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Within an Airtable database, it's common to need to extract or "pull" text from a long string. There are many reasons you may want this, ranging from social media posts to contract creation. Luckily, the methodology for extracting the desired text is always the same: reference the string, find...

Airtable Forms are a great way to quickly give external users access to enter data directly into your database. In general, Airtable has built an exceptional form feature to their software. Airtable forms are capable of many things, including:

• prefilling form data
• conditional fields
• embedding...

A chain of events is a difficult thing to plan out when (as in most cases) things are subject to change. For this reason, I rarely attempted to build solutions with this level of granularity in Airtable. Specifically, TASKS usually rely on a dependency to be completed before they...

Logic Formulas are an important formula type to understand. The output of these formulas, while not very helpful in a vacuum, is often used in tandem with many other formulas. Therefore, building solid logic formulas is a vital skillset for all Airtable users.

This video showcases the two most...

Have you ever watched someone work inside a software and their fingers moved so quickly you couldn't even keep up with them? I was one of those users in Excel - in my previous life I used Excel for about 90% of my work and I was fast! Getting fast in a software isn't done by accident -...

Using formulas is a critical element of building a solid database, but they can be intimidating, especially if you're not accustomed to writing formulas in Excel or similar tools.

One of the most commonly used formulas is the IF formula. This formula checks a logical value that you've assigned....