Author: BuiltonAir Team

Season 13 Episode 8
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Following Articles Used in this Segment:

[TableForums] For developers: easily use IDs instead of names – Show and Tell – TableForums: The Unofficial Airtable Discussion Community

[BuiltOnAir Community] airtable-tricks – BuiltOnAir – Slack

[BuiltOnAir Community] general – BuiltOnAir – Slack

[BuiltOnAir Community] general – BuiltOnAir – Slack

[Reddit] Stranded without Sales : Airtable

Meet the Experts –

Meet Cherry Yang from AirOps Consulting.

As a certified Zapier expert and Airtable Consultant Partner, I’ve been building databases and workflows using Airtable and Zapier for over four years now, helping clients untangle complex processes and streamline operations.

Visit them online

Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Understanding how Updated Field Trigger works with Linked Record Fields

Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Airtable recently released the ability to loop through multiple records and perform tasks on a per record basis

Learn more about the automation

Season 13 Episode 7
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaKamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Following Articles Used in this Segment:

[Airtable Community] New: Visual Refresh – Airtable Community

[Airtable Community] New: Repeating groups of actions in Automations – Airtable Community

[Twitter] Yohei on Twitter: "You think #nocode is fast? Let's make it faster! Introducing "@Airtable Text-To-Template" Simply add your @openai API key and describe your use case. This script will generate tables and fields for you. (Copy-able template in thread 👇) https://t.co/tylmIEvVnF" / Twitter

[Twitter] Rae Crothers on Twitter: "[email protected] The colours in my base have changed (become more muted) and I am discombobulated and disgruntled. Any chance we can put them back the way they were?! You can especially see it with the green, orange, and redder colours. Purples aren't as dramatic. https://t.co/HxCxOhWx15" / Twitter

[BuiltOnAir Community] general – BuiltOnAir – Slack

[TableForums] Enterprise customers can create free service accounts for API access – Airtable Developers / Web API – TableForums: The Unofficial Airtable Discussion Community

[BuiltOnAir Community] general – BuiltOnAir – Slack

[Facebook] (20+) Airtable Community | 🚨 COMMUNITY EXCLUSIVE: | Facebook

Meet the Experts –

Meet Jeremy Oglesby.

Jeremy is a software developer, and Airtable Community Leader

Visit them online

Base Showcase –

We dive into a full working base that will Jeremy will showcase his adventure game system built with Airtable interfaces and automations that will showcase the power of what Airtable can be used for.

Scripting Time –

Explore Scripting with “Linked Record Sorting”.

Alli will share a script to keep Linked Records sorted in a particular order..

Season 13 Episode 6
This weeks Hosts: Kamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Following Articles Used in this Segment:

[Twitter] (1) Airtable Status on Twitter: "[status] Monitoring: Airtable's services have recovered, and we are monitoring to avoid further disruption. Thank you for your patience, and we will keep you updated on our progress. https://t.co/whC8W9NCSb" / Twitter

[Twitter] (1) FoundedToday on Twitter: "#Today 11 years ago in 2012, #Airtable was launched. They made their waves in the #Productivity business. At this moment they are stil going strong. Show one of their first versions some respect! #technology #honouring https://t.co/yJWjnw1ciE" / Twitter

[Twitter] (1) Chris Dancy 🐵👱🏼‍♂️🤖 on Twitter: "2013: My google calendar with thousands of auto logged datapoints about my life. 2023: My Airtable with thousands of auto logged points about the things value. You don't get better by counting steps, you get better by taking them. https://t.co/2buhbfTFLA" / Twitter

[BuiltOnAir Community] general – BuiltOnAir – 2 new items – Slack

[Airtable Community] New: List View – Airtable Community

[TableForums] Passing data to a webhook automation for scripting – Show and Tell / Tips & Tricks – TableForums: The Unofficial Airtable Discussion Community

[TableForums] Providing Limited Access to Airtable Data and Schema – Show and Tell / Tips & Tricks – TableForums: The Unofficial Airtable Discussion Community

[Facebook] (20+) Airtable Community | Trying to avoid an epic misstep here, so would love some feedback: Has anyone here ever left Salesforce for Airtable | Facebook

[Reddit] buying templates : Airtable

Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Scott shares how to use Airtable to order the fields in the email being sent via automations

Base Showcase –

We dive into a full working base that will Kamille walks us through the new List View (launched last week)

Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Kamille shares a technique for allocating hours to a task by assignee

Season 13 Episode 5
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaKamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Following Articles Used in this Segment:

[BuiltOnAir Community] general – BuiltOnAir – 3 new items – Slack

[BuiltOnAir Community] airtable-tricks – BuiltOnAir – 3 new items – Slack

[Airtable Community] See what Make scenarios are in a base – Airtable Community

[Reddit] Pro Version of Air WP Sync, the plugin who connects and syncs Airtable To WordPress is out : Airtable

[Reddit] 🗺️ I made an extension that lets you visualize your records on a custom map : Airtable

[TableForums] Quick summary of consecutive records – Show and Tell / Tips & Tricks – TableForums: The Unofficial Airtable Discussion Community

[TableForums] Linked Records Secondary fields – Airtable Questions / General Airtable Questions – TableForums: The Unofficial Airtable Discussion Community

[Twitter] Kelly Claus on Twitter: "Would love to spend an hour just observing the person at @airtable who thought this sentence was necessary to include in their docs. https://t.co/y0Gwh71sPO" / Twitter

[BuiltOnAir Community] general – BuiltOnAir – 2 new items – Slack

Scripting Time –

Explore Scripting with “Scripts for Meal Planning”.

Kamille will showcase her Meal Planning Base and how she utilizes scripts to enhance the base.

Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Alli shares how she uses automations to categorize data into buckets that is useful for reporting purposes.

Field Focus –

A deep dive into the Synced Fields on Record Deletion Buttons & Formulas – A useful trick is no longer available. Airtable synced tables used to allow for knowing when the source record was deleted by utilizing a RecordID formula 

Season 13 Episode 4
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaKamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Following Articles Used in this Segment:

[BuiltOnAir Community] general – BuiltOnAir – 2 new items – Slack

[BuiltOnAir Community] general – BuiltOnAir – 2 new items – Slack

[BuiltOnAir Community] general – BuiltOnAir – 2 new items – Slack

[Twitter] Lenny Rachitsky on Twitter: "Don’t underestimate the power of great swag Love this story from @zoelle about Airtable’s early days https://t.co/Y8bBShP9mO" / Twitter

[Airtable Community] ⚡️Automation Ace | Troy Tessalone on Twitter: "@kalenjordan Current limits: You can add up to 50 automations to a base. Note: Automations that are turned off (inactive) still count against this limit of 50 automations. https://t.co/eMX6amq6f6" / Twitter

Meet the Experts –

Meet New Source of Airtable Answers.

Some of the top Airtable experts are launching a new forums site to help give back to the community – Check out https://air.tableforums.com

Visit them online

Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Kamille will showcase how to use UTM tracking url parameters to pass info to and from Calendly so airtable records can be updated accordingly (utilizing Make.com)

An App a Day –

Watch as we install, explore, and showcase the Softr.io App from the Airtable Marketplace. The app is described as “Alli with demo how to use URL Parameters to prefill forms within Softr”.

View App

Season 13 Episode 3
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaKamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Following Articles Used in this Segment:

[Airtable Community] New API capabilities now in GA and upcoming API ke… – Airtable Community

[BuiltOnAir Community] Add Comment Shortcut

[BuiltOnAir Community] Personal Access Tokens WhoAmI

Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Jen Rudd will showcasae how she creates bitlinks FROM Airtable, and automate reporting for clicks!

A Case for Interface –

Explore Interfaces with “Button Hacks in Interfaces”.

Alli will share a cool hack for how to use Buttons inside an Interface.

Scripting Time –

Explore Scripting with “Using JSON for Current View”.

Kamille will demonstrate how to use the Scripting Block to generate the current view as JSON.

Season 13 Episode 2
This weeks Hosts: Kamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Scripting Time –

Explore Scripting with “Select Options in Scripts”.

Kamille demonstrates how to work with creating new options for single or multi select fields when creating or updating records from a script.

An App a Day –

Watch as we install, explore, and showcase the Send SMS Easily App from the Airtable Marketplace. The app is described as “Send SMS Easily lets you send SMS messages from Airtable without having to sign up for a third-party SMS service. No complicated logins, phone number purchases, and API keys!”.

View App

Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Quickly Send Group Texts with just individual responses back using TextBelt

Learn more about the automation

Season 13 Episode 1
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaKamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Following Articles Used in this Segment:

[Airtable Community] New beta: Sync API – Airtable Community

[Airtable Community] Product update: See who fills out your form – Airtable Community

[Web] Scaling for the Enterprise: Top 5 Lessons on the Upmarket Journey with Airtable CEO Howie Liu and Coatue Management General Partner Caryn Marooney (Pod 618 + Video) | SaaStr

[BuiltOnAir Community] Secret Upload Feature

[Facebook] (20+) Airtable Community | 👋 Former Airtable engineer and long time user (since 2014 | Facebook

[Facebook] (20+) Airtable Community | EXCITING ANNOUCEMENTS COMING | Facebook

[Web] Airtable – Layoffs.fyi Tracker (layoffs.fyi/tracker)

An App a Day –

Watch as we install, explore, and showcase the On2Air Forms App from the Airtable Marketplace. The app is described as “We will build a working demo of how to use On2Air Forms to create a form for 2023 Predictions for the Airtable community.”.

View App

Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Kamille will walk through how to use advanced Make.com features to generate a form with custom HTML that saves to Airtable.

Scripting Time –

Explore Scripting with “Display Editable Values”.

Alli shares her script that displays all the editable values of a chosen record. Use case: Use case: trying to determine if a record is safe to delete without unhiding all necessary fields/scanning a large table.

Season 12 Episode 12
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaKamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Meet the Creators –

Meet Sam Ruiz from Aureo.

I’m the co-founder of Aureo, a platform that connects freelancers and brands for project-based work. I’m a marketer-turned-entrepreneur and recently built our entire platform using Airtable. Prior to launching Aureo, I ran an e-commerce focused marketing agency called, Tgthr Collective.

Visit them online

Base Showcase –

We dive into a full working base that will Sam will showcase a base she uses with her startup: Aureo (https://meetaureo.com)

A Case for Interface –

Explore Interfaces with “Interface for Teachers”.

Kamille showcases an interface she built to help with her college course she teaches..

Season 12 Episode 11
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Meet the Creators –

Meet Alex Tellez.

Alex Tellez works with Sterling Administration, an independent health savings accounts administrator

Visit them online

Base Showcase –

We dive into a full working base that will This 2 part demo will showcase how to do both 1-way and 2-way chatbot messaging within Airtable with your customers.

Field Focus –

A deep dive into the Displaying commas in number fields Currency Fields – Using a currency field instead of number field allows for comma based formatting.