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Hi all! I wrote this script a couple of weeks ago and it’s been extremely useful for me, so I thought I’d share it here :smiling_face_with_halo: The script will find any “broken” fields - the ones that have the little red triangle next to the name - in your base, then display the field name, table, and any applicable field description. There’s no need to change anything at all (unless you want to, of course). All you need to do is copy and paste the below into the scripting app, and click run :slightly_smiling_face: const config = input.config({ title: "🚨 Broken Field Report", description: "This script will find and display the table, field name, and description (if available) of all broken fields in the base.", }); let title = "🚨 Broken Field Report"; let baseName = base.name; /**********************************************************************************************************/ await main(); /**********************************************************************

On2Air Backups is now available in the Airtable marketplace. Add it directly to your Airtable base from the app menu! Airtable On2Air: Backups - Apps - Airtable Marketplace Automated External Backups of Your Data to Google Drive, Box, or Dropbox on Airtable with the On2Air: Backups app. On2Air Backups creates an automatic backup of your Airtable base data, including records and attachments, and exports it to Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box. You can set it on a regular schedule to ensure you have a duplicate copy of all your vital company information. Your 1st backup is free. If you want additional features, you can upgrade to a plan with our special limited-time launch pricing. Get 40% off for 6 months with the code LAUNCH40 for new app purchases. (Starter plan not included) Add it to your Airtable base On2Air Backups Features Automated Airtable Backups to Keep Your Data Safe and Secure Never worry about losing your company da

On2Air Schemas is now available in the Airtable marketplace. Add it directly to your Airtable base from the app menu! Airtable On2Air: Schemas - Apps - Airtable Marketplace Visualize your Airtable Base Structure & Track History over time on Airtable with the On2Air: Schemas app. On2Air: Schemas generates a diagram to visualize your Airtable base structure and keeps a history log of changes to meta information for all tables, views, fields, and relationships. Get an understanding of your base design and relationships with Schema. It’s free to use after the initial trial. If you want additional features, you can upgrade to a plan with our special limited-time launch pricing. Get 40% off for 6 months with the code LAUNCH40 for new app purchases. (Starter plan not included) Add it to your Airtable base On2Air Schema Features See the entire base design layout and relationships Create filters to view specific field types Und

A recurring question on the forum is how to change item pricing without corrupting existing data. With the Product Catalog & Orders base in Airtable templates, for instance, changing an item price changes the price shown in current and fulfilled orders – not necessarily what one wants should a refund be required. I made a quick-and-dirty mod of the Product Catalog and Orders base to make use of price schedules. This allows items to be repriced going forward while leaving existing data unchanged. To provide this functionality, I added the [Price Schedule] table; added two fields and modified a third in the [Furniture] table; and added two fields and modified a third in [Order Line Items]. It should be easy to find the little I changed: Any field with a description is one I added or modified, and the description explains why.

Hi everyone, Just wrote a tutorial on how to get linked records. It covers two scenarios Simple display linked record details on the same page as the “parent” e.g Products listing with their associated suppliers Filtering the parent records by a specific e.g Filtering the product listing by supplier Hope you find this useful. Chinara James – 3 Feb 19 How to get linked records using the Airtable API | Chinara James This post is part of a series all about working the Airtable API. If you’re not familiar with Airtable, you should definitely check it out and if you’re not sure about getting started with their API…

I spent a long time trying to figure a solution to this need, so now that I found something that works, I want to share it with other users. I don’t know scripting, but I can copy/paste other’s code. So here’s a non-technical solution to automatically deleting duplicates/deleting records using automations and scripts. In this case, I wanted to delete the oldest record, since the newest record is going to be the most up-to-date. Step 1. Mark duplicates: Create an automation that triggers when a new record is created. Then use the mark duplicate script provided by AirTable. Step 2. Separate the older duplicate records: Create a view that filters by duplicate status and date of record creation. In this case, I filter by Duplicate? = “yes” (or however you set up the previous step) and record creation date “is not” “today”. That way only the older duplicate enters into this view. Step 3. Delete the older duplicates: Create another automation that triggers whenever a record enters this view.

csvgetter.com allows you to turn your airtable base into a CSV api but now it supports a whole bunch of json types as well! (No need to worry about pagination). Check out this 2 min preview. As usual, send me feedback + suggestions!

This process is now VERY easy using www.csvgetter.com Checkout my demo video

Hey everyone, There’s a large open source intelligence (OSINT) community helping to document the invasion of Ukraine with many focused on geolocation: identifying exactly where an event took place or where certain media footage was recorded (here’s a recent article on the subject). Given the volume of information, it’s sometimes difficult to keep up so I’ve built a system that searches Twitter for tweets containing coordinates, extracts them and plots the locations onto a map. It’s all fully automated and built on top of Airtable. You can view the base here: Airtable - Simplescraper OSINT. I’ve shared it to some OSINT communities and it seems to be useful, and at the same time it’s a neat example of how Airtable makes it super easy to quickly prototype new ideas. For those interested in how it works: Simplescraper (disclaimer: this is a service I built) scrapes Twitter every 3 minutes and sends new tweets to a base using its Airtable integration In Airtable the base has two automati

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This tool is designed to allow a Salesforce Admin to quickly generate Admin Assist tickets following the standard format required by Salesforce. Admin Assist Ticker Creator You can read more about that here: https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000316887&language=en_US&type=1&mode=1 View a tutorial for this base here: http://ior.ad/6WFb

I ran into a very interesting situation regarding a fairly complex multi-step Automation: One of the Action steps would not reliably execute properly. Turned out to be a timing problem for which I came up with a solution. Here is the situation: I have a first table ‘DC’ [Data Collector]; I have another table ‘RI’ [Reference Information]; and finally a ‘DD’ [Data Destination] table. I built an Automation, A1, triggered on new information arriving in table DC. The purpose of A1 is to analyze the incoming information, Look Up information in table RI, and then based on the results from RI, create a link to a specific record in table DD. But when Automation A1 executed, it would not reliably generate the Link. Big Problem. After way too much troubleshooting I finally realized that the problem seemed to be that the Lookup steps took too long to complete, and the Automation blasted right ahead to the Link step before the needed information had materialized from the the Lookup step, so t

Airtable is a powerful tool to use as a central source of information for your business and your team, but it can be overwhelming to get started. :white_check_mark: We’ve created this 15-point checklist guide of Airtable best practices for companies who want to ensure their Airtable bases are set up for better performance. Download the guide :arrow_down_small: On2Air | Airtable Apps for Your Business Operations – 1 Apr 22 15 Airtable Design Best Practices: What Companies Need to Know | On2Air Wondering where to start when designing your Airtable base? We’ve created this 15-point checklist of Airtable best practices to review when you’re ready to design your Airtable base.

Hi folks, A few weeks back we shared a show and tell about a custom zapier connector for automating the Airtable environment, and the feedback has been awesome so far. Today, as part of the Openside team, I wanted to share how you can use that connector to solve a long standing missing feature with airtable: external backups. The whole process of setting up automatic backups should take less than 20 minutes. But first, I want to verify that I’m on the right track. Who here needs/wants their Airtable backed up regularly? POLL: How critical are backups to your business? Need them daily (it would be bad if I lost even a day’s worth of changes) Need them weekly/monthly (I need it, but this would be sufficient) Not supercritical, I have my own way of backing up data manually Not important, I don’t have any use for an Airtable data backup 0 voters If you answered “yes” to either option above, or want backups to be set-up-and-automatic ever after, then give this a go: Here’s what

I’ve noticed a few people have used CSV Getter for Airtable to backup their Airtable data with Zapier so I have made a video to show how easy it is. (Apologies for my pronounciation of Zapier - I say it wrong at least once) Links: CSV Getter for Airtable Zapier

With the announcement of expiring external urls, many people need to migrate attachments out of airtable but want to keep a reference. Here’s one way to do it:

“We have so much vital company data in Airtable that we would lose mountains of data for our clients and even lose clients if something bad happened. All this work would be soul-crushing to lose." - Sara Ramaker, LKF Marketing Product On2Air Backups On2Air Backups is an automated backup solution for your Airtable bases. Create scheduled backups of your critical business data stored in Airtable and export your information to Dropbox, Box, or Google Drive. Features: Automated backups of Airtable data Include Attachments Create filters to choose what to backup Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly Schedules Backed up to Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box Challenge The team at LKF Marketing uses Airtable bases to track client projects, content, tasks, articles, and other documents. Sara creates a base for each new client and shares the base with the client and other LKF staff to use as a central source of information. Using Airtable to coordinate all the projects and maintain data for their c

If you’re concerned about the recent change in Attachment URLs that Airtable just announced, we want to hear from you. At On2Air, we’re exploring ways to overcome this. (We build apps for Airtable - on2air.com) Let us know if interested and your use-case by filling out this form. File Storage File Storage 📌 Status: Submitted

Joel here, founder of Paytable :wave: I’ve been busy working away in the background bootstrapping Paytable and have just dropped a pretty huge release of new features & improvements. Paytable is gradually becoming an all round membership management platform and an ideal way to sell gated content with the help of many users feedback helping to refine the product. ​ ​Here’s a super quick overview of some quick wins that have been going down at Paytable recently: :boom: Offer free info products to start building your audience Pay-nothing, sign-up-with-email only products have landed. Create a product, set it to 0 and start building your mailing lists with awesome info product give-aways that can help make it go viral. Head to your dashboard Add digital downloads exclusive for members On a mission to become the ultimate members only platform for makers & creators we've also added digital downloads for your subscribers. This means you can keep your members around lon

This question caught my eye on OpenSide’s Slack channel this morning. It’s a common question for anyone doing anything serious with Airtable. I’ve written about this subject many times including here and here. Does anyone know if Airtable can support more than 100k records per base on enterprise? I generally try to reframe this topic to suggest a more important question you should be asking - Is there a way to optimize the data model to accommodate the equivalent of at least a years worth of transactions? High-volume record requirements are generally indicative of transactions; data flows that are increasingly less relevant as time passes. And there is at least one trick you can use to expand the capacity of small transaction records by not storing individual records in a linked (relational) table; rather, store them as JSON objects in a long text field. This is, of course, a sanctioned approach as evidenced by this Airtable feature . To pull this off, a button (in the client recor

I created a script that takes data from a table to perform a mail merge using the Lob.com service. Airtable Mail Merge with Lob.com - Airtable Universe This shared base demonstrates how you can perform a mail merge using Airtable and the Lob.com service. ​ Instructional video:... The share on Airtable Universe includes the scripting block code as well as an instructional video. -Bill

Hi everyone I’ve posted previously about making a simple “to do” list that generates a new task with the same name, due a week later, whenever you tick the task complete. Here’s a slightly more sophisticated version of the same idea, where you can specify when you want the task to repeat, e.g. 1 week later, 2 weeks later, etc. Hope this is useful to someone out there. I’m just getting started on making simple instructional Airtable videos, so appreciate any feedback. Cheers!

Hey there,If you’re looking for a dashboard layout to view multiple tables in your Airtable base at one time or to edit and create records and Linked records, check out On2Air Forms for Airtable.You can create sections with your various Airtable fields and what’s most useful for you to see. We have a free plan, so you can try it out. Get started hereOn2Air Forms Features:Update existing Airtable recordsCreate new Airtable recordsCreate linked recordsEdit linked recordsView linked recordsDisplay data from your basePre-populate form fields with dataAdd SubForms inside of your form to update multiple tables and linked records from 1 formAllow editing and viewing of data even if not a User on your Airtable account (no need to purchase more Users)Create custom Dashboard/Portal pages for clients and your team with unique URLs (Login Options on long-term roadmap)Use basic and dynamic filters to limit record viewedUse URL prefills to display specific recordsAdd default values to fields per use

Hi everyone. It just occurred to me that you could use a formula and a couple of automations to make yourself a simple recurring tasks list. All you need is a date field to set the initial due date of your task, a checkbox field for when you mark the task as “Done” and a formula field that adds a specified length of time to the due date using DATEADD when “Done” is ticked. Then your automation will take the date generated in the formula field and replace the original date in {Due date}. A second automation then takes a last modified field set to monitor when “Done” was ticked, and a formula that shows how much time has passed since “Done” was last ticked, and unchecks “Done” after that length of time has passed (I set this to 2 minutes, i.e. 120 seconds). This final step is to ensure the two automations do not interrupt each other (so to speak). Here’s the full set up… Fields {Name} - Primary field, single line text. The name of your task. {Due date} - Date field, indicating whe

Memorializing this since I spent entirely too much time and bugged @Justin_Barrett @Bill.French and @openside to get this output. I needed to output the US date format into an email, but I needed “tomorrow’s date” to be output. The use case was an email that goes out through automations every Wednesday, but they needed a reminder in the email to follow up by Thursday, (Tomorrow’s Date). Here’s the outcome. It works, so we don’t try to make it more elegant in these parts :slightly_smiling_face: let someDate = new Date(); someDate.setDate(someDate.getDate() + 1); let dateFormatted = someDate.toLocaleString('en-US', { year: 'numeric', month: '2-digit', day: '2-digit'}); output.set('thisDate', dateFormatted); You can add whatever number to the second line to add, haven’t tried subtracting. Also, the toLocaleString() without any modifiers outputs a date and time.