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I have a table "Absences" created in Airtable, where employees can report paid vacation using the form. I also have a column "Remaining paid vacation days" created in Airtable using a formula, in which the employer can see what the balance of the employee's paid vacation is.
I would like to add a field to the form that will be displayed while filling out the form (If the employee selects their name from the employees in the form and selects Vacation type-Paid vacation, a pre-filled field showing the data from the table: How many days of paid vacation the employee has left will appear).
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That is not possible with Airtableâs forms, because Airtableâs forms canât display any information from your base.
However, you can do this with Filloutâs advanced forms for Airtable.
Fillout is 100% free and it offers hundreds of advanced form features for Airtable, such as updating Airtable records from a form or displaying information from your base on a form.
In your case, you would create a form based on your âAbsencesâ table.
Then, you would place your âemployeeâ linked record field onto your Fillout form. This is where the user would choose their name from the list of employee names in the linked employee table.
Then, after choosing their name from the list of employees (which is pulled from the employees table), you can display any information that you want from their employee record, such as âremaining paid vacation daysâ.
To display this information on your form, place a text element onto your form (such as a paragraph block), and then hit the @ symbol on your keyboard to choose fields to display from the employees table.
You can even perform date and number calculations in Fillout, so you could prevent the employee from submitting the form if theyâve tried to request more days off than what they have available to take off. You can even display a custom alert message on the form if this is the case.
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