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Airtable Automations - Record Comments


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What is the proposed idea/solution?
  • New Comment automation trigger with conditional logic
  • Add actions to list, create, delete and update records
  • On a JavaScript record object, add methods to list, create, delete and update comments

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How does is solve the user problems?

Automation triggered by new comments could be used at the user's discretion. One example is to send a message/notification to a third-party service like Microsoft Teams.

The ability to create comments from automations/scripting could be used at the user's discretion. One example is to leave a comment (as an automations user) if a record didn't meet certain conditions.

The current method requires:

  1. Generate an access token with data.recordComments:read and/or data.recordComments:write scope
  2. Add a Script action to an automation
  3. Craft a fetch request for each comment operation and exposing the access token

Would be much simpler to create an instance of a record object and use a method like: 

 

record.createComment() record.deleteComment() record.updateComment() record.listComments()

 

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Who is the target audience?

All users

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  • New Participant
  • September 28, 2023

Rich text formatting for comments would be nice too.


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Although we have automated email sends, I must say, automating comments would boost the user experience of the applications for self-service that we create as most people are tired of reading emails. This idea is very valuable!


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I am creating a project and I will try to use API withing Script in Automation to add comments to records.

 

https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/create-comment


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