Single and Multiple Select Fields Management

Airtable doesn’t limit you to seeing only a few options. Airtable will show you up to 10 options at a time, as long as your screen’s resolution is tall enough.

If you can only see a few options and you have a lot of vertical space to spare, then maybe you have a browser extension installed that is interfering with Airtable.

However, if you have dozens of options, you may want to consider working with linked record fields, instead of single-select fields or multiple-select fields.

Then, you can view all of your options on their own interface page or on their own data view.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

Thanks! Do you think a linked record field would work well for cities, states, and countries? So that users don't enter incorrect spellings?

Absolutely. That’s exactly how you would want to handle cities, states, and countries.

You’d create a new table with a City field, a State field, and a Country field.

Then, from the main table, when the user selects a country, you may want to only show them the associated states. Then, when they choose the state, you may want to only show them the associated cities.

This is called dynamic linking. You can learn more about dynamic linking in linked record fields here.

You can also do it in reverse… if they choose a City, it automatically looks up the state and the country for them. You would do this using lookup fields.

If you want a deep dive into linked record fields and lookup fields, you can check out my free Airtable training course, which you can take for free by signing up for a free 30-day trial with LinkedIn Learning. The course is very outdated because it was created many years ago, but the core concepts of linked record fields and lookup fields are still relevant today.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

Adding to Scott’s reply, I’ve written an article on dynamically linking records, specifically for the case of countries and cities. Feel free to check it out as well.

Taha, AIrtable Advisor

Hey ​@Bookfort,

For sure not ideal. However, for a quick solution to your issue (whilst you build towards Scott’s solution) you might just want to zoom out on your browser which will allow you to show several more options (e.g. screenshot below has been taken at 50% zoom out).
 

 

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation

As a corollary question, is it possible to have a longer selection modal that shows more than 6 options when selecting from a Multiple Select menu ? ( Even when Zoomed way out )

 

Hey ​@John!

It does show more options on my side when I zoom out. Having said that, if you are looking to expand that modal unfortunately I don’t think that is possible.  

For sure you can submit that as a feature request using this form.

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation