Airtable Buttons are available in Interfaces, but they can't do everything you might expect. If you want to initiate an automated workflow from your Interface button, you'll need a bit of a workaround.
Airtable recently released a new feature for Airtable Interfaces: the Button Element. This option allows you to drop buttons directly in your interface workflow, which each have the option of updating five fields within a record.
On the surface, this may sound like automation. While it's similar in some regards, the Airtable Interface Button offers limited actions compared to other buttons we've seen in the past.
In this tutorial, I walk through two options for initiating automations from your Airtable Interface Buttons. I break down a simple example in Airtable and follow it up with a slightly more complex example using webhooks and Make.
Gareth Pronovost is the founder of GAP Consulting, an Airtable-first consultancy that helps businesses replace manual workflows with systems that scale. A former corporate finance analyst turned no-code educator, he has taught hundreds of thousands of builders through his YouTube channel and led systems builds for organizations ranging from solo founders to Disney and Ticketmaster.
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