Set Up a New Airtable Base with a Feedback Table
Learn how to create a new Airtable base with a table ready to use in your apps through the API.
at Airtable.com, create a new base project. Once you've created the project you can name it and customize its appearance to differentiate it from your other bases.
Then, you need to name your table. This is important since you will be working through the API and need to be able to differentiate your tables from one another. Finally, name columns and set their types to whatever you need for your app.
Instructor: [0:01] First, head over to airtable.com and add a base project. You can name this base project form-submissions. You can also add the color for the appearance or use icons to differentiate your different projects. You can rename the table. In this case, we want our table to be unique, so we'll call it feedback-table.
[0:36] You want to take note of the table name because you're going to use it to populate a particular table. Different tables can have different names, so the API would know what table you are pointing towards. To get more information about using this table and populating it, we'll head over to airtable.com/api. Here, you can access all the information you need to send and receive inputs from your Airtable.
[1:05] You can see that the two Airtables can have the same name but are identified separately by the base ID. Table name and API key are used to identify POST and GET data from your Airtable. You can share API key by clicking Show API Key.
[1:26] To set up a new table, our form will require custom fields. The first field we want to set is the first-name. You can set the type of field. In this case, we want it to be a single-line text. We'll also go for that to set up the last-name to be a single-line text, the email to be of type email, because these are the parameters we already have in our form.
[2:02] We can go ahead and set other parameters, like the phone-number, the subject-tag, and the message-tag. This information will be populated by our form.