UI Bakery allows you to connect easily to Airtable without any additional layers like APIs and third-party services.
Airtable imposes certain limitations on API abilities - 5 requests per second per base.
To connect your Airtable database to UI Bakery, you'll require the following components:
You can create and copy it from your . Here, you need to click the + Create new token button, specify the Name, Scopes, and Access properties according to your requirements, and proceed to creating the token.
Copy the created token and save it for later.
Open the , select the database you want to connect, and copy the base ID.
Open your database and copy the exact names of the Tables you need to use in your app.
A table must have at least one row for UI Bakery to recognize its fields.
Now that you've obtained all the necessary parameters, you can proceed to connecting your datasource in UI Bakery.
On the Data sources page, paste the personal access token, base ID and table names in the corresponding fields.
Verify that the configuration is correct by testing the connection first and then click Connect Datasource.
UI Bakery will extract the database structure and store column types to suggest the .
Once you have established a connection between UI Bakery and Airtable, you can access Airtable data, load it, and send it back.
Please note that UI Bakery limits the number of loaded records by default to 1000. To expand it, enter the required limit in the action that loads Airtable data.
Airtable supports the following action steps:
Additionally, it is possible to set a specific Airtable view that will be loaded for the selected table. This may come in handy if you'd like to configure advanced filters on the Airtable side and load the pre-configured view.
To do this, scroll down in the Load Table action to the Additional params section and specify view as the key and the name of your view as the value.
Unfortunately, Airtable API is limited to filtering only by displayed values, thus filtering by internal ID is not supported (other than by the record ID of the table).
To add a filter by linked items, you'll need to follow the steps below:
Create a new ID formula field with the RECORD_ID() formula in the related table - this will list the internal record ID as a value.
Next, in the main table, create a lookup field to display the value from step 1, for example, Related Ids.
Finally, use your filtering logic on the value from step 2, for example, you can use in
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