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Airtable integration

Airtable is where teams build the tracker no off-the-shelf tool provides. Syncline keeps that base fed from your other apps and sends its rows onward when something changes.

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4460flows running

7 mintypical setup

1530000events a month

What Syncline does with Airtable

<p>Airtable looks like a spreadsheet and behaves like a database, with typed fields, linked records and views for different audiences. Teams reach for it when they need structure fast and cannot wait for a real system to be built.</p><p>That speed comes with a familiar cost. The base becomes the source of truth for one process, while the surrounding apps carry the rest, and somebody spends part of every week reconciling the two by hand.</p><p>Syncline watches a table or a specific view and reacts when a record appears, changes or enters that view. A view is the sharper trigger of the two: filter it to exactly the rows that need action, and the flow inherits your filter instead of repeating it. Records flow the other way too, so email, payments and chat can all create rows without anyone typing.</p><p>Field types are handled properly on the way in and out. Numbers stay numbers, dates keep their timezone, attachments carry across as files, and a single select that receives an unknown value tells you rather than writing something meaningless into the cell.</p>

Triggers and actions

A trigger starts a flow. An action is what Syncline does next.

Triggers in Airtable

<dl class="sy-deflist"><dt>New record in a table</dt><dd>Fires on any row added to the table you selected, whatever created it.</dd><dt>Record enters a view</dt><dd>Fires when a row starts matching a view filter, the cleanest way to say this one is ready.</dd><dt>Record updated</dt><dd>Fires when any of the fields you are watching change value on an existing row.</dd><dt>New record with an attachment</dt><dd>Fires only on rows that carry a file, so document flows do not run on empty records.</dd><dt>Field crosses a threshold</dt><dd>Fires when a numeric field passes a limit you set, such as a total going above a budget.</dd></dl>

Actions in Airtable

<dl class="sy-deflist"><dt>Create a record</dt><dd>Adds a row with your mapped fields, creating select options only when you allow it.</dd><dt>Update a record</dt><dd>Writes to a row found by ID or by a matching field value.</dd><dt>Find a record</dt><dd>Looks up a row by any field so later steps can decide between create and update.</dd><dt>Upload an attachment</dt><dd>Adds a file to an attachment field, either from an upload or from a public link.</dd><dt>Add a comment to a record</dt><dd>Leaves a note on the row, which is a gentler way to flag something than editing a field.</dd></dl>

Fields you can map

<div class="sy-table-wrap"><table><thead><tr><th>Field</th><th>Type</th><th>What it holds</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Record ID</td><td>string</td><td>The stable Airtable identifier, worth storing in the other app so updates always find their target.</td></tr><tr><td>Name</td><td>text</td><td>The primary field of the table, which Airtable requires and never lets you remove.</td></tr><tr><td>Status</td><td>single select</td><td>One option from a fixed list. Syncline reports an unknown option instead of writing it blindly.</td></tr><tr><td>Owner</td><td>collaborator</td><td>A base collaborator, matched by email when the source app supplies only an address.</td></tr><tr><td>Amount</td><td>number</td><td>A numeric field with your precision setting respected on write.</td></tr><tr><td>Attachments</td><td>attachment</td><td>One or more files, each with a name, size and URL available to the next app.</td></tr></tbody></table></div>

Popular Airtable automations

<ul><li>Add a row for every Stripe charge with the customer email</li><li>Create Trello cards from records entering a Ready view</li><li>Copy a Notion content calendar into a reporting base</li><li>Post a Slack summary when a record passes a budget limit</li><li>File Gmail attachments as rows with the file attached</li></ul>

Connecting your Airtable account

Authentication OAuth 2.0

What we ask for You choose which bases Syncline may reach during the connection step, and nothing outside that selection is readable. Personal access tokens are supported as an alternative when your workspace policy prefers them.

Rate limits Airtable typically allows five requests per second per base, and Syncline batches up to ten records per call so large syncs stay well under it.

Questions about Airtable

<div class="sy-faq"><details><summary>Table trigger or view trigger?</summary><div>Use a view when only some rows should act, because the filter lives in Airtable where your team can see and change it. Use the table when every new row matters.</div></details><details><summary>Are formula and rollup fields available?</summary><div>They can be read and mapped into another app. They cannot be written to, since Airtable computes them itself.</div></details><details><summary>What happens to linked records?</summary><div>They arrive as record IDs with the primary field text alongside. On write you can pass either an ID or a value to match against.</div></details><details><summary>How large can an attachment be?</summary><div>Airtable accepts files up to a few hundred megabytes per attachment. Syncline streams the file rather than loading it into memory, so big documents still get through.</div></details><details><summary>Can two flows write to the same table?</summary><div>Yes, and it is common. Keep each flow pointed at a different field group where you can, and the run history will show which flow touched which row.</div></details></div>

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