New features in Interface Forms

@carla11 Awesome news! Limiting dropdown values is fairly useful but I'd love to suggest a fast follow on enhancement for dynamically limiting values based on answers given in previous form fields. Conditional dropdown values has been desired for YEARS and is one of the main drivers in pushing Airtable users to third party form builders still today. From firsthand experience at a large company on an enterprise plan, having this ability would be a game changer.

Otherwise, all sounds great!

-Stephen

Appreciated and commendable, and thank you, but the requested list attached is of greater importance, as has been repeatedly stressed over the years.

https://air.tableforums.com/t/list-your-top-airtable-feature-requests-here/260 

Will "Read-only Default Values" also be introduced for the not Interface forms? 🙏

+ this 👇

"but I'd love to suggest a fast follow on enhancement for dynamically limiting values based on answers given in previous form fields. Conditional dropdown values has been desired for YEARS and is one of the main drivers in pushing Airtable users to third party form builders still today."

We need conditional dropdown values. This is currently only possible with external form tools like Fillout and Noloco.

May I ask how Billing is currently structured to allow users to access these forms?

For example, I have 1 workspace administrators that owns and creates Bases, Automations and Interfaces. I then have 4 collaborators that view, maintain, administer and use the data stored within those bases (but not the base schema/automation scripts) via either Bases or Interfaces. And finally, I have a dozen or so users who fill out several View Forms for entering in data.

The billing for this is 5 Pro Users.

However, for the Form fillers to access Interface Forms - to essentially enter in and submit data (as per their View Forms actions), what is the expectation from a billing point of view? Do those 12 users need full paid Pro Accounts? Or alternatively, how can we share these Interface Forms with users without blowing out Airtable subscription costs?

My point is, these additions are fantastic!!! But... the target audience can't actually use them due to billing constraints?

@carla11 

This looks like several big steps forward, thank you.

Having said that, I agree with @Stephen_Orr1 , @Databaser and @ScottWorld in that having conditional logic determine drop down selections would be a great next step.

One other feature I would love to see is the ability to auto fill interface forms.  I can call a view form from a button using "Go to URL in Record" where it picks up the URL from a formula field, but when you have several interface form pages on an interface, going back to the view forms seems a step backward and can be confusing.  

So thank you again, and hope to see more.

Thank you! Great step forweard. Can you please expand these features to the whole interface experience, not just forms?

Yah, @Tobias_LGKR I too was just testing out new Interface ideas, only to then realise that the new features discussed here aren't available in other generic areas of Interfaces - where I kind of assumed they would have been.

@Karlstens We don't use forms much in our intrerfaces. But we could really improve the interface experience by having those features in the rest of our interfaces.

This sounded great & I went through to re-build a lot of the forms I've already built as views, only to realize that I can no longer restrict collaborator fields so that only specific users are selectable options in the interface form. 

I'm just going to hold off on using interface forms until some of the long standing requests & already existing features get added.

Also - what was the thought process behind making the required field '*' grey instead of red? It makes it nearly invisible on a bright screen

Hi @Databaser , @Karlstens, we’re currently exploring how to bring features like these to forms that you can share outside of Interfaces (which would mean that Airtable licenses are not necessarily required to view and submit those forms). Stay tuned for further updates!

@Joe_Svingala Thanks you for the feedback. Limiting the users who can be selected in a collaborator field  is on our roadmap and you can expect to see an update on this in the future.

We’re also actively working on changes that include an update to the required field indicator (*).

Hi @BillH thank you for the feedback. We wanted to share that pre-filling Interface Forms via URL is something we’re actively working on, keep an eye out for an update very soon!

@Stephen_Orr1 We hear the request for conditional dropdown values and while we have nothing to share at the moment, we agree that this would be a valuable improvement to how forms work in Airtable. Thank you for the feedback!

@carla11 , great.

Any updates perhaps on letting external users edit Interface data without having to pay $ 240 a year? I still refuse to believe that all those major enterprises that are Airtable customers don't have a need to let external suppliers, clients, marketing agencies, ... input/edit data that way without having to spend a crazy amount of money. Just let users pay $$ in tiers for that ability. 

Thank you! This will be so helpful!

It would be helpful to allow a redirect upon Interface form submissions. I would like an Interface form submission to trigger a webhook, but that doesn't appear possible directly. 

@carla11 

I've noticed that upon completion my forms are just showing an empty looking screen with no options other than to enter another form.  While I can edit the message I can't do anything to redirect the form.  

I was hoping that additional changes would continue to move in a positive direction, but to be honest this isn't positive.  It's another step backwards.

There should be some way to redirect upon completion, at least to a page on the interface itself.

@carla11 We really need the ability to "add option" in Interface Forms. I can do this in "expand record details" but not under forms. Some situations only allow you to create new records by forms.

Expand Record Details	Interface Forms

Hi Carla, 
First, I hope you're doing well.

We use interface forms to add new articles, and we have some fields pre-filled with default answers, and they are set to be edited in case the default value doesn't apply here. (See screenshot)

When I try to edit those pre-filled fields, the form closes and I get an error saying "Internal error. Try closing the pop-up" and after that I can't open the form again. What can I do to avoid this because at the moment, I tried refreshing the page, closing the tab and nothing gets me back unless I completely sign-out of airtable.

More context on how we use Airtable below:

We've been using Airtable for our Media company and everyone absolutely loves it.

Each team (ex. writers or designers) each have their own interface, with different fields and so on. New articles were added in from the main base either in-line or through a form.

Since the base is very messy with lots of fields, we want to stop using it, and instead use forms within the interface.

@carla11 - sorry new to this discussion form, tagged you here re my message above

Thank you

Thank you @carla11 .  

When will we see the ability to create new single/multiple select options in Forms?  The new record form is basically useless to me now if I am entering a project with a new client or new location or new contact.  This is one of the very few complaints I have with Airtable, but it's a big one!

Hi @Jim_Graziano,

Yeah, that’s a big one.

The only way to do this now is to use a 3rd-party form software like Fillout which natively communicates with Airtable in real time, and gives tons of advanced features that are all Airtable-specific.

JotForm is possibly the most feature-rich form software on the Internet, although it doesn’t natively communicate with Airtable. But you can get the exact same capabilities that you’re looking for by using Make’s JotForm integrations to communicate between JotForm and Airtable.

Same thing with Cognito Forms, which has some great features than even JotForm doesn’t have, such as unlimited line items.

Hi @carla11, @ScottWorld, and All,