Each week the BuiltOnAir team pulls together the best discussions, updates and activity relating to Airtable happening across the web. Here you can find a weekly summary of those events (click any title to be taken directly to the community item):
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An active community for Airtable users, hosted by the Airtable company. The community has frequent interaction across different discussion categories for integrations, ask the community, feature requests, work offered, and more.
New Updates
Duration Calc once you work past midnight
Adding new records makes a mess
Chart Blocks – how to get lines together
Static date in Datetime_diff function
Sharing a Workspace As Read Only
Use multiple text strings to extract info and populate fields
Template Suggestion – For Employees
Batch adding an option to varied Multiple Select
Multi level sub Assembly- Can I get the children rolled up under the great grandparent
Adding up numbers from another table based on multi selection of records
Link several contacts to a single ID
Using an IF function to manage due dates across multiple time zones
Ability to measure when someone clicks on a URL in a cell?
Nested IF applied only if the date range includes Fridays and/or Saturdays
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Helpful Pre-Made Data Tables, Formulas, and Routines
Automatic Sequential Numbering of Non-Sequential Items
Sequential Number, Resetting Daily
Combine all calendars from a workspace into 1 ical link
Add a Global Filter (Affects all views)
Calendar view by 2-months, quarter, annual
Question Regarding Terminology
Convert a number into a Rating
A community for all things automation within Airtable. Focused on users building everything from their first Airtable workflow to advanced integrations, the Openside community for Airtable is the go-to for integration with other apps and platforms, or power user functionality
New Updates
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A learning-focused Youtube channel for people starting out with Airtable, offering a range of videos teaching everything from basic set up to more advanced formulas.
New Update
How to Backup your Airtable Data Automatically | Gareth Pronovost
A private Facebook group (requests to join are vetted by admins) to serve the web professionals community who are also users of Airtable.
New Updates
- Can I directly import a phone photo to an Airtable record?
- Exporting records to a Google Calendar
- Barcode Field
- Introducing Liftoff
Active Airtable discussion on the popular online forum. Great option for discussion on Airtable uses, questions, and concerns, using the popular Reddit forum format.
New Update
- Script to submit form without API access? – Not my form
- Any equivalent to gSheet’s IMPORTHTML() function?
- Offline capability
- Looking for use cases that most ppl do that airtable would do better than google sheets
The social center for all Airtable users and creators, this community includes weekly updates on new threads in the Airtable community, highlights on the best projects built by power users, a library of resources, and the official Built On Air podcast
New Updates
New podcast episode this week:
BOA PODCAST S02:E02 – NATASHA VOROMPIOVA, CAPACITY ARCHITECT
TRACKERS FOR ALL TRADES, MILLENNIALS, AND GOOD BOOKS – BOA Editor’s review of Mar 2019 Universe Metrics
Monthly Metrics For March 2019
BuiltOnAir Slack community discussions:
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