Colouring column headers

[Daniel_Andres_A]

Hi everyone, I’m pretty new at Airtable and I making a little testing project to see scripting functionalities.
Is there any way to change the header value in some table with scripting app? Thank u all.

[JonathanBowen]

Hi @Daniel_Andres_Alfons - by “header” I’m guessing you mean the table name. Right now there’s no way to do this with a script I’m afraid. Might be one to watch though - a metadata API is starting to come through:

Accessing the metadata API API

Hi everyone, As part of our ongoing effort to make Airtable more and more extensible, we’re beginning to expand access to the Metadata API. The metadata API gives you read-only access to a list of a user’s bases, as well as the specific schema of each base - things like what tables exist, what fields exist on those tables, etc. Usage of this API currently requires a unique developer token, in addition to the user’s API key for whom you are looking to pull the metadata. You can view the metada…

As per the post above this is currently read only, so wouldn’t allow you to change the properties of a base, table, view etc. But perhaps this will be something that is made available in the future. If you use Airtable’s customer app functionality you can create a table:

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But, again, editing a table name is not possible right now.

[Daniel_Andres_A]

Hi Jonathan, thanks for your answer, maybe I wasn’t very clear what I mean by “header”, but isn’t table name, I mean the name field, in the head of a specific column in a table, for example the name “notes” that’s created by default when you add a new table.

Again thank u for your help