Productivity

Create and Rename Airtable Records

A tutorial that creates a sample Airtable record and renames all records with a matching name.

Create a sample record and rename all matching records in an Airtable table.

Setup

Connect Airtable and configure the same base and table in all three Airtable nodes. The table needs a numeric ID field and a text Name field. Use a test table: this tutorial modifies existing matching records. In n8n, configure an Airtable Personal Access Token and the same base and table in each Airtable node. Run one format at a time.

Behavior

A manual run creates one record with ID = 3 and Name = n8n. It then reads every page of records whose Name is n8n and changes the Name to nodemation for each match, including pre-existing matches. Updates are sent in batches of at most 10. Other fields remain unchanged. Open Flow returns the update responses and count.

A failure after creation can leave the new record in the table; a later failed or uncertain update may have changed some records. Inspect the table before retrying, as another run creates another sample record. Avoid overlapping runs. Collected records and responses must fit execution limits.

Inspiration & credits

Changes to the source

Configure the same base and table explicitly and use a braced Airtable field reference in the filter formula.
Open Flow follows all result pages and updates each returned record ID in batches.

Adapted from Insert and update data in Airtable in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The matching n8n community listing credits Harshil Agrawal. The original template does not state a separate license.

The collection’s MIT notice is pinned at a later revision. This is the collection notice at that revision; it does not establish a separate original template author’s license. Our changes are listed above; see repository licensing.

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