

These sections will appear in your side bar with a drop-down arrow and once you click on it, you’ll be able to see the different views created, belonging to this section.


You can create sections by teams of course, but also by semesters, by campaigns … really everything you want, it is made for each team to find the right fit. This is where our second Airtable hack comes in handy : create different sections to organize your views and your side bar! Now if a lot of people in your team are using the system of personalized views, and everyone is creating views, even if you’re using “my favorites” and mastering views permissions & collaborative views, you might end up with a long list of views on you sidebar and it can be tricky to find the one you wanted in the first place. If everybody can create or edit different views of the same table it can be hard to keep you data clean and organized, this is why our first Airtable tips is all about organization.įirst of all, if you are the one creating the table and want to keep a clean view visible for your teams, you can lock a view.įor that just click on your view (for example Grid view) then go to Awesome right? And I know what you’re thinking, “it will get so messy”. You can just create a big centralized data table with several layers of informations gathering the activity of your company, and then create different views for different persons involved in the same project. This is really useful because, used right it will considerably decrease the number of tables you have. But here is the thing, in Airtable you can do it all from the same sheet and same table, in collaboration with your team, and Airtable will keep the views you’ve created in the sidebar, so that you can have access to them next time and look at your data in different ways.
Now you might think it is the same in excel/ Google Sheet because you can create filters and different sheets or tables with different views. One of the coolest things in Airtable is that we can look at the same data from different views. Our team have tested 12 Airtable hacks and selected for you the ones we’ve found the most relevant, to give you a top 5 of Airtable tips that will change life! 1/ Personalized & Locked views As it is a tool loved by our users and really useful for personalized images, the Abyssale team research a lot on Airtable best practices.
