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What could one do to include data validation in the conditional logic; e.g.: I am creating an internship application form and I want the applicant to select out of the list of employers. Once done, they can select the relevant internship position, nothing else. And also, how could we include the employer's email in it so that each entry is also sent to the respective employer?

2025 Update:

That is possible with Airtable’s dynamic filtering feature.

However, Airtable has made this very complicated to setup, and it has to be setup for your ENTIRE BASE — not just the form itself. So anywhere you see those fields in Airtable, they will have the dynamic behavior attached to it. Also, BOTH of your fields will need to be linked record fields.

Instead, your much easier & much better option for doing this is to use Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable.

Fillout makes the setup process MUCH easier than Airtable, and you would only need to turn your second field into a linked record field (instead of both fields). And your linked record field can work differently on your Fillout form than how it works in your base.

You can read more about this feature here: How to select and filter Airtable linked records in a dropdown.

Fillout is 100% free, and it offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to dynamically filter a linked record field on a form, 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, 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:

Hope this helps!

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Unfortunately, dynamic dropdowns are not possible in Airtable, even though it has been the #1 customer feature request for the last 6 years. Airtable simply doesn’t listen to its customers.

Check out the dynamic dropdown feature of JotForm, and then you can use Make to send the form submissions into Airtable from there.

However, you can also do dynamic dropdowns in Fillout or Noloco.

I would highly recommend that everybody use Fillout, because it is the most advanced form software for Airtable, and it is the only form software in the world that was designed from the ground up to work with Airtable. It offers TONS of advanced functionality that people have been dreaming of for years.

But the best part about Fillout is that it communicates DIRECTLY with Airtable, and it is the only form software that does that! 🙂


Thank you! i'll definitely check these alternatives. Sad to know that Airtable doesn't include this feature. 

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