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Search Formula to check 3 variables from Airtable

  • October 16, 2022
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Hi, I'm trying to use a search formula to check 3 true or false variables under the same column in airtable. what would that formula look like?

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MohSwellam
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  • October 16, 2022

Hi @gstar 

 

Please give us more details. How are they in the same column (field in Airtable)? A screenshot would help 


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  • October 17, 2022

Hey there @gstar !

 

As Moh mentioned, we would need to see a lot of details about the tables and your setup in order to understand more about what you are trying to accomplish with Zapier.

From what you said, it sounds like you are trying to reference values from multiple cells, but to what end?  Do you just want to print these values out or were you trying to accomplish some sort of logic after that to generate some sort of unique outcome?

Zapier does offer a “Find Many Rows” search that might let you fetch all of the data you are looking for without worrying about functions, but if you were keen on learning more about Airtable, these guides talk about the Text Functions they offer: 

Hopefully this helps! =)


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  • October 18, 2022

Sorry was on a road trip, so the goal was to act if all booleans were either all true or all false. instead i turned it into a number and rolled it up into a separate table in an attempt to bypass any complicated formulations needed by zapier but still to no avail. Now if i try to check against the value the request returns a 400 bad request and i’m assuming this is because of the Rollup format.


Troy Tessalone
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Hi @gstar 

Try using a Search Formula in the Airtable Find Record step

Example: AND({Field1}=”true”,{Field2}=”true”,{Field3}=”true”)

Help article: https://support.airtable.com/docs/using-zapier-s-multi-step-zaps-to-find-and-update-records

 


MohSwellam
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  • October 19, 2022

Hi @gstar , 

 

Please screenshot the Airtable field and your zapier setup for the Find step. 


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  • October 19, 2022

 


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  • October 19, 2022

trying to make it as si

mple as possible and it’s still returning an error


MohSwellam
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  • October 19, 2022

First, Click on the fields Base / Table / View and choose the values you need. The error is saying Grid View isnt found, click on Load More to choose a view (which is not required but its up to you)

 

Second, for the value to search, remove the quotation marks, just type true


nicksimard
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  • October 28, 2022

Hey @gstar!

Just checking in to see if the suggestions by Troy and/or Moh helped you solve this :)