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title: "Airtable field manager overview"
slug: "field-manager-and-field-dependencies"
updated: 2026-03-19T18:33:43Z
published: 2026-03-19T18:33:43Z
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# Airtable field manager overview

| **Plan availability** | All paid plans |
| --- | --- |
| **Permissions** | Owners/Creators |
| **Platform(s)** | Web/Browser, Mac app, and Windows app |

## What is the Airtable field manager?

The Airtable field manager gives users control over permissions and settings for features like [schema fields](/docs/base-schema-extension) and [field configurations](/docs/customizing-the-field-type).

## What can I used the Airtable field manger to do?

- Delete fields in bulk
- Update field permissions
- Review a list of fields connected to a table
- Locate relevant fields to update through filtering and sorting by different criteria
- Identify if a calculated field is broken
- Identify which objects are dependent on a specific field before making changes to or deleting a field
- Identify who created or last modified a specific field

## Opening the Airtable field manager

To open the field manager:

1. Open your [Airtable home screen](https://airtable.com/).
2. Open the base and click the arrow icon to the right of the table name where you want to access the field manager.
3. Click **Manage fields.**
  - From here, you can quickly search for or filter individual fields, using the “Find a field,”” Permissions,” or " Dependencies " filtering tools.

## Filtering fields using the Airtable field dependencies

To filter fields using the Airtable field dependencies:

1. Open your [Airtable home screen](https://airtable.com/).
2. Open the base and click the arrow icon to the right of the table name where you want to access the field manager.
3. Click **Manage fields.**
4. Click**Dependencies**.
  - From here, you can filter by selecting “All,” “Automations,” “Configurations,” “Fields,” “Interfaces,” Syncs,” or “Views.”