Welcome to the community, Linda! :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: While Airtable doesn’t natively support conditional logic that could make a text field become visible if the “Other” option is chosen, you can still put a text field as the next entry after that selection list, including a comment that the student should use it to explain their “Other” choice. They can still opt to leave it blank, though, so it’s a gamble. You could make it a required field, but then it would become a minor nuisance to those who don’t need it, so I guess you gotta pick your poison.

FWIW, there are third-party form tools that can integrate with Airtable, and which do support conditional logic. Check out On2Air: Forms by @openside if you want to go that route.

Thanks, I’ll look at that.

(Just looked - it’s $24.99 per month, and we’re a non-profit, so we’ll have to find a workaround. Any idea whether Airtable has this feature on the docket? Can’t imagine I’m the only one who wants it. Thanks!)

I’ve just run into a similar issue in which I’d like to add Other as an option for a form with a multiple choice select field type. Is this feature available? Any help on how to use it or workaround without additional cost or integrations is deeply appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Welcome to the community, @Nadia_Eldeib! :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: I wrote up a solution to a similar problem a few months back:

If you don’t want the manually-added “other” entries to be added for later users to choose, just leave out the automation part of the solution.

Thanks, Justin! I really appreciate your help.

One other suggestion that a friend gave that I ended up implementing was to add a conditional follow-up question that’s a free response if the person selected “other” so they can describe why. One catch is that you have to frame that question slightly distinctly each time if there’s more than one in the survey, but it’s doable.

I think this is similar but maybe a simplified version of what you achieved in the “Option 2” you described for Linked Records (or maybe it’s the same, in which case apologies! I’m still pretty new to Airtable).

That feature is not available in Airtable’s forms, but you can get this with Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable.

Please see screenshot below for how this is setup.

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, display Airtable lookup fields on forms, 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, create new linked records on a 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 create an eSignature approval process with PDF file creation.
• Using Fillout to create an order entry form with line items.

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