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Bill_French · Sep 22, 2023

Almost certainly, because that's the rate for spreadsheet defects.Many studies have been conducted to gauge the reliability and accuracy of enterprises' spreadsheets. The data suggests most have defects. Spreadsheets that are designed and built using...

Bill_French · Sep 11, 2023

I often call out bone-headed moves by Airtable, but I want to assure everyone, that I actually like the product. I use it for personal and occasional business work, and I am a paid user who can attest that they do not provide support to simpleton use...

Bill_French · Sep 05, 2023

How often have you experienced the dread when a near-perfect no-code solution stops working?Application sustainability is critical for developers, especially those with no/low-code technology solutions. One factor that can significantly compromise th...

Bill_French · Aug 29, 2023

I just spent thirty minutes trying to help an Airtable customer in a DM only to have the message rejected.Khoros places a very high tax on communication and Airtable cannot apparently see why this is not in their own or customer's interests.What are ...

Bill_French · Jun 29, 2023

Amazon’s new AWS AppFabric offers a smart and seemingly free way to connect software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, but it may also be the ideal way to free customers from no-code integration platforms with high switching costs. If the switching c...

Bill_French · Mar 09, 2024

> ... however this wouldn't trigger atuomatically. And script steps in automations can't use libraries.They can if you include the library as code in the script itself. The example above uses this approach and it works, therefore it also works in an ...

Bill_French · Feb 05, 2024

... I'm used to consume OpenAI API always with external automation toolsOkay. Then, you need to get used to using proxies to do so. Airtable will not likely extend the 30-second timeout, so that leaves you three possible options:Use Airtable's integr...

Bill_French · Feb 04, 2024

... using another automation tool just to complete an Airtable automationThe insanity, right? You realize there was a time when Airtable had no automation and no scripts. In any case, why aren't you using the integrated AI feature (AI field type)?

Bill_French · Feb 04, 2024

>>> Airtable should increase the limit.The worst thing Airtable could do is increase the limit. You should either proxy (buffer) these calls as @Mario_Granero suggests or you should use the streaming response (which may not be possible in Airtable sc...

Bill_French · Jan 27, 2024

Ha ha! No - that sounds like a project.  Almost 100% of the stuff I build is guarded because clients don't want to see their efforts published.Broadly, I use NodeJS with the Airtable API to build call-back systems that listen for commands, and recor...

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