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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

Hi Dear, I try to create a table for Calls (duration, caller name, description, some statistic data about the caller (sex, age, location)). I have another table with Regular callers, who calls us frequently, with all the their statistics (sex, age, location). In the Calls table there is a linked field to choose the regular caller. I would like that if I choose a regular caller all the statistic data I already recorded in the regular caller table to be copied in the Calls table. But lookup fields are not good solutions for this, because if the caller is not a regular one (regular caller field is blank) I need to give these statistics here manually. In case of lookup the system does not allow it. Is there a solution for this? Thanks a lot Tamás

I have a view that is grouped by a single select field called Program Name. In this view I can see a count of records per Program Name. How can I create a script to give me a count of records grouped by program name? Ultimately I want to create an automation that will email me a summary of records by Program Name. I cannot do a linked field as the Program Name is a single select field chosen by a form.

Hi, I have a base that has two tables with linked records. Table1 fields : Name, Number, Sum (linked to table2) Table2 fields: Name, record, Table1, Total (roll up value of each category of name) This works beautifully manually, for every new record i create in Table1. But has been failing in automation. This is what I am doing: Trigger on new record creation: Note: in table 2 I have a row with unique “name” from table 1. In this action I am trying to find the record with name == name of the record created. And finally, Update the field “sum” in Table1 with the record found in previous step. The tests pass, but actually fails when a new record is created. Screenshot below. Apparently, it’s an invalid filter on the record. It appears simple and at this point I do not know how to fix it OR why it’s not working. Can any one assist in getting this to work please? Thank you.

Hello everyone! This is probably a simple question, but I could not figure out the answer. I have an Object and two arrays: const arr = [1,2,3]; const arr2 = []; const obj = {}; obj.id = arr[0]; obj.fields = {}; obj.fields["Array items"] = arr; arr2.push(obj); console.log(arr2); //array contains 3 items as expected arr.length = 0; //empty array console.log(arr2); //array is empty As I understand the Object instance keeps only a pointer to the array. Is it possible with an Object to keep a copy of array contents and how to achive that? Thank you in advance.

I am experimenting with Webhooks to move data back and forth between bases. I just want to make sure what I am seeing/doing is necessary. When I setup a test POST from an external tool to test the webhook, any data elements defined the JSON are created as values in javascript editor. However, I would prefer to read the entire json object as new fields may become necessary. What I did was create an object that looked like this: { "theData" : "Anything" } I tested the webhook and “theData” was available to the script editor. I then created a more representative object like this: { "theData" : { "fieldOne" : "Some data", "fieldTwo" : "More data", "fieldThree" : "and even more data" } } This works fine and my code is working. Is this how I have to set it up? If I send the second structure as a test, the script editor forces me to select one of the nested fields. I cannot select the top level key. It’s not the worst thing to have to do but it does seem like a bit of an extra step.

Hi! I’m trying to make an automation that will notify me when an entered record shares a field with other entries within a certain time. Essentially, we track issue tags and want to know if there have been 3 issue tags in the same state within a two week period (the state and receipt date are tracked as fields on the issue tag). My thought is to make a formula that counts how many entries within the past two weeks share a state with the given entry, and make that the condition for the automation. My question is, what formula (or group of formulas) would I use to look at other entries? I can’t seem to find formulas that look anywhere except inside entry that the formula outputs on. If I can’t do it with formulas, is there an app that will help me? Thanks

I’m a casting director. I have a table of Artists with their info and I have a table of Shows. To each Show I can assign multiple artists (they are linked). But I also need to assign a specific role to each artist involved. The kinds of roles are different for every Show, each Artist may be part of multiple shows. It is easiest for me, conceptually, to enter info per Show: Title, Date, (Venue and 6 more fields of info), what artists are involved and what roles they play. I don’t want to enter Title, Date, etc. repeatedly for each Artist in the Show.

Hello, I am building a base where I list fabrics, a little bit like a catalogue and each product (one product=one record) and have a set a fields for each to provide information on the product. One important information is the price, however sometimes the price is in €, $ or ¥ and I want it to be a number field so I can filter according to a value. For example if someone wants to look for a fabric costing between $0 to $5. The problem is that those 3 currencies do not have the same values ($1=¥ 6.5), so I had to create 3 different fields for each currencies but it makes the table quite heavy and harder to read (since there is always an empty field). I am trying to find a way to display the price only in one field whatever the currency. I would like to be able input the price and chose the currency and both would be display in one field. I tried this one is : “enter the price here” (number field) one is : “chose currency here” (single select field) and the last one is a formula field

Hi! So I know there is an app to show how each field is connected. Where it will show if a field in one table is linked to a field in another table via a lookup or formula, ect. My database has a LOT of fields and tables, so I’m trying to consolidate some of the info and am digging into how everything is connected before deleting anything. My question is - is there anyway to see how the fields are currently being utilized in views for filters and groups, before deleting a field? I hope that makes sense! Thanks!!

I was wondering if someone was able to help me out. I am looking use a formula to calculate the amount of days until an item has to be renewed. What I would like is that when it’s nested within an IF statement it is calculated as a VALUE rather than a STRING. The reason for the IF statement is that when the Expiry Date is empty, no value will show in the “Days Remaining” Field. Here is the formula: IF({Passport (Expiry)}=BLANK(),’’, DATETIME_DIFF({Passport (Expiry)},TODAY(),‘days’)) I’m likely missing something really obvious in this regard.

Hello guys! I would like help to do a subtraction according to the values ​​that are being established. The situation is as follows: I work in credit format with my clients, so they start the month with 8 credits, as they request me, I establish the value in credits and these are consumed. Because of this situation, I would like to create 3 columns, 1 column “Cost in credits”, 1 column “Remaining credits” and 1 column “Total credits”. As I establish the cost of each material, I would like the column “Remaining credits” to be the result of “Total credits”-“Cost in credits”(for each row). I know Airtable has a different focus than spreadsheets, but the point is that I’m really enjoying the platform and I’d like to centralize as much activities as possible here, my company is just starting out, so splitting things across multiple platforms ends up messing up the flow of work. If there is a way to do what I said, I would be very happy. Thanks in advance!

Any help on this issue would be really appreciated! I’m making a simple app to create quotes. I’ve got everything up and running to edit fields with the <Input /> component and for anything other than text it works great e.g. function updateRecord (quote, recordFields) { quotesTable.updateRecordAsync(quote, recordFields) } <Input name="Hire Start" type="date" value={quote.getCellValue('Hire Start')} onChange={(e) => updateRecord(quote, {'Hire Start': e.target.value})} /> However, when the input type is text (or currency, anything that can be typed quickly), there’s a very noticeable delay in the update to the cell value which makes input glitchy and, if you type fast enough, inputs get dropped. I then switched to controlling the <Input /> with a state object, only writing back to Airtable in a useEffect() that watched the state object. This solved the issue but now updates made in Airtable (outside of the app) are of course not reflected in th

Does Airtable allow to read the content within/ inside the documents/ attachments with its own APIs?

Use-case: As an airtable user/developer, I would like to invoke one custom script from multiple buttons within the same table and my custom script’s logic determines next steps to execute from the invoking button’s identifier. Does Airtable’s API (or workaround) currently support this functionality? I’d like to avoid creating multiple scripts for the same action and I’m not “there yet” as far as creating more robust custom apps. I attempted googling various phrasings of this question as well as referencing the Airtable help docs (and API docs) related to the custom button feature but could not find anything for certain so I thought I’d ask here!

Hi All, I’ve got a formula that tells me when a job post is about to expire, when it is expiring today, and when it’s expired. I would like it to display an “Acvite” status for all other days, is this possible within this formula? Any help would be appreciated! IF(IS_AFTER(TODAY(), {Expiration Date}), “ :x: Expired”, IF(IS_SAME(TODAY(), {Expiration Date}), “ :firecracker: Expires Today”, IF(IS_AFTER(TODAY(), DATEADD({Expiration Date}, -3, ‘days’)), “ :raising_hand_man:t2: Expires Soon”))),

Hello all, I want to display my Event Start Time and Event End Time as ISO 8601 format. I need it in this format so that when I export the csv and import into Adalo (no code app builder) that it will accept the time and date format correctly. The “Local Start Time” field is the airtable user’s local time. They input the time there, then select the Event time zone. The “Event Time Zone” field has a formula to show the correct time in that time zone. I want to also create a column to show the “Event Time Zone” in ISO 8601 format and with the correct UTC offset. I need this because I need to export this airtable and import it into Adalo as a csv. I saw a user “Kuovonne” do something similar, but I can’t figure out the formula to get the correct format and utc offset. This is the output that Kuovonne showed that I am looking for.

I have a list of single-select options that I would like to clean up without causing any records to have an empty single select status. For example, I would like to delete “sketching” and convert all instances of “sketching” to “researching” (these options can be found towards the bottom of the list in the image). That way, when I delete “sketching”, no record will have an empty single select field, and all records that had “sketching” will turn into “researching”. Is this possible? Thanks :sunflower:

Hello Airtablers, In my base I have a growing list of contacts with links to other tables such as their company/organization and the state the contact is in. I’m now starting to include the cities and states linked to the company/organizations’ headquarters as well. The issue is that so far I’ve just had a table with 50 states plus territories, but now I have companies that are headquartered in other countries I’m thinking i’ll have to create another table of countries? Or just create a new field for countries in the current organizations table? Also worth noting that I just want the HQ city info to be a simple text field. I currently use Stacker to create a front end application linked to my Airtable base and I’m not sure how to structure this update to my base so that I can keep my linked table of US states from getting cluttered with foreign states. Any ideas/thoughts are welcome!

I’m working on an app that needs to filter the table in some way. It doesn’t look like there is a way to update the filters in the app. Is this correct?

Hello everyone! I am trying to get an array of unique items which are objects of two keys {id: "record ID", name: "name of record"} To filter out duplicate items I use rather complicated way. I define 3 arrays: one for keeping collected data possibly having duplicates and later for cleaned data two others for keeping filtered ids and names Code looks like this: let d = []; let u = []; let v = []; d = [{id:1, name:"a"},{id:3, name:"b"},{id:3, name:"b"}]; console.log(d); u = [...new Set(d.map(d => d.id))]; v = [...new Set(d.map(d => d.name))]; d = []; let m = 0; while (m < u.length){ d[m] = {id:u[m],name:v[m]}; m++ } console.log(d); As you can see I am using a Set to filter out duplicates. Unfortunately, this works only for simpler arrays (or I do not know how to use it in my case). Is there any easier or brief way to do that? Any valuable suggestion is much appreciated.

Hi everyone So I have this simple IF formula IF({Method}=“Digital”,1,0) Where {Method} is a multiple choice field, and can contain different type beside “Digital”. My problem is that this formula returns 1, only when {Method} is strictly equal “Digital” and nothing else. And I want it to return 1 if one of values is “Digital”. For example: Digital, Offset, Heatpress

Hi community members! I`m trying to sync change between 2 columns on Formula. (or…Is it possible??) ①:A specific textbox update (Formulas with text appended under certain conditions) ②:IF①`S record created,A specific “Checkbox” becomes :heavy_check_mark: Any ideas on how to solve this? (or recommend “automation”??) Thank you!