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Submitted on
Sep 21, 2021
08:20 AM
Submitted by
tasty213
on
Sep 21, 2021
08:20 AM

Hi, Occasionally someone makes a change to the table that breaks a formula or script someone else was using elsewhere. Currently Airtable doesn’t notify the other person of this (only displaying the little red triangle) and the changer might not realise what they had done. Could there be an automation trigger of on breaking change that can then be used to send an email to an SRE team or slack channel to let people know it needs fixing.
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Submitted on
Jun 11, 2021
05:29 AM
Submitted by
Databaser
on
Jun 11, 2021
05:29 AM

Marcus_Speirs Oct '20 Hi folks, I know how to set up an automation, for example if a record is created it can/could create another/duplicate record for me in separate table, however this only seems to be tables within the SAME BASE… so, here’s my question: Is it possible for Airtable to create a duplicate record in a table in one base if a record is created in another base? thanks Can we reopen this topic? We can only sync 3 tables into 1, which is way to many for my use cases. Being able to “create a record” via automations between bases instead of tables would be very useful.
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Submitted on
Mar 26, 2021
11:23 AM
Submitted by
dk82734
on
Mar 26, 2021
11:23 AM

When managing an Airtable base and table, I generally create a number of “test” columns for various development purposes. These “test” columns are generally valid for a short period of time (like 1-2 weeks). Currently, I have to remember to delete these test columns after all testing is done, which gets tedious if I’m running multiple, parallel tests. I would love the ability to specify an OPTIONAL “expiration date/time” when creating a new column. Once that date/time elapses, Airtable would auto-delete the column (placing it in the trash). If I need to restore it, I could look in the trash, accordingly. Bonus points if Airtable could email me a notification that a column is about to be deleted (maybe like 4 hours before the expiration time).
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Submitted on
Mar 18, 2021
08:07 AM
Submitted by
Lee_Mandell
on
Mar 18, 2021
08:07 AM

Currently you can execute a scripting app from the desktop version. Much of our data entry is done through the mobile app and many of them are complex and take many taps and entry into many fields. This can be steamlined quite a bit with scripting apps.
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Submitted on
Dec 16, 2020
04:38 PM
Submitted by
Rebecca_Elam
on
Dec 16, 2020
04:38 PM

i think the absolute most useful automation for my use case would be something that fires ONE time when a batch of records are added to a view rather than say for example one email per record added id like one email that says your table has rolled over to the new month or whatever. but have many records in the table. right now im using one view share link per person and changing a status in my people table (separate from the content) to ‘notify’ and triggering with a formula to send an email with the view share link in it but all of the data involved in that is 4-5 unnecessary fields in my people base. and this breaks down when i need to send the same stuff to an entire location i then have 4-5 extra fields in the locations table. i also dont like including those urls in every email as some people internally are afraid to click on links in emails and for some entities they wont even get through the endpoint. maybe even one email with a list of the records that were added
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Submitted on
Nov 29, 2020
10:49 AM
Submitted by
itoldusoandso
on
Nov 29, 2020
10:49 AM

I have about 30 automations and in my base and every time I copy the base, all Automations are disabled. I kind of get it why it is, I guess precautionary measure to prevent triggering automations again when they shouldn’t run (e.g. sending emails again, posting into facebook etc.). That’s fine. I get it. In my base, my Automations are only within Airtable and don’t interact with 3rd party services. I rely on Automations to fill some fields in my table. Recently I copied my base and I forgot to turn on the Automations. The issue now I am facing is all the data I filled into the table is incomplete, my formulas didn’t run and basically the data is useless. I will need to spend hour or more to fill in manually the stuff that would have done with Automations (many of them start on new record creation etc) So while I understand why Automations shouldn’t be enabled by default, I wish I was able to turn them on easily (not go one by one to turn on each Automation… I got almost 30 of them). And secondly, I wish there was a switch in the dialogue when copying to base that would allow be to enable all Automations in the copied base. Here are screenshots of what I mean: . And this is the copy dialogue… Thanks
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Submitted on
Nov 12, 2020
02:44 PM
Submitted by
jowan_qupty
on
Nov 12, 2020
02:44 PM

Can we please allow scripts to be run through links?! I believe this could potentially have many use cases. My Use case. I recently built a base for a client who owns a large Portfolio of real estate assets and wanted a flexible Property Management System, so i decided to do it on Airtable. I have built many scripts that automate tasks such as creating new tenant contracts + simultaneously creates new corresponding bills, scripts that spit out custom reports such as a City Report, Building Report, Unit Report, or Tenant Reports. When running the City reports (it shows a list of all buildings in that city + relevant information about each building), it would be nice to have the building names as a hyperlink, and when clicking on it, it would run the “Building report” script.
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Submitted on
Aug 30, 2020
11:33 AM
Submitted by
Alberto_Alvarez
on
Aug 30, 2020
11:33 AM

I want to send by automations email Bank card data but I don’t send this number complete. I want to mask this field to show in the automation mail with this format XXXX XXXX XXXX 1234 I don’t want to send by email the complete number of this card. I made a field Bank Card with the numbers complete I made another formula field named “Mask Card” with the formula REPLACE({Bank Card},1,15,"XXXX XXXX XXXX ") Into the view this numbers it show well XXXX XXXX XXXX 1234 but when I insert the field Mask Card into email automation only send into this email xxxx Anybody can heklp me?
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Submitted on
Jul 23, 2020
12:25 PM
Submitted by
Zollie
on
Jul 23, 2020
12:25 PM

The concepts might be vastly different to Airtable staff, but to users they’re both just ways to extend Airtable functionality. It’d also be an opportunity to rethink the right side-panel design.
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Submitted on
Jul 09, 2020
11:17 PM
Submitted by
Michael_Harris
on
Jul 09, 2020
11:17 PM

Though there is already a button feature that I like. But what if…IF you want to use a button to ‘change the field value’. For instance, when I press a button, it puts a checkbox in the checkbox field. Unfortunately, there is no way to do that, except by using just the script block. As blocks are only on the paid plan, I’m only on a free plan and with no access to blocks, I wish there is a way to actually change the value of the field by pushing a button without the use the of the script block. I hope that feature will be implemented in the near future.
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