Single select field

1. Visit your Airtable homepage. 

2. Create or open your preferred base. 

3. Add or edit a field. 

4. Search for and select Single select.  

5. Click Add option and enter your preferred option name. 

   1. From here, you can optionally click on the ⌄ icon and update your select's color.

   2. You can also optionally toggle ON/OFF color-code options and alphabetic sorting.

   3. Lastly, you can also reorder the select options from within the field configuration menu by clicking and dragging on the reorder icons, which appear when you mouse over the left-hand side of each option.

6. Click Create field. 

Note

If you need to store additional information related to each select option, consider converting the single select field into a linked record field.

Yes, default values can be created for single select fields. You can also create default options for individual views and create a view that filters out all but one select option—new records created within that view will default their values to the filtering parameters.

Lastly, you can group a view by a single select field; any new record added to a grouping will inherit that grouping's single select value. 

While tracking those field changes isn't an option in Airtable, we encourage you to check out the Use automations to timestamp status updates article for workaround options.

Each table is limited to 500 fields, with a limit of 10,000 select options per select field.