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Hi Everyone. Beenform is a simple form backend product that enables you to setup working web forms that works with Airtable in just a couple minutes. With Beenform, you can hook up your static HTML form, with an endpoint that captures form submissions and creates an Airtable record. In addition to collecting submissions, you can enable User Authentication in beenform so that any form submission from your users, an automated email with their unique individual link will be sent to them, which they can always use to update only their individual records. All these changes are made in your Airtable base. Every Beenform form also includes automatic spam filtering, Google recaptcha support etc. We are still currently in beta, so it’s completely free. Let me know what you think. You can check it out here https://beenform.co . Thanks all :slightly_smiling_face:

Hello everyone. We use Airtable for various things at Unly, and we have always been concerned by the inability to create scheduled backups that really fit our needs. Despite the fact Airtable has its own backups/restore feature, it didn’t fit our needs. And, because Airtable holds lots of business-sensitive data, it was a very big risk for us not to be in control of the backup&restore process. So, we built a tool that is designed to perform scheduled backups automatically, and deal with backups lifecycle (auto-removal, etc.). Today, we’re releasing this proprietary software as OSS under MIT license. GitHub UnlyEd/airtable-backups-boilerplate Configurable automated backups for Airtable meant to be self-hosted, powered by AWS Lambda/S3 with the Serverless framework - UnlyEd/airtable-backups-boilerplate Because backups are very sensitive things, it didn’t make sense to us to build something where we would hold the backups ourselves. T

I always wince when I see broad and sweeping claims that a tool can perform workflows. This is especially problematic in platforms that are not designed with an integrated state machine. Lacking this, we are all left to manage the state of any workflow process on our own. Many of you are nodding. Here’s a design I put together recently that provides a way for vendors to receive email notifications of opportunities to bid on projects and a complete workflow process that captures their bids. The red lines indicate the flow of the Quote Request Process which is a lights-out factory process - it just happens automatically as new records emerge in the Quote Request table. The green lines indicate the flow of the Request Response Process which is kicked off by a vendor responding to an email that contains a link to an Airtable form that inputs some key data directly into an Airtable table. That form would be opened with prepopulated information from the Quote Request which then makes it

Hi! Would like to ask about the which options do you have for international customers (Non-US residents) because I’d like to subscribe but there’s no option for Paypal for instance. Thanks.

Airtable Now Supports Webhooks! This has been an open item in the Airtable support community for a few years, see “Webhooks for Records” and here, & here, and we are excited to offer a free solution to the community. Here is the high level solution: Based on the transitive property (A=B and B=C, then A=C), Airtable supports Slack Notifications, and Slack supports webhooks, so Airtable supports webhooks! You just have to know how to set it up correctly. With a simple integration via Pipedream into Slack, all Airtable users can now get near real time notifications of all updated fields and values in Airtable. 800×192 This is a game changer for anyone building automations based on Airtable because you don’t have to poll the Airtable API (which is what Zapier or Integromat do). Specifically, the benefits of webhooks (vs. all other existing solutions) are: Automation Control. If you want to control the type of events you are receiving or do different things based on different type

Are you an avid reader?! I just posted a Book Tracker Database on Airtable Universe! Airtable Book Tracker Database - Airtable Universe Are you an avid reader? This is the book database for you! ​ I've read so many books in my lifetime and wanted a way to start tracking them. Not only the... I’ve read so many books in my lifetime and wanted a way to start tracking them. Not only the books I’ve read, but the ones I want to read. ​This database includes a place for Title, Book Cover Image, Author, Read Status, Genre, Synopsis, Month and Year Read, Ratings by Star, Your Review of the book, and Own Status. ​It also includes information like Number of Pages in the book, How many times you’ve read the book, Year Published, and ISBN. If you read e-books from your local library, I’ve also included a field for Library Status. This could easily be changed to keeping track of something like where you want to buy the book. ​ Th

tl;dr version: A frequent query and/or complaint concerns users who wish to access data from a record for use in a calculation performed in a different record from the same table. Often this takes the form of a user asking ‘how to retrieve a value based on row number’; other times the user wishes to perform a calculation that assumes knowledge of the previous record — for instance, maintaining a running balance. A recently published base contains four approaches to this problem, three involving sequential records offset by varying numbers of days, and a fourth allowing retrieval of arbitrary data from the previous and previous-but-one record. Lately, I’ve been playing around with cross-record or multi-record calculations — that is, the ability to retrieve a value from a prior record for use with calculations in the current record. This is a recurring issue for users who conflate Airtable’s spreadsheet-like appearance with presumed spreadsheet-like functionality and wonder why they can

I couldn’t find a template that was already set up with an invoice and the option to add payments, see previous orders, etc. So I ended up making one! I’m sure there are issues with it, but it’s a good starting point. I hope you find it useful! Airtable Shared Invoicing - Airtable Explore the "Shared Invoicing" base on Airtable.

I was thinking about how to add some functionality to a base and, for the base user, how they would trigger this. In most web apps functionality will be invoked by the click of a button - save edits, delete a record and so on - but this button functionality isn’t available in Airtable. But…Zapier provides a webhook component that can be invoked to kick off a Zap. I frequently use Zaps in my bases and they are mostly triggered by the standard Airtable triggers - new record or new record in a view. One downside to this, which this demo gets around, is that a record can only be triggered once (or once as a new record and once in a given view). By using webhooks to trigger the functionality, it can be executed an arbitrary number of times for any record. My demo for this is based on translating content from one language to another. I have some text in English and I want to translate each record of content into German: I set up a Zap that: triggers on-demand gets the EN content translates

Hi All! Last weekend I was involved in putting on the Consciousness Hacking Holiday Party. We were using [MUSE Headbands][(https://choosemuse.com/) for a meditation competition. The headbands measure brain activity and we competed for the highest scores of relaxation and focus. With over 60 competitors we used Airtable to manage the entire competition. Each volunteer recorded the score of the competitor and took a picture of them. All the results were sent to the big screen in a “Keep sorted” Gallery view with the winners at the top and if their score was over 500, colored Green. Here’s a fun chart of results: Questions? Comments? Ideas?

I’ve just added a new post to my blog Online Database Expert which shows how to use Integromat to create Barcodes from Airtable records and then post the resulting barcode (or QR Code) image back into the Airtable record. You can see all of the posts relevant to Airtable (including the Bar-code one) here: Database Expert Blog | Online Database Expert Visit our Blog where we review database and other cloud / online platforms and where you can comment. The site also include a members forum where you can ask database related questions and offer advice (including a specific section for Airtable users).

…but I will. :grinning: I just got a new Badge for viewing posts for 365 consecutive days! Pretty impressive, I’d say. It seems that I am the only one, at this time. I thought I would share this. Mary K

I just wanted to show (perhaps showoff :winking_face: ) one of our latest projects with Airtable. Using multiple Airtable tables our marketing client manages their projects, clients and incoming reports. They require their contractors to upload reports which we are using an AT form (soon to be custom form as client needs extra requirements) to input the data. Each of the customers are using a generated token based on the AT record ID which is part of their link to access the site ie. mysite.com/wo55eiruWERsdhf234 as security isn’t a primary objective they just don’t want “browsers” being able to have public access. These links can be sent out using the Airtable email block, these links are easily regenerated in AT and deactivated using a checkbox as well. Each client gets their unique link and once they connect can only see the projects they are assigned to in Airtable on a custom home page. The site provides an nice view of the data in chronological order and images retrieved from

I was recently lamenting about the lack of a scripting model in Airtable in this discussion concerning actionable buttons and Jonathan Bowen called my attention to a pretty clever way to utilize multiple Zapier components to call out via URLs in fields and update the record (or records) in the table. I wasn’t familiar with this approach and it opened my eyes to a number of possibilities for serverless integration processes. It reminded me of a similar approach that I am intimately familiar with that stems from my deep desire to script processes inside Airtable, even going so far as to create a rudimentary web service that would allow me to easily create script steps in long text fields and then execute those steps against fields via the API using a little thing I call Airdrop which I use pervasively with clients. The idea is simple - Airdrop is a server script that runs every 60 seconds looking for tasks to process. It is guided by an arbitrary base (named Airdrop) that contains a tab

This loops through all the records from a view or search and performs the following steps for each record. It is intended to run after something else triggers it. It returns all fields of the records as well (as long as you include them in your query), so that you can use them as ingredients in the following steps of the zap without having to do a separate lookup. T Here is the code where you can copy and paste it. var settings = { 'method': 'GET', 'headers': { "Authorization": "Bearer <API KEY HERE>", }, }; fetch('http://api.airtable.com/v0/APP_NAME_HERE/TABLE_HERE/?QUERYS_GO_HERE', settings) .then(function(res) { return res.text(); }) .then(function(body) { // body is the raw return from the API call body.toString(); console.log(); var jsonData = JSON.parse(body); var length = jsonData.length; var output = []; for (let i = 0; i < jsonData.records.length; i++){ // This for loop processes each record and adds it to the array output

Hi, folks. Let’s say you have a base with two fields: Pet (single line text) and Fruit (multiselect: Apples, Bananas, and Oranges). Turns out that the comma is used as a multiselect field separator. After much trial and error, the following CSV imported properly: Pet,Fruit Hamster,Bananas Mouse,“Apples,Bananas”

Is there a limit to the number of records I can add to a database?

Hi, I know that there are many questions in this community about Slack integration. I have built a Private Slack App that allows us to do some basic operations using the Airtable API. Here are some screenshots of the slack app: It is available as /slair . You have to configure your API Key and Application ID . Currenty supported Airtable integrations . Sample Add Record (All fields will show up as Text field :frowning: ) If there is interest from the community I will make the Slack App public.

If you are like me and want to use your iPad with Airtable (not the almost useless app but the web interface) this si what I have discovered; BLOCKS are working and you can even print from page designer block! The Send Grid Block works! Print view is not working, you get a blank document… too bad but as Airtable constantly remember us “you can create you own print layouts with page designer block”… The Icon of “open in the Airtable app” will come and go on the top of your page even when you have requested Desktop site from setting. (Safari settings) Views under tables are not always scrolling properly but you can bypass this limitation by typing the name of the view you are looking to display. (I use this “shortcut” quiet often on my Mac) Same with side scrolling… you just have to open the record you want to see (too bad if you wanted to see more than one record or a full set with SUM or AVG calculus) you can move on the right or left by clicking the edge of the screen making the fiel

Below is a Form link to vote on Airtable features! Thought I would (quickly) throw this together and see if other users would be interested in something like this, or, find it useful to track interest in the top Feature Requests of the Airtable Community. I only added a few to get it started. If not, maybe I will make it a Universe base for others if useful. Here is a form to submit your own votes. Feel free to submit feedback in the form or here! Poll Entry Form Poll Results: I am open to suggestions for improvement as well! Eventually I would want to add some more robust features / try to present the data more elegantly, but we shall see. -Alex P.S. I am a normal Airtable user so any results of this poll would hold no extra bearing on Airtable’s likelihood of implementing them!

Hi everyone, Originally I started making this for my wife, but she decided to use another app instead so I figured I would finish it out and share it. https://airtable.com/shrXDCU2NXyGNLVV5 Summary This base is designed to hold recipes and then use those recipes to schedule meals and create shopping lists using the IFTTT applet with the trigger “When a new record is created in view”. It’s a great way to keep track of recipes you like. The meal planner uses a simple form view so that you can choose existing recipes and then the date on which you want to make them. The shopping list view takes what meals you have scheduled and looks up the ingredients. This view only shows what meals are within the next week, but if you shop more or less than once a week, you can adjust accordingly in the filter. While the shopping view shows the ingredients for each recipe, you can use IFTTT or Zapier to create a shopping list using ToDoIst or other listing app to create a compiled shopping list. T

The Computer Museum of America (Roswell, Georgia) is using AirTable to make a timeline of the digital revolution. Thanks and a tip of the hat to DragonDrop—found on the AirTable Community Forum— for assisting in the export. The photograph shows just one decade of what will eventually span from the Abacus to AI & ExaScale computing. IMG_9497|375x500

I’ve been working on a search concept for Airtable that has kept me awake a few nights. One of the [many] problems with universal search (i.e., a search that spans multiple bases and multiple tables) is the complex types of fields and content you’ll find when the entire galaxy of data possibilities will be encountered. You have to embrace all that Airtable could ever store and in a way that is not only findable but indexable in a reliable and compressed manner. Another problem; Airtable is fun to use. Users don’t want to search in a completely disengaged web page away from their data. If you’re at all like me, you probably want your search results displayed like any other information objects are displayed in the platform you’re searching. I struggled with many aspects of an open (but secure) and easy-to-understand architecture. One of the biggest aspects of this was answering a basic question - if you had an index of all your data, where would you feel comfortable storing it? The answe

I was asked recently by a client if it was possible to send people who’d booked onto an event a Calendar entry (so they don’t forget) in response to their booking. In the blog post linked below, I show how you can do this with Integromat: Send a Calendar Entry to confirm a booking There are ways to link Airtable calendars with other calendars - some covered in here - but this deals with sending a calendar entry to an outside person booking onto an event (of course the process could apply to any date/time based records). I hope people find this useful - feel free to comment on the post I you wish.

I’ve just published an article on Online Database Expert about sending VCard files from a database using Integromat: https://www.onlinedatabase.expert/post/send-a-vcard-from-a-database-with-integromat Check it out if you want to know more!