It would be really nice to have the chance of instead of launching a form to add a line in a table so the user can add lines to a table, for example in an orders app, invoices app, ... just clicking on a button.
Of course it´s necessary to also the table lines to be editable but not as the way it works now but as a normal table that you can have in an Excel spreadsheet for example.
The challenge with comprehensive inline editing like that has always been the complex fields (like names, address, file uploads, etc.). There's not always the real estate to easily represent those in a tiny table cell. It is something we're thinking about more and we would certainly like to see this achieved in a highly useable form one day.
This feature suggestion definitely makes sense and we have it recorded.
In the meantime, you could set this up by creating an add form, then removing all the input fields and then finally setting at least one value in the record rules when the form submits.
It would be nice. But adding a record "in line" should ideally have the same features of a form: record rules, filtered multi-select lists, and so on. Lack of these features is currently a drawback of inline editing.
Omar ~ can you share how you are using Zapier to allow for adding an empty row at the bottom of the table for data entry? This is a standard feature of most database systems and would a huge problem solver for me.
If you were able to setup a trigger to automatically delete records, then you could make use of a temp table and setup rules to add an empty record, then delete the data in the temp table when finished or at the end of the day.