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Ok, I think this is pretty simple, but I just haven't worked with Airtable programming/automations enough.

When closing or leaving a record's interface page, if a specific field is blank (empty), I want to pop up a dialog that says "xxxxx Cannot be Empty"  or something like that.

TIA!

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TheTimeSavingCo
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Forms have a "required" toggle, but I don't think normal Interface pages do I'm afraid


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TheTimeSavingCo wrote:

Forms have a "required" toggle, but I don't think normal Interface pages do I'm afraid


Yes, I could definitely use a Form when the record is first entered, which would eliminate the need for this, but Forms doesn't allow 'create new option' in multi-select fields, which makes it pretty much useless to me.


TheTimeSavingCo
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Jim_Graziano wrote:

Yes, I could definitely use a Form when the record is first entered, which would eliminate the need for this, but Forms doesn't allow 'create new option' in multi-select fields, which makes it pretty much useless to me.


Check out this guide on how to let users create new options via a form:
https://community.airtable.com/t5/show-tell/automation-allow-users-to-add-new-options-to-a-predefined-list/td-p/134900


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TheTimeSavingCo wrote:

Thanks, I saw this awhile ago, but it seemed kind of clunky and I have several multi-select fields which didn't seem to work right.  I think it's ridiculous that AirTable can't implement 'create new option' to forms.  It makes forms totally unusable for me. 


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