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Hello everyone,

I’m trying to replicate a process I set up a year ago that is working well.  I have a formula that opens a form for a responses table that automatically links it to the main table.  The formula uses the form address and prefill, with the record id of the main table record.  When I open one of those links it works perfectly. It is not editable, but shows the linked record information.

I’m trying to replicate it on a new base, but the same prefill option isn’t bringing up anything unless I make the group editable and then anyone with the form would be able to see all our records. 

Here are the differences I can spot, but I don’t know how to make them match:

In my working form I see this in the group settings

The line “some fields are editable...” doesn’t show in my new form.

 

The other difference is that the new form gives me this warning under Rules, which is not present in my working form, but I think that’s because I had create a filter in the past.

 

Any thoughts on what I might have missed?  Both forms are in the Forms builder (not interface or base).

Hmm, that’s a weird one.  If you could DM me invite links to both bases I could take a look at it for you!


@Gabriel_Galindo 

That’s very strange. I am not able to reproduce this problem on my end.

I can prefill linked records in a view-only group, and they show up just fine on my end.

You may want to open a support ticket with support@airtable.com to ask them about this.

Also, if you can’t get it to work in Airtable, you can always do this with Fillout’s Airtable forms. Fillout is usually my go-to form builder, because it offers hundreds of advanced features that Airtable’s forms don’t offer, including the ability to update records with a form.

Hope this helps!

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