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Dropdown Options Order Change

  • November 20, 2025
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Hi Airtable Community,

I have a single-select (dropdown) field in my Airtable base, and I need to reorder the options in the dropdown list.

Currently, the options appear in the order they were created, but I want to:

  • Change the order manually (e.g., move certain options to the top).

Questions:

  1. Is there a way to reorder dropdown options without deleting and recreating them?
  2. Can this be automated (e.g., via scripting or an integration)?
  3. Any best practices for managing dropdown option order in large bases?

Thanks for your help!

2 replies

Mike_AutomaticN
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Hey!! If you click on Edit field, you'll see all of your options listed. To the left of each of such options there a some dots. You can click, drag and drop to re-order!!!

TheTimeSavingCo
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Could you talk a bit about your business logic, how the options get added and how the reordering process would work?

Perhaps you could use a linked field instead of a select field?  The order in which the records appear will always match the first collaborative view in the linked table, and so you could create formula fields to sort by and that’d just work automatically

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Can this be automated (e.g., via scripting or an integration)?

Kind of, we can run a script extension (not an automation) for this, i.e. you would have to click a button to run it.  Here’s the docs: https://airtable.com/developers/scripting/api/field#update-name-async

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Any best practices for managing dropdown option order in large bases?

Hmm, not sure if it’s relevant but select fields can only have 10k options, and so if you think it’ll exceed that you’ll want to use a linked field instead

Adam, Airtable Consultant - thetimesaving.company
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