How to make form show longer text

Hey ​@NonProfitData!

I don’t think you can achieve this using Airtable native forms (might be missing smth). However, Fillout forms allow you to have dynamic text (which AT native forms do not) on your form. In this way, you could have your text read something like:

“Definition: @dynamic definition field from word chosen above”.

I’ll try to include a walkthrough soon, but you should not have big issues finding your way around it on your own! Pretty simple. use the “@” when trying to reference a dynamic value on your text.

Their free plan is all you’ll need.

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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Is there a way to resize the field space that is offered in a form so that the longer text is visible?
 

I’m afraid not.  Fillout (https://www.fillout.com/) doesn’t limit the text displayed from a linked record so I reckon you may want to check that out:

And here’s the form from the screenshot

As the others have mentioned above, you will only be able to accomplish this with Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable.

Fillout communicates directly with Airtable and can easily do everything that you requested — in many different ways!

​@Mike_AutomaticN outlined one way of doing this in Fillout, and ​@TheTimeSavingCo outlined a completely different way of doing it! There are even other ways you could approach this in Fillout as well.

Best of all, Fillout is 100% free and it offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer. So you may actually find many more reasons to build all of your Airtable forms in Fillout.

For example, Fillout offers 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
• create multi-page forms with conditional paths
• create new linked records on a form
• add a login page to your form
• perform math or other live calculations on your forms
• collect signatures on a form
• connect a single form to dozens of external apps simultaneously
• add CAPTCHAs to your form
• and much more.

I show how to use a few of the advanced features of Fillout on these 2 Airtable podcast episodes:

• Using Fillout to update an existing Airtable record & create an eSignature approval process with PDF file creation.
• Using Fillout to create an order entry form with line items.

Hope this helps!

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Thanks, all! I will be setting this up today with Fillout.