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Bill_Carovano · Mar 01, 2020

I created a script that takes data from a table to perform a mail merge using the Lob.com service. Airtable Mail Merge with Lob.com - Airtable Universe This shared base demonstrates how you can perform a mail merge u...

Bill_Carovano · Feb 29, 2020

I’ve been testing out the Scripting block over the past few days. This is the most exciting thing to happen to Airtable…since Airtable :slightly_smiling_face: Does anyone know of a way to make the scripts resilient to changes in a table’s field na...

Bill_Carovano · Apr 25, 2018

I recorded this video of a system I built using Airtable, Lob, and Zapier for automating & managing physical mail campaigns. I hope it is useful to anyone who is interested in using Airtable to manage this type of business workflow! ...

Bill_Carovano · Dec 02, 2016

This came up in a support forum post: Importing Data into an Existing Table Airtable would be able to address more of my clients’ CRM use cases if it had the ability to import data into existing tables. Lead management is an example. Over time a co...

Bill_Carovano · May 08, 2020

It’s such a shame that this limitation still exists in Airtable after so many years. There are other “citizen developer database” solutions on the market that don’t have this limitation, which is why I build systems on those other platforms instead o...

Bill_Carovano · Mar 02, 2020

Hi Bill - I decided to use field ID’s because I wanted to make the script resilient to future changes to the table’s field names. For example, if someone changes the “First Name” field name to “Contact First Name” later, then the script will keep wor...

Bill_Carovano · Mar 01, 2020

Scripting: Mail Merge with Lob.com Show and tell I created a script that takes data from a table to perform a mail merge using the Lob.com service. The share on Airtable Universe includes the scripting block code as wel...

Bill_Carovano · Mar 01, 2020

Kasra_Kyanzadeh: for (const table of base.tables) { output.text(table.name); output.table(table.fields) } Super helpful! Thanks Kasra! I figured that I would want to make my table references resilient to name changes as well, and found that th...

Bill_Carovano · Jan 14, 2020

I suppose this must be a really difficult change to make to the Airtable platform, because it’s a total showstopper that linking across bases isn’t possible. Airtable has enormous potential. Gaps like this (and lack of webhooks) prevent it from tak...

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