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This article provides an overview of views within Airtable - how to use the view switcher, search, and create new views.

This article is primarily focused on grid views—to learn more about our other view types, please see the articles for all of the view types. You may also want to read a related article on sharing or embedding a view on your website.

View basics

Views are specific to each individual table in your base; you can use views to show only specific fields or records, and apply other configurations to manage the information in that view. Each view can have its own unique configurations to hide, sort, and filter records within a table. 

Users on Airtable's Pro and Enterprise plans have access to two premium view features that allow for greater control over view configurations in a team context: locked views and personal views. 

Using the view sidebar

The view sidebar helps to navigate all of the views in a table. You can open the sidebar features in two ways: mouse over the view icon to open it as a fly-out, or click the view icon to keep the sidebar pinned open. 

Collapsing the "Create" view section

The "Create" section of the view sidebar is collapsible, freeing up screen real estate so you can easily access all of your views whenever you aren't actively creating new ones.

You can toggle the expansion of the view creation section by clicking on the word "Create..." in the view sidebar, as shown above.

Searching views

If your base has a lot of views, it may be helpful for you to use the view search bar. When you click on dropdown arrow for the view switcher, you can enter a search term where it says "Find a view" to find the view you're looking for. We will return both exact and fuzzy view matches for entered search terms.

Creating new views

To create a new view, start by opening up the view switcher and going down to the section labelled "Create...", then clicking on the option for the type of view you'd like to create. If your view creation section is collapsed, you will need to expand it.

With the view creation section open, you can hover over each of the view options for a brief explanation of that view type.  Below we created a new grid view for keeping track of our projects with images. 

Once you've created your new view you can name it, show/hide fields on it, filter out records, and order the records manually or by sorting them.

The attributes of a grid view that can be saved for that individual view include:

• Which records (rows) have been filtered
• Which fields (columns) are hidden or shown
• The sorting/order of the records (rows) and fields (columns)
• The width of each field
• The number of frozen fields fixed on the left side of the table
• The row height of each record

Duplicating views

Duplicating views can help you make small adjustments to other views that already exist without having to rebuild all of the filtering conditions, groups, hidden fields, etc.

In the example below, we want to create a new view that will only show our Tasks that have been completed. Just click on the dropdown menu next to a view in the sidebar and choose "Duplicate view."

You can also duplicate a view by clicking on the three-dot icon next to a view's name.

Favoriting a view

Pro and Enterprise workspace users can star, or favorite, their most frequently used views to add them to an easily accessible “My favorites” section at the top of the view sidebar. Read more about favoriting views in this support article.