To setup your Airtable app in Cobalt for OAuth, you will need the following credentials from your Airtable Developer account:

  • Client ID
  • Client Secret
  • Scopes

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Pre-requisites

  1. Airtable Developer account. You can create one here.
If you haven’t already created an app in Airtable, you’d need to create one.

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Creating an app in Airtable

To create a Airtable app and aquire the above mentioned credentials, please follow the steps mentioned below:

  1. Log in to your Airtable Developer account.
  2. Go to OAuth integrations in the side menu and click on + Register new OAuth integration button in the right.
  1. Go to your Apps catalog in Cobalt > Search for Airtable > Settings > Use your credentials > Callback Url > Copy it.
  2. In the app, enter the App Name, paste the Callback Url under OAuth redirect URL and click Register integration.
  3. Select the required permissions in the Scopes section, as provided in your Cobalt Airtable settings page and click on the Save changes button.
  1. Scroll to the Developer details section and copy the Client ID and get the Client Secret by clicking on the Generate Client secret button.
    Copy the Client Secret displayed as it will be shown only once.

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Configuring credentials in Cobalt

App settings page lets you configure the authentication settings for an OAuth 2.0 based application. For your customers to provide you authorization to access their data, they would first need to install your application. This page lets you set up your application credentials.

Cobalt lets you use pre-configured applications to play around. You can do so by selecting Use our credentials. However, if you wish to use your own application, select Use your own credentials. Provide the aquired Client Id and Client secret and save it.

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Configuring Scopes

Cobalt lets you configure what permissions to ask from your users while they install your application. The scopes can be added or removed from the App settings page, under Permissions & Scopes section.

For some applications Cobalt sets mandatory scopes which cannot be removed. Additional scopes can be selected from the drop down. Cobalt also has the provision to add any custom scopes supported by the respective platform.

Once the scopes has been added to the application in Cobalt, go to your Airtable Developer account and update the scopes as added on Cobalt.

Select the OAuth App created for Cobalt > Go to Scopes section > Add the scopes as added in Cobalt > Click on Save changes.

If you are facing scopes missing or invalid scope error. Make sure you are not passing any custom scope not supported by the platform. And, the scopes selected here are identical to the ones selected in the platform.

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Actions and triggers

Once the above setup is completed, you can create orchestrations of your use-cases using Airtable actions and triggers. Following are the set of Airtable actions and triggers supported by Cobalt.

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