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How to Prefill and Hide Form Fields in Airtable

Airtable forms have allowed for fields to be prefilled for years, but that function has been limited. The most notable limitation is that (until recently) we couldn't HIDE fields on a form that were prefilled. This meant that if we wanted to prefill infomation for someone that we didn't want...

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How to Prefill Forms in Airtable

Prefilling forms is a common thing in Airtable. Maybe you have some of the info and want to save people time by prefilling it. Or, maybe you want your customers to confirm their info on file and rather than have them fill it out from scratch, you prefill it with the most recent data you have....

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Why FIELD TYPES make a smarter database

I've consulted on numerous Airtable databases and explored countless examples built by clients. As you might expect, I see a lot of errors... (I mean, there's a reason our clients are looking for help, right?) Many errors are quite complicated to fix, but in this post I want to...

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Airtable Interfaces: streamline your workflow

Databases often contain a LOT of information. Ideally, we store as much data as we can all in one database so that we can keep everything in one source of truth. This is perfect from a data storage perspective, but who wants to click through multiple tables to get their work done? When we are...

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Airtable Project Management - Automate Tasks for Projects

Airtable is my favorite tool for project management due to its flexibility. One of the areas that it really shines is within the automation of tasks.

Typically, every project has a series of tasks that relate to it. We tend to create the same tasks for ourselves every time we take on another...

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Airtable Apps: A tutorial for newbies

Airtable Apps are where the fun is! Apps allow you to add custom features and functions to your unique base. With Airtable, when you're looking to unlock that little something extra, you can bet there's an app for that...

But getting started with Apps can seem a bit overwhelming - there's a huge...

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