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Automation is the key to moving data through a workflow. While Airtable does have its own automation feature, you'll often need to go outside that environment to build more robust automations. In this video, I outline my favorite automation tool, Make (this link will give you 30 days on the...

As teams grow, it's critical to document and share your procedures in an organized manner. Some of the software out there costs hundreds of dollars per month, but you don't have to invest that much in order to produce and share some terrific SOPs with your team.

In this tutorial, I use two...

In early March 2022, Airtable gave us the ability to edit records in a shared view. For three glorious hours our thoughts were filled with possibilities, until they abruptly ripped the feature away and announced that it was granted in error.

But this feature is paramount to the workflows of...

Airtable forms have allowed for fields to be prefilled for years, but that function has been limited. The most notable limitation is that (until recently) we couldn't HIDE fields on a form that were prefilled. This meant that if we wanted to prefill infomation for someone that we didn't want...

Prefilling forms is a common thing in Airtable. Maybe you have some of the info and want to save people time by prefilling it. Or, maybe you want your customers to confirm their info on file and rather than have them fill it out from scratch, you prefill it with the most recent data you have....

I've consulted on numerous Airtable databases and explored countless examples built by clients. As you might expect, I see a lot of errors... (I mean, there's a reason our clients are looking for help, right?) Many errors are quite complicated to fix, but in this post I want to...