linked forms, is that a thing?

It seems like you’re trying to create brand new linked records on an Airtable form?

If so, unfortunately that isn’t natively supported by Airtable’s forms.

You could send your users to multiple other forms to create the new records there, but that can get confusing for users and it is definitely tedious.

Instead, the easiest, quickest, and #1 best way of handling this is to rebuild your form in Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable.

Fillout is 100% free and it lets you create new linked records on a form.

I demonstrate this feature on this Airtable podcast episode:

• Using Fillout to create an order entry form with line items.

Fillout also offers hundreds of other 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, add a login page to your form, perform math or other live calculations on your forms, collect signatures on a form, and much more.

I show how to use a few more of the advanced features of Fillout on this Airtable podcast episode:

• Using Fillout to update an existing Airtable record & create an eSignature approval process with PDF file creation.

Hope this helps!

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Hm, what if you tried an Interface?  I’ve set it up here for you to check out.  If they have a paid Airtable acocunt it’d look something like the following

If they don’t have a paid Airtable account you could also set up a read-only Interface that lets them add new records via a form too:

Hi Adam, I’m going to play with this idea… I’m hopeing that this approach would also show on a calendar view as the Calendar view will help a different group set up the on call secheudle in a 3rd party system. They like a calendar view for some reason.. I perfer just a download of the data in the table but everyone works differently so I’m trying to accomodate 3 different groups using the data. Thank you! 

Hmm...so the Calendar view would show all the assignments, is that right?  If so, I’ve created a Calendar Interface in the base for you to check out that uses the data from the ‘Assignments’ table:

i think you are amazing!! 🤗

Hm, what if you tried an Interface?  I’ve set it up here for you to check out.  If they have a paid Airtable acocunt it’d look something like the following

If they don’t have a paid Airtable account you could also set up a read-only Interface that lets them add new records via a form too:

 

Well, this would work only if the person was scheduling the technicians to all the weeks for all the  properites. As it is, each property is assigning their technicians to a week. and multiple technicians at one property will not be asisgned to the same week. However, the week will be assigned across 20 properties with different technicians. so I’m just not able to get my head around this, why I was trying to have two forms and link them some kind of way. **bang head on desk**

Hm, I’m afraid I’m not really following, sorry!  Could you provide some example data of the end result?  Once I understand what the output should be I’ll see what I can do!

I also do free half hour calls and you can grab a time here if that sounds useful to you!