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Hello,

This is a recurring debate for past 10 years. Why is it not possible to simply create a form with hidden fields that are previously set or prefill ???

  • Yes I know group could be hidden … for high level subscription
  • Conditional  & Hidden fields do not submit
  • Prefill Fields don’t work with uneditable fields

That’s so basic feature … I have a poll, need to attach status, linkedin objects, … not visible just to have a clean view and I’ll have to hardcode it in an automation … what a shame ! You always need to pass some tracking info.

 

For instance, you have a CRM with Contacts you can’t send a form to the contact A, B or C with pre-field uneditable Contact field … that so basic !

 

Yeah, it’s a strange limitation of Airtable forms. Who knows why they decided to do that. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 

Be sure to submit it as a feature request on this product ideas form.

You may also want to email support@airtable.com with this feature request as well.

However, in the meantime, you can get that feature 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, create custom PDF files from a form submission, accept payments on forms, pre-fetch dynamic data from an Airtable record, display Airtable lookup fields on forms, 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, 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:

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Yup, you’ll want to go with Fillouuuuuuttttttt!

It’s time Airtable really improves their forms :(

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
YouTube Channel 

You can do this with URL params, and so in the following example the ‘Name’ field is prefilled with ‘Test' and hidden, and on submit it shows up in the data.  I’ve set it up here for you to check out!

https://airtable.com/appG0wuqsWdxOwY3r/pagw03R2OjEza0wsW/form?prefill_Name=Test&prefill_Status=Todo&hide_Name=true

Here’s a link to the form prefill documentation: https://support.airtable.com/docs/prefilling-a-form-via-encoded-url

TheTimeSavingCo thanks ! I didn’t know the hide querystring.
Unfortunatly you can’t do it with uneditable fields (like record chooser)

  • so if I remove “uneditable” optio, people will be able to look into all records
  • otherwise at least I have to use another text fields + automation

But it’s interesting !

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