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Hello. I am working on a form to list specific medications, the vendor it originates from, cost, qty, etc. I’d like to be able to input the brand names of medications into the form and have the generic names of that specific medication auto-populate in a field below the brand name on the form and in the grid view. I’ve tried creating a separate table and inputting the medication brand and generic names in a list, but I cannot figure out how to use conditional formatting (or lookup) to populate the generic name in the form. Hopefully this makes sense. I’m struggling to describe what I’m looking for.


Example:


Single Line Text Field: Medication Brand Name - Adrenaline

Conditional Field: Medication Generic Name (to auto-populate) - Epinephrine

Hi - I think you may find airtable’s native form a little too limited for what you are trying to do - ie feed information from airtable to the form dependent on what is input.


You may find on2air forms useful.


Hey David,


As Russell mentioned, Airtable Forms doesn’t do this natively.


You can use On2Air Forms to do this. Here’s an example where you can display filtered records and other data from your base on the form.




We have a current Forms version you can use, but our new version of the app will be completed in couple of weeks.



Hey David,

 

I believe that this achievable using Fillout. Check out this example:

 

 

You can see that in the dropdown field for brand names, the associated generic names are shown in the options. You can also display the associated generic name separately in the form once a brand name has been selected.

 

The key here is creating a lookup field that displays the value you want to show in the form.

 

Feel free to look at my demo Airtable base and Fillout form:


Screenshots of my Airtable base:

 

Screenshot of my Fillout form:


I hope my answer was able to help, and if it did, please consider using my affiliate link to sign up for Fillout: https://www.fillout.com?ref=bryan20

 

Cheers,

Bryan