “02” closest to the date of a specific field. For example: If in the {Purchase day} field the date is 02/25/2021, I would like the formula to show me 03/02/2021, if {Purchase day} is 05/14/2021, I would like the field show me 02/06/2021. I hope I managed to explain. Thanks in advance! PS: I also need help creating a formula that shows me the “02” day of the next month if the day of {date of purchase} is greater than 02. I’m trying to automate credit card billing. I’m racking my brain a lot.

I have an asset that is linked to an owner with a % holding and to many valuations. I want to view the data for a selected owner, with a current value of the asset calculated from that owner’s % multiplied by the LATEST valuation - ie from the valuation record with the latest date. Filtering is easy enough and rollup field looks promising but there seems no way to use the latest valuation record in the calculation. I need to select the person and then print or export the results that values their entire estate by combining latest asset valuation with % owned. Is a custom app needed (that feels unlikely given what I want to achieve would be trivial in SQL)? interfaces don’t seem to do it and views neither as far as I have been able to determine so far. It seems like something that would be used frequently but I’m in my first few hours with AirTable so a pointer to a help article would be great, thanks in advance!

Hi guys, in the spirit of Christimas I’m in charge of a support group for people in need. We have got a lot of applicants who really need our help to make sure their kids are going to get a gift this year. I’ve got a ton of gift cards in a single column in excel, and I’d like to distribute all the gift card codes to the recipients. Now here’s the kicker: the recipients have different amounts of kids, which means they need different amounts of giftcards. I’m trying to figure out an automation that links a number of times from the recipients sheet to the gift cards code sheet, while never linking to the same code more than once. The route I’d go would be to make a formula field which counts how many links are in a ‘link to an another record’ field, and if there’s less than the number of children in the family (a manual number field), then it keeps adding a new link from the gift card sheet. But the last part is not really doable in automations, as I see it…? Worst case: I’ll do it by han

I share View links with different stakeholders so they can see records that fall under their department. I want to be able to have a View or some other easy to way to see what records they edited so I can review any changes that were made. Since they are typically making the edits after clicking on the link and not signing in, the Last Modified By usually shows as Anonymous. This has made it hard for me to filter since any records submitted through my form also show Anonymous. So I’m trying to find a way either to be able to specifically view edits made through the shared links or perhaps on the flip side make it so that records submitted through the form don’t show Anonymous for Last Modified By so those wouldn’t be populated using a filter showing Anonymous changes.

For video editing purposes, how can I input timecode into a field? The format could be either: H:MM:SS (hours:minutes:seconds) MM:SS (minutes:seconds) In the article Supported format specifiers for DATETIME_FORMAT I found “Preset timestamp format”, but that’s a timestamp. My desired format is time duration, similar to a stopwatch. Thanks!

This is so simple, and yet no matter what I try, nothing works. :confused: I want the due date to be 2 days after the creation date. I’ve tried a hundred variations of: DATEADD({Created},+2,‘days’) …to no avail. What am I missing??

If I choose a record in the record picker that has information in a connected field and then choose another record where that field is empty, the information of the previously chosen record shows up. Any ideas?

I have a column which has multiple linked records as Contacts in. Then I have lookup fields for the contact information (email and phone number) for those linked records. I am trying to make another column as a concatenate formula which shows “{Contact Name 1}, {Email Address 1}, {Phone Number 1}”. But because I have multiple linked records in a column it is instead coming up as “{Contact Name 1}, {Contact Name 2} {Email Address 1}, {Email Address 2} {Phone Number 1}, {Phone Number 2}”. Is there a way in the formula for me to limit how the information populates by linked record vs information requested?

Hi, How can I hide data in column for specific colleagues with editors role? For example, my table have columns A, B, C, D I want that editors can view and edit A, B,C columns But column D will be hide for them And only I as a creator can view and edit data in column D

I’m working on an app that will have a free tier and a paid tier, and I’d like to add a button to let users sign up to a paid tier from inside the app. What are the general guidelines regarding building sign up and payment features into AirTable apps?

Since finding Airtable, we have been actively creating many apps to digitise our businesses. So far we pretty much have a base for each app. Some apps are for a specific company of ours, whilst some like HR and Tax/Assets are apps that apply to more than one of our companies. We use Stacker as the interface for most users. We have come to realise that there are some data that might make sense to be thier own base(s). Contact (suppliers, customers, staff, everyone any company comes into a transaction with) is one example. Products is another (things that all companies buys, and in some cases, maintain as assets). So, I would like some advice if it does make sense to create these two data sets as their own Bases and sync one-way to any destination base that needs/interacts with them. It would presumably mean that Contacts and Products become it’s own separate app, and anytime a new Contact or Product interacts with any of the other apps, a new record needs to first be created in th

Hello, I’m trying to create a new block, but npm install -g @airtable/blocks-cli is not working The error log: ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:286:5) node-pre-gyp ERR! System Darwin 19.3.0 node-pre-gyp ERR! command “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@airtable/blocks-cli/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp” “install” “–fallback-to-build” node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@airtable/blocks-cli/node_modules/nodegit node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v12.18.0 node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.13.0 node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@airtable/blocks-cli/node_modules/nodegit/build/Release/nodegit.node --module_name=nodegit --module_path=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@airtable/blocks-cli

Hello all, I’m trying to figure out a clean way of writing a formula for a Lookup table that can hold up to 4 variables at any time (A,B,C,D). Based on these variables, I want the formula output the following: IF(Lookup contains: “A or B or C or A,B or A,B,C” - in any given order), output “Inhouse”, but if D is also present, still output “Inhouse”. If only D is present, then output “Foreign”. Is there a clean way to write this? Thanks so much in advance!

The processing (or calculations) I need to perform are currently done in a Google Sheet. The calculations in the sheet are straightforward but have about 20 steps, and the final result is a string (an array) in a cell in the Google Sheet. I want that result in a cell back in AirTable. I am sure there’s a way to write a custom script with Javascript in an Automation and write result to the cell. I’ve started, but I’m not strong with JS. I would like to explore other more low/nocode ways do these calculations. I imagine there exists some other low/nocode SaaS tool that you can build a little black-box app with build business logic and calculations and spit out a result. In summary, here’s what I’m currently doing that I need to automate without Google Sheets: Row in AirTable has 5 values. I manually copy those 5 values into a Google Sheet, which does a bunch of calculations, involving creating a 12-period time series with about 20 rows of partial calculations, ultimately collecting the

I am trying to build a table for my husband’s business that will show the commission earned for each of his employees. He has a column for Grand Total of Sale, Salesperson Commission %, and Salesperson $. He would put in the Grand Total and the Salesperson commission percent but needs the Salesperson $ field to populate. I know this is a very easy formula for all of you but I am obviously new to this. Thank you in advance for all your help.

I have a Timesheets base with a “Timesheets” table that is filled when my workers submit timesheets each month. I have a separate “Rates” table (in a different base) that is synced to my Timesheets base and table. In this Rates table, I have a list of rates connected to each of my referral partners, including a start and stop date. If they do not have a stop date then that rate is considered active, if it does have a stop date than that is not an active rate. My problem is that I am currently manually syncing the Rates table Referral partner to the Timesheet entry, and it’s too much work and error prone. The whole point of doing Rates in a different table was to not break that past timesheet entry’s as you can see here: Financial reporting dynamic changing past data - #3 by Justin_Barrett I am looking for a script that can automatically detect what record selection to make in the Timesheets table from the Rates table, connecting my referral partner to the timesheet. The identifier can

Hi, I’m trying to update a record and select specific options in a multi-select field via Integromat and need some help. One of my preceding modules in Integromat gives me an array of destinations. Something like this: Destinations = [Africa, Asia, Australia and South Pacific, Central America and Caribbean, Europe, Middle East, North America, Polar Regions, South America] In Airtable I have a multi-select field with these exact options I referred to this thread, but can’t get Integromat to put the original multi-select values directly into the multi-select field as suggested by @ScottWorld. When I try this, I keep getting a “Cannot parse value for field Destination Options”. As you can see from the image above, I am using an iterator to iterate through each value in the Array and pass on the Update Airtable Record module hoping that on each iteration, the next item from the Array, i.e. one destination at a time, will get ‘checked’ in the multi-select field in Airtable. Am I going abo

Hi beloved Airtable Community! I’ve got an issue with a VALUE formula. I have a Rollup field that does a ARRAYUNIQUE job from a Lookup Field which is formatted as a % (i.e. 36%). The output I get from the Rollup field is a string (i.e. 0.357142852346992). I tried various ways to convert it back to a number like: Within the formula of the Rollup, try VALUE(ARRAYUNIQUE(values)) Create a new formula field that performs VALUE(ROLLUP FIELD) But both outputs give me “#ERROR” I’ve read some articles about VALUE behavior but not sure to understand how it might help in that particular case. Would you have any hints? Thanks a lot, appreciate it!

Hi All! So here is what I’d like to do. I have a base with four tables. All look precisely the same in terms of fields (types and names). For your understanding, the first three tables are lists with data about particular individuals. And the last table includes all individuals. My goal is to create a field on the fourth table that will let me know by the person’s “Name” (which is the first field) in which table he/she is located. But, some of the records repeat themselves in different tables, so I’d also like to know if the record is in “table1” and “table 2”. Thanks In Advance, -Bar.

Hi, i’m strugling with it 3rd day and read many docs about querying with fetch on JS, but seems like my understanding of web stuff is not enough. I used similar method for fetching from API with JSON, or from simple html site parcing text, but here I can’t achieve desired goal. Site is a base of clients, sorry but for now I didn’t have approve to disclose real name. https://search.somelongdomain.com, reloading to https://search.somelongdomain.com/ClientSearch.php?Accept=Accept it contains form with “Name”, “LastName” etc, then “Start Date”, “End Date” and two buttons, Search and Reset. After submitting “start_date”, “end_date” i press Search and have list of Clients registered within this period, 20-50 names for 2-3 days, and that’s my desired result. output loaded as https://search.somelongdomain.com/NamePick.php, it’s a form with name table and checkbox near each, but that’s ok, i know how to extract my data from any type of text format is html text, site looks a bit old, it doesn’t

Hi, I’m looking to set up automations to remind me of due dates. I was using a datetimediff formula, but it says NaN. I want to take todays date-the due date and have it show how many days until the due date, then I was going to schedule an automation to send out whenever tasks are due in 3 days or less. The formula I’m using is: DATETIME_DIFF({Today’s Date}, {Due Date }, ‘days’)

Hi there! I’m not sure what the best solution is here and I would love your input. My company writes books for service professionals who want to help more people and gain credibility/visibility. We (I say we, it’s just me right now) use the same process for writing the book for every client. This process is date-dependent and everything is dependent on several things that come before it. Eventually, we will be adding more writers and assigning them to different clients’ projects. I have created a template of the process and I enjoy looking at it in the Gantt view. Very satisfying. My first question is: Do you think I should just create a separate base for each client or can I put all the clients in one base, potentially having 5-10 of the same process happening at any given time? Ideally, I’d like to see all the client’s projects in one view so I can see where we are, who is doing what, where there are any delays and what needs to get done in one view. How would I do that? Right now my

Hello! I’m not great with formulas, but I’ve spent hours on google and airtable forums trying to figure out how to do this. Let me see if I can explain this well. I have a string of text and I’m trying to find the first name of the person listed in the text. The text looks something like this: Hi Stylist, You have a new reservation. Customer First Name: John Customer Last Name: Doe Customer Phone #: 1234567890 Customer Email: johndoe@gmail.com Location: Salon Date: Thursday, December 9, 2021 Service: Package 1 Employee: Stylist Time: 1:45pm Yours Truly, The Team I just want to grab the First name only from the string and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to format the formula. Any help would be much appreciated!!

Hi, Folks. I had created a form for collecting data. I put in example link. Airtable Airtable | Everyone's app platform Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free. I didn’t set up any option in my form. But the form link dosen’t work that customer can not fill in the form. The link moved to log-in page. How can i fix it? Best, Daniel