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I was playing around with rollups today and couldn’t quite get or to work like I thought it should. Even worse I couldn’t find examples of how others are using it. An examples, real or made up? Thanks!

I write knitting patterns, they had to be tested - if everything is correct or not. So I have tests - for every pattern. I collect data as volunteers, yarn used, if finished, etc. I have testers - because some people joins to more tests. I want to keep their email address here, know in which tests they knitted and how. So I would like to rate them - did the finish in time, sent the survey back, etc. I don’t see, how I should connect all this data together. How it works now: I have a Google doc, one table for all tests, with the data mentioned before. And I have an other table: rows are testers and columns are the tests, I give a “note” for them. I hope this can be understand :slightly_smiling_face:

Many of my tasks have a bunch of quick jobs to tick off. They’re not worthy of being a separate task. So far I’ve resorted to just writing them down in the notes cell as a sort of bulleted list. Is there a way to turn them into a proper checklist? Perhaps zapier or some other work around?

I’m from Ukraine, so bare with my English.) For some months I develop game-mechanics and for a few weeks I try an implementation on Airtable. And I have some issues and some problems here. So I would be quite grateful for some help. My DB consists of lots of tables, among them are ASPIRATIONS (what I try to achieve by my actions), ACTIONS (list of actions I presume to be potentially helpful if practiced regularly), QUESTS (taking an action for some exact number of repetitions during a period of time), DAYS (every record is a day of game with according events), REPETITIONS (each repetition of each quest must be there), TRANSACTION (each gain or loss of points must be accounted for). For example I add an Aspiration like “Lose 10 kilos of body weight”, then I add Actions wich I see helpful with such a target like “Run a mile a day”, then I may take a Quest with this Action. If I see subjective difficulty of this Action as 3 (of 10), than taking this Action in a Qu

This: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/order.php Use that free service to seed data into your base. A few uses: Test workflows and Airtable features without mucking up your real data Sell a boss or train a co-worker on Airtable. I find that just showing my people how Airtable works was better than describing its potential Get Airtable support without giving them access to your real data

Would anyone like to share some of their database templates they have created? I am very interested in seeing how others are using airtable especially for customer information tracking and small business records. Thanks!

“This is the next big thing” That’s what one of our instructors literally said. And her job is to teach database design! My marketing coordinator is raving about it, and my admissions officer is already evangelizing it around the company. The biggest draw so far? The app and how it displays records, and how easy it is to add a new field. As the guy who has to choose which software we adopt, my sole criteria for buying an app is will everyone use it. Adoption is the problem that keeps me up at night. So far Airtable has cleared that bar.

Hi, I’m interested in hiring an AirTable pro for a few hours of time. I have a major book launch and I’d like to make sure we are leveraging this wonderful platform well. Elizabeth Kanna

Hi everyone. I just posted about a technique that writers who use the popular Scrivener application can use to embed Airtable views directly into their Scrivener binders. It’s a great way for writers to do their research in Airtable and then refer to it without breaking their writing flow. Here’s the blog post: http://timdietrich.me/blog/airtable-views-in-scrivener-binders/ ~ Tim

Hello Airtable Community, I am a technically trained serviceman, who is currently employed as a maintenance guy with a myriad of assets that require on going responsibilities. I have a fuel inside of me to get all the scattered and tacit knowledge shoved into a database so I can have more time to spend on projects I enjoy. The Access relationship picture supplied was a work in progress. I was having a hard time with balancing certain things. I created 3 levels of “assets” Items, Assemblies and Parts. This is because I have equipment that has assemblies that can be replaced or repaired externally (OEM) but can be repaired in-house on a part level. Also, those assemblies can be taken off of one machine, repaired, then put back onto a different machine. The assembly level is also where any prototyping would occur when designing something with my 3d printer and trying it out. So any information about length of time in service would be important for a specific identifiable

Check out @Howie’s guest post on InfoWorld. Lots of great thoughts on the history of spreadsheets and databases, among other things: InfoWorld The next generation of spreadsheets will be a database Flexibility and ease of use have made the spreadsheet the popular but unfortunate choice for makeshift database

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