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miniExtensions Form to Edit and Create Airtable Records

Create records. Update records.

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Written by Moe and AJ
Setup

Where can I find my form URL?

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How can I set up the form for editing records?

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How many forms can I have per base and per table?

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Editing Records

How to disable editing a form?

How to make a form not available after a certain date? How to set a date for it to expire? We want to restrict editing based on a condition.
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Do the form users need to have editing access in Airtable in order to save changes?

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I need the "submitter" field to be auto-filled for the person that I send the form to.

Do I need a new form for each person like with Airtable's forms or is there a different flow for miniExtensions?
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How can my clients look up their records using the form?

I want a simple way for our team to update records. I want them to look up the contact by Client Name and then add/update fields.
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After Submission

How to forward Airtable record parameters after form submission redirection?

We need to pass the {record_id} and other variables that were filled inside the form.
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How can I send an email after the form is submitted?

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How to redirect users to different URLs based on their form submission?

I want to send each user to their own unique page
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How to show the user the record they created after they submit the form?

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How to collect users' locations and IP addresses?

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How to reopen a new form after submitting?

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Sync

How to use the form to edit non-synced fields in a synced tabled?

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How often do I need to resync my data?

I have fields that are not syncing into my form when I run the sync. How do I fix this?
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Embed

How to get my form into the Apps window in Airtable?

It would be useful to have it embedded within Airtable rather than needing to pop my users out to another browser tab.
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How to embed the form into a website?

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I was hoping to embed this on my site, but it won’t allow javascript. Any way to get around this?

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We have a Wordpress website and we want to autofill the logged-in user data when they click on the form link.

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Can I use my custom domain for the form?

Can I set up the form on a custom domain?
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Prefill Form

How to prefill a form with zero?

I'm trying to set the field value to 0, but it comes up null.
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How to update a field in a record with just a click?

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Can I prefill a form with data from another table?

A table other than were data is being sent from the form
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How to prefill hidden fields?

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How to prefill a value in the form when it's embedded?

I'm trying to pass a prefill value through the page url to embedded form
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How to prefill a field with the value of another field?

e.g. dynamic parameters
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How to prefill miniExtensions Form?

How to prefill multiple fields in a form?
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Can I still display the prefilled field even if it is hidden?

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How to prefill a form from another form after redirecting?

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Why are my prefill fields not being saved to Airtable after submitting the form?

When I submit the form, the prefilled field is not saved to Airtable.
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Prefilling a value that has a comma in it (encoded into the URL as %2C) the prefill doesn't work, even when the linked record itself has the commas.

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Linked Records Field

How to add and edit linked records on the form?

Where to find the line items option? I don't see it in the Form settings.
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How to make a form that pulls fields from multiple tables?

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How to add quantity to line items?

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How to hide existing linked records?

I want to prevent users from seeing other records not related to them for privacy concerns.
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The linked records field is not prefilled in the line-item form?

The linked field's dropdown in the child form is empty. I can choose any parent record. I want child records to only link to their parents.
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How to limit the linked records field to only be able to select one record?

I can add several linked records despite the field settings which don't allow multiple linked records in Airtable.
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Can I prefill the linked record when filling line items?

Can I prefill fields in subforms/nested forms when I click on the + button to create a record?
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Can I search linked records not by their primary field?

I want to lookup records by another field
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When do line items get linked if compute mode is enabled?

Compute mode and linked records line items.
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Linked Records Filter

How to force the user to first filter a linked records field before they can actually select a value from the dropdown?

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How to add the filter value to the submitted record?

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Can I prefill a formula field?

I'm trying to filter a linked record selection, but can't get the filter to prefill.
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How to filter and sort the linked records field?

The records seem to be sorted randomly. How is their order determined?
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How to use non-supported fields as an advanced filter?

The “Filter” section doesn’t let us choose a some fields as the filter field.
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How to limit a linked records field's selection to a certain view?

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How to let users open a form that is pre-filtered for them?

How to prefill (or set default values) to filter linked records?
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How to create dependent drop-down menus using linked records fields?

Selecting an option from one dropdown should dictate the options available in the next field.
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Lookup Field

Why are my lookup fields not showing up on my form?

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Formula Field

Can I edit formula fields?

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How to show formula fields or buttons on the form?

I can't see the button fields on my form.
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How to require users to review their answers before submission?

A way to avoid mistakes and human errors
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Why the records are showing in Airtable when users click Compute?

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Multiple Select Field

How to prefill linked records fields with multiple values?

How to prefill more than one option in a multi-select field?
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How to limit the options in the single or multi-select fields?

I need to limit the Single Select field selections
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Attachment Field/Signature

How to restrict the number of attachment uploads?

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How to allow users to add hand signatures?

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How to annotate an image attachment?

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How to set a file size limit on the attachment field?

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How to delete attachments?

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How can I have multiple signature fields in the form?

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How to upload multiple files at once in an attachment field in a form?

Does every file need to be uploaded separately?
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How to restrict my form to only accept specific file types?

How to force the attachment field to only upload certain formats? (e.g allow images or PDFs only)
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Where do hand signatures on the form get saved?

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How can I display an image from my Airtable on a form?

Display the customer's specific photo (pulled from an Airtable field)
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Conditional Field Visibility

How to use a Rollup field as a Conditional Field?

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How to check if a record exists and only show the complete form if it doesn't?

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Can I have a condition that includes the operators "OR" & "AND" simultaneously?

A condition like this: or(and(x,y),and(x,z)).
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How to have "is any of" or "is none of" conditions?

I need to select multiple options for conditional fields.
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Which field types are supported as conditional fields?

The rollup fields are greyed out in the selector. Can I make fields visibility conditional based on other rollup fields?
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How to set a conditional field to show up if a record is one of two values?

I’ve tried using “Is Not” but it’s not working.
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How to use formula fields as a conditional field in the form?

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Preventing Duplicates

How to prevent records with duplicate values on the from?

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How can I enable duplicate prevention on a phone number field?

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Barcode/QR Code

The scanner is not detecting barcodes properly.

It's not working as well as other mobile apps.
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How to scan barcodes in the form?

How to scan multiple QR codes faster?
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How to allow people to use a QR code scanner, but also add the value as text?

I need to have a fallback if the barcode is not detectable.
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My embedded form is not showing me the barcode scanner. How can I fix this?

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Stripe Integration

Stripe Error "The value for payment price is not a valid number '0'"

Payment on my form is optional, but it would not advance to the checkout page.
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Can I capture the full billing address when processing payment with Stripe Checkout?

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How to create a form that can take the amount the client owes and then process it through Stripe?

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Can the form from within a portal use Stripe so they don’t need to re-enter their email address?

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How to set up a Stripe payment form with a pre-defined product and quantity?

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How to support multiple items at Stripe Checkout with the order's total amount?

It works for purchasing a single item, but I need a checkout form with an add-to-cart option.
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Product quantity is not filled in Stripe Checkout page, why?

All other info is properly displaying on Stripe.
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We are getting an error log on Stripe “no payment method selected” after people get redirected to the payment page.

Stripe Payment in miniExtensions Form
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Does Stripe integration support recurring payments?

Does it support monthly subscriptions?
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Does Stripe integration store cc info for easier payment in the future?

The credit card information is only stored in Stripe.
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Error "The value provided for quantity is not valid. Quantity must be a number without any text."

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I'm getting an error that the email field is invalid before loading the Stripe Checkout page.

Unknown error code: email_invalid.
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Calendly Integration

How do you use the form to work with Calendly?

I can't find the calendar integration on the form. Is a specific field necessary to be included for that setting to show?
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Form Header

How to add a header to my form?

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What is the optimal size for the Form Header Cover Image?

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What's the logo size in the form header?

I uploaded my logo but it appears different
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Advanced Features

How to hide/display the delete button conditionally?

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How to embed an editable form with dynamic record ID?

Can the form auto-magically detect my website users?
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How to customize the message shown when a form is disabled?

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How to mask the field's input as a password?

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How to set characters limit on field's input?

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Troubleshooting

How to change the form button?

I need to customize the label and the color of the submit/save button.
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How to set a field as required?

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How does the option "Allow users to edit this field" works?

I had turned off editing for a field and now it will not let me add/select data.
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Can I change font family and size?

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How to add a consent checkbox in the form?

Users who have not clicked on the checkbox should not be able to submit the form.
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Can I use CSS to have additional styling?

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How to add an image on the form?

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The linked records field is only showing the first 100 records in the dropdown?

Some records are missing even though they exist in Airtable.
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Conditionally hidden fields are not being updated?

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Error: "Record ID does not exist in this table"

I'm getting this error when I try to submit the form "Record ID belongs to table X, but the field links to table Y.
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Can I create a multi-step form? Or group questions together under sections?

Multi-page survey (like Google Docs) instead of a long single-page form.
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I'm auto-filling the date/time field, but it is not matching my local time?

The time field is behind the actual time.
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I can't see attachments in my form.

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Section header title is not displayed.

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Can some conditions be "and" and some "or" in one field?

When I change the and/or condition, it changes all of them.
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How to add a section divider in the form?

Which field types support the section header feature?
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I'm trying to set conditional fields based on the value of a Linked Record and a Single select field and Field name match does not seem to work.

Error "Unable to parse value. Make sure that the value is valid for this field."
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Can I set some fields to not be editable after the first submission, but still visible in the "update" form?

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Error: “You should provide a valid api key to perform this operation”.

I’m getting an error. How can I fix this?
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Why does my date field have different formatting than on Airtable?

e.g. In Airtable, it is “European” but in the miniExtensions form, it is MM-DD-YYYY.
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Do you have any solution for an Address field?

My users input wrong syntax because it is long text. I would love to auto-populate the address which shows address as you type it
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The email validation warning shows up on the field, but the form is still able to be submitted with any value.

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