How to create an Airtable form
Use a Fillout form to create or update your Airtable tables. Embed your forms or share them anywhere.
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.
Video tutorial
Check out this tutorial on using Fillout to create or update an Airtable base.
How it works
1. 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.
2. Connect your database to your form
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.
3. 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
4. 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.
Specify a condition
You can run your integration only when a specific condition is met. Check out this guide.
Airtable specific guides
