Tab navigation in record detail pages

Yes, this is a fantastic new feature! Super excited about this one! 😀

There are also a few other ways of hiding fields on a record detail page to reduce clutter:

• Collapsible groups allows the user to collapse groups to reduce the on-screen clutter.
• Conditional groups allows you to conditionally show/hide certain groups — although the big downside here is that it requires paying for a Business Plan. (You could get this for free by using Fillout, which allows editing & viewing records with a form.)
• Sharing different interfaces with different clients, and each interface would have its own unique set of record detail pages. This is the most time-consuming method to setup & maintain over time, so this would only make sense if some clients had RADICALLY different needs than other clients.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

Yesssssssss!

​@ScottWorld let me also share what we’ve implemented for a specific client:

1. List page for list of projects
2. Allow expanding on the details of a given project.
3. Create multiple detail pages (remember you can clone an existing one and decide which one should open when you click on the record?)
4. For a given page (my list page) only one detail view can be really used….
5. HOWEVER: If you create multiple of them, you apply corresponding changes for each (e.g. one detailed page for General Info, one for Finanacial Info, and one for Other Info), you publish each as if you were to use it actually, you copy the url, create a dynamic button for such detailed view, you then change the selected detail page to be used, and repeat the process. You finally and for last set the one which should be used as default detailed page, show all buttons on such page…. you’ve basically created a navbar for multiple unpublished detailed pages!!!!!
6. I’m tiered of only wirting this, this was a massive headache to maintain, but super fun to have found such hacky workaround.

Limitation: Users without creator permissions are not able to access this pages - given that they (a) are not really publsihed, and (b) I don’t think Airtable ever expected this lol

Super dirty and fast explanation, but I hope that makes sense. Thought about posting about it several times, this is not needed anymore lol.

Completely different matter, but would love to have you join our Airtable Hackathon! Make sure to sign up!!

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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Oh wow, that’s another very cool idea, ​@Mike_AutomaticN!!

Great thinking there!! 😎🙌 

Thanks for sharing!!

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant