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I am a historian, constructing a historical database (1940s-60s). When I click on my linked record for a person or institution, some of which will have to link to 1000+ records, I notice that the records are almost arranged in date order - but not qu...
Ah, that changes things! Since I can see some records that share a date, datestr, date comments - or lack thereof - and format, am I to surmise to Airtable just goes through as many columns for each record as it needs to, to establish uniqueness? (By...
My only use for the autonumber was to create a unique ID for each record, as the obvious alternative, the date, is not unique: I might have up to 20 separate records for events that happened on the same date. As such, could I safely delete the autonu...
I do have pro, and have now installed the Batch Update block, but cannot see where to go from there.
The wider screenshot shows what I’m looking at when I consult my base most of the time: these are historical events, drawn from different sources, al...
I’m very new to AT, so hadn’t even thought of that! It almost worked, but produced a different entry for my person of interest (i.e. the linked record) whenever he appeared alongside a different person/people in that same column. Using “group by” ale...
