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]

Yeah, this has been one of the longstanding feature requests for Airtable, for as long as I can remember. It is disappointing that it is not a part of the product yet. 

Of course, there is a clunky workaround to the problem: you can give people another form to create new child records, but they’d have to keep submitting that form over & over again.

So it’s great that Fillout came to the rescue by giving us a form that allows us to natively add new line items. Fillout is 100% free, so that’s really the best option at the moment. 

[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.