- 06 Apr 2023
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Airtable field actions
- Updated on 06 Apr 2023
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The following article details a variety of actions users can take when using Airtable fields.
Introduction
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Adding and deleting fields
- Visit your Airtable homepage.
- Click Create a base or open an existing base.
- Once inside a base, click the + icon to the right of your desired table.
- Select a field type and click Create field.
- Visit your Airtable homepage.
- Open your desired base.
- Click the field header of the field you want to delete.
- Select Delete field.
Searching for fields
To help users navigate larger bases, Airtable offers the ability to search for individual fields by name.
- Visit your Airtable homepage.
- Open your desired base.
- Press Cmd F or Ctrl F, enter your desired text, and any related results will appear highlighted.
Hiding and unhiding fields
Hiding fields in Airtable allows users and collaborators to focus on the information that’s most important to their work. When a field is hidden, it is not deleted and none of the values in that field are affected—it's only hidden from the particular view being used.
- Visit your Airtable homepage.
- Open your desired base.
- Click Hide fields and toggle on any field(s) that you no longer want to appear visible.
- Visit your Airtable homepage.
- Open the base with hidden fields.
- Click Hide fields and toggle off any field(s) that you no longer want to appear hidden.
Freezing and unfreezing fields
When working within a grid view, you can freeze or lock a field to keep it continuously visible while scrolling through a table horizontally.
- Visit your Airtable homepage.
- Open your desired base.
- Hover over the dividing line next to your desired field.
- A blue bar appears with the indicator to Drag to adjust the number of frozen columns.
- Click, hold, drag this past the field(s) you want to freeze, and then release your mouse.
- Visit your Airtable homepage.
- Open your desired base.
- Hover over the dividing line next to the frozen field.
- A blue bar appears with the indicator to Drag to adjust the number of frozen columns.
- Click, hold, drag this past the field(s) you want to unfreeze, and then release your mouse.
FAQs
You can copy the configuration of hidden or visible fields from one view to another using the copy view configuration feature.
Yes, the primary field can be hidden, but grouping cannot be turned on to do so.
No more than three fields can be frozen in a single view.
While fields can't be permanently frozen, you can create a locked view to lock in a view's configuration options.