hey guys, fairly new to make and some expert advice would be incredibly appreicated.
I have a webhook thats sending postcode and suburb data to make. im trying to create a setup where these suburbs and postcodes are received, the airtable is analysed to detect for the presence of elligible suburbs/postcodes, then filtered and qualified as ‘within area’ or ‘out of area’, so the informaiton can then be passed. Im curious as to what kind of set up and modules i need to make this work.
Thanks
Hi @Josh4,
awesome! You probably have a table in airtable which contains all the postcodes and suburb data that you server/ that are valid?
I’d probably receive the data, search for the postcode/suburb in the table and if I find a value it means that the postcode is valid. If I don’t find a value, it’s outside the area that is being served 
You’d use the ‘Search Records’ module for this.
Does this already help you?
Best,
Richard
Hey Richard, thanks for sharing your thoughts. Right now i understand i need webhook to receive the data (postcode /suburb) –> air table search record to see if the postcode/suburb are present –> and then because im sending it to vapi i think i need to have it as JSON so it understands what its reading. How do i set it up so airtable/sees or doent see a record and then transaltes that into something i can send to vapi?
I hope that makes some sense.
I think you’ll give it some sort of trigger. This could be a select column which you change to “Check Availability” or maybe a button that you click and it sends a webhook. It really depends on your business logic in this process.
Where does the postal code/suburb come from?
Vapi has a Make App too so maybe you can simply use that? Would possibly make it easier for you than sending a JSON (also completely doable but if you’re new to Make, APIs, JSON…)
I’ve written an article about ways to watch changes in Airtable here.