![]() If you’re dealing with currencies other than the dollar, the quickest workaround is to import these columns as a text field, which Airtable will probably do as a default, then change the field type to a currency field. ![]() If Airtable imports your data as dollars because you have a dollar symbol in front of the numbers, you can change the currency symbol to Euros, Yen, or anything else later. If you use a currency instead of dollars, such as the Euro, Yen, or Mexican peso, that will be formatted as a text field. It’s also important to note that Airtable only recognizes the dollar symbol when importing a column of currency data. The rule here is if a column contains numbers prefixed with the dollar sign, Airtable may read the column as a currency field. Again, a column can’t have mixed data types otherwise, it will be regarded as the default single or multiple line text field. Similar to how Airtable decides if a column is a number column, Airtable has rules when evaluating whether a column in your spreadsheet might be a currency column. Of all numbers in the world’s spreadsheets, currency is probably the most prevalent type of number. Now that our data is in Airtable, we can sort by the date column in ascending order as seen in Figure 4-4. We might want to calculate some average or standard deviation for the radius clause, but if not, it probably would make sense to turn this into a single-select field. For example, you may have a column of sales data, and you want to use the bottom toolbar in Airtable to calculate a sum or average. However, we might consider making this a single-select field, which would allow us to easily group and filter festivals by the value of the radius clause for each record.Īnother reason to make the radius clause field a single-select field is whether or not we need to perform math on these numbers. The radius clause data is a column of integers, so it makes sense that Airtable suggested it’s a number field. In this case, each festival has stipulated how far away an artist must perform from the venue if they’re taking other gigs. This obscure contract provision prevents artists from performing within a certain number of miles from another performance. “Radius clause” is the last field in the worksheet. Importing an Excel file with different field types The Form View functionality doesn’t have every bell and whistle, but it is convenient since the forms you build and manage are tied to your base without any extra integrations.īut first, let’s start by understanding how to import data from CSV files and spreadsheets.įigure 4-3. Forms enable an easy way to solicit data from customers or other stakeholders. Lastly, Airtable provides users with a useful built-in form builder. Airtable also has several built-in integrations with 3rd-party tools, like Box or Jira, and you can have an ongoing synchronization from those tools to your base using Airtable’s Sync capability. For example, if you have data locked away in spreadsheet files, and Airtable has straightforward ways to bring that data into your base. However, we’ll look at a few well-defined and accessible ways that anyone on your team can learn in order to access data from static files or dynamic sources. There are many ways to push data into a table. Finally, and perhaps most of all, we benefit from the ability to import outside data and make it available to any of our collaborators in an Airtable base. Or, we can import data and clean it up for our own analysis. When you import data that was effectively locked away in an Excel file or an old database system, the collaborative features of Airtable shine.įor instance, we can import data from different sources and compare them in the same table. ![]() But chances are that unless you start a completely new project, you want to work with an existing data set. If you have comments about how we might improve the content and/or examples in this book, or if you notice missing material within this chapter, please reach out to the author at can create new fields and views in Airtable to build a base from scratch. ![]() This will be the 4th chapter of the final book. With Early Release ebooks, you get books in their earliest form-the author’s raw and unedited content as they write-so you can take advantage of these technologies long before the official release of these titles. ![]()
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