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I’m building a table in Airtable as part of an internal tool for my company to track client project statuses.

We’d like users to be able to:

  • Change the order of the columns in the Interface Designer

  • Set sticky filters that persist across sessions

We’re aware this is possible in Personal Views, but we haven’t found any documentation or settings that allow these behaviors directly in the Interface Designer.

Is there a way to enable persistent column order and sticky filters for users within an Interface? Or is the only option to instruct users to use Personal Views outside of the Interface?

Thanks for any guidance or workarounds.

Unfortunately, you won’t be able to get that functionality in interfaces.

Users do not have the ability to change the column order in interfaces. Only you (as the creator) can change the column order… which will affect all the users.

For filters, you (as the creator) can set multiple “default filters” for your users, and you also have the option to display those default filters as dropdown menus or tabs. 

But the user’s filters will not be remembered across sessions.

Hope this helps!

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Unfortunately, you won’t be able to get that functionality in interfaces.

Users do not have the ability to change the column order in interfaces. Only you (as the creator) can change the column order… which will affect all the users.

For filters, you (as the creator) can set multiple “default filters” for your users, and you also have the option to display those default filters as dropdown menus or tabs. 

But the user’s filters will not be remembered across sessions.

Hope this helps!

If you have a budget and you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything else that is Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

Thanks for your response. That’s what I had figured but just wanted to confirm to make sure I wasn’t missing anything.

Hey ​@bmartin,

You might want to fill out this Product Ideas/Feature Request form. I’d love end users to be able to re-order fields on interfaces. 

 Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation

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