Add data to EXISTING record using Web Clipper

[Nathan_Beckstea]

Is this possible? If so, how?

[Databaser]

Not that I know of. You can always ask Airtable directly via support@airtable.com.

[kalenjordan]

Also interested in this.

[Hannah_Wiginton]

There’s a workaround to adding new records through the Web Clipper -

Let’s say, you have a Books table that has a linked record that relates to an Authors tables

1. Add a text field in your Books table that’s similar to the name of the field you want to be able to add + the word ‘Text’

So, your field name in the Books table is “Authors”, add a text field called “Authors-NEW”

2. Set up an automation -

Trigger

“When record matches conditions”

Choose Your Books table

Conditions
“When Author-NEW ‘is not empty’”

Action

“Create Record”

Choose your Authors table
In the Name field, insert your ‘Author-NEW’ field value
In the Books linked record field, insert your Title field value

This will automatically create a new record in Authors and match it to the related Book.

This is not a perfect workaround because you have to have an extra field, but it does help.

[Michael_Parker]

Hi Hannah,

Great idea, is it possible to make it work for multiple new records?

[Hannah_Wiginton]

Hey Michael,

The web clipper only works with single records. However, the automation will trigger for any records where Author-NEW is not empty, whether that’s 1 or 100. :slightly_smiling_face:

[itoldusoandso]

I wasn't sure I understand the proposed solution so I have worked on my own figured out and here is my way of doing it:

https://air.tableforums.com/t/airtable-web-clipper-dead-instruction-resource-4-years-later-still-no-... 

Maybe it's the same way proposed here but I wasn't sure I understand what is being proposed here. The field that was updated shows up in the main table and then I can have automation to copy it. This should also work for multiple records if I link the field with multiple records when I am creating the Web clip.