# Add multiple rows based on a form entry
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-multiple-rows-based-on-a-form-entry/60814
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**Created:** [April 21, 2023, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-multiple-rows-based-on-a-form-entry/60814 "2023-04-21T23:32:57Z")
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### Author:  [@Matty\_Fenny](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Matty_Fenny)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2023, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-multiple-rows-based-on-a-form-entry/60814/1 "2023-04-21T23:32:57Z")
Hi,
My app is a field engineer jobsheet app whereby I create jobs for my engineers and they can fill out a jobsheet etc whilst carrying out work on vehicles in the field.
I have came into a situation where I may be getting a customer that has 75 vehicles that need doing.
How I create a job at the minute is:
- Press add Job
- Fill out the details in a form
- Submit.
This then creates a unique job number (Previous job number +1) and adds a row to my job tab. All works perfectly.
So what I am looking to do is set an amount of jobs for a customer. For example:
- Press add job
- Fill out form (including an ‘amount of vehicles’ entry)
- Submit
- Multiple rows added based on the entry of ‘amount of vehicles’, with their own extension of the job number… i.e
0001/1, 0001/2, 0001/3, 0001/4 and so on.
I hope that makes sense.
An alternative would be to create one job as usual, then when going into that job once created there is an option to duplicate. But again i would like a way to set an amount and it adds them for me with the /1, /2, /3 etc.
Thanks for reading.
Matt.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-multiple-rows-based-on-a-form-entry/60814/2 "2023-04-21T23:47:22Z")
When you don’t have a number of vehicles to add, would it be just “0001”?
Would you ever delete a vehicle from the list? What would happen when you delete, let’s say “0001/2”? I assume “0001/3” and “0001/4” stays put? And if you have the ability to add more to that it would be “0001/5”?
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### Author:  [@Matty\_Fenny](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Matty_Fenny)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-multiple-rows-based-on-a-form-entry/60814/3 "2023-04-21T23:58:39Z")
> [@ThinhDinh](#):
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> When you don’t have a number of vehicles to add, would it be just “0001”?
Yes so I have an automatic system that increments by 1 when adding a new job.
> [@ThinhDinh](#):
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> Would you ever delete a vehicle from the list? What would happen when you delete, let’s say “0001/2”? I assume “0001/3” and “0001/4” stays put? And if you have the ability to add more to that it would be “0001/5”?
Needing to remove a vehicle is a possibility, and yes the 0001/3 and 0001/4 will stay put.
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### Author:  [@Matty\_Fenny](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Matty_Fenny)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-multiple-rows-based-on-a-form-entry/60814/4 "2023-04-22T01:36:38Z")
Theres always the easy option of duplicating the rows and adding the /1 /2 /3 etc but there will be people booking jobs in that dont have access to that.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2023, 3:15am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-multiple-rows-based-on-a-form-entry/60814/5 "2023-04-22T03:15:58Z")
What are the maximum number of rows you might need to create?
If it’s (say) around 5 or less, then the simple solution would be to use an onSubmit action with multiple conditional branches.
- If jobs = 2, then one extra add row action.
- If jobs = 3, then two extra add row actions
- etc
But that won’t scale. A more scalable approach is to send a webhook to something like Make, and then have Make add the desired number of rows via the API.
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### Author:  [@Matty\_Fenny](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Matty_Fenny)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2023, 9:57am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-multiple-rows-based-on-a-form-entry/60814/6 "2023-04-22T09:57:27Z")
That’s the solution I was trying to avoid as the more jobs I need to add the more repetitive and massive the custom action will be.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2023, 10:06am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-multiple-rows-based-on-a-form-entry/60814/7 "2023-04-22T10:06:01Z")
Yes, as I mentioned that won’t scale very well.
So the better option is webhook → Make → API.
Do you have a Team Plan that provides API access?