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Oct 12, 2018 11:21 AM
I have a table where I want all new entries (rows) to have a default value for a single select column. Is that possible?
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Mar 16, 2023 05:38 PM
Good news, this launched as a feature today! Now you can set a default value on any single select field.

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Oct 12, 2018 03:29 PM
Unfortunately, there’s not. Single Select is one of the many fields that currently do not have a default value option where one would be very nice. I believe there’s a #feature-requests addressing this out there already. You might consider looking it up and adding your support there.

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Oct 13, 2018 03:28 AM
Hi Karl
This is unfortunately the case - there is a possible solution (work around really) available to you by using Integromat or Zapier. Using either, you could watch for new records where this field is blank and fill it in. The only downside is that this wouldn’t be instant of course.
Hope this helps?

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Jan 21, 2019 01:16 AM
I see there has been a feature request for this for several years!

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Feb 25, 2019 03:34 PM
Bump, this is something thats pretty important!

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Mar 06, 2019 04:04 PM
There is a bit of a workaround that works for me. Group by the column you want the default value in and add new records in that group… for Example, I have a column called “Status”, every new record should default to “Planned”. After adding the Status column to the grouping, I now add new records under the “Planned” group.

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May 20, 2019 04:27 AM
This is genius, thanks !!! Worked for me aswell and the view is much cleaner also.

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Jun 21, 2019 06:39 AM
I really would like this default feature myself. Please consider it. I don’t see a downside to doing it.

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Aug 26, 2019 01:38 AM
Multiple requests for this basic feature since 2016, please keep us updated on the status.
Thanks.

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Aug 27, 2019 05:35 PM
Can the Airtable team update us on the status of this feature request?
