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3/17/2020 Edit: updated the the ‘Create’ case to return the recordId's of the created records, rather than just a count of created records. Thanks @kuovonne for the idea. The updateRecordsAsync(), createRecordsAsync(), and deleteRecordsAsync() functions that Airtable provides in the Scripting Block only allow the action to perform on 50 records at a time at most. While Airtable does provide a helpful example of how to run a loop that batches a set of records greater than 50 for processing in the “Find & Replace” example of the Scripting Block documentation… // Only up to 50 updates are allowed at one time, so do it in batches while (updates.length > 0) { await table.updateRecordsAsync(updates.slice(0, 50)); updates = updates.slice(50); } I thought it might be nice to have a single function to drop into any script that would handle this for me, regardless of the action I want to take on the records. (Admittedly, it would be nice if this was in the Scripting Block’s SDK b

If you are looking to pull insights from your Airtable data, try connecting your Airtable base to Metabase to easily build interactive graphs and dashboards. Metabase is an open source BI tool where you can easily summarize and visualize your data. You can connect Airtable to Metabase using a tool I helped build, Sync Inc. We’ve been blown away by the kinds of dashboards people are building - so we wrote up a tutorial that walks through how to do it: docs.syncinc.so Metabase | Sync Inc Sync Inc replicates Airtable to a Postgres database, giving you the best of both worlds. Also - shout out to @Paul_Coates who showed us how you can then embed dashboards like these back in Airtable using the Embed app. Then your team will have all the information they need without ever leaving Airtable. Hope you find this useful :slightly_smiling_face:

https://www.askdottar.org Hello folks, I am Joseph, creator of The DOTTAR Project or The Database of Technology Training and Resources Project, an online database that is ad-free, with an easy to use interface. It is an online resource for sharing other resources. On DOTTAR a user can contribute to the project by adding a new resource, they can also use the project to search for resources in various categories, from online courses, micro degrees, or content creators and videos, to offline resources like books, textbooks, lecture notes, or colleges and local universities. It is a resource of resources. DOTTAR is built on Airtable and Softr and I am truly pleased with how the project turned out, if you have any feedback please let me know. :slightly_smiling_face: Sincerely, Joseph, DOTTAR, and the rest of the data monsters on the DOTTAR Project.

In my last gig, my team used Airtable extensively as our database. Our content editors wanted to collect user testimonials in Airtable, where we managed all of our existing data. If you or your team has this kind of setup, Open Testimonials is perfect for you. Open Testimonials stands out from the plethora of testimonial collection SAAS’s in a couple of ways: :heart: 100% Open Source (self-hosting coming soon!) :heart: Small bundle size (https://bundlephobia.com/package… reports 3kb min + gzipped) - this means that Open Testimonials won’t slow your website down! :heart: Server-side rendering (works with React, comment other frameworks you’d like to see) Try it out at https://opentestimonials.com! For a limited time, you can get a lifetime plan for a $150, which includes unlimited testimonials on unlimited websites, and personal support. Regardless, the free plan is very generous. If you have any questions (or need help setting anything up), please DM me on Twitter (or Reddit!) @l

I wanted to share what I figured out looking for a way to run an automation at a scheduled time. First, create a helper table named Automation Trigger with 3 columns: Name (type: Single line text) Run At (type: Date, with time field included) Record (type: Formula, expression: RECORD_ID()) For each automation you want to schedule: Add a row with a unique descriptive name Add a view with a filter matching only the one record added above (Name is …) Add an automation: Choose trigger: When record updated Select table: Automation Trigger Select view: the one matching your automation intent Select the Run At field. Run test Add an action according to your needs Finally, the scheduling piece. You’ll need Integromat or Zapier. Zapier allows to schedule a task only at a selected hour. Whereas Integromat is much more flexible. For example, you can schedule an action at regular intervals. Connect Integromat to your Airtable account Select Update a record action Select your base and t

Do you have an Airtable workspace with multiple important company bases? You can backup up multiple Airtable bases at once with On2Air Backups - without having to add the On2Air Backups extension to every single base. Every On2Air Backups plan (except Starter) can back up multiple Airtable bases. Check out this 3 minute video on how to create a Backup Project :small_red_triangle_down: You can also read our knowledgebase article: How to Back Up Multiple Airtable Bases with a Backups Project

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Data Fetcher is a free Airtable extension that lets import data from anywhere into Airtable with no-code. And you can now run Data Fetcher requests using webhooks! This means you can run a request when a form is submitted, e.g. to enrich the record with Clearbit info, when a record is updated or created and lots more. Install the Data Fetcher extension here: Data Fetcher - Apps - Airtable Marketplace Check our the webhook guide here: Run request using webhook - Data Fetcher Help Center

There’s a sound doing the rounds on TikTok of American comedian, Steve Harvey, laying out his formula for success in the realm of mens’ suits. He claims that from 5 colours of suits (matching jacket and trousers) and 3 colours of shirts, you could make 75 combinations because everything goes with everything else (subjective and outside the scope of this post). Thought I’d see if he pulled this number out of thin air or not and test my JavaScript at the same time. Here’s the base I made, using the web search function on attachments to pull in some pics and a scripting block to iterate through all the options and create the matching outfits. Here’s my little script for those interested / want to grimace at my code; let articlesTable = base.getTable('Articles') let outfitsTable = base.getTable('Outfits') let allArticles = await articlesTable.selectRecordsAsync() let jackets = allArticles.records.filter((article) => article.getCellValueAsString('Item') === 'Jacket') let trousers = all

We’re about to launch a brand new version of On2Air Forms made specifically to work with your Airtable data. :star2: Available in just a few weeks! (If you’ve ever used our previous Forms version, the new one will be easier to use and does not require Jotform) Create an On2Air account to be notified when it launches Form Features: Create new Airtable records with a form Update Airtable records from a form Create new select field options Create new linked records Display images, text, and other data from your Airtable base Prefill the fields with default information per form user Display secondary fields based on answers to a primary field (Car Make > Model) Automatically hide or show questions to users based on previous answers using conditional field logic Insert a form value previously entered by the user into another location in your form Generate personalized forms based on user data Want to see a certain feature in Forms? You can vote or upvote a feature request - Request

Can’t find anything about it, so research lead to this. Airtable iOS app use url-scheme like: airtable:///tableID/recID You can use it in iOS Shortcut app for custom scenario, just open link with “Open x-callback URL” For example, I copy contacts from airtable to “google contacts” via Zapier and sync it with iPhone. I add recID to every contact, so I can quickly find any in spotlight and open in airtable app

If you’re using the Google Docs automation, but discovered you need more customization and features, check out On2Air Docs.You can use Google Docs, Google Sheets, or Google Slides to create any kind of document.Use the power of Google to customize your document and it will export as a PDF back into an Attachment field.Here’s a full breakdown of On2Air Documents vs Airtable Google DocsOn2Air Documents vs. Airtable Documents  

Hey everyone, Founder of Pory here! Its been a while since I last posted and wanted to share a quick update on what’s possible for people looking for solutions to provide external users (not on Airtable) access to view and edit information from Airtable. With Pory, you can set up an app or portal (whatever you like to call it) in 5 steps with permissions for different user groups and pages. Excited to see if we can help or continue developing the platform to support a broad range of use cases. :slightly_smiling_face:

Imagine being able to train machine learning models from the data on Airtable and get the predictions and forecasts of the models directly on an Airtable base. No-Code-ML predictions. Check this issue on GitHub, where I am proposing MindsDB to create an integration to Airtable. If that resonates with you, please add a reaction to the issue on GitHub! github.com/mindsdb/mindsdb [New Integration]: MindsDB Airtable opened 03:59PM - 17 Jun 22 UTC Ricram2 enhancement integration ### Is there an existing integration? - [X] I have searched the existing integr…ations. ### Use Case Airtable has got plenty of structured data. Which means the use cases are milliards. It would be amazing if we could leverage MindsDB to get predictions materialized into bases. Also Airtable has multiple no

We wanted to share a free, open source template for building a completely custom client portal on Airtable. It comes with: :lock: Logins :paintbrush: A simple UI that you can customize :writing_hand: An example of how to write data back to Airtable We’ve written up a complete tutorial to walk you step-by-step though how to configure your Airtable base, set up logins, and get your portal working. hackernoon.com How To Create A User Portal On Airtable With Sync Inc And React | Hacker Noon In this tutorial, you’ll see how to build a scalable, secure, and flexible client portal on Airtable using Sync Inc, Cotter, and Next.js. The project uses some great new technologies to make this easy to build and deploy: Cotter for logins Sync Inc for easy Airtable data access Next.js for a fast, static website Vercel to deploy the portal to the web Here is the full repo. It comes pre-configured to work with Sync Inc - but you can

After months of development and testing the AirPower app is live in the Shopify app store. AirPower syncs Shopify store data bi-directionally with Airtable. A purpose-built app, it understands the Shopify data model and all its restrictions, can do things that generic sync services (e.g., Zapier) just can’t do, and can be deeply customized. So far we’ve been blown away by the use cases our beta stores have come up with. There is just so much that Shopify store owners can leverage Airtable to do, improving their productivity and lowering costs (you need fewer apps). Some of the Shopify-centric use cases that Airtable is perfect for include: You no longer need a separate app to modify metafields You can bulk update products, variants, collections, etc. You can link Shopify data with data from other services in one place (e.g., sync email marketing system data via zapier, or update orders in Shopify with tracking information) You can perform sales and customer analysis without needing a

We just launched an Ecommerce Store Airtable Template that you can add to your Airtable workspace for free. Use this Ecommerce Airtable Base Template, created by On2Air, to store all your product data, orders, sales reports, inventory, suppliers, accounts payable, and more. Check out all the features of the template :point_down: On2Air | Airtable Apps for Your Business Operations – 3 Jun 22 Download a Free Airtable Template – Ecommerce Store 🛒 | On2Air Download the Airtable Ecommerce Store Template for FREE today! Use this Ecommerce Airtable Base Template, created by On2Air, to store all your product data, orders, sales reports, inventory, suppliers, accounts payable, and more.

Airtable Group Voting / Ranking Tool - Airtable Universe We needed a quick ranking tool to evaluate artists for a music festival. In previous years we sifted through emails or attempted to use spreadsheets.... I just made my first contribution to Airtable Universe. This is a simple tool but could be very useful in many situations where a small group needs to review and rank a batch of submissions. I built this to rank our tweener artists for a festival but it could be used for any type of curation or voting process.

Hey everyone, Excited to share a new tool we just built for Airtable - Sync Inc (syncinc.so). With a couple clicks, we’ll setup a hosted Postgres database containing all your Airtable data. We keep your database in sync in real-time. All you have to do is connect to it with your favorite SQL client, programming language, or app. We used Airtable to power a volunteer organization we helped start at the beginning of this year. We loved how quick Airtable was to get up and running. But while we liked all the cool features for our volunteers, we missed the power of SQL on the back-end. And when we wanted to extend our base by building external apps on top of it, we ran into limitations with Airtable’s API (hello, filterBy). While Airtable looks like a database, you can’t query it like one. With Sync Inc, you get the best of both worlds. You can keep using Airtable exactly as you do now. But unlock the flexibility of a SQL database behind the scenes. You can try it out totally free here: h

A while ago, my boss asked if it was possible to set up an automated tip of the day. His idea was to have an Airtable base with a list of tips and use Make to grab one each day and post it into Slack. I’d already come up with my own auto-numbering system in Airtable, and I knew this would be key to getting what we wanted. I set about it with the following goals in mind. Post only one tip each day. Keep track of the tips posted. Keep track of the tips ready to post. Make it simple enough for anyone to add a new tip. Make it possible to re-order the tips. Make it possible to put a tip back in the queue for reuse. We’ll need two tables for our base, and a linked field between them. Table 1 - List, part 1 We’ll call our first table ‘List’, and our second table ‘Queue’. For the ‘List’ table, we need the following fields: Short Name (Single Line Text) Techtip Text (Long Text) Next (Rollup with a calculation) Posted (Checkbox) Timestamp (Formula) Queue (A link to a single record only) Tim

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…