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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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Add a Calendar to your no-code app with Softr

Are you sharing calendar data in your Softr web-app? Until recently, we didn't have a way to do this on an actual calendar, meaning we had to list dates and sort them chronologically. Needless to say, it wasn't very easy to display the information in a way that was easy to work with...

Until...

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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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Softr vs. Stacker - comparing these two front-end options - updated for 2022

Are you looking to create a unique front-end for your Airtable data?

Interfaces are a critical element for most no-code solutions that we build. Airtable helps us store the data and organize it in an optimal way. Automations then allow us to build a streamlined workflow that saves time. Then we...

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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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