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As a future feature request, would anyone else benefit from the preview links for URLs being more personalised?

I send out a lot of forms via email to people in my network, but often when they're in the field they contact me and ask me to send the link by text... When I do, the links just show up with the generic Airtable preview.

Because we have so many forms, there is no way for the individual to identify which of the links in their messages is the correct one. See attached image of how they appear in a SMS exchange.

It would be great if instead of "Everyone's app platform" it would have the name of the form, or the view that was being shared in the link.

If it also had the base icon instead of the airtable/blue/laptop icon, that would be a bonus.

2025 UPDATE:

Fillout offers customizable images and text for when you share the link to social media, in text messaging, etc.

This is a built-in feature of Fillout’s Pro Plan.

In addition to giving you customizable images & text for your share link previews, Fillout  also 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, 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! 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

UPDATE:
I just discovered that Fillout offers customizable images and text for when you share the link to social media, in text messaging, etc . This is a built-in feature of their Pro Plan.

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Wow, that is a really fantastic & valid point.

Currently, all we can do is come up with workarounds for this issue:

- One workaround would be to embed the form within a page of your own website, so the preview image & name will be taken from your own website.

- Another workaround would be to use Fillout for your forms, which is free and feeds directly into Airtable. It will show Fillout as the image preview, but it will show the name of your form underneath the image.

- I also tested this with JotForm. It acts the same as Fillout... it shows JotForm as the image preview, but it shows the name of your form underneath the image. (JotForm doesn't feed into Airtable natively, but you can use Make to feed JotForm into Airtable.)


Thanks for the reply, I could also try using Miniextensions for the form. We use it when forms require functionality not offered by Airtable (digital signatures) and it's great, but a quick simple form is so much easier natively in Airtable.

Your best bet for doing digital signatures is to use Fillout.

Fillout offers digital signatures for only $15 per month.

I show how to incorporate Fillout’s digital signatures on this Airtable podcast episode:

You mentioned MiniExtensions, but I would not recommend using MiniExtensions, which has significantly fallen out of favor over the last few years amongst Airtable consultants like myself for a variety of reasons:

1. They charge a minimum of $149 per month (or $119 per month if you pay annually) for signature capability.

2. They offer a very limited amount of forms & extensions unless you upgrade to their $299 per month plan ($239 per month annually).

3. Their new ownership has stopped updating & improving most of their extensions for years now. The company operates primarily in “maintenance mode” now.

4. Their tech support is extremely slow to respond to inquiries, and bugs are rarely fixed (if ever). For comparison, Fillout offers near-instantaneous support.

5. Their core form product was the only update in the last few years, but they removed critical functionality that our clients depended on, and they increased the complexity of using it.

Hope this helps!

If you have a budget and you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with this or anything else that is Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

2025 Update:

Fillout offers customizable images and text for when you share the link to social media, in text messaging, etc . This is a built-in feature of their Pro Plan.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

Yes please! -> pull the image and form name into the link preview, NOT airtable's generic marketing 🤢

Yes please! -> pull the image and form name into the link preview, NOT airtable's generic marketing 🤢


Yes, this is a necessary feature that is greatly needed!!!

​@Garth_Spackman ​@Byhuber ​@Milne_Brothers_ 

Check out my updated answers above to solve these issues for you.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

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