Email Notifications and Confirmations via Airtable Automations

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You can set up email notifications and confirmations for your form entries or form updates via Airtable automations.

There are multiple ways to set up the automation and your table, but here’s one way you can accomplish receiving emails when a new form entry is created.

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Setting up the On2Air Form
Setting up the Automation

Setting up the On2Air Form

Create a Single-Select field in your table and label it Entry Status

Add select options of New Entry

In your form, add the single-select field as a field on your form

Go to Field Configuration and select the Display mode as Hidden - this will hide the field on your form where the user won’t see it

In Field Defaults, set the Default Value as New Entry

When a new entry is created, the New Entry tag will be added

Setting up the Automation

In your base, click Automations

Click Create new automation

For the Trigger, choose “When record matches condition”

Choose your table that contains the Entry Status field

Click Add condition

Choose ‘When Entry Status is New Entry’ as your condition

Click Use suggested record to test your trigger and ensure your test is a success

Choose Send an email as the Action

In the email configuration, add an email in the To field.

To use an email from the form entry and send it to the form user, click the + icon and choose the Email field. Separate multiple emails with a comma.