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Sep 17, 2020 04:50 AM
Hello there,
we are looking for help with the following:
We want to connect a database in Airtable to a Flowchart tool. We want entries from Airtable to get imported into the flowchart tool as described below.
Our database contains several rows and columns. Each row contains survey responses of 1 user and each column contains that user’s response to survey questions (each response is text such as: “I looked at a datafile”).
For example: Row 1 might contain the data for user 1 and user 1 might have given the following responses in columns A-C
We now want to import this user’s responses to a flowchart app so that these 3 responses “appear” in a flowchart environment. Each response should appear in 1 bubble/rectangle in the flowchart environment.
This might look like this:
And the user should be able to rearrange them in the flowchart environment. For example, like this:
And connect them like this:
But also allow for more “complicated” connections such as here:
We previously set this up using Jsplumb: https://jsplumbtoolkit.com/. However, we think it might be easier to achieve this with something like smartdraw: https://www.smartdraw.com/developers/ since smart draw already offers its own API.
We previously created a more complicated version of this solution ourselves. We now realise that this solution was too complicated for our purposes. However, watching a short segment of this example video might provide you a clear image of what we need:
We have more detailed information and instructions available but hopefully this gives you a sense of what we’re looking for.
Please let us know if you think you’re able to help!
All the best,
Martin
Sep 17, 2020 07:23 AM
Dear Martin,
Hope you are well!!
I’d glad to assist you.
PM sent with details,please check.
Thanks and Regards
Carter W
Sep 17, 2020 08:23 AM
Thanks, Carter! I just responded to your PM.
Sep 17, 2020 12:46 PM
Hi Martin,
Having worked extensively with the Airtable API on some very complex bases in the past, I would be keen on hearing more about your project.
You can reach me on andrewjohnson56782@gmail.com
Best Wishes,
Andrew
Sep 17, 2020 06:25 PM
Dear @Martin_Schweinsberg,
Thank you for your response.
I will get back to you with further updates shortly via Email.
Best Regards
Carter