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Matthew_Thomas · Aug 17, 2022

I’m trying to overwrite a Field’s options with a list provided dynamically from data that is imported. I have successfully updated the options to use the previous values in addition to the new set of values (similar to the example the documentation p...

Matthew_Thomas · Apr 01, 2021

Use case The recently released, in beta, Metadata API is a great start to a long requested feature by developers here. Providing programmatic access to a user’s base IDs/names is immensely helpful and should help simplify many development workflows. ...

Matthew_Thomas · Oct 26, 2020

This previous post details accessing the special NODE_ENV environment variable within a Custom App. This is all well and good, but leaves me wondering if it’s possible to store/access custom environment variables through a custom app? Reading through...

Matthew_Thomas · Oct 07, 2020

I know there has been lots of discussion about Airtable Apps regarding API keys and the best way to store them—I believe the current recommendation is still in globalConfig. My request is about Airtable’s own API keys in particular. It would be great...

Matthew_Thomas · Apr 29, 2020

Preamble: I’m still working on implementing some features in the Scripting/Custom blocks which I think would remove the need for most of the Airtable API calls the proxy server is making. But even with custom blocks, I think I will still need a “get ...

Matthew_Thomas · Aug 24, 2022

Looking into this problem more, it turns out the issue was the package version I was using. The enableSelectFieldChoiceDeletion option was added in v1.8.0 and my code was still using v1.5.1. Updating the package fixed the issue and the code is workin...

Matthew_Thomas · Aug 23, 2022

Hi Justin, thanks for the suggestions! Unfortunately, the problem occurs both with and without quotes around the object keys. It will also fail when there is the check for hasPermissionToUpdateOptions() and if I just call updateOptionsAsync() directl...

Matthew_Thomas · Oct 07, 2020

I am using OAuth2 in a separate context to connect with a 3rd party app/API, and I think that functionality would definitely be welcome as well! For this feature request, I don’t think OAuth2 is necessary though. A Custom App already has access to wh...

Matthew_Thomas · Jun 24, 2020

Kamille_Parks: The block I’m building will require an external library’s CSS to be imported/loaded. There was a little discussion about external CSS files and Webpack in this topic thread and the answer seems to be: not currently possible. It ...

Matthew_Thomas · Jun 24, 2020

Do you have any advice or guidelines on how to present errors to users? I know some of the examples include permissions and other checks before performing operations for Airtable-specific API calls. More generally though, can you share best practices...

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Using `UpdateFieldOptionsOpts` when updating field options

Feature Request: Adding Workspace IDs/routes to base metadata

Accessing .env variables in Custom App

Feature Request: Adding user's API key to a `Session`'s `CollaboratorData` properties

Sending API key to proxy server for authentication

Re: Using `UpdateFieldOptionsOpts` when updating field options

Re: Using `UpdateFieldOptionsOpts` when updating field options

Re: Feature Request: Adding user's API key to a `Session`'s `CollaboratorData` properties

Re: AMA Custom Blocks Contest Edition #3 - Releasing your block

Re: AMA Custom Blocks Contest Edition #3 - Releasing your block