Help

Get visible fields in a specific view

Topic Labels: Scripting extentions
Solved
Jump to Solution
1879 2
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
Carmel94
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

Is it possible to get visible fields for a chosen table and view? I checked the Airtable scripting documentation and I cannot find the property to check if a field is visible for that view

1 Solution

Accepted Solutions
JonathanBowen
13 - Mars
13 - Mars

Hi @Carmel94 - you can get information about the fields in a table, but not from a view. The fields from the table will be all fields.


for (let field of base.getTable("Table").fields) {
    output.text(`Field "${field.name}" (${field.type}) options:`);
    output.inspect(field.options);
}

=======================

Want to learn Airtable Scripting? 1 day bootcamp coming soon!

=======================

See Solution in Thread

2 Replies 2
JonathanBowen
13 - Mars
13 - Mars

Hi @Carmel94 - you can get information about the fields in a table, but not from a view. The fields from the table will be all fields.


for (let field of base.getTable("Table").fields) {
    output.text(`Field "${field.name}" (${field.type}) options:`);
    output.inspect(field.options);
}

=======================

Want to learn Airtable Scripting? 1 day bootcamp coming soon!

=======================

Check out the Airtable API documentation, you should be able to improvise a fetch request that will retrieve the data you need. Filtering views is a typical use case for the API. As to why this kind of behavior isn’t more readily available from within the Scripting app, :man_shrugging: