Hi, I am trying to figure out the following application: For quality-management purposes we need to document certain procedural steps. Ideally I could use an external webcam on our mac and smoehow take snapshots that stored directly into Airtable. Any thoughts on where and how to begin?

I do use Make for some things, so it could be a solution through Make…

Thank you, Scott. Yes, that could be a way. But it involves many operator steps on the iphone: selcting the right base, table, record, field and the aiming the camera and taking a picture. I am thinking more automated. An App that will take an Image by the push of a button on the keyboard. That imag…

If you are on iPhone, you could use Apple Shortcuts to automate the pocess. You can create a shortcut button (which can even be launched by Siri) to prompt the user to take a photo, and then that photo can be sent to the right base & table in Airtable (via Airtable’s API). If you have the user type …

Thanky you. I will explore that avenue

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ScottWorld January 22, 2024, 12:59pm 3

The Airtable mobile app lets you tap in an attachment field and then take photos with your camera.

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Taking photos into Airtable

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