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Aaron
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

Hello Community,

Iโ€™ve had a bit of an idea.

At our company, we have tables that can have up to 30-40 columns in them, especially on the โ€œsummaryโ€ or โ€œmasterโ€ tables, where data is assembled from other tables. This can get very confusing.

What If we could group similar columns together in a similar way we group rows? Color-coded, collapsible, and individually shareable. It could be quite powerful.

Thoughts?

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Jason_Gillman
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

I like this idea as well, especially given that you canโ€™t reference fields in joined tables without first making a lookup column in the current table first.

Iโ€™m in a similar situation with the electronic [aviation] logbook Iโ€™ve built for myself where itโ€™s gotten quite wide, and Iโ€™d like to be able to hide the cruft in a single go.

Julian_Kirkness
10 - Mercury
10 - Mercury

Have you considered making yourself different views just showing subsets of the data columns?

Elias_Gomez_Sai
13 - Mars
13 - Mars

Thatโ€™s what I do based on the purpose on the View (or fields I need).

Jason_Gillman
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

But if thereโ€™s a need for multiple views with the same fields (such as different filter or group criteria) itโ€™s back to the tediousness of individually hiding multiple fields.

Katherine_Duh
Airtable Alumni (Retired)

If youโ€™re making multiple views in which the same combinations of fields are hidden or youโ€™re using the same groupings, I highly recommend making use of the copy view configuration feature to speed things up!

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Aaron
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

I get that, but I need all of my data in one spot.

Iโ€™m sure other people could suggest other uses.

Aaron

Andrei_Latyshau
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

I would like to also vote for this feature. Having table with 50 columns. When editing a particular record (expand record), Iโ€™d like to see fields grouped. Otherwise it is an explosion of fields very inconvenient to maintain.

I do have separate views that act like groupings, but then I have to find the same records in all these separate views if I want to edit fields of particular groups: pretty complicated. I want to see all fields of a particular record on the same page grouped using tabs or kind of.

Andrei_Latyshau
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

You could ask one of your data analysts to run a query finding all users who have at least one table with more than 20 columns. I am sure that all these customers would be happy to have column groupings. This would measure the value of this feature.

Huw_Thomas
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

This would be very helpful!

Akbar_Azizul_Ha
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

i have around 55 column and 915 rows and i wish you really consider this idea :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: