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Mar 17, 2023 07:54 PM
Hi, I would like to be able to give each of my planned 400 fields a Description that can be sorted alphanumerically (so I can sometimes view the fields in a specific order I want to see them in, which the Field Names themselves are not necessarily already in. Is there a way I can do this when importing a 400-column table template from Excel, or is the only way to add Descriptions one-by-one once I've got the columns all set up in Airtable?
Thanks!
Mar 18, 2023 07:02 AM
When importing from Excel, you cannot set field descriptions.
You may also want to know that there is a limit of 500 fields per table.
You can update field descriptions using scripting.
Mar 18, 2023 12:04 PM
Thanks! Can you please point me to what the "scripting" solution means or looks like?
Mar 18, 2023 02:21 PM
Scripting is using Scripting Extension.
If you understand this documentation, you can try writing a script yourself. If it doesn't, you might want to talk to a developer who writes Airtable scripts.