Hello Everyone!
I am currently designing a product manufacturing pipeline on airtable. My company manufactures a variety of products, each with a different process. I want to be able to fill out a form that allows me to specify which product I want to manufacture, and based on the inputs in the form, it automatically generates a base that contains all the steps needed to manufacture a specific product. The steps would be generated based on the different inputs in the form.
Hi William, and welcome to the community!
I’m almost certain this is not possible. It may be possible to build a table programmatically, but likely only through a Custom App (a decidedly deep effort with React Javascript). This organizational approach is not effortless in Airtable because so few want to do it this way. Vendors don’t roll out the red carpet for fringe ideas.
Whether it’s wise to build a base for each product is a deeper subject, but I must assume you have reasons for compartmentalizing your data in Airtable this way. But if you proceed with such a data model by separating product development information in bases, you create a few other challenges such as (but not limited to) -
My reminder is simply that information in a database is typically more useful when it can be aggregated and Airtable bases are more like databases and less like spreadsheets.