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Submitted on
Nov 17, 2022
08:11 AM
Submitted by
Arnoud_Post
on
Nov 17, 2022
08:11 AM

When record comments would be available as a field in Automations, we could trigger automations on new comments. For custom notifications, record changes, update last modified date and copy of full record comments to a separate Long text field for those situations where the 6/12months retention is not enough.
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Submitted on
Aug 09, 2021
08:10 PM
Submitted by
TroyTessalone
on
Aug 09, 2021
08:10 PM

Airtable Automation Trigger Add an Airtable Automation trigger event for “when record deleted”. Settings Filter for records in Table Filter for records in View Filter for records deleted by certain collaborators
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Submitted on
Aug 04, 2021
04:44 PM
Submitted by
TroyTessalone
on
Aug 04, 2021
04:44 PM

Airtable Automation Trigger Add an Airtable Automation trigger event for “when record has comment”. Settings Filter for only mentions. Filter for comments from certain collaborators. Filter for keywords Filter for records in Table Filter for records in View
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Submitted on
May 13, 2021
10:43 AM
Submitted by
Jack_P
on
May 13, 2021
10:43 AM

I would love the ability to reshuffle and group Automations. I often have 10-20+ automations in one Base and they are created at different times. It would be a great help if i could organize them in a chronological, or dependant, order as i add automations to the list. Currently if i create an automation that is the 2nd to trigger in the base but i created it months after the others that already exist, it sits at the bottom of the list and makes it very difficult to remember which Automation triggers in which sequence. (I currently have a stack of 6 automations that trigger one after another but are all jumbled in the Automation tab)
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Submitted on
Feb 03, 2023
03:24 AM
Submitted by
Karlstens
on
Feb 03, 2023
03:24 AM

I don't understand how both btoa() and atob() methods are supported within the Airtable Scripting App Extension, but not within an Automation Scripting Action. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/btoa https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/atob Base64 encode and decode is an absolute staple in system integrations. Can it please be included to the Automation Scripting environment? To get me out of a tight spot, I have used the below function to substitute btoa() function btoa(str) {
let characters = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/';
let result = '';
let i = 0;
let char1, char2, char3;
while (i < str.length) {
char1 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
char2 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
char3 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
result += characters.charAt(char1 >> 2);
result += characters.charAt(((char1 & 3) << 4) | (char2 >> 4));
result += characters.charAt(((char2 & 15) << 2) | (char3 >> 6));
result += characters.charAt(char3 & 63);
}
return result;
} I think that this is rather unnecessary...
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Submitted on
Nov 10, 2021
09:02 AM
Submitted by
TroyTessalone
on
Nov 10, 2021
09:02 AM

Airtable Automations - Run History Across Automations Add a screen to view Airtable Automation Run History across all Automations, rather than per Automation, as this would allow for better troubleshooting since sequential processing can be derived. Settings Filter for Automation Filter for Date Range Filter for Status of Run (Success/Error)
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Submitted on
Jun 06, 2023
09:55 AM
Submitted by
Danarone
on
Jun 06, 2023
09:55 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? A Project Archive Feature to make it easy to 'deactivate and hide a project when certain criteria are met. An archived project would be grayed-out, hidden completely everywhere in the base or moved into an Archive Table. It would no longer affect any rollups or calculated fields. To make it active again, the user goes to Archive settings, click 'Show Archived Projects' then changes the criteria back to active. How does is solve the user problems? Current solutions only hide the project from view. it is still active and you need to consciously filter it from view everywhere in the base. Or you need to manually copy the project to an Archive table and delete from active which is tedious. How was this validated? No validation has been performed. Who is the target audience? Project managers with multiple projects that have a lot of fields/data. Their organization is known to pause or cancel a project and re-activate it again at a later date. Or they simply want to save old projects for reference.
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Submitted on
Jul 11, 2023
02:52 AM
Submitted by
jjj1232018
on
Jul 11, 2023
02:52 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Currently there's no easy no-code way to build an Interface which allows you to select multiple records from a list and then manipulate the data thereafter. How does is solve the user problems? For example, we're building an Invoice/PO management system which requires us to Approve multiple invoices at once from a list. Currently, the only workaround we have is to manually have a Status dropdown for each row which is individually changed. Then we have a single select record picker looking ugly at the bottom of the page, just to enable a Button to have an automation (even though it's in no way connected to the record picker's displayed record) which then runs our automation based on the status field. We should be able to tick multiple items in a List/Table and then be able to Automate from that. How was this validated? ... Who is the target audience? Anybody editing multiple fields at once or lots of data.
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Submitted on
Jul 29, 2024
08:51 AM
Submitted by
Alex_Melman
on
Jul 29, 2024
08:51 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Automation monitoring dashboard. It would be wonderful to have a way to see all automations currently in progress (sometimes they can get backed up and you need to click through each one to see if there are any that are jammed up / in-progress), as well as list things like the average speed of each automation, automation runs that have failed, etc, and centrally manage logs and alerts related to automations. How does is solve the user problems? Right now this data is scattered, and it is incredibly cumbersome to manage bases that have more than a few automations. Additionally, error messages are only sent to the last user to edit an automation, making troubleshooting a difficult and opaque process. Who is the target audience? Primarily, Airtable enterprise customers or others who rely extensively on Airtable automations to support powerful workflows.
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Submitted on
May 23, 2021
05:17 PM
Submitted by
itoldusoandso
on
May 23, 2021
05:17 PM

Amazing Airtable team, please give us folders to organize those Automations. I have about 50 and have to plow through them. Ideally I would like to organize the automatons into folders and (in my case) I would name the folder similarly as the tables names where the automations are being used. That would make it easier to find the right automation I am looking for.
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