Have a view with many columns, and would like to distinguish individual “groups” by adding background colors to these groups. Can do?
Can I make columns different colors by groups to make them easier to distinguish on a WIDE table?
+35Unfortunately, no. A possible solution is Interfaces. Interfaces are a little underwhelming at the moment (because they don’t do everything that the normal Airtable interface does), but if you want, you could create an interface because it lets you group fields together into their own unique groups, and then you can color the background of each group. Although Airtable will only give you 2 colors to choose from, though, but at least you will be able to distinguish different groups.
+35Unfortunately, no. A possible solution is Interfaces. Interfaces are a little underwhelming at the moment (because they don’t do everything that the normal Airtable interface does), but if you want, you could create an interface because it lets you group fields together into their own unique groups, and then you can color the background of each group. Although Airtable will only give you 2 colors to choose from, though, but at least you will be able to distinguish different groups.
Also note that you may want to be looking at views. Each view can contain only the fields that you want to see. So each “unique view” would be the “unique group” that you want to see.
Since you are brand new to Airtable, I would recommend checking out my free Airtable training course, which covers views in quite a lot of depth:
+29Welcome to the Airtable community!
One workaround that some people use is to create divider columns using formula fields. This will not color the individual groups of columns but it can provide a visual grouping. For example, the following formula will create a column of colored dots.
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+35Welcome to the Airtable community!
One workaround that some people use is to create divider columns using formula fields. This will not color the individual groups of columns but it can provide a visual grouping. For example, the following formula will create a column of colored dots.
"🟣"
@kuovonne That’s a very cool idea! I love it!! :rainbow: :art: :crayon: :artist:
Unfortunately, no. A possible solution is Interfaces. Interfaces are a little underwhelming at the moment (because they don’t do everything that the normal Airtable interface does), but if you want, you could create an interface because it lets you group fields together into their own unique groups, and then you can color the background of each group. Although Airtable will only give you 2 colors to choose from, though, but at least you will be able to distinguish different groups.
Yes that might help a lot. Thank you!
Welcome to the Airtable community!
One workaround that some people use is to create divider columns using formula fields. This will not color the individual groups of columns but it can provide a visual grouping. For example, the following formula will create a column of colored dots.
"🟣"
I will check it out. Thank you!
+31I made a Tampermonkey script for this here! https://community.airtable.com/t5/show-tell/custom-colors-for-the-entire-field-column/td-p/207479
+9An up for this request.
In big tables, i would love some kind of visual help that divides columns. I use @kuovonne solution, but some coloring or integrated divider in a table would help!
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