View Basics

What is an Airtable view? Views are specific to each individual table in your base. You can use views to show only specific fields or records by applying configurations to manage the information in that view. Each view can have its own unique c...

Accessing the view share menu The view share menu allows users to configure multiple settings that allow information held in that view to be shared in and outside of Airtable. Learn more about the options that the view share menu contains in th...

Creating a grid view The grid view is the default view created whenever you create a new table in Airtable. Every table must contain at least one grid view. This view type most closely mimics a traditional spreadsheet experience, but there's mo...

Sorting Airtable views While in a view , you can sort your records so that they appear in a particular order according to the values in specific fields. Sorting your records in one view doesn't affect the order of records in other views—it just ...

Embedding Airtable views You can embed a specific view of a table within a base instead of sharing the entire base. The viewer(s) of the embedded cannot see any hidden records. Suppose you update cell values, add records or fields, or upda...

Understanding and using shared view URL filters After creating a share for your view you can add filtering conditions in the URL that will determine which to records will be revealed when the view is loaded on a browser. For example, the URL ...

Summary bar overview Learn about the summary bar, an Airtable base metadata feature that provides different types of summarizations of all the cell values in a given field. Note The summary bar is a great tool that can be used to quickly und...

Airtable views at a glance   In Airtable, a view is a particular way to look at and organize the underlying data in a table. The default type of view is a grid, but other types include form, calendar, gallery, and kanban. A given table can h...