User field type

1. Visit your Airtable homepage.

2. Create or open your preferred base.

3. Add or edit a field.

4. Search for and select User.

   1. From here, you can toggle the "Allow adding multiple users" button ON/OFF to permit or remove adding multiple users per record.

   2. Additionally, you can toggle the "Notify users with base access when they're added" button ON/OFF to ensure anyone added to a record is made aware they're included.

NOTE

Unless users have turned off their email notifications or their email address is unconfirmed, they will receive an email at the email address associated with their Airtable account.

1. Visit your Airtable homepage.

2. Open your preferred base.

3. Click the + icon in the record you want to update.

4. Search for and select your preferred user(s).

   1. Click the ⌄ icon under the “Permissions” section and select your preferred user role.

5. Click Invite to base.

NOTE

Alternatively, click the + icon, then Invite a new user, enter your preferred user’s email address, and click Send invite and add to record.

NOTE

After adding users to a record, they automatically start watching the record and its associated comments—meaning they are notified when someone comments.

Only one notification email is sent if you assign multiple records to a user with a bulk operation like the fill handle.

NOTE

When converting an existing field into a user field, individual records are matched with a current user or cleared. If the field matches a single user's first name, full name, or email, it is converted to that user. If the content of a cell doesn't match a single user or it's ambiguous (e.g., two collaborators with the same first name), the record is cleared.

1. Visit your Airtable homepage.

2. Open your preferred base.

3. Locate the field you want to covert and click the ⌄ icon next to the field’s name.

4. Click Edit field.

5. Click the existing field type, then search for and select User.

   1. From here, you can toggle the "Allow adding multiple users" button ON/OFF to permit or remove adding multiple users per record.

   2. Additionally, you can toggle the "Notify users with base access when they're added" button ON/OFF to ensure anyone added to a record is made aware they're included.

6. Click Save, then Confirm change.

You can count the number of users in a field by adding a formula field using the formula below:

IF({field_name},LEN({field_name})-LEN(SUBSTITUTE({field_name},",",""))+1) 

NOTE

Be sure to replace "field name" with the name of your user field.

Users who are selectable in a user field already have some kind of permission in the workspace where your base/interface resides. Users will need workspace, base, or interface access to appear in the dropdown. By adding a user token to a user field it will not change their current permission level.

To learn more about permissions as they relate to billing, please consult this article.

Collaborators added to user fields are not automatically notified when a record is created through a form submission.  Notifications are triggered by direct actions within the base, interface, or through specific automation setups.

Although there isn't a form setting to enable collaborator notifications, you can set up an automation to send notifications when a record is created via a form.