Issue with single select field

Hey ​@Anvesh Motamarri,

Unfortuantely this is not possible using Airtable forms. However you seem to know your workarounds lol.

In general, I’d suggest you look int Fillout forms as they are way more powerful than the native aritable forms. I’ll double check, but you should be able to select “other” from the dropdown and type the answer, which will get created in Airtable.

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Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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Yeah, I know this is achievable through Fillout very easily…

If you have to stay within Airtable, the workaround that immediately springs to mind  is to add a short text field called “New Sample ID”, and an option to your single select called New or something like that. Then set up an automation that runs when “New Sample ID” is not empty that copies the value into the “Sample ID” field. You can make that New Sample ID field only display when New is selected in the Sample ID field too. 

That solution is reliant on the form user to be able to properly title their Sample ID though... 

​@Anvesh Motamarri 

Your #1 best workaround is to do what ​@DisraeliGears01 mentioned above!

Your #2 best workaround is to give people a link on the form to open a second form where they can enter in new Sample ID’s, and then they can come back to the first form where the Sample ID’s will be in your dropdown option.

However, in general, like ​@Mike_AutomaticN recommended above, you probably want to check out Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable because it communicates directly with Airtable and it gives your users the ability to add new options to any dropdown menus.

Fillout is 100% free, and it offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to update Airtable records using a form, create custom PDF files from a form submission, accept payments on forms, pre-fetch dynamic data from an Airtable record, customize the style and branding of your form, customize a theme for your form, display Airtable lookup fields on forms, create new linked records on a form, add a login page to your form, perform math or other live calculations on your forms, collect signatures on a form, create multi-page forms with conditional paths, connect a single form to dozens of external apps simultaneously, add CAPTCHAs to your form, and much more.

I show how to use a few of the advanced features of Fillout on these 2 Airtable podcast episodes:

• Using Fillout to update an existing Airtable record & create an eSignature approval process with PDF file creation.
• Using Fillout to create an order entry form with line items.

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