You have an equipment request form with a question asking what type of workstation someone needs.
They can choose:
- Office Desk
- Field Kit
- Remote Setup
If they choose Field Kit or Remote Setup, you also need to ask about their power supply.
But someone choosing Office Desk doesn't need to see that question.
Instead of showing it to everyone, you can use Airtable's conditional visibility to only show the Power Supply field when it's relevant.
Add the fields to your form
Open your form from the Forms section of your Airtable base.
For this example, we have two fields:
Workstation Type
A single select with:
- Office Desk
- Field Kit
- Remote Setup
Power Supply
Another field asking what type of power supply they need.
The Power Supply field is the one we're going to show conditionally.
Add a visibility condition
Click the Power Supply field in the form builder.
In the panel on the right, find:
Rules → Visibility
Add conditions so the field appears when:
Workstation Type is Field Kit
OR
Workstation Type is Remote Setup
Now preview the form.
If someone selects Office Desk, they won't see the Power Supply question.
If they select Field Kit or Remote Setup, the question appears automatically.
You can use multiple conditions
You aren't limited to one condition.
Airtable lets you combine conditions and conditional groups to control when a field appears.
For example, you could show a field when:
Workstation Type is Remote Setup
AND
Country is United States
This gives you more control over which questions different people see.
Conditional fields are available on all Airtable plans.
Show or hide groups of fields
If several questions should appear together, you can put them into a form group and apply conditional visibility to the entire group.
For example:
Workstation Type = Field Kit
could reveal a group containing:
- Power Supply
- Battery Requirements
- Equipment Location
- Connectivity
Instead of adding the same visibility condition to every field, you can control the whole group.
Conditional groups are currently available on Business and Enterprise Scale plans.
If you're on Free or Team, you can still apply visibility conditions to the individual fields.
Airtable forms are still single-page
Conditional visibility is useful for hiding questions that aren't relevant, but Airtable's native forms don't support true multi-page branching.
You can't have:
Choose Field Kit → Go to Page 2A
and:
Choose Office Desk → Go to Page 2B
Everything still belongs to one form, with Airtable showing and hiding fields or groups based on the respondent's answers.
If you need different pages and branching paths, Fillout is a better option.
Fillout supports multi-page forms and lets you route respondents through different pages based on their answers.
If you only need to show or hide a few questions, though, Airtable's native conditional visibility is usually enough.