Hey @pascalm I'd recommend you save each filter as it's own view. That way you can quickly refer back to it when you need it, without having to mess around with the filter conditions each time you want to review your data.
Like this. Unfiltered Data:

Filtered Data View:

Hey @pascalm I'd recommend you save each filter as it's own view. That way you can quickly refer back to it when you need it, without having to mess around with the filter conditions each time you want to review your data.
Like this. Unfiltered Data:

Filtered Data View:

Thanks for the response @Arthur_Tutt but I'm using Interfaces.
And, I actually do want to update all the filter conditions each time, I have too many fields that I may want to filter but at a particular time that it's not viable to create a view for each one of them.
This topic appears to be a year old. But as far as I can tell, the OP’s question was not answered satisfactorily.
I too would like to be able to create an interface page (say, a list or a grid) and have somewhere on the same page — above the list or grid, perhaps — a filter widget that is identical to the one that is used in “classic Airtable” in views; that is, a filter widget that lets the user (a) select from a list the fields on which he/she wants to filter the data and (b) create as many AND/OR filters as required to do the job.
Right now it appears that I must do one of the following:
- I can create a complicated filtering object on my interface page that specifically provides an instance of each and every field that I’m going to allow users to filter on. Multiple problems with this. First, if I make an attempt to provide MOST of the fields the user might want to filter on, this interface object will take up a lot of screen real estate. And in any case, it doesn’t allow for possibility that user will want to do something I didn’t think of. Finally, as far as I can tell, there’s no way here to create multiple filter requests, like “STATE = ‘Texas’” and “YEAR ≠ 2025” or something like that.
- Create specific user interface pages tied to specific types of filters. Problem with this is, it creates the same problem that we have in classic Airtable: proliferation of pages.
- OR allow users to go into classic Airtable, create their own private views, and filter however they want. Which kind of misses the point of interfaces, I think.
Is this really not possible? I’d be delighted to discover that I’ve missed the solution to this. I have tried to find it more than once. Thanks in advance y’all.
The complicated filtering menu is already a part of most interface pages.
If you’re not seeing this feature, then you might be using a legacy interface page (or you might be using the blank interface page).
You'll need to create a brand new interface page from scratch to get this feature. You can’t duplicate an existing interface page. (Also, you can’t use the blank interface page.)
If you’re not seeing it on a new interface page (such as a new list/grid/calendar/kanban interface page), then you need to enable the filtering menu.
To enable the filtering menu, you’ll need to be aware that there are 2 completely different gigantic boxes that you can click on while you’re in Edit mode.
While in Edit mode, there is an “inner box” that surrounds your entire list, but there is an “outer box” that surrounds the entire page.
You’ll need to click on the “outer box” in order to enable the filtering option.
Hope this helps!
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The complicated filtering menu is already a part of most interface pages.
If you’re not seeing this feature, then you might be using a legacy interface page (or you might be using the blank interface page).
Brilliant, Scott. This is exactly what I was missing. THANK YOU.
Had this always been there? Or was this added in the last 12-24 months while I’ve been paying attention to SmartSuite rather than Airtable?
I’m not sure when this happened — probably late 2023 or early 2024.
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