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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

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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)

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

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

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-

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 ti

I created a script that takes data from a table to perform a mail merge using the Lob.com service. Airtable

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 table

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.

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.

Generate random users in an Airtable base Simple workflow: Input required number of random user records. Push Go! 22 pieces of random information per record: Full name, Gender, Title, First name, Last name, Street, City, State, Country, Postcode, Timezone offset, Timezone description, email, UUID, Username, Password, Date of birth, Age, Phone, Picture large, Picture medium & Picture thumbnail Custom script gets randomuser.me data and creates records Works with free Airtable plan Full instructions with videos https://marcfletcher.gumroad.com/l/ixmfa

We are happy to announce the Java Client for Airtable. We created for educational purposes. Have a look at GitHub: https://github.com/Sybit-Education/airtable.java The client supports automatically object mapping. All CRUD-Operations (including Attachments) are already supported. But it is a very first version. Any feedback or pull requests are welcome.

These are static tables I find myself using frequently when building bases for clients, so I keep a copy of them on their own in my account so I can easily copy-paste them into bases when needed. I’m creating this wiki to share them in case other people might want to use them, or contribute their own reusable pre-mades. To make use of these, open the base through the links below, then use the “Copy base” button (top right corner) to add a copy of it to your own workspace. Then, you can copy (⌘/ctrl + a → ⌘/ctrl + c) and paste the table desired into other bases as needed. US & CA States/Districts/Territories Includes Country, Capital City, and Postal Abbreviation.

Hey Everyone, We at Softr.io have prepared a simple how-to article about creating a job board on Airtable. As we see more and more niche job boards popping up, we wanted to share this with a wider audience so that more people without tech skills can build projects like this. The article covers the following steps: How to create a job board from a template; Setting up a form to receive job posting submissions from users; Restricting submissions to logged in users only. Check it out here. Would love to hear your feedback and ideas! Cheers, Narek

Airtable has just released my latest app: My One Record. I wrote this app because I wanted a quick way to access linked records in a grid view without the distractions of other unrelated records. I have been personally using this app in my own bases every day ever since I wrote it, and it is such a mental timesaver when you need to jump between parent and child records. Here are some links: watch a video demo install the app from the marketplace purchase a premium license. To setup this app, your base needs … a collaborators field (that allows adding multiple collaborators) in the parent table a button field in the parent table to call the app a lookup field of that collaborators field in the child table a filtere

I wasn’t entirely surprised today to learn about the carnage over on the “Make” Facebook group, soon to be the former Integromat group. When Cleonis acquired Integromat I predicted there may be turbulence in its future. I tried to tell you. This is what big companies that get bigger through acquisition do best. There are some really angry customers because they apparently rototilled the framework, adjusted the terms and pricing, modified some long-understood concepts, and gave it a new name that even a Google PhD couldn’t find using the most advanced search queries imaginable.

Thought I’d show off a project that I use very often in my life as an Airtable administrator. GitHub

Hey everyone, Sharing an article I wrote on how we mange our entire community on Airtable and how it powers our community site. I’ve tried to keep the article short and sweet, hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Have you ever wanted to display the information you have stored in an Airtable field on a form? Maybe you want to display an image from your base on your form? Your Airtable base :point_down: Your Form :point_down: Or maybe you want the form user to choose a specific record from your Airtable base in the form? Then,

I knew that title would grab your attention. People often ask me to help them with Airtable projects and I agree to help them from time-to-time, but not always. And I don’t even post much about my work because - well - it’s a bit boring and obscure to most onlookers. Some of my architectures require data in Airtable to magically sync to Google Sheets at the cell level - literally the data in a cell in Airtable must update to a target cell in Google Sheets in near real-time. While possible, not many people require this level of integration let alone in less than 1 second. As such, my work tends to be very behind-the-scenes sort’a like the city waste managers - workers who deal with stuff you need to work reliably but whose names are never known unless something failed. :winking_face: The title of this post relates to a very specialized role in the NFL (and increasingly College football). The “long snapper” is a specialist whose craft is not really known by even the mo