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Order 'find records' in a grid


Hi!

I would like to order the records, find by 'find records" in automations, based on the date field. Now, al the records are views complete random...

 

Does anybody has any idea? 

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ScottWorld
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  • September 14, 2023

Sadly, when you find by condition, the order is random. However, when you find by a view, the sort order should match the view in most cases.

But for more precise control & very advanced control over sort order when finding records, you may want to use Make’s Airtable automationsThere is a small learning curve with Make, which is why I created this basic navigation video to help. 

 

 


ScottWorld wrote:

Sadly, when you find by condition, the order is random. However, when you find by a view, the sort order should match the view in most cases.

But for more precise control & very advanced control over sort order when finding records, you may want to use Make’s Airtable automationsThere is a small learning curve with Make, which is why I created this basic navigation video to help. 

 

 


HI!

@ScottWorld thanks. However, I am using this automations for creating invoices. In a large view of many records, the records according to this customer are found for addition to the specific invoice. 

Maybe I am a fool, but I can not create an idea how to combine this with the 'view' function :). 

 


ScottWorld
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Ah, I see what you're saying. You know, I actually think this might still be possible with Airtable's Automations, but it would definitely be tricky to setup. Alli Allosa discussed a very similar automation on this episode of the BuiltOnAir podcast. However, I would probably recommend that you use Make instead, because it would much more straightforward to configure in Make.


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