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New Feature: Search for field names in Grid View

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SeanKeenan
Airtable Employee
Airtable Employee

Hello everybody! :tada:

I’m Sean, an engineer here at Airtable, and I’m excited to share a small (but hopefully mighty 🤞 ) change we made recently to grid view.

Have you ever had a lot of fields in a view, and had difficulty finding the field? Well now searching (with CMD-F / CTRL-F) will highlight fields as well as cells:
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Zooming into the exciting part:
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You might also notice that we added summary information at the bottom. The number of cells found (in case you relied on how many “matches” were found previously), as well as how many matching records and fields there are!

16 Comments
Jason_Hill
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

Very nice addition!! Thank you

Ben_Young1
11 - Venus
11 - Venus

Hey @SeanKeenan!

Gotta love the ole’ overnight deployment to prod.
Excited to take a look at this functionality. As always, we appreciate the work and refinement.

Be sure to send a Slack with kudos to your team and your PM for the lift on this one!

Karlstens
11 - Venus
11 - Venus

Cheers for this. My base users are very big on the search, and thanks to your efforts I’ll look extra swank when I demonstrate this feature to them next week.

Excellent work. :coffee:

Caspian_Almerud
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

Yesss! Thanks a bunch for this!

ScottWorld
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

Wow, this is a fantastic addition to the product! :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: :raised_hands:

Thanks so much for adding this, @SeanKeenan! :partying_face: :star2:

This will be extraordinarily helpful, and the addition of that summary bar information is absolutely incredible! :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: :sunny: :dark_sunglasses: :lotion_bottle: This will be really really helpful to let us know that even though a particular search term might have shown up 15 times on the grid view, that it was really only from 3 unique records.

Truly wonderful additions! :smiling_face: :stars: :sparkler:

Jean_Francois_B
7 - App Architect
7 - App Architect

Thank you, searching for a field’s location was really time consuming. :star_struck: :raised_hands: :clap:

Bill_French
17 - Neptune
17 - Neptune

Yes, since 2018.

I appreciate the new feature greatly, but Airtable should have considered a framework for building features like this instead of getting around to them one by one over a decade. There are easily 50 similar productivity-related things that could be built if your aftermarket developers simply had access to the internals you used to build this one very useful feature.

Build for the future by building features that let users help themselves. Had you done this, tens of thousands of users would have been searching for fields for the past 1700 days.

Hannah_Wiginton
10 - Mercury
10 - Mercury

Thanks @SeanKeenan! Looks great.

Databaser
12 - Earth
12 - Earth

Great addition, thanks!

kuovonne
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

Thank you for this info! Knowing the number of matching records in addition to the number of instances is really helpful.