I’m working on an automation project in n8n that’s connected to an Airtable database. I currently have a workflow set up with an Airtable Trigger node to launch the automation whenever a student’s status changes. However, I’m encountering an issue: if the status changes for two or more students at the same time, the workflow triggers for only one record but ignores the others.
I’ve read that switching to a “Polling” mode could help in this scenario, but I’m not sure about the specific configuration steps to handle multiple changes effectively.
Could anyone guide me on how to set up the Airtable Trigger in Polling mode to ensure the automation catches all record changes, even when multiple records are updated simultaneously?
Thanks in advance for any advice or tutorials you could share!
Thanks for posting here and welcome to the community!
The Airtable Trigger node by nature is already in poll mode (see our codebase)
So in theory, when there are multiple changes, it might only execute once but should contain all changes as multiple items in the workflow execution.
Could you share your workflow, so we can try to reproduce this?
Tip for sharing your workflow in the forum
Pasting your n8n workflow
Ensure to copy your n8n workflow and paste it in the code block, that is in between the pairs of triple backticks, which also could be achieved by clicking </> (preformatted text) in the editor and pasting in your workflow.
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Make sure that you’ve removed any sensitive information from your workflow and include dummy data or pinned data as much as you can!
