I would like to prefill a form with the current value looked up in a different form. Example: Table 1 “Cat” with one row: PrimaryKey: Garfield Select: “Color - Black” Table 2 “Color Updates”: PrimaryKey: AutoIncrement Reference to “Cat” Select with same options as the color field in Cat If I create a form with table 2 with all the fields, and I select Garfield, I’d like it to default the color field to “Color - Black” ... View more

Is there an easy way to see which records have comments in a Gallery view? I see in Grid views, the comment icon appears to the left of the Record Name… but can’t find any equivalent in Gallery view. We’re using a table to track image assets and are primarily using Gallery views to look at our records. ... View more

It would be great (for those larger projects) to have the ability to create base-wide views—essentially organizing one or more tables/tabs into a view. On top of that, it would be great to be able to control access to each base view. A similar example would be Salesforce’s “Application” feature, which organizes collections of objects, optimizing it for a particular user group. ... View more

Hello, I would appreciate it for a feature to be added where the person who fills in the form gets a confirmation e-mail, with the details of their submission to the form. At the moment it seems you can only send an e-mail if a form has been filled in, to the creator of the form. If there’d be a way to automatically send an overview of the form in an e-mail as a confirmation (such as possible in Google Forms), that would be great! ... View more

The ability to create tables and records in this type of view would change my life. ... View more

We really want to use Airtable as a user-facing intake form, rather than spreading our system across Airtable, Google Forms, and whatever else. In Airtable’s current state, we’d have to compromise on a more frustrating user experience, which we assume will lower form completion. I don’t think the Form view has to be visually consistent with the Grid view, and I believe that keeping it this way is a disservice to end users. Some examples: Single or Multi-Select Google Forms shows you all possible answers. I can’t post more than one image here apparently, but it basically lists out all the options, lets you quickly select an option and move on. In contrast, this is Airtable: Airtable’s visual design is great, but in terms of usability, it hides the options and requires 4 clicks and spread out cognitive load where the other requires only 2. Worse, if I’m using multiple select—which are simple checkboxes in Google Forms—a user will only see a button that says “Select an option.” (again, I can’t include more images unfortunately) They don’t see the available options They have to re-click “Select an option” ever time they want to select a new one, which can get repetitive and frustrating if there are a lot of options. Their selections will then appear as inline tokens (potentially spread across multiple rows), which makes answers hard to parse and keep track of. Checkboxes If my only answers are Yes or No, I would ideally like to use a binary option, but in Airtable, it’s just a question followed by a floating checkbox. If this simply had the options to include a “Yes” next to the checkbox, it would really help clarify what’s happening here. The current design means we’ll have to limit the amount of questions we ask to offset the increased fatigue, and that’s a shame. We’d really love it if Airtable tweaked its form design slightly to match how people actually fill out forms. Thanks so much! ... View more

I paid for the pro version specifically for this feature and the fact that it wastes my prospects time by saying “you will be redirected in a few seconds to xyz url” makes this feature almost redundant because I don’t want people dropping off before they’re tagged on the next page with my facebook/google tracking pixels so I will have to use another software like typeform or jotform just because of this… ... View more

I work in film and video production. When I bring on a crew, I have them fill out a form which lists name, e-mail address, mobile phone, food allergies, scheduling conflicts, their production department, and their production title. The problem is, this information needs to be distributed into two different tables: One table holds name, e-mail, mobile phone, & food allergies-- that information tends to stay the same from production to production, so I keep that in a “master contact table” (which I also use as my general address book) Another table (the “Roster” table) holds the person’s scheduling conflicts, production department, and production title-- that information differs from production to production, so I don’t want to keep it in my master contact table because the same contact might work on different productions in different roles and I need to keep track of who did exactly what on each production. (Yes, I could just keep it all in the “Forms table” and try to manage everything with filtered views, but that would be unwieldy because each contact could be entered multiple times-- making it clunky as an address book) Because air table forms only allow information to go into a single table, I have to go through some crazy gymnastics in order to get the information from the crew form into the appropriate fields. Currently, I do this: I have a THIRD table, a “Forms” table which collects information for all of the fields. I have a Zap which 1) pulls the name/phone/e-mail/allergies info from the forms table into the master contact table (updating an existing record or creating a new record as needed) 2) copies the name/department/role/scheduling conflicts info into the rosters table 3) links the name record in the rosters table to the name record in the master contact table (and finally) 4) deletes the record in the forms table once all of the information has been moved into the correct place. This multi-step Zap costs $25/month. However, if I could create a form with field inputs from multiple tables (instead of being limited to my form only inputting information into a single table), I could save myself a lot of money and headaches. ... View more

Hello Community, I’ve had a bit of an idea. At our company, we have tables that can have up to 30-40 columns in them, especially on the “summary” or “master” tables, where data is assembled from other tables. This can get very confusing. What If we could group similar columns together in a similar way we group rows? Color-coded, collapsible, and individually shareable. It could be quite powerful. Thoughts? ... View more