Hi,
I am trying to build a zap that mentions a specific user on an Airtable field to alert them when we need to change the course of our production. Anyone knows how can I do that?
Thanks in advance!
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Tag/Mention users on Airtable through Zap
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+14- Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
Hi
Which Airtable field type are you trying to use?
+14- Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
Not sure you’ll be able to do this as it looks like Airtable uses Markdown and internal IDs for these:
- app: base
- men: mention
- usr: user
- rec: record
- fld: field
- Beginner
Hi
Which Airtable field type are you trying to use?
Hi
It’s just a single text field.
+11- Community Manager
Hello there,
It doesn’t appear to be currently possible to @mention a user in a Single Line Text field via Airtable’s API. But it is possible to create a comment on a record that @mentions a user via the Airtable API - would that approach be acceptable?
If so, then I’d suggest using the Airtable API Request (Beta) action to create the comment. It’s a bit more complicated to set up than the other Airtable actions, but we do have a general guide on how to set up an API request action guide which can help. I’ve had a quick look and it seems like you’d need to follow the Create Comment endpoint documentation here: https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/create-comment
Hope that helps. If you do give that API Request action a try and run into any trouble just let me know - happy to assist further!
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