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MankoffsteinNew Participant
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Multimodal Airtable Editor Using ChatGPT Actions — No Code, All Conversation

TL;DR:I’m a non-technical cartoonist who built a fully chat-controlled editorial system using Airtable’s API and OpenAI Actions (via ChatGPT Teams). I can manage my entire cartoon workflow—images, captions, submissions, rights, and tagging—just by talking to it. No middleware, no third-party tools. It handles flexible inputs, reads image fields, and edits any table or field naturally. Happy to share details if anyone’s doing something similar.Why I built it:I draw single-panel, black-and-white gag cartoons (like what you’d find in The New Yorker). I needed a way to track and submit work, manage captions, analyze themes, and stay organized across multiple stages of a cartoon’s life. I had no editor or agent—so I built one.What it does:Reads and analyzes cartoon images alongside their captions Tags tone, subjectivity, and humor style Edits any field across multiple linked tables (submissions, rights, cooldowns, etc.) Works from vague or partial prompts like: “Update BalloonBomb’s caption

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Generate PDF based on Airtable data - Typeflow.us Extension

Hello everyone,I've built a document generation for Airtable, using Google Docs for templating. Today, this product, Typeflow.us, is available as an Airtable extension.Thanks to it, you can bulk generate PDFs directly in Airtable in a few clicks. I built this extension, because many of you struggle to generate PDFs automatically with Airtable Page Designer.It's also possible to generate PDFs using:Airtable Automation our API to generate PDFs with Make / Zapier just to generate PDFs directly with a button in Airtable.We have many features to cover your use case:line items => perfect for invoices, quotes, reports. nested line items => perfect for complex invoices loop table => perfect for Product Catalog Accessing Multi-Level Linked Records effortlessly (stop using hacks / rollup fields) E-Signature (still in beta)And many other features!You can try our product for free (30 docs per month for free):https://typeflow.us/  

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Automated Invoice Processing System with AI - built with Airtable interfaces!

 I need many subscriptions for my operations, and I need to collect the invoices every monthSo I have accurate reporting, and for my accountant of course.So I built this system to solve my own problem - hope it’s useful to others too! Download link to all material used is in the video description.

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Comunicaciones_New Participant
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SEO friendly file name formula

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bustbrainlabsNew Participant
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Anyone building mini apps on top of Airtable?

We’ve been using Airtable as a backend for lightweight apps — like a project dashboard for clients, or a form submission portal that touches multiple tables.Interfaces help a bit, but they don’t quite support login, user-based permissions, or multi-table forms. We ended up building a role-aware portal layer that connects to Airtable and lets users view, edit, or create records based on their role — it’s now ClientlyBase, but it started as a personal workaround. Just curious if others here are building similar “mini apps” on Airtable. What tools are you using — Interfaces, Softr, Glide, or something else?

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W_Vann_HallInspiring
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Conditional Logic-ish Linked Records

TL;DR version: Airtable’s recently added capability to limit linked-record selection to a specific view allows users to incorporate, to a degree, conditional logic. The specifics: ‘Conditional logic’ can mean a lot of things: Any use of an IF() or SWITCH() statement is a form of conditional logic. Here, I’m using it in what’s become an increasingly common manner: to mean the limiting of available options based on an earlier choice. For example, take a look at the following diagram. The user selects one of five categories. Based on that selection, he or she is allowed to choose from a subset of five subcategories, taken from an overall population of 25 subcategories. This conditional restriction of choices not only helps reduce a potentially unwieldy array of options to a smaller, more manageable group, it also helps ensure the subcategory chosen is appropriate given the category already selected. Admittedly, a 25-element list may not present an insurmountable challenge to the user — e

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bustbrainlabsNew Participant
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How are you sharing Airtable data internally without racking up collaborator costs?

We were looking for ways to expand Airtable access to internal teams without adding everyone as a paid collaborator.Shared views were too limited, and Interfaces still required collaborator access for anything interactive.So we built a front-end portal where team members can log in, view just their data, and update records if needed. No Airtable seat required.It’s now evolved into a tool called ClientlyBase — useful for internal dashboards, forms, and lightweight access across teams.Curious if anyone else here has dealt with this — how are you managing access for non-collaborators?

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New BaseQL Features: View Querying and Enhanced Relation Controls

Hey everyone! We recently shipped two features for BaseQL that I’m really excited about.For those that don’t know, BaseQL provides a GraphQL API for Airtable that makes it easier to build custom apps with your Airtable data.These new features came directly from user feedback about workflow pain points.TL;DR: You can now query Airtable views directly and have full control over filtering/sorting related records in a single API call.Querying Airtable ViewsBaseQL now supports querying specific Airtable views using the new _view argument. This feature leverages Airtable’s powerful ability to create custom views with specific sorting, filtering, and grouping configurations.Why this mattersMany BaseQL users were manually implementing sorting through rank columns or creating complex filter combinations to match what they had already configured in Airtable views. Now, you can simply:Configure your data organization visually in Airtable using drag-and-drop Query that exact configuration with a s

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ShortcutsFanKnown Participant
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We're Showcasing Airtable and our App AirKit at Asia's Biggest Apple Expo

Just returned from Asia's largest Apple ecosystem expo where we showcased AirKit for Airtable. What an amazing experience connecting with so many passionate Airtable users across Asia! The energy was incredible as visitors from China, Korea and beyond stopped by our booth. We were genuinely surprised by how many people are using Airtable for everything from personal projects to enterprise solutions.  Many users shared their frustrations with the slowness and navigation complexity. It was validating to demonstrate how our AirKit app solves these exact pain points by enabling quick record additions and table access through Siri commands and Spotlight search. The conversations were enlightening - we learned so much about how people are using Airtable in different contexts and cultures. Several visitors even showed us their unique Airtable setups! I've created this vlog to share highlights from our experience. If you're an Airtable user struggling with the mobile experience, check out our

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Practical no-code implementation of Airtable MCP server in combination with Claude

Hello there!There's been a lot of talk about AI agent and MCP servers lately.  I decided to cut through the buzz and figure out what if it can do something useful for my work with Airtable. I decided to spend a weekend researching this and honestly got frustrated with how not user friendly it all was. Make introduced MCP servers - but it was not very useful. Zapier was pretty good, but did not have ability to create tables and fields.There were 2 code projects for Airtable MCP servers (project 1, project 2). I can code but most of my clients or my channel viewers at first mention of installing coding environment locally will just check out. After some more digging I found a way how to set up remote MCP server that can be connected to a chat client (with Claude.ai being the most user friendly now) . This simple proof of concept that you can actually play with right now is here: https://airtable-mcp.business-automated.com/ This is obviously just a proof of concept to let people test thin

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Bigger editable modal for multiline/rich text fields in Airtable!

Long text preview too small?  Not anymore!This script lets you resize the modal and set your own default width / height.  To use it, you’ll need to use Tampermonkey (https://www.tampermonkey.net/) Happy to fix any bugs or issues, please let me know about them and I’ll do what I can! Inspired by this post here:  // ==UserScript==// @name Resizable Airtable Multiline/RichText Modal// @namespace adam@thetimesaving.company// @version 0.1// @description Make multiline/richText modals resizable with default size// @match *://*.airtable.com/*// @grant none// ==/UserScript==(function () { 'use strict'; // === config === const DEFAULT_WIDTH = '500px'; const DEFAULT_HEIGHT = '500px'; const MAX_TEXTBOX_HEIGHT = '80vh'; const css = ` .cell.expanded.shadow-elevation-high[data-columntype="multilineText"] .contentEditableTextbox, .cell.expanded.shadow-elevation-high[data-columntype="richText"] .contentEditableTextbox { height: 100% !important; max-

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joseph_appsmithNew Participant
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Address Validation Script using Radar.com API

Hey everyone, I just started learning Airtable scripts and I wanted to share my first project. This script uses the free Radar.com API to lookup a valid address from a partial address string, and saves the first matching result back to the table with individual fields for each component of the address.  Just add the Script extension and paste in this script, then fill out the settings pane with your API and field names.  FeaturesSkips rows that already have a complete addressCaches results while looping over the table, then performs a bulk update to increase performanceSplits bulk update into batches of 50 to avoid issues on large datasetAPI error handlingHere's the script:let cfg = input.config({ title: 'Radar.com API Address Validation', description: 'Validates addresses using Radar.com API. Requires an API Key from Radar.com.', items: [ input.config.text('radarApiKey', { label: 'Radar.com API Key' }), input.config.table('selectedTable', { label: 'Table to use', descri

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chrisbyrneParticipating Frequently
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chatGPT for Airtable automation.

Using chatGPT in an Airtable automation. In my use case, the automation triggers on when an Airtable record matches conditions,then follows with 2 actions, run script and update record. Adjust the first part of the promptwith your own use case. Tip: Use chatGPT to help you write a prompt for chatGPT (!) let inputConfig = input.config(); text = `${inputConfig.text}`; var key = "openai-api-key"; var url = "https://api.openai.com/v1/completions"; prompt = "Reword this text to grade 9 reading level: " + text; var gpt = { model : "text-davinci-003", prompt : prompt, temperature : 0, max_tokens : 1024 }; response = await fetch(url, { method: 'POST', body: JSON.stringify(gpt), headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + key, } }); answer= await response.json(); data=answer.choices[0].text; output.set('your-airtable-field',data); 

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aaoosmanNew Participant
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[GUIDE] How to sync Your Airtable data to a Google Sheets using Automations!

As someone who uses both Airtable and Google Sheets for managing my data, I've often wished that there was an easy way to sync data between the two platforms. While there are some methods available, they often come with limitations, such as not being able to handle real-time syncing or only syncing in one direction.In this post, I'll be sharing a guide on how to use Airtable automations to sync your data to Google Sheets, as well as sharing some details on a tool that I'm currently building that will make this process even easier. Syncing Airtable to Google Sheets with AutomationsIf you're using Airtable and Google Sheets and want to sync data between the two, one option is to use Airtable automations. Here are the steps to set up this type of sync:In your Airtable base, click on "Automations" in the top corner of the screen.Click "New automation" and choose "When record updated" or "When record created" as the trigger.Set up the trigger details: Pick your table, make sure the Vie

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BikashNew Participant
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Connect Airtable to OpenAI API without using 3rd party tools

A custom script that helps you integrate Airtable with the OpenAI API without using any 3rd party tools like Zapier or Make - possible even with the free Airtable account. Just copy-paste the "script" and start getting responses from gpt-4/3.5, immediately.What can you do with the “script”?You can bring the power of OpenAI language models (GPT-4 and GPT-3.5) to your Airtable base and utilize them to create content for 1000s of rows at once.For example:Generate product descriptions based on several data pointsCreate personalized emails for 1000s of guests based on available dataDo programmatic SEO by creating super-optimized AI contentGenerate content for anything and everything that follows a patternLearn more about the script here: https://invertedstone.com/store/airtable-to-openai-api/

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Mike_AutomaticNGenius
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And one day we got BACKLINKS!

YES! Yes, yes, yes! They are finally here!!! Airtable is a relational database. As such, it allows you to link records from one table to record(s) from a different table and keep such relationship on both sides.However, there are interesting use cases in which you’d want to link records from one table to records from the exact same table. For example, you might want to have one unique table for Tasks and handle hierarchy between them (e.g. Parent task, and Sub Task(s)).When creating a linked record field to its own table, you would have seen that only one field was created (the one you did manually). You would call this field Child Tasks for example, and link through it the child tasks to any parent task. However, the inverse relationship (backlink) would not be tracked anyway -meaning which are the parent tasks for each child tasks. To such effect we used to have to create yet an additional linked record field to the same Tasks table, and create all sort of nasty automations and scrip

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Vincent_TangKnown Participant
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BULK IMAGE DOWNLOADER and RENAMER using excel vba

I know a lot of you including myself on the forums wish there was a way to attach dropbox image links so you can maintain your digital assets locally such as this post: Choose Dropbox or Google Drive for attachment storage Product Suggestions I would love for my attachments to get sued in my Dropbox. This would allow me to use Airtable as a digital asset manager Or even renaming uploaded files (in bulk though) Rename Uploaded Files Product Suggestions I think it would be great to be able to update the names of files once they’re uploaded; this is especially needed when linking images or files from online instead of uploading since you have no control on the naming structure for those external files. I’ve recently found that searching a base includes what’s in the filename and this is becoming problematic since I often link to images on the web that have a lot of text in the filename that I would prefer not to be there. I th

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Andy_ClokeKnown Participant
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Data Fetcher (no-code Airtable integrations, Zapier & Make alternative)

Hey community !We just redesigned and relaunched Data Fetcher, and I wanted to share it for anyone who might find it useful. What is Data Fetcher? It’s a no-code Airtable extension that pulls data from APIs directly into your bases. Think of it as connecting Airtable to your external data sources without the complexity of coding or leaving Airtable. Why we built it: We kept hitting the same wall: Airtable is great for organizing data, but getting external data in (and keeping it updated) was always a hassle. What it does:Import from any REST/GraphQL API Schedule automatic updates (up to every 5 minutes) Chain requests together into sequences for complex workflows Handle authentication & pagination Transform data as it’s importedReal example: One of our customers, Fox Logistics, increased their shipment processing from 1,800 to 2,500 per week after connecting their external systems with Airtable through Data Fetcher - all without adding headcount.We’ve put together a list of pre-bui

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VikasVimalKnown Participant
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I feel like we don't celebrate small wins often enough. Here's mine.

My client just spent 5 minutes raving about how a small fix genuinely improved the quality of life for their staff. So thought to share.They run a medical services biz. For managing charts, appointments, etc., they use "Jane," which is super HIPAA compliant (so no API, of course). For the extra workflows Jane can't do, they export PHI-stripped data to Airtable weekly and also use Asana for patient-specific tasks.The problem? Practitioners in Jane needing to see Asana tasks for a patient had this annoying little dance: copy PatientUID from Jane URL, tab over to Asana, paste, search, pray. Took barely a minute, sure, but multiply that by X times a day... and it becomes a real point of friction in their workflow!So, I figured there had to be a no-code way. Whipped up a super basic Chrome extension using Windsurf (one of those AI builder things – I wanted to explore these AI builders anyway, so good excuse!).It's not going to win any innovation awards, and it's definitely not a unicorn Saa

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Sherman_SandersParticipating Frequently
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Role-Playing Game Tracker

I’ve used Airtable to run a couple RPG games and it’s really great. Being able to have a view for my players to look at where I can post images of NPCs or notes is terrific. Here’s how I created the base (this is a Forbidden lands game). And here’s what players can see. It’s challenging to create hidden views that actually show the information I want to share. Hopefully someday there is another step for linked records that allow for a cleaner format.

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Leveling Up My Automation Game: Airtable Certified! Advice Needed on Next Steps

Hi everyone! 👋I’m excited to finally share that I completed my Airtable certification back in February (https://verify.skilljar.com/c/7k9pzk4zucj9), and I'm now looking to integrate Airtable into my freelance services.I'm Shuaib, a business process automation freelancer with a background in Computer Science and I work with automation platforms like make.com.Earlier this year, I earned my Airtable Certification, and while I quietly celebrated it in February, I'm now ready to make it part of my public tech stack and service offerings.🔗 Here’s a look at my work: My PortfolioI'd love to hear from others in the automation space:How have you integrated Airtable into your services?What kinds of systems have you built with Airtable that are tightly coupled with automation tools like Make or Zapier?I'm especially interested in use cases like CRMs, inventory or asset management, and other backend systems that benefit from Airtable’s flexibility and structure.If you're using Airtable as the cor

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Devon_GodfreyInspiring
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Auto Number that Resets Every Year

(So, since I’m a “New” user even though I’ve used airtable for years, I can only post 5 images per post, so I’m breaking this up into multiple responses. ) Hi guys! I encountered a need to have this solved, and the nature of the problem just doesn’t mesh well with creating a formula to fix it. Here’s a topic that was looking for a good answer on this, and one that gives an answer that I think can be improved upon: Rolling Customer Number Based On Year Base design I need to create a customer number that includes the year, and an accruing customer number. E.g. 2020-0001, 2020-0002, etc. The thing is, every year, the year has to change in the customer number, and the four numbers after it have to reset. So if the last number of 2020 is 2020-1234, the first number of 2021 will be 2021-0001 again. I can get the year from the Created Time field The problem is the numbers after the year… I figure I can’t use an autonumber because it won’t reset each year. …

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pazhamalaiInspiring
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Automate PDF documents with FlexiPage airtable extension

Hello everyone 👋.FlexiPage extension is now live in Airtable Marketplace. It is created as an alternative for Page Designer. It comes with a rich text editor, tailor made for Airtable. You can easily bring in fields from Airtable and create document templates.Overcome limitations of Page DesginerCreate multi-page documents of any length Automate your document generation workflow, using FlexiPage and Airtable AutomationWhat can you do with FlexiPage?Create and automate business documents within Airtable extension Store the generated PDF in an attachment field Easily convert linked record items to table rows, display images from Airtable, with our built in componentsHow is it different from other providers?Zero learning curve. You don't have to learn any template syntax. It just works. Our rich text editor is deeply integrated with Airtable. Invoice design from scratch - Marketplace extension - https://airtable.com/marketplace/blkxiBhC4JLMwyIaZ/flexipageCheckout our Website - www.flexip

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Using Airtable to create an approval workflow with electronic signatures and PDF generation

If you’ve ever wanted to create an approval workflow using Airtable that includes electronig signatures and automatic creation of PDF files, you could always piece together different tools to make that happen.For example, you could piece together a solution that combines DocuMint or PDFFiller, along with DocuSign and Make. Or, you could combine eSignatures.io with Make.But I wanted to see if there was a way to combine everything together with just one platform, and it turns out that you can do all of the above with just one tool: Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable!On this episode of the BuiltOnAir podcast, I show how to use Fillout to create the ultimate approval workflow for Airtable!Hope you enjoy! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld 

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Airtable to Woocommerce Product & Order Sync

May 2023 Update: AirToWoo is now Connect for WooCommerce. We have a demo Airtable base here which you can copy, and you can sign up here.Hi fellow Airtabler’s (and Woocommerce lovers!).I’m excited to share a brand new integration between Airtable and Woocommerce, which allows you to manage all your products, categories, tags, orders (and more) for Woocommece from within Airtable.We’ve shared it with a few of our contacts, and the average speed saving has been 10x. If you’ve ever used Woocommerce, you’ll know how slow it can be to go through and edit products one by one, so it was a no-brainer to tap into the ease and speed of Airtable, and make it possible to easily sync to Woocommerce.Withour further ado, I bring to you: Connect for WooCommerce!Any input would be greatly appreciated 🙂

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