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Airtable

The airtable_flows library enables you to integrate Airtable's spreadsheet-like database capabilities within your applications on the Flows Network platform. This crate provides key functions like creating, updating, and searching records in Airtable bases.

Authentication​

Trigger​

A Flows Function is typically triggered by a specific event. In the context of airtable_flows, this could be an event to create or update a record in an Airtable base. The trigger listens for such requests using the request_received() function.

Action​

On being triggered by an event, the function carries out a corresponding action. Here, actions might include creating, updating, or searching for a record in an Airtable base.

Here's a simple example:

use airtable_flows::create_record;
use slack_flows::{listen_to_channel};

#[no_mangle]
pub fn run() {
    listen_to_channel("myworkspace", "mychannel", |sm| {
        let record = serde_json::json!({
            "Name": sm.text,
        });
        create_record("accountName", "mybaseId", "mytable", record);
    });
}

This function listens for new messages in a Slack channel. When a message is received, it creates a new record in an Airtable base with the text from the Slack message.

Please note that your Airtable account must be connected to the Flows Network platform for the airtable_flows crate to function properly. If it isn't, you'll see an error in the flow's build or run log.

API Reference​

https://docs.rs/airtable_flows