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What is Airtable

Airtable is a cloud-based collaborative database and project management platform that combines the simplicity of a spreadsheet with the power of a database.

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Video tutorial

Check out this tutorial on using Fillout to create or update an Airtable base.

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How it works

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Create your database in Airtable

Note: If you already have your base created in Airtable, you can skip this step.

Log in to Airtable, and click Add a base.

Give your base a name, and create the fields you need. You’ll need one field for every question in your form (eg. Single line text for a short answer, Single select for radio buttons, Multi-select, etc).

If you are using the Select and Multi-select properties, make sure to type in the options you’d like people to choose from.

Once you’ve added a field (and options, when needed) for every response field in your form, 90% of your work is now done.

Nice work! Now you’re ready to sync it easily with a new or existing Fillout form.

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Connect your database to your form

In your Fillout dashboard, click + Make a Fillout followed by Connect and choose Airtable.

Select your theme (don’t worry, you can always change this later). Then, enter your Account name and Connect to Airtable.

Note: After connecting, you can switch to use personal access tokens, as well, on the dashboard integrations tab.

After making the selections, click + Create form.

Troubleshooting: Don’t see your table in the dropdown list? Check you have connected to the correct base, and try refreshing the page or hitting the refresh icon.

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Map your questions

Fillout pulls questions and answer options from your Airtable base. Your Airtable fields now appear in the left sidebar. Simply drag & drop to build your form.

To connect a new question to your Airtable database, or check an existing connection, go to the dropdown menu inside Connected > Column to connect to in the right sidebar.

Tip: If you make changes in your Airtable base that you want to reflect in your Fillout form, hit the Refresh icon  , or refresh the Fillout page

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Publish & Share

Once you’ve finished creating your form, you’re ready to go! Simply Publish and share. Form responses will now automatically populate inside your Airtable database.

Good to know: Fillout has many powerful features like branching and conditional hide/appear logic. No matter how complex your needs are, there’s a way to build it in Fillout.

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Specify a condition

You can run your integration only when a specific condition is met. Check out this guide.

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Airtable specific guides

Update existing Airtable records

Edit existing records from Airtable and pre-fill fields.

Create new linked Airtable records

Let users create new records from your form’s record picker.

Prevent duplicate submissions

Stop duplicate entries from being saved to your Airtable bases.