> Is there a way to not allow the submission if certain things are incorrect?
I'm afraid not

>Also with attachments, is there a way to condition that attachment to only accept certain types of files? 
I'm afraid not

>I have tried putting a conditional field that it must include the .edu student address portion, and I made it a "check box" format with an error message. Students do not seem to read this and submit the form with incorrect data or the form not even being filled out.

I sighed involuntarily reading this; I feel your pain and I hope you manage to get this fixed soon so that you never have to deal with this again

You might want to look into another form service that has field validation (Jotform has it I believe) or the like and integrate it into Airtable

Thanks for the reply! Interesting that a platform such as this does not have those features. 

Is Jotform something I can integrate into Airtable? If so, do you know if it's free? We purposely bought a paid version of Airtable (which does help with some of the other restrictions we were facing with the free version) but I'm not able to spend more money from our budget paying for something else or switching platforms in the middle of the academic year unfortunately. 

Thanks for your comments! Much Appreciated! 😃

> Is Jotform something I can integrate into Airtable? If so, do you know if it's free?
Yeap, I believe you can integrate it.  Here's a link to a blog post they have about it

They do have a free tier, but it's limited to 100 submissions a month I'm afraid.  From what I understand, they also have the ability for you to restrict the file types for attachment fields too, so if the 100 submissions limit isn't an issue it should suit your needs perfectly!

Enforcing validation rules can also be done using miniExtensions Form. For example, you can set a condition that rejects any student email address that doesn't contains .edu

I would highly recommend checking out Fillout's advanced forms for Airtable, which allows you to either create or update records in Airtable with a form.

Fillout is 100% free, and it offers hundreds of advanced features that are not available with Airtable's native forms. Fillout gives tons of validation options that are all Airtable-specific.

It even gives you multiple options for validating email addresses, including the ability to verify email addresses in a number of different ways, including sending an email verification code to the user. And they have many other ways of validating email addresses as well, such as automatically "pinging" the email address to ensure that it is valid.

I gave a very brief demo of Fillout on this episode of the BuiltOnAir podcast.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

This is great, thank you @ScottWorld for the recommendation and your demo! Testing out Fillout and it's awesome.

For those finding this comment and wanting to jump straight to scott's demo, it's at minute 30:28.

You're welcome! Glad I could help! And thanks for giving the exact timestamp of my demo! 😁

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld