Add a Polly survey submission as a row in an Airtable base

When a survey is submitted in Polly, FlowMattic creates a new record in your Airtable base with the survey data, so you can sort, tag and report on it in Airtable.

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The Add a Polly survey submission as a row in an Airtable base workflow on the FlowMattic canvas, with 2 steps across Polly, Airtable — The workflow as it appears in the builder after import. Each step opens for editing.

What this workflow does

Polly runs surveys inside your team's chat tool, which is where people answer them. Airtable is where many teams keep structured data they want to filter and build views on. This workflow copies each Polly survey submission into Airtable so you do not have to export it.

The Polly trigger Survey Submitted fires when a survey is submitted. FlowMattic receives the data Polly sends with that event and passes it to Airtable. The Create Record action adds a new record to the base and table you pick, with your mapped fields filled in.

Polly has several triggers, and this one is about the survey. If you want a record for every individual answer instead, Polly's Response Created trigger is the one to use. Run a test after import to see exactly what Survey Submitted carries before you map fields. Every submission that went through appears in Task History.

Survey archive for a people team

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Product feedback base

A product manager sends Polly surveys after releases and stores each submission in the Airtable base that already tracks features and releases.

Linking surveys to projects

An agency logs each Polly survey in Airtable, then links the record to the client project it belongs to using Airtable's own linked fields.

How this workflow runs

What happens at each step once the workflow is on, and what you need before you import it.

Step 1Trigger
Polly Survey Submitted
Starts a run each time Polly reports a submitted survey. Whatever survey data Polly sends with the event is available to map into Airtable.
Step 2Action
Airtable Create Record
Adds the Polly survey to Airtable as a new record in your chosen table. Connect your Airtable account and map the Polly survey data into your fields.

What you need

FlowMatticCore
Polly AccountAccount
Airtable AccountAccount

After importing, map your own data. To keep the template universal, not every step is pre-filled. Open each step in the builder and connect your accounts and fields (channels, lists, sheets, recipients) before you switch the workflow on.

Make it yours

Changes worth making after you import it.

Submit a test survey after import and look at what FlowMattic captured. Map Airtable fields from that sample, since the payload decides what you can store.
Want each answer as its own record? Swap the trigger for Polly's Response Created, then remap the Airtable fields from a test response.
Add a date field in Airtable set to the record's created time so each Polly survey shows when it was stored, without mapping anything extra.

Questions about this workflow

Does this create an Airtable record for each person who answers?

Not necessarily. The trigger is Survey Submitted, which fires for the survey. For a record per answer, use Polly's Response Created trigger instead.

What happens if the Airtable field types don't match the Polly data?

Airtable may reject a value that does not fit the field, and Task History shows its response on that step. Text fields accept most values, so start with those while testing.

Does the workflow update a Polly survey's existing Airtable record?

No. It only creates records. Polly also has a Survey Updated trigger, but using it would need an Airtable update step that knows the record to change.

Does this send anything back to Polly or the survey takers?

No. The workflow reads the submitted survey from Polly and writes one Airtable record. Nobody in your chat tool is notified by it.