Unfortunately, Airtable’s extensions cannot be triggered by buttons (with the exception of the Page Designer extension and the scripting extension), so if you wrote your own custom JavaScript script, you could run the script for the current record by clicking on a button.
However, a much easier & quicker solution is that you can simply change the configuration settings of the Time Tracker extension to only show you records that are listed in a certain view. So you can create a filtered view to show you just your “active projects” (or whatever projects you want to show), and then your record list will be a shorter list to choose from.
Alternatively, if you want to get super fancy & sophisticated with your time tracking, you can sign up for a time tracking app like Clockify or Teamwork or Toggl, and then use Make's advanced automations & integrations to communicate back & forth between Airtable and those apps.
You can setup buttons in Airtable that trigger custom webhooks in Make (and you can create custom webpage responses too).
Whenever one of your custom webhooks is triggered in Make, you can set it up to do whatever you want in those apps. Here is Make’s Clockify integrations, Teamwork integrations, and Toggl integrations.
There is a small learning curve with Make, which is why I created this basic navigation video to help. I also provide the links to a few other Make training resources. For example, to instantly trigger your Make scenarios from Airtable silently with a script triggered by a drop-down menu instead, check out this thread.
Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld
