Allow creation of new Linked Records on Form Interface

[jcervantes]

Overview: We cannot create new Linked records when submitting a form. There is only the ability to create a new Linked record after the initial form is submitted (and record created). This is not conducive to some workflows, where it would be very helpful to create a linked record during the initial record creation process.

Feature Request: Allow users to directly create linked records while they are in the process of submitting the initial Form/record in Interfaces.

Current Workarounds:

1. Provide a link on the initial Form for a user to open up another form to create the linked record prior to them completing the initial form.
2. Create additional fields in the table and then use automations to automatically create linked records in the background when those are selected.

[JPal]

@ScottWorld I'll def try that. Thanks!

[David_Ayer]

Same same same!

[amtaha718]

Agreed, this feature would be very helpful. 

[simonmaster]

This feature is very important for the workflow. 

According to @jcervantes  "it is a bit disappointing that I have to get another product and then pull my users out of the native UI / App experience and have them use a different system just to do such a fundamental function such as adding line items when creating a record."

I can't figured out why this feature is still missing.

[ScottWorld]

Unfortunately, that is one of the major limitations of Airtable. It is not possible to create new linked records from a form.

There are 3 workarounds for this limitation:

1. On the first form, give the user a link to ANOTHER FORM which will allow them to add new records to the linked table. Then, they can come back to the first form to continue their data entry.

2. On the first form, in the linked record field, give the user an option to choose from that is called "new record" or something like that. Then, conditionally show additional fields where they can type in the new information. Then, use an automation to add the new record into the appropriate table.

3. Use Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable, which already has this functionality natively built into its forms. Fillout is 100% free and offers hundreds of advanced features that aren’t natively available in Airtable’s native forms, such as adding new linked records from a form and updating existing Airtable records from a form.

Fillout is really the best path to go down here.

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

[simonmaster]

It's also really frustrating that this feature is present when records are created from the data section.

A normal workflow would be for data to automatically connect if created within the field, which is not the case when doing it from a form.

So, if interfaces are built to simplify data entry and impede table structure modify, I think that this is absolutely not the right way.

[Flavien_Bonnevi]

+1 on feature request - much more needed please.

[vm00]

I truly hope Airtable adds this feature soon. I don’t understand why it’s still not available.