Airtable field manager overview

What is the Airtable field manager?

The Airtable field manager gives users control over permissions and settings for features like schema fields and field configurations.

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.

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.

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.”