Toggle fields on interface page between view and edit using a button (script)

Interesting. That would be useful -maybe no need for a script, but just Airtable native feature.
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Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation

You can’t toggle between view and edit, but you can conditionally show & hide groups of fields if you are on a Business Plan or Enterprise Plan.

So, if you are on a Business Plan or Enterprise Plan, you can conditionally show one group of fields that you have set to edit, and then upon clicking a button which updates a field, you can conditionally show another group of fields that are view-only.

If you’re only on the Free Plan or the Teams Plan, the only way to toggle between viewing and editing would be create 2 completely different interface pages — one that has all view-only fields, and one that has all editable fields.

Then, you can have a button take the user back & forth between the 2 different pages. You can also filter out records that shouldn’t be editable from the editable screen.

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Hi thanks ​@ScottWorld that is the approach I have taken so far. However it is a bit cumbersome when you have a large number of fields ,

Remember that you can group fields together, so you can conditionally show or hide the entire group. You don’t need to do it field-by-field.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

yes have done that also. Hopefully someone more capable than me can create a script.

Scripting can not solve this issue, but you can always look at external portal tools that natively offer the view/edit toggle functionality.

The most popular portals that are currently available for Airtable are: Noloco, JetAdmin, Softr, Pory, and Glide.

I gave a one-hour webinar on Noloco called Building a Client Portal on Noloco powered by Airtable.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

Hmm, Airtable has functionality that lets us toggle the entire page for Record Review and Sidesheet type Interfaces like so:

Are you using a Blank Interface or something?  If so you could use a Tampermonkey script for this?  It’d be installed locally and would only work on your browser though, and would also break if Airtable updated their Interface editor code.  Here’s a gif of something I threw together!