Update multi-select in airtable

[ozeo]

Hello,

I am trying to pass a multi-select field to Airtable.
I read many topics on it, but still it doesn’t work for me.
Airtable expects an array on multi-select, and doesn’t like the way it is sent from n8n.

[MutedJam]

Hi @ozeo, this is unfortunately a known issue in n8n versions before 1.8.0. Are you using an n8n version newer than 1.8.0? If so, can you share a workflow using which the problem can be reproduced?

As a workaround you can always send the raw HTTP Request to Airtable and thus avoid having any n8n-logic kick in. An example of how to send such a request would be available here:

How to update an Airtable record to return empty instead of current data

Hi @Dennis_Yu, apologies I didn’t get back to you yet. To be honest, I am having a hard time understanding the full logic applied by the Airtable node here. Perhaps you want to simply use an HTTP Request to perform the update you have in mind directly against Airtable’s API? This way, you can avoid all custom logic applied by n8n’s Airtable node. You will still be able to re-use your existing credentials like so: You’d need to specify the correct base and table IDs in …

Of course instead of {{ null }} like in the example you want to reference your array field instead.