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New Feature: Ability to close form submissions

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Sarah_Trisorus
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

Hello! My name is Sarah and I’m a software engineer at Airtable focused on helping new users get up and running with Airtable. I’m excited to jump into the community and share that today we’ve launched the ability to close form submissions!

This will allow you to stop accepting form responses and show a friendly message to your users instead of the form. Previously, you would have had to unshare the form and users would see a generic page unavailable message.

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Here is a link to our updated support documentation related to this functionality.
We hope you’re as excited about this as we are! 🎊

21 Comments
ScottWorld
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

Very cool! 😀

A few comments:

1. It would be cool if forms could automatically close on a specified date and time. This is possible with Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable. See screenshot below.

Fillout offers dozens of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to update Airtable records with a form, the ability to display Airtable lookup fields & Airtable rollup fields & Airtable attachments & formulas on forms, the ability to dynamically & conditionally filter linked record fields by any values that you would like, the ability to perform math or other live calculations on your forms, the ability to accept payments on forms, the ability to have multi-page forms with conditional paths, the ability to create new linked records on a form, visually displaying as many fields as you want to see in a linked record selection list (including attachment fields), limiting the number of linked records that can be chosen, uploading an unlimited amount of attachments at the same time, and much more.

2. It would be amazing if forms could automatically close after receiving X number of submissions. This is currently possible with JotForm’s advanced forms.

p.s. If you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld 

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Karlstens
11 - Venus
11 - Venus

Yah, or set to auto-close after a specific date.

Thanks for the added feature!

ScottWorld
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto
 
Karlstens:

Yah, or set to auto-close after a specific date

Yep, this is a great idea!

This is currently possible with Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable. See screenshot below.

Fillout offers dozens of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to update Airtable records with a form, the ability to display Airtable lookup fields & Airtable rollup fields & Airtable attachments & formulas on forms, the ability to dynamically & conditionally filter linked record fields by any values that you would like, the ability to perform math or other live calculations on your forms, the ability to accept payments on forms, the ability to have multi-page forms with conditional paths, the ability to create new linked records on a form, visually displaying as many fields as you want to see in a linked record selection list (including attachment fields), limiting the number of linked records that can be chosen, uploading an unlimited amount of attachments at the same time, and much more.

p.s. If you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld 

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kuovonne
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

Welcome to the Airtable community Sarah! Thanks for introducing yourself and letting us know about this new feature.

I’m seeing the new functionality.

Maybe Airtable decided to announce this before the rollout is 100% complete. If so, I applaud this decision to let people know early so that we have a place for comments on this forum. It would just be nice if the announcement included when to expect the rollout to be completed so we wouldn’t be left wondering.

kuovonne
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

How about setting date/times for both auto-open and auto-close.

Jordan_Scott1
Airtable Alumni (Retired)

@kuovonne @ScottWorld we made sure to post this as we pushed the change live and it should have been pretty quick, but you might have to clear your cache to get the changes to appear right away :slightly_smiling_face:

kuovonne
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

You might want to add some boilerplate to all new feature announcements.

By the way, I think it is super cool when new feature announcements come from people who helped build the feature.

Jordan_Scott1
Airtable Alumni (Retired)

Great idea! and good, I’m so glad!! trying to mix it up a bit :slightly_smiling_face:

kuovonne
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

Forgot to add, I still love seeing you on the announcement threads and fully expect that you are following all of them.

But having the other Airtable staff post the announcements just makes the community feel a bit more connected to the people writing the software. It helps us remember that they are actual human beings trying their hardest to make a solid product.

Hendrik_Yang
9 - Sun
9 - Sun

Hi @Sarah_Trisorus ,

I have some feedback, ability to have start and end date will be much better rather than that only option.

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Thanks.