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Chris_Sanders
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

For better or for worse, I often have information in one table that I need to transfer to another table. Usually, the two tables have some fields in common, but some unique fields; which means Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V does a column-wise copy of the date, when, in fact, the columns usually donโ€™t match. What does match, however, are the field names. โ€œFirst Nameโ€ = โ€œFirst Nameโ€, โ€œLast Nameโ€ = โ€œLast Nameโ€, etc.

Iโ€™d love to have an optional copy that ignores columns and matches field names when copying the data. Any fields that donโ€™t match donโ€™t get copied.

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Stuart_Brameld
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

yup this would be really useful. Iโ€™ve found if the columns are in a different order in another database that messes around with the copy/paste as well - so being able to select a field to match on e.g. first name, would be really useful.

Andrew
Airtable Employee
Airtable Employee

If the fields are the same between different tables, the โ€œproperโ€ thing to do would be to use a single table and have views that are filtered to different sets of records. That said, our view switching UI currently leaves something to be desired, so we understand why you sometimes want to put similar data in different tables.

Interesting idea about providing a way to match columns up when pasting into a different table though. This could actually be really useful for importing data as well, as well as pasting from an external source.