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Hello Airtable Community,

Is there capability within forms to capture ip addresses from those submitting the forms?  I would like to ensure that the form is being submitted by the persons intended and not forwarded or submitted twice.  How secure are the forms?

You may be better off using something like fillout.com


If you would like to restrict your form based on IP addresses, you need to use JotForm for that, and then the best way to bring those form submissions into Airtable is to use Make’s JotForm integrations along with Make’s Airtable integrations.

Although you can gain even more security by using Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable.

Fillout is 100% free, and it gives tons of security options, such as:

  1. Adding a CAPTCHA to your form, or
  2. Controlling which dates your form is available.

Even better, you can create a login page for your form, which will give you these additional security options:

  1. You can restrict the logins by SSO.
  2. You can restrict the logins by email domain.
  3. You can restrict the logins by password.
  4. You can restrict logins based on a pre-approved list of email addresses that you have stored in your Airtable base.
  5. You can verify & confirm that the user is typing in a valid email address.
  6. You can limit form entries to one entry per person.

If the user logs in with their email address, that will let Fillout know who the user is and what the user’s email address is.

Then, you can use this email information to automatically prefill other fields on your form based on who logged into your form, and you can even use this email information to do other advanced tricks with Fillout.

For example, you could use Fillout’s filtering features to filter your linked record fields to only show the user the linked records that they are allowed to see, because those linked records are linked to their email address.

And Fillout offers lots of other advanced features for Airtable as well, such as the ability to:

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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You may be better off using something like fillout.com


Thank you!


Hi there!

At miniExtensions, we've created a third-party form that integrates seamlessly with Airtable and allows you to capture the IP address of the form submitter, along with their location data, giving you greater insights into your submissions.

 

You're welcome to try out these features with a free account at miniExtensions 👍