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Hello! I’m fairly new to using Airtable but right now I am creating an application where I pull data from a table I created and populate React components with that data. It’s a pretty simple integration and has been pretty straight forward for the most part but the only thing I am struggling with at the moment is pulling an image I stored in a table. I know Airtable has the “Attachment” datatype which is what I’ve been using but it’s been causing me runtime errors every time I try to pull the image for each record. Is there a better way to store and fetch images using Airtable? Is it better to use a third party alternative?

I’m from the UK, I want to store contacts including their post code. I want to somehow have the table display the area in which the contact lives based off the first part of their postcode. So for example if I have John Smith who lives in PL5 9KG, I want a formula to display only the ‘PL5’ part of his postcode, and then somehow have the next field then look this PL5 up in another table and then display ‘PLYMOUTH’. This would need to work for other, longer post codes too like PL21 or TR58. I already have the formula "LEFT(Postcode,4) to get the first 4 characters of the postcode field (Including the space if it’s only 3 characters at the start), but that’s as far as I have got. I have looked at various threads on here but can’t seem to work it out!

Hi everyone, I want to create a formula that gives the first day of the current month, one that gives the last date of the current month, and one for the first day of the next month. Does anyone have suggestions? Thanks in advance

Slightly different from the other many birthday calculations. I have AGE(date of record opened) and need to calculate AGE(Current). I do NOT have a birthdate and can’t get it. How do I calculate - DateCreated - XX(years) = YOB Which would allow me to then use - DATETIME_DIFF(TODAY(), {YOB}, ‘years’)

I have created an weekly triggered automation I want to call the Airtable Form Designer App, that i have installed on dashboard. This App is configured to create a well formatted document using a filtered table view. I am aware that i could create an email action in my automation, however the email options are Grid or List which is not formatted. Please advise thanks

Hi all, I am hiring a staff member to work with my in my small business. I have a recruitment agency and naturally my database is so valuable to me. I would love to know if there is a way I can stop a collaborator from being able to download the data in my base? What is to stop a person from taking my database (either by copying and pasting or downloading) and starting their own recruitment business in the same, very specialised industry. No harsh comments please — I know I need to trust my future staff and sure I will eventually but in the meantime I also need to protect my intellectual property. PlEASE NOTE: they do need the database access in order to do their job Thanks in advance!

Hi, what formula can I use to show many days remain for a task? For example, if there are 4 days remaining before the Due Date, I’d like that cell to read “4” I tried using a formula from another table but it didn’t work. The existing formula was: IF({Name (from Due Date)}, DATETIME_DIFF({Name (from Due Date)}, TODAY(), ‘days’)) My new formula is: IF({Follow Up Date}), DATETIME_DIFF({Follow Up Date}), TODAY(), ‘days’)) - but this one doesn’t seem to function correctly. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Christopher

Hello, I’m new to Airtable, so forvige me if this has already been asked or if it is not in the right category. In my database, I have cells that contain both text and one or more hyperlinks I want to extract the URL from those cells and put them in a new column and I have no idea how to do so. I would love to get some help on this please, thanks !

I’m trying to create a table using this code: I keep getting this error: Bundle Error: Cannot find module '@airtable/blocks/dist/types/src/types/field' from 'C:\dev\my_app\build\development\transpiled\user\frontend' As you can see…the type is found and no typescript errors are indicated on the line where it is used. Wondering if this is a bug or some issue that needs a work-around. I know this functionality is beta right now.

I want to combine a linked field containing a job title with each item in a multiple select field, which contains different statuses and sub-statuses in the application process. Ultimately, I need to be able to keep track of each status that a candidate has ever been in. I’m using the simple formula below: {Job Title} & "_" & Status But it seems like Airtable treats the different items in the multiple select field as an array. The formula produces the job title followed by a string of each of the statuses separated by a comma. I’d like for it to produce the different combinations - Job F_1.a, Job F_2.a. Does anyone know how to do this?

hi , everyone here’s quick question , can I setting a reply limit of linked record field on form view , linked record field are allow to selected more than one option now but I hope it can change into single select (maximum one option select) (not single select field , still Linked record field but only can fill one answer by user) is that possible ? because not native speaker and I’m worried about that I didn’t explain my situation clearly so please see the screen shot as below : thanks a lots !!! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

3 lookup fields “30 Min Call”, “Proposal Sent” and “Contract Signed” 1 result field “Status”, Formula needed IF “30 Min Call” has a date, enter “Prospect” in “Status” BUT IF “Proposal Sent” has a date, enter “Onboarding” in “Status” BUT IF “Contract Signed” has a date, enter “Client” in “Status” IF all three fields are EMPTY, leave “Status” blank Likely scenario would be when “Status” shows “Client” then all 3 lookup fields have dates (but is not a requirement). I’m pretty sure I am missing one simple thing but I have tried all kinds of strings and tried comparing in the help functions but still getting error results. Thanks for the help.

Happy to do the following in both Airtable and Excel (and involving as many steps as necessary). I have two separate tables with a similar multiselect column in each, involving many values or “tags” as I call them: Table 1: Table 2: I want to add an additional column in Table 1 titled “Tags”. I’m trying to populate this column. If Table 2’s Product Tags can all be found in Table 1’s Product Tags (not an exact match, but rather if Table 1’s column contains the content from Table 2), then I would like to return the name of the brand (column A) from Table 2. Please help!!

I have destination table set up to sync all new fields created in source table but it is not happening. Has anyone else had this issue?

Hi there – not new to Airtable, but new to scripting. I’d like to add a new row to a table (table:“Daily”) and set the primary field (column:“Date”) with tomorrow’s date, and run it every day. Simple, right? I suspect the best way to do this is set up a scheduled automation to, say, run each day at 7am, that creates a new row with tomorrow’s date. This would require declaring today’s date and tomorrow’s date in the correct format, either in the script or as an input config. I’ve poured through the documentation and these boards to find a simple way to do this, but am coming up short and appealing for the first time to the pros here for a little assistance. I’ve also tried to set this up as a simpler scheduled automation using the “Create record” action, but you can’t use a formula to declare the field value, either in the automation or as a computed field (e.g. declaring “Tomorrow” as a computed field in the row) Any advice on how to go about this seemingly simple task? Advanced apprec

Hi! I created an automation that, once a Single Select cell is updated, it will tag a Collaborator in another cell. However, I have to create one automation for each record. Is that right? Is there an easier way to do that? Thanks in advance!

Is it possible to fetch all records from the entire base without needing to pick a single table? I’m creating a To-Do list app that’s pretty much like the example provided by Airtable. We have multiple tables organized by “Offices” like for example “Development”, “Design”, “Marketing” and so on. Each record is a Task. Our goal is to simply display all Records in the App that are not marked as Completed so our manager can easily go through those tasks in one place. The useRecords method requires a Table to be passed as an argument so I thought of maybe looping through all tables and then fetching those records but then I figured that this would make the app not reactive… So… Is this possible? If not, do you have any suggestions of how I could accomplish this? We sure don’t want our manager to have to select which table he’ll be working on since that’s irrelevant to him… Thanks for your help!

Hello ! I am trying to calculate my margins on my projects. All my costs appear in the “Costs” box. I would like to add up all these costs in the next cell “total costs”. Which dormule should I write? Then what formula should I write to subtract “TTC cell” - “Total Cost”? Thank you very much for your help, very much appreciated :slightly_smiling_face:

I have Table 1 with thousands of records. In Table 2, I want to summarize the data by linking the records and then using lookup fields to get specific info from each record all in a single cell. I’ve linked Table 1 to a field in Table 2, but to get all the records, I’d need to manually select each of the thousands of records to add them to the linked cell. Is there an easier way to do this? I made a dummy database and screen recording to illustrate what I’m trying to do, but instead of 4 records per “company,” imagine thousands. Thanks for any help.

When I first set up my base, I established one field, mistakenly, as single line text instead of a number. I recognized it with 100+ records in, and have lived with it ever since. Now I want to change the field type for this field from single line text to number, without losing the entries. I could probably sort the records by that field and add a new field as I want it, then add in all the new field entries, and last delete the old ones. Is there a faster or base-wide way to accomplish this? Many thanks.

Hi! I need assistance if possible! I have a table where I’m tracking information about a wave of people (table 1). I have another table where I have the names and individual information for those people. (table 2) I have a linked field connecting the names from table 2, to the wave on table 1. Part of the information on table 2 is a formula that rolls up from another table with possibilities of 0-51. I have a look up field bringing the numbers for each person into table 1 separated by commas and I can use Average() to get an average. BUT if there is no one linked, there are no numbers to average and it returns NaN. I would like it to either return 0 or stay blank. I have read previous articles but they mostly seem to focus on dates and I am using integers.

The view is shown as “Shared”. Every time I try to add a filter, I get warned that synced tables/bases will be affected. I want to find all the synced tables so I can change them to a different view that is specifically built for sharing. How do I find all the places a shared view is use? (If I rename the view, it gets reflected in all the other bases that sync it, but how do I find them all?)

Hey everyone! I have a database of customer feedback that I’ve compiled and categorized by theme. I’d like to extract the top 5 themes and show them as a bar graph. Additionally, I’d like to have an option to change the week # and the bar graph will adjust the top 5 themes accordingly. Is this possible on Airtable?

Hi Everyone, I’m newbie on Airtable. I want to make my first formula. I want to know the latest date. I try to use Max, but the result is zero… I used this formula : MAX({Starting date (from Activity journal)}) (first colum is Starting date, last colum is used for the formula) Data in “starting” column look OK, since is able to calculate the MinDate in the summary… Any idea ? Thank you!!

Hello Everyone, I am submitting our Content for an award competetion, so submissions fees differ. 1st Submission is : 400 2nd Submission and up are: 210 Each another competition 1st submission is: 400$ 2nd Submission is: 120$ 3rd and up is: 60$ each How can I create a formula read the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and so on and add the right fees amount through a formula? or a rollup? Some help is needed here Guys, appreciate your time. Thanks, A lot