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Update Field

Update an existing field in a table. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • Destructive
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Airtable account once, then configure and run Update Field from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "airtable_oauth-update-field",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    airtable_oauth: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    baseId: "Base",
    tableId: "Table",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Update Field inputs
Property Type Description
baseId Base string
The ID of the base to use, e.g. appXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Use List Bases to look one up.
Required
tableId Table string
The ID of the table to use, e.g. tblXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Use List Tables to look one up.
Required
fieldId Field ID string
The ID of the field to update, e.g. fldXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Use List Tables to look up a table's field IDs.
Required
name Name string
The new name of the field
Optional
description Description string
The new description of the field
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
airtable_oauth-update-field
Version
0.0.15
App
Airtable
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
No
Destructive
Yes
Open world
Yes