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sourav_kumarKnown Participant
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How to show 100 line of text in "Long text" in any view ( Kanban, gallery etc..) without clicking over it

Hello Everyone, I want to display the whole content of the “Long text” field (about 100 lines) in the Gallery/kanban view. Now it shows just the top 4-5 lines and then the next field content. To read the whole content, one has to click on it to expand. Is there a way by which the whole content can be displayed in the Gallery/Kanban view without clicking over it? Thanks a lot!

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WanakaShowNew Participant
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Rogue blank options appearing in my single select fields in a form?

Hi Community, I have created a form, with a number of single select fields. When you got to enter, a blank field appear above the single select options - you can click on this, but it is not showing in the field in the back end. There are two options there, but the user end you can select a third non-existent option?The single selects are required fields, and the form has existed for a while without these glitches. Any tips welcome - though FYI, scripting (which the Airtbale bot told me to do) is a bit beyond my capabilitiesThanks 

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Mrs_Christine_SNew Participant
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TV/Film Call Sheet Page Design

Hello, I’ve created a database that essentially allows me to create a call sheet (sample here) using the page design app. I currently have two tables: Call sheet table - lists the date as the main column. For each date, I have information such as the location, linked crew member, status etc. Crew table - this table lists each person’s name in the main column. There’s a linked record to the dates they’re working in the call sheet table, their email, cell, and role. I’d also like to add a column for the call time, but that will vary based on the date. On Tuesday their call time might be 9:00am but on Wednesday it’s 8:30am. Since each crew member in linked to several call sheet dates, one person may be linked to 2-4 different days of work on set. The time that people need to report to set each day varies. I’m trying to figure out a way, in the crew tab, to assign a call time for each person for each shoot day that they are assigned. Would you be able to assist? I then take all this

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mbrinkleyKnown Participant
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Form Group Permission

Hey everyoneThere use to be a feature for Groups in forms that seems to be missing now for new fields.When creating a form, you can create a group and add fields to that group.When you selected the Group, there was a permissions option for that Group where you can choose the fields to be editable or view-only.It appears that option is no longer available.This was incredibly useful for me. I was able to prefill fields in that group and it would prevent the end user from removing my prefilled option. This was really great when I didn't want to expose information in those fields to end user. I could prefill it and they could not edit it. But it was at least displayed there for them so they know what they were filling things out for. If this feature is gone, is there another way to prevent end users from changing prefilled fields in formsTIA!

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pjoshi1106New Participant
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Airtable <> LinkedIn Sync / Integration / Automation

Is there a way to set up a sync, integration, or automation, between LinkedIn and Airtable, to enrich / update a candidate's record in Airtable based upon any updates to their LinkedIn data (e.g., role, company)?

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Need Help Creating a View-Based Rejection Email Workflow with AI in Airtable

Hi Airtable Community,I'm trying to build a smart rejection workflow in my recruitment database and could use some help with automations, AI, and view-specific logic.✅ What I’m Trying to AchieveI want Airtable to automatically generate a short rejection reason and send a rejection email only if a candidate’s Rejection Letter Sent field is marked as: Yes: Pre-interview, or Yes: Post-interview This logic should be confined to a specific view, not the entire table, since not all candidates are up for review at the same time.🧱 Key Structure of My Base Job: (Single select) – Indicates job category (e.g. "Database Administrator"). Candidate Supporting Documents: (Attachment) – Holds resumes, CVs, and supporting docs per candidate. Rejection Letter Sent: (Single select) – Options include “Yes: Pre-interview”, “Yes: Post-interview”, or blank. Email: – Email address of the candidate. Rejection Letter Tip: (Long text or AI field) – This is where I’d like AI to generate a short 1–2 sen

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Alison HyndNew Participant
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Collecting e-signatures in forms

I’m looking for a simple and low-cost solution for collecting e-signatures in forms. I need to create permission forms for education programs and collect e-signatures, then import the data directly to Airtable. I don’t need to do this often enough for a montly/annual contract to make financial sense. esignatures.com is the best-priced platform that I’ve found, but it’s not clear if their data can be integrated with Airtable. I’d appreciate hearing from anyone who has done this or found other low-cost but good solutions that don’t require third-party software.

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John_MPCNew Participant
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How do we automatically attach a PDF to a record that was created with Page Designer?

Hello,We are a large sales organization using the Airtable Page Designer to create PDFs in order visualize data from our commission tables. We have created the PDFs in the Airtable Page Designer, but do not know how to attach them back to the individual record within the table.For example: we have commission data generated from the table for the entire sales organization. We would like the PDF that was created for Bob Smith, to automatically pull back into Bob Smith’s record. We plan on emailing all of these PDFs to each individual rep through an automation.TLDR: How do we attach the PDF to the individual rep (record) from which the information was pulled.

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Pre filling forms with Kuovonne’s excellent app!

Hi Must say that the pre fill form app that @kuovonne wrote is extremely useful. Thanks for taking the time to write it!! Airtable Prefilled Forms - Apps - Airtable Marketplace Prefill forms with field values on Airtable with the Prefilled Forms app. Quick question though. Some of my text fields are VERY long with formatting etc. is that still going to work when being sent via a query string? Seems to so far but I would hate it to break.

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How to manage translations of linked records without losing the connection to the original table?

Hi guys, I’m building a interface (with Softr) heavily based on a Tag system done with linked records. I have translated the interface but I don’t know how to translate the tags without creating a different linked table and loosing the link with the original table. I’ve created agent fields to translate the tags. Any ideas how to display and allow the selection of the translated field and not the primary field of the table? Or any other solutions that can link the translated tags to the original dataset?Thanks, 

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CodyEFSJNew Participant
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Looking for response from Accounts Receivable Team

Hello Airtable Community, We have had a ticket open with the Airtable AR Team on some billing questions since the 7th of this month. No response have been received. I have emailed the regular support now as well but I’m not sure when I’m going to hear back from them.  Is there any way to contact them that’s not email? I have not had any luck with finding a proper live chat or phone number.  Thank you!

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bustbrainlabsNew Participant
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How are you sharing Airtable data internally without racking up collaborator costs?

We were looking for ways to expand Airtable access to internal teams without adding everyone as a paid collaborator.Shared views were too limited, and Interfaces still required collaborator access for anything interactive.So we built a front-end portal where team members can log in, view just their data, and update records if needed. No Airtable seat required.It’s now evolved into a tool called ClientlyBase — useful for internal dashboards, forms, and lightweight access across teams.Curious if anyone else here has dealt with this — how are you managing access for non-collaborators?

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k0k0netijiNew Participant
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How to Link Softr “Get in Touch” Form Submissions to the Correct Airtable Contact?

I’m trying to set up a “Get in Touch” button in Softr that opens a form (asking for name*, email*, phone number*, organisation, and message*). The form should create a new record in my Airtable “Get in Touch” table and automatically associate it with the specific person (from my Contacts table) that the button was clicked for.I’ve set up both the Contacts Table and a Get in Touch Table in Airtable, but I’m not sure how to pass the member’s information into the form so the submission links correctly. Should I be using a hidden field, a details page, or another Softr setup for this?

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Lynn_RajewskiNew Participant
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Need help in getting PDFs uploaded to Airtable to print in original 300 dpi from PageDesigner

Hi All, I uploaded some 300 dpi food labels that print perfectly from the individual record. Clean and crisp. They measure 4.247"h x 4.027"w and I want them to print four-up on a letter-size page via PDF. We currently do this with our Access but are transitioning to Airtable. In Photoshop these show up as 1274px h x 1208px w. I tried setting both the record size and the field size (for the graphic) to these dimensions in Page Designer. Then, I selected Print Records in a Specific View to PDF. The labels were huge (one per letter-size page) and very pixelated. I looked at the AT record settings for an index card, which was in the ballpark while not exactly the same size as our labels. They, surprisingly, were only 327px x 545px. So I calculated the ratio of pixels to inches and applied that to get the dimensions for our labels of 447px w x 472px h and entered those dimensions to the record and graphic size. Print setting: Records in a Specific View Grid Letter Size- Portrait They prin

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nroshakKnown Participant
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Matching on non-printing characters

Background: I have a feed that inserts data into an Airtable base using the API. Sometimes the feed inserts non-printing characters into one of the fields.Specifically, it inserts the UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM), EF BB BF, in the middle of a string. The field it gets inserted into is a URL field.The BOM isn’t visible in Airtable, but when we try to use the link, we get 404 because of the %EF%BB%BF in the middle of the link.For example, the link as displayed in Airtable would be something like “https://community.airtable.com/topic/2341”, but what is actually stored is “https://community.airtable.com/topic/%EF%BB%BF2341” . Searching for %EF%BB%BF in Airtable using filters or automations gives no results.Question: How can I search for and remove the BOM from field values where it appears?

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Mira1001New Participant
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Rename records of an existing table

Hi,I’m newbie so I really need help on changing or renaming the records of my table. As far as I know, you can name the records while creating a table, but whatif I already have a table, what should I do to changing the name of my records?  

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ankitpshettyNew Participant
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Airtable billing failures in India - How are other Indian Businesses dealing with this?

Probably only relevant to Airtable users operating out of India, but any helpful perspectives from others would be much appreciated.For the last few months, all of my payments towards Airtable invoices have failed due to new regulations by the Reserve Bank of India requiring compliance to a bunch of new rules that I'm guessing Airtable is having trouble with. (You can read more details about this here: https://razorpay.com/blog/business-banking/rbi-guidelines-and-making-international-expenses/)This is exacerbated to some extent because payment partners that specialise with dealing with this sort of thing in India like Razorpay have not been onboarding new clients due to instructions by the Reserve Bank. So far we've gotten by, by contacting support every month, being reassured by them that their engineers are working on a fix, and them kindly voiding our invoice to allow us to extend our usage by a month. This month, I get a response from Airtable that their engineers have fa

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Catherine_Murp1New Participant
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Remove HTML from CSV import

Hello, I am importing a csv file from Azure Devops that contains html in one of the fields. I can’t remove from Devops. Is there a way to remove html after importing in Airtable? Thanks!

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jillmontereyKnown Participant
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Can I duplicate a Group of fields when building a form?

I'm finding the Duplicate Field function to be very handy in building a form with a lot of repetitive fields (long story short, it has to be built this way or prospective users won't buy in), but I wish I could duplicate an entire Group. The only actions I can take on a Group are to delete it, change the permissions, change the appearance, set rules for visibility.If only there was such an action as Group>Duplicate. Anyone know of a trick or extension? I can't find anything.Also, does this seem like a thing that form-builders want to do? I haven't seen anyone asking for it anywhere else.

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Option to add to groups without sending email notification? (Business/Enterprise)

In the relatively recent past, it was possible to add users to Groups in the admin panel without having to write up a notification message and send them an email that they'd been added. Sometime in the last 8 months or so that was changed, and now anyone added to a group has to be notified via email, even if that Group isn't tied to any access and is solely intended as organizational. Why? It's also not possible to add people to a Group by checking off users from a list, only by typing in their names or pasting comma separated emails.Whatever changes were made have made it harder to use the Groups function and more cumbersome for admins, as well as confusing for end users who may have no idea why they were added to a Group of what it means if there's no obvious new access granted when they login. This feels like a useless change, and one that takes the experience backwards, not forward.

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ciccioNew Participant
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single line test is case insensitive on filtering

Hello, I am filtering out a view based on the value of a “single line text” field in which I search for a specific substring (E.G. “Backrow”) although I got presented also the records in which there is the same word but with different casing (“BackRow) and I don’t want that.Am I missing something or the filtering for “single line text” is actually case insensitive? If so, is there any workaround?Thanks in advanceFrancesco

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Amine wahidNew Participant
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Help!

I have an agency This is my first time using Airtable. And i want to ask can i build a crm for each client and give them access their crm only under my Airtable account?? 

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TreymysterNew Participant
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twitch extension

I’m having a hard time finding the correct links for the columns-  airtable API key (which tells me I’m supposed to create a token for it which I did but not too sure on how to copy it and paste it on there) Airtable database app (not to sure where to find this located either.) My goal is to make it close to the template that it provides with the leaderboard. I‘ve created my own already with the AI source.  Would like help!! 

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nachumi_eNew Participant
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Import a CSV file from an attachment field in an Airtable Automation

 Hello, So Airtable has a script that allows importing a CSV file to update records, I am trying to use this script in an Automation but instead of uploading the CSV to the script, I need it to grab it from an attachment field. The Airtable Script: // Ask the user to import a CSV file containing a header row let csvFileResult = await input.fileAsync( 'Upload a CSV file', {allowedFileTypes: ['.csv'], hasHeaderRow: true} ); // The file importer will automatically parse contents for many file types, including CSV files let csvRows = csvFileResult.parsedContents; // Edit this to the name of a table in your base let table = base.getTable('Purchases'); let shouldContinue = await input.buttonsAsync( `Import ${csvRows.length} records from ${csvFileResult.file.name} into ${table.name}?`, [{label: 'Yes', variant: 'primary'}, 'No'] ) if (shouldContinue === 'Yes') { // Create new records from the CSV. // Edit these field and property names to match your

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rtully85New Participant
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User Preference Issue - user is automatically entering "Edit" mode when clicking on "Interface"

One of my team members is running into an issue where the default interface view is “edit mode”. Please advise. 

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