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I am new to JavaScript, and one of the reasons why I took learning it to use it on airtable. Often I need to sum, count and averages of values in a table and hold the value in a block for a while for others to see. This can be done using existing blocks but one each for sum, count and average - which is tedious. This script makes life easier in such cases. It lets user select the field and table, and even filter conditions before summing, counting and averaging them. I am planning to add error handling. and warnings to this soon. GitHub link is here: https://github.com/indrex/airtablesum

I am using AT for our CRM and database for our company. So we are able to link financials to the customers and marketing reps commissions. The more I play with AT the more I see it has amazing capabilities. I am a visionary and have some cool ideas on how to use it further but would like to see if there are other users interested in having a ZOOM call or other medium to further explore the idea. We are also in the process of using it for our HR process by using digital forms. Below is a link to a form for those interested in joining the group. https://airtable.com/shrlVF9kevgnyaqrT

I’ve recently started using Airtable to cut down on the number of spreadsheets that don’t talk to each other, and loving the improvements we have made so far. One of the struggles was not being able to use a lot of features due to dates and times being in seperate columns in all our other documents, and wasn’t able to find other community posts solving this in a simple way. After a few weeks of messing about, I finally found the DATEADD formula is the simplest: DATEADD({Date},{Start Time},‘seconds’) I use a similar formula to calculate the end times. I can now use all the lovely DATETIME formulas I’ve been excited to try out without having to do manual input, which was the goal all along. Has anyone else had to discover this themselves? Any other workarounds people have created?

EDIT: Updated to incorporate solution for batching more than 50 records Why this script I import transaction records into Airtable from my bank on a regular basis via CSV files. Those transaction records have names that are pretty ugly most of the time (like [Amazon.com*6X6AN17G3]) and often there will be multiple transaction names that actually link back to the same company as a payee. I want to know, for example, how much I paid out to “Fry’s Grocery Store” in total, no matter which Fry’s location I went to. And, I want to view that data in a Chart block, with pretty colors from Single Select options, for example. So I used to manually match transactions with a colored Single Select value: Needless to say, it was a tedious manual process, and I very frequently encountered the same Import name over and over – so I knew this was something the Scripting block could help me with, at least to some extent. What the script does This script checks all imported transactions that do not ha

Heya community! Dan (@openside) and the team have been hard at work making our own slew of tools to compliment Airtable. Today I’m excited to announce they are now live! Here’s what we’ve been making: Actions - Advanced connector to integrate Airtable with your other software tools Forms - Sophisticated Airtable forms with extended features Schema - Monitor and be notified when anything in your Airtable schema changes Backups - Automated backups for your Airtable bases Scripts - Specialized script manager to integrate with Airtable’s scripting block Storage - Secure storage and proxy for your Airtable script data Our new site just launched where you can go check them all out here. We’d love for you to give them a try with a free trial (link on the site). If it’s a fit, go ahead and use coupon “ON2AIR10” for a discount on any app bundle as a thank you for giving it a try! We really think we’ve made the best tools for Airtable out there, and know it wouldn’t be possible without you

After consulting for the last 2 years, I started this Youtube channel to make Airtable more accessible because I know how difficult it can be to get started. Currently, I’m working on a CRM tutorial series where you can build a simple and fully customized CRM. So many of my past clients disliked their CRM and some still use pen and paper! Even if you are not looking for a CRM right now, I still walk through a ton of concepts in the tutorials that can be helpful across many types of Airtable projects. Here’s the link to the channel: youtube.com/airopsconsulting Here’s the first CRM tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJZvdOY01g&t Thanks for stopping by!

Sometimes you import some data that looks like this: But you want table data that looks like this: This script does that: let settings = input.config({ title:'Table Optimizer', description: "Converts data that's stored over many fields, into data that's stored in one field with multiple parameters in a new table", items: [ input.config.table('sourceTable',{ label: 'Source Table', description: 'The originating table' }), input.config.text('fieldsConvert',{ label: 'Fields to Convert', description: "Type out the fields you'd like to convert separated by a comma. Example: Field 1,Field 2,Field 3. All convert fields must be of the same type." }), input.config.table('destinationTable',{ label: 'Destination Table', description: 'The desitination table' }), input.config.field('field1',{ label: 'Data Field', parentTable: 'de

I’ve solved for how to use a list of ID numbers to highlight the rows with those ID’s. Search only lets you identify one row, and filters have to be chained together one after the other. When you have a table with 1,000 items, and an external source gives you a list of 50 ID’s that all need the same update how do you select them? My solution requires adding a formula field. By pasting all of your ID values as a string literal to search for that rows ID in you can create a flag that then lets you filter a view. Here is an example of the formula: SEARCH( Identifier, “12345 qwerty 292303 zx11k9i2”) In this case Identifier is the name of your ID field in the table. Each row of your string (you should be able to paste a column from excel) is one of the ID’s you wish to modify. The result of this will be a column with blank rows and arbitrary numbers. The number is the location in your pasted string where the ID was found but that isn’t important. Next you will probably want to create a view

Hey everyone! I wanted to share a guide I wrote today on how to create a Slack reminder todo app. It takes advantage of Airtable’s neat Trello-style Kanban view for management, and as a bonus, you’ll catch a glimpse of the start (and probably end) of my poetry career. You can see all the code as well as fork and deploy your own working version onto Autocode from the link. Would love to hear what you all think! Build a Slack Reminder Todo App (slack/slack-airtable-reminders) · Autocode Build a Slack Reminder Todo App (slack/slack-airtable-reminders) · Autocode View and Fork this Source Code on Autocode

I recently redesigned one of my personal Web sites - an art portfolio - using an Airtable base on the backend. If you’re interested, you can check it out here: http://art.timdietrich.me The site is PHP-based. It pulls all of the artwork (including the information about each piece and the images themselves) from the Airtable base via the Airtable API. It also uses Stripe to handle credit card payments, and saves the orders back to the Airtable base. And for email notifications and receipts, it uses Mandrill. More information is available on my blog: http://timdietrich.me/blog/airtable-based-art-portfolio-site-launched/ Thanks for checking it out - and let me know if you have any questions about it. – Tim

In response to a long-running post about needing a find and replace function here: Would love a find/replace option! Product Suggestions I am adding my own request to this list. Not sure why it is still missing, this is an essential database feature. Here’s a script that does just that: // This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. // // THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, // EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF // MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. // IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR // OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, // ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR // OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. // // AUTHOR: Jonathan Bowen (www.dragondrop.uk) // SCRIPT: Script for Airtable script block to find and replace text // DISCLAIMER: // - T

As you may know, Airtable has direct integration with Slack ‘out of the box’. I have just published an article my blog which discusses how to use this to build an absence approval workflow, starting from an employee’s request through to notifying them of approval (or otherwise) - and with a little help from Zapier along the way. The blog post can be found here: Approval Workflows Article The article uses my KasPer Lite base which is available in theUniverse. I hope you find this useful and look forward to any comments…

Hey everyone! I recently launched a tool for creating websites / web apps without coding using Airtable. We have templates for building sites: A discovery site like Product Hunt A job board like Indeed A service marketplace like Fiverr A gallery like Instagram An events site like Meetup A social networking site like LinkedIn You can create your own site with Airtable for free on Pory. Looking forward to getting some feedback and suggestions :pray:

The uploading of images in the airtable is slow. If I try to upload images in bulk, it shows uploading and if I check after 30 mins …no images are being uploaded. Each image is more than 6 mb. Can anyone please let me know what can be the problem and how I can make the process faster. thank you

Hello! We’ve seen a lot of great ideas come from the community forum. It’s a place where everyone helps each other learn and can share the great stuff they’ve made with Airtable. To keep the good ideas coming, we want to challenge you to create something that’ll benefit the community. As a bonus, the most interesting, creative, and useful creations will receive some fun prizes :slightly_smiling_face: First up, we want to see how you can use Airtable to help manage your finances. Of course, a great budget framework is versatile and can work in a professional context as well. We know the community wants to see templates in the personal finance category, but don’t feel you need to limit your idea to a single use-case. You could create a budgeting tool, an expense tracker, or even an anti-budget. Be creative and use your skills to come up with a unique base that others can use and benefit from! We’ve even put together a starter template and a brief guide to get the ball rolling. You

Hi folks, I’ve been working on getting all of the transactions from various accounts (different credit cards, debit, investments) into one base for YEARS. Up until now, it’s been a series of monthly CSV imports (using CSV import block) which was a huge pain. Frankly, most months I’d give up and not do it. That is until I discovered TillerMoney and Parabola. Tillermoney imports all of my transactions into a spreadsheet and Parabola lets me setup a nightly runs to sync transactions between the Tillermoney sheet and my airtable base. From there, I can easily map each transaction to a category using a linked record on the vendor (working on standardizing vendor names with a script!) Here’s a quick video on how I’ve set everything up including the Parabola run and a template base to start from A few Qs that I expect to come up: Why not use the sheet? I work at Airtable so it would be awkward… more seriously, mapping vendors to a category is a pain. Why not use Mint or another tracking app?

I represent the University of Colorado Denver - where I work - and the Digital Pedagogy Lab (DPL), where I am leading a workshop on Maker Education in late July. I am not spam or scam - this is a sincere introduction and invitation. We are hosting a virtual Maker Faire in the last week of July, and I was hoping Airtable – or an Airtable developer - might give just a bit of time and expertise – to essentially offer a ‘how it’s made’ style demonstration of what’s possible. Possibly even an Airtable for Educators type of demonstration. That’s the idea. The DPL event itself has about 500 participants registered this year, from universities around the country. Within DPL, we’re aiming for a mini-Maker Faire for a couple of hours during the week. All video virtual – folks tuning-in and browsing from home. I would really like to have Airtable at the table and demonstrated as a no-code maker platform. I am humbly fishing for an expert to give us 1 to 1.5 hours of your time on either July

Looking for ideas. We’ve implemented it for launching custom emails (mailto:) to single and multiple recipients, and for launching a form through a URL. What other cool applications are you doing?!

Having a Last Modified field sounds quite unimportant - but when combined with tools like Integromat it becomes very powerful - and this on top of the new Airtable / Integromat ‘app’ which makes Integromat so much more useful to us! I’ve written a blog post about this which will show how to use this new field type to drive processes - and it’s the first post which I’ve initially published on my new Blog / Forum site - Online Database Experts. This is a site aimed at users of Airtable and other similar platforms and all are welcome to join and collaborate about Airtable and other tools like Integromat. Here’s a link to the post: Using Last Modified Fields with Integromat

Hi Airtable Users! After reading @ScottWorld’s response, regarding a keyboard shortcut, I thought it would be a good idea to post a list of shortcuts. Mary Kay Airtable - Support Airtable keyboard shortcuts The following is a list of keyboard shortcuts that'll work within Airtable. If at any time you need to see this list of keyboard shortcuts again, you can hit / and it'll bring up the keyboard short...

here is a solution for efficiently backing-up your Airtable base using Integromat this solution uses only 5 operations per 100 records and can therefor manage many records and backup runs even with the frre plan of Integromat. It can also easily be expanded to include encryption and various types of triggers and the backups can also be done to various other medium i.e. gsheets, MySQL etc. See details for the solution here - https://5im.pl/airbac This image is for display purposes and does not represent the actual automation.

An extension of Example: Netflix-style UI with a script, here we use OMDB API in the Scripting Block, to grab the Runtime/Duration of a given film from a given Airtable: Could of course be used with any API service, with a bit of adapting. Todo: add a max_count so that it doesn’t hit the API’s rate limits e.g. simply change line 20 to for (let record of result.records.slice(0,1000)) { add error handling (currently, if film is not found, the script simply skips to the next row).

Hi Everyone! We’re announcing a major update to miniExtensions! Previously, we were offering each extension as an individual subscription. Starting from today, we are offering access to ALL of our extensions for a flat rate per month! (think Netflix model, for Airtable tools!). Our 30+ extensions and the new pricing plan can be found here: miniExtensions Tools and Integrations for Airtable - miniExtensions Tools that empower Airtable users to process unlimited records in bulk with scheduling and automation features. An alternative to Zapier and Integromat. We’re always looking to add more extensions. If you have an issue that you’d like us to build a solution for, please do not hesitate to reach out here!

I do not seem to find this anywhere on the community, so thought of sharing it. With the use of API key, we can easily integrate Airtable bases into power bi and design dashboards. In the PBI desktop got --> Get Data --> Web --> Advanced In the URL parts, enter the table URL here To authorize - select Authorization and enter this Bearer YOUR_API_KEY Click OK and your table will reflect here. This process has to be repeated for each table in the Base. Also, if a field is linked record type, this shows as a bunch of alphanumeric in the PBI. To avoid this, in the table create a new column next to linked record field and use ARRAYFLATTEN formula to overcome this alphanumeric and effectively present data in PBI. One thing I still did not figure out is how to set auto-refresh in PBI online as it shows to edit credentials to enable auto-refresh and I am not sure in what way/format I should enter them. If anyone has an idea please tip me.

For those of you needing to perform a Standard Deviation calc (STDEV() in Excel), here’s a template you can use for performing this calculation with values across a single row (record): SQRT( SUM( POWER({Value 1 Field} - {Avg of Values Field}, 2), POWER({Value 2 Field} - {Avg of Values Field}, 2), POWER({Value 3 Field} - {Avg of Values Field}, 2), ... ) / (n - 1) ) Where n = the number of fields SUM’d, ie, the number of POWER() statements. You do have to manually enter each field that holds a value which you want factored in to the StDev calculation, and you have to have a field that calculates the averages of those values, so this will not work well for a dynamic data set (new values are constantly being added to the list of values needing to be included in the calculation). I use it quite frequently in calibration specs, however, so I figured I’d post it here as a quick and easy reference for other people who were used to using the STDEV() function in Excel, bu