Author: BuiltonAir Team

Season 16 Episode 2
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaKamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Meet the Creators –

Meet Melanie Smith from Blue Tree Data Consulting.

Visit them online

Base Showcase –

We dive into a full working base that will It started as a way to document our data/tech stack and data wrangling processes for our clients. The Vault has continued to grow in usefulness now that we have good metadata about our clients’ setups. Out of this, we’ve created an easy way to track tech renewals, budgets, license costs, user assignments, and privacy policy links, with other (typically un-fun) things on the roadmap. It sends notifications to Slack and Clickup at increasing frequencies the closer a renewal date gets, and I’m working on a snooze button with the new actionable Slack message to make it stop if the reminder is no longer needed or desired. We keep an internal base that feeds each Client’s Tech Vault using sync’d tables, where we keep a master table of tech tools and their metadata handy to minimize Client data entry. From the Client’s base, they can choose to link into it or not, and if they don’t find what they want in it, the client can one-click request new additions or corrections to our dataset using AirTable forms. We also have Web Clippers attached to this base so that when we find new tools and vendors to add to our database, it’s easy for us as well. We’re also able to clip articles and attach them to those tools for reference later.

Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Kamille follows up with her automation base from last week and covers the n8n automations to complete the project.

Learn more about the automation

Season 16 Episode 1
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaKamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Meet the Creators –

Meet Garrett Loughran.

Base Showcase –

We dive into a full working base that will Garrett will share how he uses Airtable to manage public works contracts that are extremely competitive.

Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Kamille will share part 1 of a 2 part series on using n8n with Airtable to manage webhooks and refreshing them.

Season 15 Episode 8
This weeks Hosts: Kamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Following Articles Used in this Segment:

[Airtable Community] New pricing !!! – Airtable Community

[Airtable Community] Updates to Our Pricing Plans – Airtable Community

[Airtable Community] Powerful new features to govern and scale with eas… – Airtable Community

Audience Questions –

Kamille Parks answers the Airtable question: “What is up with the Pricing Changes?”

View the question in the community

Meet the Creators –

Meet Ben Bailey.

Sr. Research Systems Manager at Frame.io, an Adobe Company

Visit them online

Base Showcase –

We dive into a full working base that will Ben will share some never before seen publicly features coming to Airtable, relating to how 2 way sync will work in the future. Insider Information seen first here!

Season 15 Episode 7
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaKamille Parks
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Scott Rose showcases how to build dynamic emails that give them a choice of actions to take within the email

A Case for Interface –

Explore Interfaces with “Timeline Updates”.

Kamille walks through the hot off the press updates to the Timeline UI.

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Scripting Time –

Explore Scripting with “Timestamping via Automations”.

Alli will share a simple script used to timestamp a record after an automation run.

Season 15 Episode 6
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Meet the Creators –

Meet Zakey from Ask Airy.

Zakey is a software engineer from Virginia and currently works at a digital product agency as an Applied AI Engineer. He recently fell in love with Airtable when building an inventory management solution for a local club. Since then, he’s built two extensions in the Airtable extension marketplace and is looking forward to building more tools for Airtable users in the future.Zakey is a software engineer from Virginia and currently works at a digital product agency as an Applied AI Engineer. He recently fell in love with Airtable when building an inventory management solution for a local club. Since then, he’s built two extensions in the Airtable extension marketplace and is looking forward to building more tools for Airtable users in the future.

An App a Day –

Watch as we install, explore, and showcase the Ask Airy App from the Airtable Marketplace. The app is described as “Discover the power of AI with Ask Airy, an Airtable extension enabling intelligent search and Q&A with your data.”.

View App

An App a Day –

Watch as we install, explore, and showcase the Softr Action Buttons App from the Airtable Marketplace. The app is described as “Buttons have long existed in Softr, but previously you were only able to set up navigation actions, such as open URL, page, or modal. With the new action buttons, you can now perform CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations with the underlying data.”.

View App

Season 15 Episode 4
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaKamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Sometimes a pause is necessary to give time for attachments to process

Air Chefs –

Watch as Alli Alosa takes on Kamille Parks to improve the base Mouse Colony from the Airtable Universe, and make it even better with automations, different field types, and apps from the marketplace.

An App a Day –

Watch as we install, explore, and showcase the Web Clipper App from the Airtable Marketplace. The app is described as “Save text, links, images, and more directly to an Airtable base with just a few clicks. With a web clipper app and the official Chrome browser extension, you can create new Airtable records from content on any web page—without needing to leave your current browser window.”.

View App

Season 15 Episode 5
This weeks Hosts: Kamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

An App a Day –

Watch as we install, explore, and showcase the Noloco App from the Airtable Marketplace. The app is described as “With Noloco, you can easily create internal tools, client portals, CRMs and other business tools that perfectly fit your workflows”.

View App

A Case for Interface –

Explore Interfaces with “Timeline Updates”.

Kamille will review some recent changes to the Timeline view.

View Script

Field Focus –

A deep dive into the The Home Screen Feature – Home Page – With the recent changes to the Home Screen, we'll help you understand how to use it. 

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Season 15 Episode 3
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaKamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Meet the Creators –

Meet Rob Weidner from https://prettysim.pl/.

Drawing upon my unique background in the entertainment industry and a strong entrepreneurial spirit, I focus on transforming business processes, enhancing productivity, and scaling operations. My approach involves streamlining workflows, eliminating bottlenecks, and deploying efficient systems and automations.

Visit them online

Base Showcase –

We dive into a full working base that will Film Gear South Africa is an ecommerce store that was founded in 2015 with the goal of creating a marketplace for new high-end film equipment in the South African market. The founder, who worked as an assistant cameraman in Cape Town at the time, faced challenges in finding reliable resellers for different brands of film equipment in South Africa. Leveraging their background in computer science, they decided to build a platform to address this problem and provide a solution for others in the industry. From the beginning, Film Gear South Africa was built on the Shopify platform. Shortly after starting the store, the founder realized that the value of the platform would increase by incorporating new products from various brands as they were released. However, they encountered several business problems that needed to be solved. One challenge was offering an end-to-end local currency solution in South African Rand, even though the base prices of the products were in other more stable currencies. Another challenge was the fluctuating value of the items throughout the day, as the store didn’t hold any inventory in the country. To address these challenges, the founder took matters into their own hands. They started by scraping various websites to gather up-to-date pricing and product information. This allowed them to set the prices themselves and eliminate the need to rely on distributors for information. Additionally, they developed a tool to perform currency conversions every three hours, minimizing foreign gains or losses. Initially, the founder manually loaded CSV files into the Shopify store to update prices, but this approach wasn’t scalable due to the varying formats of the CSV files from different brands. This led to another realization that website scraping could provide the information they needed. They discovered a tool called ParseHub, which allowed them to automate the scraping process and collect the data. To manage the collected data, the founder turned to Airtable, as Excel and Google Sheets weren’t sufficient for their needs. They needed a tool that could handle the translation of different pricing models and facilitate the transfer of data from one system to another. That’s when they discovered Make (formerly Integromat), which served as the bridge between ParseHub and Shopify. With this combination of tools – ParseHub, Make, and Shopify – the founder could gather information on-demand or on a schedule, at an affordable price. This enabled them to quickly onboard new brands and products with just a few clicks, while their competitors were still manually copying and pasting outdated information. Overall, the founder’s innovative use of technology, their knowledge of the film industry, and their persistence in finding solutions to business challenges led to the successful establishment of Film Gear South Africa as a thriving ecommerce store for high-end film equipment.

Field Focus –

A deep dive into the Synced Field Types All Types – Alli will review some tips and tricks when changing field types of a synced table. 

Season 15 Episode 2
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaKamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Scott Rose will showcase how to use Make.com to automate the process of importing and exporting Airtable data as CSV

Round The Bases –

A Case for Interface –

Explore Interfaces with “Detail Pages”.

Kamille will walk us through some recent changes in how detailed/side bar pages work in Interfaces.

Season 15 Episode 1
This weeks Hosts: Alli AlosaKamille ParksDan Fellars
This weeks Segments:
Round The Bases –

Automate Create –

Watch as we review and work through automations. Alli will walk through how to set up 2 way sync and what to be aware of

Learn more about the automation

Audience Questions –

Lisa Bauer answers the Airtable question: “Create new records for each week of another record’s timeframe”

View the question in the community

Answer: Kamille will walk through this question and provide a working solution.

Field Focus –

A deep dive into the Progress Bars Percentage – Percentage Fields can now be displayed as progress bars 

Learn More Here