Choice component can now be used with Airtable link columns. You will be able to choose from records in the linked table: [CleanShot 2022-07-05 at 12.19.32@2x] For now this is for Glide Pages only.

Yeah, can’t write to them, thus can’t create new relations, just new rows.

@jacobgorthy I think you want to pass the existing Job record as a value in the form. @Mark can we enable link columns as form values?

I think we just need the ability to write to link fields…not sure how that’s going to work though because Glide interprets them as relations.

Just need to be able to write to a linked record column in Airtable via a form. That will let me link new records that are being created by the logged in user. Which is pretty much the main feature of any serious airtable base, linking records from multiple tables together. Please let me know if yo…

This is exactly my problem. It is disappointing. Hope the integration will be done soon.

@Tgattlen Have you seen this? Not sure if it solves your problem (I don’t use airtable), but it appears there is an update. [image] tada Airtable Linked records now supported in options component Airtable linked records are now supported using options menu!!! Congrats …

Not seen, I will have a look. Thanks for sharing T.

[image] david: Choice component can now be used with Airtable link columns. You will be able to choose from records in the linked table: First, thank you @david for listening to the community and working on this!! We are close to the finish line, so let’s get the last few meters done togethe…

[image] laszlo: its value is (mostly) the ID of a row of another table. This is the behavior of a regular database and also how Airtable is handling its “Linked Record”. Not ever having used Airtable, I will say that Glide relations are not fields. If a linked record is a field, then to Glid…

[image] Robert_Petitto: Glide interprets them as relations Yes, I responded in another spot that perhaps Glide should just treat them as normal columns and then auto-add a corresponding relation column (rel-SameName) so the developer can choose which column is used in which scenario.

🆕 Choice component now works with Airtable link columns

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@Tgattlen Have you seen this? Not sure if it solves your problem (I don’t use airtable), but it appears there is an update.

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