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I’ve seen something like this asked, but not really seeing responses?  But it got me thinking….  Is it really possible to have two different forms feed into a single base?  My thought process is this.  Creating an onboarding base so we can make sure we get everything completed for every hire.  But questions we ask on applications can vary based on the job(s) they are applying for, so having several forms with the specific questions would be great instead of having questions that only certain people would fill out or verbiage that is correct for some, but not for others.

Is it REALLY possible to do this?  Yesterday I was trying to determine if there was a way to set up a form with sections so that each section of questions was for specific jobs, but the form will be LONG.  Having different forms based on the job they are applying for would be much better, if it will truly work.

We have upwards of 8 forms for a single table, so it’s definitely possible! You can so make fields are only visible under certain conditions (e.g. fields visible only when applying to specific jobs) instead of having different forms if you prefer.

Thank you.  I had thought about that, also, but there are so many differences, I felt like it would be easier to just have separate forms.

There are ways of doing this, but just about everyone here would probably recommend you check out Fillout Forms for more powerful form solutions that integrates extremely closely with Airtable.

Hi,
Yes you can have as many forms as you want using the same table. Form is just an interface (even legacy form view) used to populate data for next created record in table. When you change or delete the form, it doesn’t affect information that already entered in the table.

Also, in form you can have different set of questions, using conditional fields that can be visible or not, according to the data you entered/selected in previous questions. So, each of these forms might not be very long. But if you want to populate data in the same table, the table will be LONG, or better say WIDE.
But you can create several views according to each set of relevant fields.

​@tzuhouse

Airtable has a maximum of 50 forms per base. (You can get more forms by using the old “form view”, but those have been deprecated.)

However, as others have mentioned above, you can get an unlimited number of forms for free by using Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable.

Fillout is 100% free, and it offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to update Airtable records using a form, generate custom PDF files from form submissions, display Airtable lookup fields on forms, create new linked records on a form, control access to a form via SSO or email domains, perform math or other live calculations on your forms, accept payments on forms, collect signatures on a form, create multi-page forms with conditional paths, 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:

Hope this helps!

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Thank you!  I will check all this out!

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