Airtable bases overview
  • 01 Mar 2024
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Article Summary

Plan availability

All plan types

Platform(s)

Web/Browser, Mac app, and Windows app 

Related reading

Airtable terminology

  • Base - a collection of data in Airtable, designed to contain all of the information a user needs for a project or workflow. Bases can have multiple tables, each containing data; within each table, there are records, with data for each record stored in fields. 

  • Base collaborator - has access (at a specified permission level) to a specific base without necessarily having access to other bases within the same workspace. Base collaborators have access to all interfaces associated with their specific base.

Creating bases in Airtable

 Airtable bases can have multiple tables, each containing data; within each table, there are records, with data for each record stored in fields.

Creating bases

  1. Visit your Airtable homepage

  2. Click + Create a base

  3. Select your preferred workspace. 

  4. Once your base opens, you can choose from Grid, Form, Calendar, Kanban, Timeline, List, Gantt, and New Section options.

NOTE

Keep in mind that Timeline, Gantt, and New section options are only eligible on Team, Business, and Enterprise Scale plans.

Using templates, importing, duplicating, and restoring bases in Airtable

Using templates, importing, duplicating, and restoring bases

Removing yourself from shared Airtable bases

Removing yourself from shared bases

  1. Visit your Airtable homepage

  2. Open the shared base you want to remove yourself from.

  3. Click the “Share” button in the top right corner, then Manage access.

  4. Select the checkbox next to your name.

  5. Click Remove 1 collaborator.

Customizing a base’s appearance

Customizing base appearance

You can customize the appearance of your base by changing its color and icon. On paid Airtable plans, you’ll have access to more appearance options. You can change the color and icon of your base from the homepage or from within the base:

  • From the homepage: Hover over the base you want to modify and click the  icon. Then, click Customize appearance from the menu that appears.

  • From an open base: You can also change your base's color and icon from inside the base by clicking the dropdown arrow next to the title of the base. Next, click the “Appearance” tab to view and change the base color and/or icon.

If you're finding that you want more choices for icons beyond what's available in the icons section, you can also set an emoji as the base icon:

  1. Select the first available icon in the picker (the one that takes the first two characters of the base title),

  2. Then rename the base by putting an emoji of your choice at the beginning of the base's title.

    1. If you have Windows 10, you can bring up an emoji picker by typing Windows .or Windows;.

    2. If you have a Mac, you can bring up an emoji picker by typing Ctrl Ctrl Space.

    3. Alternatively, you can also copy and paste your favorite emoji from Emojipedia.


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