Hi @bjgreenberg Happy Monday! Welcome to the community! You can actually create the Typeform right within Airtable, which would automatically copy the questions and their possible answers into a Typeform for you by following the steps here. I think this should solve your dropdown issue, but let me know if this doesn’t work!
Holy cow! I had no idea. I will look into this. Thank you @Liz This just might solve a lot of problems I’ve been having.
Hahah also my reaction when I remembered we had this feature within Airtable, too, @bjgreenberg ! Let me know if you have any troubles setting that up!
Thanks again, @Liz
That process is a great shortcut for getting a form going. One thing I’m having issues with is that it won’t let me use ‘link to another record’ as a field type. It’s not supported in this process. Instead I need to use a ‘single select’ field type. But I have 50 options. Do you know of a way to paste all the options into separate lines for single select? Right now, when I paste, it pastes all 50 options into a single line and not separate options. This would require me to type them all out for every drop down question I have.
BTW... I answered my own question. Here’s how I figured out how to add a ton of options to a single/multiple select field in AirTable:
- First, this assumes you don’t have any data in your table you care about.
- Go into the grid view of your table and change the field type to single line text.
- Copy the line separated options you want to ultimately be available as single/multiple select options from wherever you might already have them (Excel, text file, etc.)
- Paste the options in the first row of the field you want them to be in. This should have all the rows expand down to fill for each option.
- Change the field type to single or multiple select and it will ask you if you’d like to use the present values in the table as your options.
- Done.
Hi @bjgreenberg Ah, glad you were able to figure it out, and thanks for sharing! Super helpful!