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Submitted on
Sep 15, 2020
09:15 AM
Submitted by
George_Copelan1
on
Sep 15, 2020
09:15 AM

The ability to sort/filter OR group automations would be EXTREMELY helpful. I can easily see us having hundreds of automations and I also don’t want to even track down that path unless I know I can organize them after the fact. I’d almost rather just create super complex formula’s and additional columns to provide the solution I need, even though I know this is the right way to do it. Example mock-ups below! Thanks for all that you guys do. Incredibly grateful for such a beautiful product.
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Submitted on
May 30, 2024
02:40 PM
Submitted by
bcrossley
on
May 30, 2024
02:40 PM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Include the ability to "store" or "save" scripts and processes for reuse in multiple automations. How does it solve the user problems? Instead of having to manage multiple automations using the same script/process, they can be modified/updated in a single place and update all automations that use them once changes are published. Pipedream does a nice job of this. It would save me a lot of time, and reduce the potential for errors. How was this validated? Personal experience managing complex automations Who is the target audience? Airtable power users and consultants
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Submitted on
Sep 28, 2023
01:41 PM
Submitted by
dmitryk
on
Sep 28, 2023
01:41 PM

Currently, the button field allows you to run an extension script. I have to maintain separate automation and extension script that performs the same actions. Would be ideal to be able to run an automation like interface buttons do. Support for multiple triggers would also be helpful. For example, I could have a trigger for when a record meets certain conditions and a button trigger whenever manual execution is desired. An automation script where I think this would be useful is one that creates or updates a record/object in a third party system.
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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
Jan 13, 2021
08:22 AM
Submitted by
DavidVM
on
Jan 13, 2021
08:22 AM

I love Airtable automations. It’s nice to be able to do everything within Airtable, instead of using a third party tool.
The problem is, that these automations are starting to add up, and it’s becoming difficult to keep track of them, as well as to find the automations that I need to edit.
It would be nice to have some combination of the following:
an ability to drag and drop automations (manual sorting), so that they are in some logical order
an ability to tag automations and allow them to be grouped by tag or type
an ability to restrict the viewing of automations to only those that involve the table that you’re currently viewing. If I’m viewing a contacts table, I don’t need to see my interactions table automations and vice versa.
The number of automations I have currently doesn’t make this a major issue, but I’m adding new automations every week and will soon find them difficult to manage.
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Submitted on
Aug 28, 2020
09:48 AM
Submitted by
ScottWorld
on
Aug 28, 2020
09:48 AM

Two feature requests for the automated emails that get sent from the new Automations feature: We can specify our own “From Name” for the automated emails, but Airtable always appends the phrase “(via Airtable)” to the end of the From Name. Please give us a way to remove “(via Airtable)” from the emails, because it would be more professional for this to not appear. In our message body, the automated emails support Markdown for creating paragraph breaks but not line breaks. Please give us the ability to create line breaks in addition to paragraph breaks, which would enable us to have a little bit more design control over our emails. Thanks! 🙂
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Submitted on
Oct 18, 2020
08:41 AM
Submitted by
Erwan_Pannier
on
Oct 18, 2020
08:41 AM

Hello ! Simple feature with great value : it would be nice to have a Description field in the Automations, similar to the Description in Tables, Columns, or Apps,
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Submitted on
May 19, 2022
01:08 AM
Submitted by
Rupert_Hoffsch1
on
May 19, 2022
01:08 AM

It would be great to make automation error messages more sophisticated. For instance it would be very helpful to build an error log in a table in order to assign errors to certain users or mark them as resolved etc. (at the moment the person who triggered the automation receives the error notification / email). Especially when dealing with more complex bases and / or using scripts in automations, errors are pretty common and a useful part of the development process. At the moment unfortunately not useful enough 🙂
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Submitted on
Jan 13, 2025
07:16 AM
Submitted by
MichaelSargent
on
Jan 13, 2025
07:16 AM

What is the proposed idea/solution? Somewhere within the Automations tab, it should show you how many automations you've created and how many are remaining out of your 50. Otherwise, users are forced to manually count how many automations they've created and then subtract, which seems completely unnecessary.
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Submitted on
Dec 23, 2023
10:18 PM
Submitted by
Matt_Grzan
on
Dec 23, 2023
10:18 PM

There is a need to increase the Find Records limitation of 100 records that either come from a specified view or matched conditions. With up to 250K records per base in 2023, finding only 100 records is very limiting. Increasing the Find Records limit to match the Repeating Groups Automation limit of 8000 items per input list would make a dramatic improvement.
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