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Daniel_Robbins
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

One of my fields is a link to another table. I’d like end-users who are using the Form to add data to be able to create new records in the linked table but from the primary table data entry form.

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Moe
10 - Mercury
10 - Mercury

We’ve built another extension that allows form users to add new linked records before reaching Airtable from.

Create New Linked Records in Airtable Forms

Rich_Cleeve
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

I just took out a subscription, and glad now it was only for one month. Even MS Access did this back in the mid 90’s.

@Airtable, all you need to do is make the “add” button link to a form on the child table, and return to the parent form on submit with the new record in place.

People have been asking for this for 4 years and without it, may as well go back to spreadsheets.

Mike_Doyle
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

Agreed, it doesn’t make sense to have to perform two external integration just to do a simple task like this

Mike_Doyle
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

It’s not useful for me personally as I don’t want to pay for Congnito and Zapier for something that should be in Airtable…

ashley
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

+1 – would be a game changer.

Janson_Hartliep
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Also a heavy plus one.

Odd that only one Airtable representative has popped in to say anything… despite a clear and succinct callout of the problem and solution nearly two years ago Add new linked record when entering data in a form

Stephen_Joslyn
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

+1 for me too. Seems obvious.

Birk_Ulstad
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Huge +1 from me! And it would be nice to know whether this feature is on a roadmap or not

ZYGOTE_DEVELOPM
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

+1 for me too – have a hard time believing this is still an issue 4 hours after the first post in this thread!

Moe
10 - Mercury
10 - Mercury

We’ve added a new feature to our extension that allows you to add line items in the form and automatically link them to the record being created.