Creating a new record in form mode

[Yanir_Marmor]

We use the main table (authors) and we have a linked field to another table (books).
If we don’t have an appropriate option (book) in the table we can create a new record of the book from the field in the author table. But, strangely and surprisingly, when we try to do the same thing through form, it is not possible. There is no option for creating a record in form mode (the plus “+” sign doesn’t exist).
This feature with control in permission for that (not in all fields you want to allow that kind of adding) is very important for our work.

Questions about that feature asked in the past, so you can see that this is an existing issue:

• Filling form - create a new record in linked table
• Unable to Add NEW Record on a Junction Table Form Field
• Can I put an "add a new record button" into a form to populate a row in my Customer table

Many thanks!

[Justin_Barrett]

Method #2 in this post that I just made might help in this case:

Automation: Allow users to add new options to a predefined list via a form Show and tell

A question arose recently that’s come up a few times in the past: is it possible to give form users the ability to either pick an item from a predefined list or add their own “other” option, and have manually-added options actually appear in the list for later form users? For most of Airtable’s existence so far, this wasn’t possible (at least not without delving into the API, and even then I’m not completely sure that was doable). However, it can be done using Airtable’s automation feature. Here…

[Moe]

Yanir_Marmor:

There is no option for creating a record in form mode

One way to workaround this is using our Advanced Form extension. It allows you to create new linked records on the form.

miniExtensions for Airtable

Create and Update Linked Records in miniExtensions Form (Line Items)

Add new linked records -with all their details- without leaving the form page. Making one-to-many, parent/child, master/detail relationships. e.g. invoices.