Help

The Community will be undergoing maintenance from Friday February 21 - Friday, February 28 and will be "read only" during this time. To learn more, check out our Announcements blog post.

Typeform Extension not working

Topic Labels: Extensions
Solved
Jump to Solution
374 3
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
Shachi
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Hi,

The Typeform extension in Airtable is repeatedly failing to connect (screenshots at the bottom of this post). I have written multiple emails to Airtable Support but the responses are vague and not very helpful so far.

I want to create a Typeform that pulls data from certain fields in Airtable, and displays that data as options for certain selection-based questions in my form. This is a less popular use case than simply sending Typeform data to Airtable, which is the focus of most other threads in the Support portal, in this community, and other third-party forums.

Can someone quickly help solve this / suggest the best way forward?

 
I click Accept on this page:
Shachi_4-1739175270429.png

 

but keep landing on this page instead of seeing a successful connection.
Shachi_5-1739175393648.png

 

1 Solution

Accepted Solutions
ScottWorld
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

 

It seems like that extension has been abandoned by TypeForm, since it no longer works and it hasn’t been updated by TypeForm in 4 years.

That extension should be removed from the Airtable Marketplace since it no longer works. I was going to suggest emailing support@airtable.com to ask them to remove it, but it sounds like they haven’t been very helpful with you. You may also want to email TypeForm Support, to ask them to either update or remove their extension.

However, you have a very easy solution to accomplish what you want, and a SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER solution than using the TypeForm extension (even if the extension worked properly).

You can simply use Make’s TypeForm integrations along with Make’s Airtable integrations to create, update, and delete forms in TypeForm.

The reason this solution is significantly better than the extension (even if the extension worked properly) is because it works throughout ALL OF AIRTABLE (not just at the data layer), and also it gives you way more power and way more customizability to do ANYTHING you want in JotForm, and you can also integrate with other apps as well.

To set this up in Make, it would be as simple as the screenshot below.

If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread.

For example, if you wondering how to use that custom webhook trigger at the start of the automation, here are the instructions that I wrote up on how to instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable.

I also give live demonstrations of how to use Make in many of my Airtable podcast appearances. For example, if you want to add options to a TypeForm question, you’re going to need to know how to setup arrays in Make. I discuss Airtable arrays and Make arrays on this Airtable podcast episode.

However, one very important thing I should add is this: If you’re simply trying to update options in TypeForm to match options that you have in Airtable, TypeForm is likely the wrong tool for the job.

Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable is 100% free, and It natively communicates with your fields in Airtable. So, if you update your options in Airtable, you just click on a simple refresh button in Fillout to update with your new options. Even better, if your options are in a linked record field, you don’t need to press any refresh button at all because the form will just automatically update with your new options.

Fillout also offers hundreds upon hundreds of other advanced features that Airtable's forms don’t natively offer, such as the ability to update Airtable records from a form.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the world’s best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld 

IMG_0591.jpeg

See Solution in Thread

3 Replies 3
ScottWorld
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

 

It seems like that extension has been abandoned by TypeForm, since it no longer works and it hasn’t been updated by TypeForm in 4 years.

That extension should be removed from the Airtable Marketplace since it no longer works. I was going to suggest emailing support@airtable.com to ask them to remove it, but it sounds like they haven’t been very helpful with you. You may also want to email TypeForm Support, to ask them to either update or remove their extension.

However, you have a very easy solution to accomplish what you want, and a SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER solution than using the TypeForm extension (even if the extension worked properly).

You can simply use Make’s TypeForm integrations along with Make’s Airtable integrations to create, update, and delete forms in TypeForm.

The reason this solution is significantly better than the extension (even if the extension worked properly) is because it works throughout ALL OF AIRTABLE (not just at the data layer), and also it gives you way more power and way more customizability to do ANYTHING you want in JotForm, and you can also integrate with other apps as well.

To set this up in Make, it would be as simple as the screenshot below.

If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread.

For example, if you wondering how to use that custom webhook trigger at the start of the automation, here are the instructions that I wrote up on how to instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable.

I also give live demonstrations of how to use Make in many of my Airtable podcast appearances. For example, if you want to add options to a TypeForm question, you’re going to need to know how to setup arrays in Make. I discuss Airtable arrays and Make arrays on this Airtable podcast episode.

However, one very important thing I should add is this: If you’re simply trying to update options in TypeForm to match options that you have in Airtable, TypeForm is likely the wrong tool for the job.

Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable is 100% free, and It natively communicates with your fields in Airtable. So, if you update your options in Airtable, you just click on a simple refresh button in Fillout to update with your new options. Even better, if your options are in a linked record field, you don’t need to press any refresh button at all because the form will just automatically update with your new options.

Fillout also offers hundreds upon hundreds of other advanced features that Airtable's forms don’t natively offer, such as the ability to update Airtable records from a form.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the world’s best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld 

IMG_0591.jpeg

Shachi
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

@ScottWorld that was super helpful! I switched to Fillout and it works beautifully. Thanks very much

ScottWorld
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

You're welcome! Glad I could help! 🙂 If you don’t mind, could you please mark my answer as the solution above? This will help others in the future, because your post should rise to the top of the search results.