Hi everyone,
I’m building a workflow that needs to trigger when a specific field in an Airtable record is updated, but I’m stuck on a persistent error and hoping someone might have an idea what’s going on.
My Goal: To have a workflow start automatically the moment I change the ‘Status’ field in my ‘Blog Ideas’ table in Airtable.
The Problem: The Airtable Trigger node consistently fails with the error: NodeOperationError: The Field "Status" does not exist.
My Setup Details:
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n8n Version:
1.111.1 (Cloud) -
Node: Airtable Trigger
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Airtable Setup: I have a ‘Blog Ideas’ table with a ‘Single select’ field named exactly
Status. -
Credentials: I’m using a Personal Access Token.
What I’ve Already Tried: I’ve been troubleshooting this for a while and have already tried the following without success:
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Confirmed the field is named exactly “Status” (case-sensitive) in my Airtable table.
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Created a brand new Personal Access Token.
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Confirmed the token has the required Scopes:
data.records:read,data.records:write, andschema.bases:read. -
Confirmed the token has Access granted to the correct Airtable Base.
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Deleted and recreated the credentials in n8n multiple times.
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Configured the node using both Base/Table URLs and Base/Table IDs.
The confusing part is that n8n must be connecting to the table to know that the field doesn’t exist, but I can see the field is definitely there. I’ve also had other connection errors like 404 Not Found at times.
Has anyone else encountered this with the Airtable Trigger on this version of n8n? Is there a known bug or another troubleshooting step I might have missed?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!