Just chiming in that at my organization, we could definitely use this functionality!
You know what’s funny here? If you look in the “Chart” block and specify an X-axis field that’s a multi-select, you’ll see an option to “Split multiple values”. So clearly, Airtable knows the importance of this feature in visualizations – but not enough to implement it the Group mechanism for Grid views.
All we’re asking for, is an option to “Split multiple values” for each selected Group field – that’s it. It can be done; it’s already been implemented – it’s just a matter of Airtable surfacing this functionality better in Grid view.
You know what’s funny here? If you look in the “Chart” block and specify an X-axis field that’s a multi-select, you’ll see an option to “Split multiple values”. So clearly, Airtable knows the importance of this feature in visualizations – but not enough to implement it the Group mechanism for Grid views.
All we’re asking for, is an option to “Split multiple values” for each selected Group field – that’s it. It can be done; it’s already been implemented – it’s just a matter of Airtable surfacing this functionality better in Grid view.
Come on Airtable do it!
Agreed that this would be incredibly valuable for me as well. It’s unfeasible for us to look for a different tool or development team to build this view.
+1 on this; Notion already does this, I use it there all the time. Would love to see it in Airtable
Have been tracking this issue for years and realized I never chimed in.
I have at least a dozen scenarios for my clients where an option to Group By individual values would solve the scenario and the current behavior makes the Group By feature unusable for them.
Indeed, I think this is probably the more common scenario for end users than the current behavior.
I too would like this feature. And also the ability to define a group, but be able to toggle it off or on without resetting the group configuration.
Regarding the limitations Justin was mentioning a couple of years back, perhaps a solution may be to have a new View type specifically for viewing/managing grouped data, maybe a Group View?
Another user here, just validating the chorus above. When I create a view grouped by a multiple-select field, it gives items with more than one selection their own group, rather than appearing under each of the groups selected.
It defeats the whole purpose of multiple-select, since it’s treating every combination of selections as a unique, singular category.
Airtable, please change this.
Yep, still want this feature, am moving to Notion
This would be so simple with a checkbox to 'split multiple values'. Official response from airtable and the suggested workaround is poor — create views for every multiselect item — super tedious!
https://support.airtable.com/docs/multiple-select-field
I suggest visiting that support article and responding to the page with feedback about how poor this suggested workaround is and link to this post...

I agree that this feature would be a life-saver.