Prevent creation of blank records in a table

[Julian_Kirkness]

Would it be possible to make it impossible to create blank records in Airtable - it’s so easy to create these that bases become littered with them. It’s even worse if you accidentally add a record in a grouped view because linked record are created which are otherwise blank.

One way to do this would be to give the user the option of making one or more fields ‘required’ - and without them the record would not submit.

I find having to constantly delete such empty records quite annoying!

[ScottWorld]

The REST API uses the permissions of whatever user account you assign to it, so you can control it that way.

[Steve_Haysom]

Perhaps one way to reduce blank records:

Add the ‘User CSS’ chrome extension available from the web store (free), then add the following style, which hides the insertion row at the bottom so you have to click on the add button:

.rowInsertionEnabled {
display: none !important;
}

[B_A]

@Steve_Haysom, this is a brilliant idea, thanks a lot!

[Mickey_Markoff]

An old issue but persistent. Some great suggestions from other users. Thanks, @Steve_Haysom!

[Antonio_Gaglia1]

please @Airtable do something, implement RECORD VALIDATION!!!

[-Sam]

I belive this is a reasonable fix

https://community.airtable.com/t5/interface-designer/prevent-users-from-creating-empty-linked-record...