This automation pulls comments from Airtable records and saves them into a long text field inside the same record. This makes comments accessible as part of your Airtable data.
Why this is useful
• Airtable comments are not part of the exportable dataset.
• They’re not accessible in Airtable views or formulas.
• This makes them hard to use in reporting, backups, or integrations.
How to set it up
From your dashboard, create the Export Comments to Airtable Fields automation in the appropriate base and table.
Choose how each commenter will be identified in the long text field (either by their Airtable account name, or email).
Decide whether or not to show the creation date for each comment.
Choose the Output field (long text field) where you want the comments to be stored.
Under Processing Behavior, choose how to handle existing data. If you only want to export comments once, you can leave this set to Skip. However, if you want your comments to sync continuously to the Airtable field, you will need to choose Overwrite.
In the Run section, you have different options for running the automation.
Each time it runs, our system uses the Airtable API to fetch all internal comments for each record.
Comments are then copied into the long text field.
New comments get added automatically each time the automation runs (provided it is set to overwrite existing data (see step 5).
Common use cases
• Backing up comments for compliance.
• Creating a “communication log” field.
• Sending comment history in automated emails.
• Syncing comment content to other tools via Zapier/Make.