Hi all, I’m stuck at this, probably somebody can help me out:
I receive in Airtable a string of URLs like this:
url1,url2,url3,url4
Now I would like to split this string and create in Airtable (in a separate table) single records:
Record 1: url1
Record 2: url2
Record 3: url3
Record 4: url4
To do it once with not a very large set of data, you can export to CSV.
In Excel and use “Text to Columns” to split the data into columns at the commas
Select each row, copy, paste special, transpose.
Save and re-import.
Other than that, you’d probably need a script I think.
I made this video showing a non-scripting method for creating multiple linked records from a single text field.
You could use the same technique for your list of urls, except instead of splitting out the urls based on the new line character, you would need to split them out based on the comma.
On the other hand, a custom script would be much faster, require fewer fields, and take fewer automation runs.
If you are interested in learning scripting, this would be a good beginner project.
I decided to make a video showing one way of writing a script that does this.
Note that the script in my video will not run as an automation script. However, if enough people view, like, and comment on the video, I will probably make a follow-up video that shows how to convert the script to run as an automation.